Gulbenkian Inquiry into the Civic Role of Arts Organisations
What Next? is working with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Institute of Cultural Capital (ICC) on an Inquiry into the Civic Role of Arts Organisations. The first phase of the Inquiry (until December 2016) is focused on research, mapping the landscape, defining what we mean by 'civic' and the 'civic role' and identifying examples of existing great practice.
As part of their engagement work, WN? coordinated a discussion with the ADUK Regional Coordinators yesterday where we discussed the definition that the research team is putting together and talked about some examples of activity and best practice.
Survey
ICC are running a short survey to test out the working definition of what arts organisations' civic role is and what it could be. Results will be shared in December. They would appreciate it if you could spend 10 minutes completing it if you can spare the time: https://ljmu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/civic-role-of-arts-organisations. All data will be held securely and anonymously and only used for the purposes of research and subsequent publication. Please do take part!
The draft definitions are included in the survey and also listed below. If anyone has additional comments to feed back about the definitions, please do email Hannah Lambert from What Next?: [email protected]
Civic Role draft definitions
1. 'The civic' as being associated with ‘community’ and public life – the civic role of arts organisations is therefore to be engaged with local and national 'community' and public life however defined?
2. 'The civic' as being associated with power, politics and public discourse – the civic role of arts organisations is therefore to be engaged in some manner with local or national political action and/or discussion?
3. 'The civic' as being associated with social responsibility, duty and virtue – the civic role arts organisations is therefore to have local or national social responsibilities?
4. 'The civic' as being associated with individual engagement and pride – the civic role of arts organisations is therefore to engender engagement and pride in local or national activity by individuals?
5. ‘The civic’ is associated with the identity and image of a place. The civic role of arts organisations is therefore to exist both as physical symbols and active nurturers of civic identity within a place, whilst at the same time helping to promote or maintain positive external images.
You can read more about the survey here: http://civicroleartsinquiry.gulbenkian.org.uk/
What Next? is working with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Institute of Cultural Capital (ICC) on an Inquiry into the Civic Role of Arts Organisations. The first phase of the Inquiry (until December 2016) is focused on research, mapping the landscape, defining what we mean by 'civic' and the 'civic role' and identifying examples of existing great practice.
As part of their engagement work, WN? coordinated a discussion with the ADUK Regional Coordinators yesterday where we discussed the definition that the research team is putting together and talked about some examples of activity and best practice.
Survey
ICC are running a short survey to test out the working definition of what arts organisations' civic role is and what it could be. Results will be shared in December. They would appreciate it if you could spend 10 minutes completing it if you can spare the time: https://ljmu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/civic-role-of-arts-organisations. All data will be held securely and anonymously and only used for the purposes of research and subsequent publication. Please do take part!
The draft definitions are included in the survey and also listed below. If anyone has additional comments to feed back about the definitions, please do email Hannah Lambert from What Next?: [email protected]
Civic Role draft definitions
1. 'The civic' as being associated with ‘community’ and public life – the civic role of arts organisations is therefore to be engaged with local and national 'community' and public life however defined?
2. 'The civic' as being associated with power, politics and public discourse – the civic role of arts organisations is therefore to be engaged in some manner with local or national political action and/or discussion?
3. 'The civic' as being associated with social responsibility, duty and virtue – the civic role arts organisations is therefore to have local or national social responsibilities?
4. 'The civic' as being associated with individual engagement and pride – the civic role of arts organisations is therefore to engender engagement and pride in local or national activity by individuals?
5. ‘The civic’ is associated with the identity and image of a place. The civic role of arts organisations is therefore to exist both as physical symbols and active nurturers of civic identity within a place, whilst at the same time helping to promote or maintain positive external images.
You can read more about the survey here: http://civicroleartsinquiry.gulbenkian.org.uk/
