Community Arts Networking Group

Community Arts Networking Session: Are you an artist who works with communities?

This networking session is open to  individuals and groups working in the arts, who focus on working with communities in an active way.

This month Madeline McNamara from Acting Up will give a presentation and facilitate a discussion:

Six years on and after some great work Acting Up (a Charitable Trust that offers performance training and opportunities to people with learning disabilities) have hit a wall. Is it climbable? Madeline McNamara co director of Acting Up and long time theatre practitioner reflects on the nature of that wall and the many others that similar community based organisations might find themselves up against in these recessionary times. Is it possible to build a structure that delivers the trusts aims even when the funding is erratic? What does sustainability look like to such organisations? Do we miniaturise or take a leap of faith and go for something much more ambitious?  How much voluntary input is too much? How do you know when you're beat and if it’s time to reinvent? What’s the relationship between management and governance in such times?

We’ll also have some group discussion around the Council’s Arts and Culture strategy and how this network can feed into the process, and then some informal networking/chatting over food.

It would be great to know who’s able to come – so if you are planning to attend please let me know by emailing Kirsten.kelly@wcc.govt.nz

And if you have any questions at all please don’t hesitate to get in touch.