Can the Arts Change the World? The Transformative Power of the Arts in Fostering and Sustaining Social Change

A group of nonprofit leaders working in the arts, advocacy, political organizing, social services, and education explored the connection between community organizing and creative expression by engaging in collective activities, including visiting various examples of community arts, and experimentation with their own practice. Through this process, the group concluded that arts could be socially transformative; that community arts can create a safe space that allows people to trust and be open to changing; that art can help people reflect together and not talk past one another; and that the process of creating together can be healing and sustaining

"It's Hands-On...": Cultivating Mentors and Emerging Social Justice Leaders through Shared Project Development: Documenting the Intergenerational and Community Dialogues: A Leadership for a Changing World Initiative

The Leadership for a Changing World (LCW) program seeks to transform the public perception that the U.S. is facing a shortage of leaders to address social, environmental, and economic issues within communities. The program asserts that leadership does exist, albeit in a form that is different from traditional understandings of leadership. LCW shifts the conversation about leadership to include leaders known in their own communities, but not known broadly. Over five years (2001-2005), the LCW program recognized 92 individual leaders and leadership teams based in organizations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. As the program began to come to a close in 2005, the partners developed the idea of a regional forum, the Intergenerational and Community Dialogues, to address recurring concerns that award recipients identified: leadership development, succession, and the creation of sustainable community collaborations. The forum brought together LCW award recipients and emerging leaders from the Pacific Northwest to investigate and explore the challenges and opportunities of intergenerational leadership and community collaboration. This report documents the main ideas that emerged from the conversations of forum participants who explored their experiences cultivating mentors, leaders, and collaborative relationships. It is our hope that this document captures the perspectives, concerns, significant accomplishments, and energetic spirit of the initiative's participants

Otro título: Irán-España : fotógrafas en el espejo

Fotógrafas: Shadi Gadirian y Soledad Córdoba, Cristina García Rodero y Hengameh Golestan, Rana Javadi y Amparo Garrido, Isabel Muñoz y Gohar Dasti, Ghazaleh Hedayat y Mayte VietaSumario: Resplandecen doce miradas en el espejo, seis fotógrafas iraníes y seis españolas que nos conectan con el enigma de la duplicidad, del misterio y la fascinación especula

Santiago Calatrava and the ‘power of faith’: global imaginaries in Valencia

The focus of this article is on the importance of collective imaginaries for urban policy mobility, and on the agents and modes of power through which imaginaries are translated, mobilized and become materialized in specific places. Through the case study of the monumental complex of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, designed by Valencian global architect Santiago Calatrava, I discuss Calatrava's mobilization of ideas of modernity, tradition, democratization and self-esteem already present in the collective imaginary of the people and the politicians of post-Franco's Spain to promote his global architecture. In this process, I argue, global imaginaries were translated into local imaginaries and vice versa as they became embodied in persons and objects, represented in this case by Calatrava's figure as a local/global architect and by the architecture of the City of Arts and Sciences. Particularly, I analyse Calatrava's use of the power of seduction, persuasion and coercion to mobilize such imaginaries in order to build his ubiquitous signature architecture in Valencia

The performing arts experience: Reflections about the opera attendees

Experiential marketing helps make a memorable experience for the consumer. Consumer characteristics enable them to perceive the offered stimuli differently. This study investigates the differences in the evaluation of artscapes – the application of servicescape in the performing arts – according to opera attendees’ experience with the cultural organization. Literature framework fails to confirm differences between experienced and inexperienced visitors. However, the level of commitment with the artistic organization contributes to building a deeper relationship. On the basis of 867 Spanish opera attendees’ responses, a one-way ANOVA technique has been used to analyze the proposed hypotheses, adopting a holistic perspective of the artscape, which includes not only its tangible, physical dimensions but also the social ones. Significantly different evaluations of the artscape show that the attendees’ experience is important as the basis for adequate segmentation. The greater the extent of the contractual relationship and contact with the opera house, the better the evaluation of the physical and social artscape. This paper helps to fill a research gap in the area of servicescape applications in the nonprofit performing arts. In addition, it provides deeper knowledge about the servicescape experience

The performing arts experience: Reflections about the opera attendees

Experiential marketing helps make a memorable experience for the consumer. Consumer characteristics enable them to perceive the offered stimuli differently. This study investigates the differences in the evaluation of artscapes – the application of servicescape in the performing arts – according to opera attendees’ experience with the cultural organization. Literature framework fails to confirm differences between experienced and inexperienced visitors. However, the level of commitment with the artistic organization contributes to building a deeper relationship. On the basis of 867 Spanish opera attendees’ responses, a one-way ANOVA technique has been used to analyze the proposed hypotheses, adopting a holistic perspective of the artscape, which includes not only its tangible, physical dimensions but also the social ones. Significantly different evaluations of the artscape show that the attendees’ experience is important as the basis for adequate segmentation. The greater the extent of the contractual relationship and contact with the opera house, the better the evaluation of the physical and social artscape. This paper helps to fill a research gap in the area of servicescape applications in the nonprofit performing arts. In addition, it provides deeper knowledge about the servicescape experience

NACCS 32nd Annual Conference

Visión: Articulating, Imagining, and Contextualizing Chicana/o SpacesApril 13-17Hyatt Regencyhttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/naccs_programs/1022/thumbnail.jp

November 12th 2008

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