CULTURE : RESOURCES

Democratisation/Democracy

Guide to Citizen Participation in Local Cultural Policy Development for European Cities.
The conceptual framework and the theories behind citizen participation in local cultural policy development and the mechanisms of how participation can be realized on city level, 2007.

La démocratie culturelle, une exigence sociale
Proceedings of a colloquium. Centre de Ressources pour la politique de la ville en Seine-St-Denis, 2006 (French).

Everyday Democracy.
Why We Get The Governments We Deserve

A publication than can be downloaded for free at the website of the English Demos network, 2006.

La démocratisation culturelle. Une médiation à bout
de souffle

Publication. Jean Caune, Presses de l’Université de
Grenoble, 2006. Art and culture as phenomena which
take part in the structuring of social ground (French).

Parlement pour la démocratie culturelle et artistique
Article. A movement of analysis, reflexion and action on the place of art in the contemporary society, founded in 2003 in Lyon (French).

Artistes, militants, habitants... Les nouveaux débatteurs de rue
Dossier. Inventory of new forms of interventions in
public space.Territoires, magazine published by the Association pour la démocratie et l'éducation locale et sociale (ADELS), September 2006 (French).

 

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Democratisation/Democracy

American for the arts
A leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in the USA.

New Cultural Policy.org
The Cultural Policy Working Group was created on May 2009, following a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National Recovery.

Demos
Demos is the think tank for 'everyday democracy' on six areas: public services; science and technology ; cities and public space; arts and culture; identity and global security (UK).

Culture et démocratie
Association dedicated to the promotion of culture as an interface between art and society (Belgium).

La Fondation Marcel Hicter
Private foundation dedicated to the promotion of
cultural democracy in French-speaking Belgium
(Belgium).

Article 27
Association dedicated to the access to any form of
culture for any person living social or economic difficult conditions (Belgium).

Cultures du Cœur
Association dedicated to the promotion of social
integration through the access to culture, sports and
leisures (France).

 
   

Art and Community

Neighbourhood Arts Network
Toronto’s first network dedicated solely to strengthening art-making in neighbourhoods throughout the city (Ontario, Canada).

Inspire Art
An on-line magazine that highlights community arts in Montreal region (Quebec).

Levier
Program to support artistic and sociopolitic projects of the organization Engrenage Noir (Quebec).

Intervention Qui
Artist-run centre proposing an entrepreneurial artistic model related on the resources and the social dynamics of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area (Quebec).

Community Arts Network
The information, research and exchange network of community art in the US.

The New Patrons
Program of the Fondation de France. Its action allows citizens confronted with social and local issues to
associate contemporary artists to their concerns by
ordering an artwork.

Art factories
International resource platform dedicated to art and cultural centres born from citizen artistic initiatives and based on involvement within communities.

Passeurs de culture
Ressource centre of the Institut français national de la Jeunesse et de l’Éducation populaire (INJEP).