DISRUPT: Placing the power in the hands of our communities. How does that work?
- 10.30am - 4.30pm
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About this event:
- Category:
- Interdisciplinary | Platform / Discussion
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- Free but registration required
- Location:
- Key Theatre, Peterborough PE1 1EF
Event information
Placing the power in the hands of our communities. How does that work?
Slung Low, Jumped Up Theatre and a number of other DISRUPT partners have co-authored a toolkit to help artists, organisations and communities disrupt and unpack the power dynamics of the cultural sector when working with communities.
Centring young people in the decision-making about work with young people, works. It supports them to grow, connect and dig deep. It revitalises organisations, structures and processes. It generates greater success, sustainability and legacy.
It can be scary handing over power. The outcomes are uncertain, in a world with plenty of uncertainty already. It tests the depth of our expertise, our relationships with funders and stakeholders, and the authenticity of our beliefs.
Come to this Open Space event and dive into a pool of shared solutions, challenges and insights.
Admission free, but registration required
Illustration above by Matt Munday
More info
This event is the first of three which aims to bring together communities, funders, artists, cultural and third sector organisations in an Open Space format to unpack and redesign how we might work more collaboratively and equitably with communities, using the DISRUPT toolkit as a jumping off point. Each event will bring together two chapters of the toolkit, with provocations posed by the organisations and communities that wrote them.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
DISRUPT is a series of interventions into the performing arts sector. It aims to look at how we can restructure to unlearn, experiment and collaborate more equally.
Coordinated by Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Barbican, in partnership with Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Culture Mile, Lived Experience Network, Maya Productions, and Slung Low.