Forum
Online
During the project we will be hosting a series of four online forums with practitioners from different countries. These will be facilitated by Pamela Wells from Laundry. We will be utilising REFRESH, the Cultural Animation discussion forum. This forum was originally set up hosts to discuss topics around the issues arising during the Animator project, and we will continue to utilise this format.
Watch out for news of forum dates, times, locations, participants in the News section or email us suggested topics, questions to discuss.
Online forum April 6th, 2009
- Fear of the other, is it prejudice or is it racist?
- What makes us intolerant?
- Is there any universal ground for tolerance?
- What are the legitimate criteria of intolerance?
- What are the typical borderlines of tolerance and intolerance in your society?
PATÓ ATTILA, BEVERLEY HARVEY, GREGOR D. MIRWA, KLAUS POCHER participated in a live online discussion. Read it at www.culturalanimation.com/discuss
Online forum Monday, 11th May
VISIBILITY and TOLERANCE
- How does intolerance/racism work when the target is not visible?
- Can you say a place is tolerant if it appears to be homogenous?
- Is there an advantage to being invisible?
ROBERT KULPA is a queer academic, researching queer theory, social movements, national and sexual identities, socio-cultural conditioning of knowledge production, and Polish post-communist transformation. www.robertkulpa.com
ANJA ZÜCKMANTEL works as the librarian for Etz Hayyim Synagogue Hania and has recently been involved in the Open Lab My Hania. She is a historian and currently works on her Ph.D. thesis about the perception of the “Land of Israel” in German Zionism.
JO LOKI is currently working on a bursary with Laundry on the Intercultural Dialogue project. An installation artist, she works with text, visual imagery and visual objects, which she uses to create three-dimensional stories.
Round Table
For the creative laboratory in Birmingham and the Black Country, we are inviting representatives of relevant organisations to participate in three ‘round tables’ – which are both literal and metaphorical, a creative dialogue facilitated by the artists and an independent agent. The ensuing dialogue, which is physically inscribed upon the table itself, will both influence both the ongoing development of the project, and the structure and dissemination of the final products; thus demonstrating a creative model which can be adapted and developed further by these and similar agencies with a remit to reduce inequality and increasing tolerance and understanding. The Round Table sessions also function as an informal advisory group to the project as a whole.
