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Introduction
  • I have chosen to present you two projects, if we
    have enough time !
  • which I have found interesting regarding the
    subject of  culture and social inclusion ,
  • and some projects for which I have some images to
    show you, because I think it is important to see
    how it is concretly in the cities.
  • Belfast and the Carnival of Beat Initiative
  • Glasgow and the Royston road project

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Belfast Carnival
  • Short socio-economic introduction
  • The key context of the location/city/neighbourhood
  • City of Belfast in Northern Ireland.
  • The Beat initiative is located in East Belfast, a
    neighborood which has some of the most
    disadvantaged areas of Northern Ireland
  • (lots of unemployment and end of industries) and
    is often associated with conflict between the
    communities, catholics and protestants.

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  • The Beat Initiative is a community and a carnival
    arts company, formed in 1993 by David Boyd its
    Director.
  • The Beat Initiative exists to get as many people
    as possible involved in carnival arts and, in
    doing so, contribute to good relations and
    community well-being.
  • David Boyd is a member of Banlieues dEurope
    Steering Comity.

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What objectives were identified for their action?
  • It is their ambition to provide projects that
    beneficially engage the imagination of a broad
    range of audience from all sections of the
    community and events that underline carnivals
    place on the creative landscape.
  • The purpose of the Beat Initiative is to produce
    creative carnival based programmes through
    artistic excellence, community training, cultural
    collaboration and civic celebration.

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What were the key issues/problems to be addressed?
  • As the territory is a conflicts cause between
    communities, mixing people in the public space is
    significant.
  • This is a way to prevent conflicts, while
    creating another parade face to the traditional
    ones (military ones like orangists parades),
    and to empower people to meet each other, from
    one community to another, thanks to arts.
  • To go outside from their closed space to another
    one.

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How did you deliver these objectiveswhat action
did you take?
  • They operate through open workshops, special
    interest groups, public and street performances,
    festivals and events.
  • A diverse range of practice includes visual arts,
    construction, costume, music and percussion,
    dance and performance, and multi-arts
    collaborations.

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Artists, actors, musicians, dancers and others
are employed on projects to deliver workshops and
events. The Beat Initiatives Belfast Carnival
has been a highlight of the annual programme,
involving up to 1,000 local participants,
volunteers, artists and performers from across
the city and an audience from home and abroad.
The companys role is to promote excellence in
carnival arts devise and organise performances
train and develop artists and encourage community
participation.
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What Resources (Financial and Human) were
required/available?
  • The Beat Initiative works with people from across
    Northern Ireland and has performed throughout
    Ireland, worked with groups from England,
    Scotland and Wales and represented Northern
    Ireland in a week of performances at the London
    Millennium Dome. Artists, actors, musicians,
    dancers and others are employed to deliver
    workshops and events.
  • Financial resources city council

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What were the results achieved?
  • The carnival parade has had an extremely positive
    effect in the area.
  • Over the next years the Beat Initiative plans to
    develop carnival skills across the City of
    Belfast. In 2005 and 2006 a Belfast Carnival Arts
    Development course is being run.
  • Local artists and community leaders will be
    trained in essential carnival art skills by
    international experts.
  • Development will include visual arts,
    construction, costume, dance, performance, music
    and percussion.

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How have you evaluated these results?
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The Belfast Carnival has been a highlight of the
Beat Initiatives annual programme. From its
beginning in 1995, it grew to involve 1,000 local
participants volunteers, artists and performers
from across the city, with an audience from home
and abroad. In the past couple of years, the
Beat Initiative created a winter, night-time
carnival parade in local East Belfast, where the
company is based. www.belfastcarnival.org
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What were the three most important lessons
learned?
  • Culture at the core of the process is an
    innovative approach to social inclusion which is
    gathering momentum and support locally,
    nationally and internationally
  • Open the street to another kind of event between
    communities, without frontiers
  • To be together in the public space

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Glasgow the Royston road project
  • Short socio-economic introduction
  • The key context of the location/city/neighbourhood
  • 2 deprived neighbourhoods of Glasgow in Scotland,
    in an urban area
  • Project Duration from 1997 2003

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What objectives were identified for your action?
  • The creation of 2 new public spaces through a
    process of artist residencies and training for
    employment for local people in a severely
    disadvantaged area of the city.
  • Cultural planning and community regeneration
    through the arts

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What were the key issues/problems to be
addressed?
  • The Royston Road Project initiative has been
    spearheaded by local people in reaction to
  • welfare cutbacks,
  • urban decay
  • a general loss of the communitys opportunities
    for involvement in the social and cultural life
    of the area.

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From the beginning, one of the main issues faced
by the project was the isolation of the two
communities at the opposite ends of the Royston
Road. Each has similar problems of poverty,
social exclusion, marginalisation, demolition of
old housing and the creation of new schemes.
These have traditionally been in competition
with each other hostile and suspicious of each
others efforts.
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The catalyst for local action was the demolition
of Townhead Church and the threat to the Spire. A
community action committee was formed petitions
were lodged with the Council and the project grew
out of the impetus to save the Spire, which was
seen as a symbol for the aspirations of the area.
The Royston Road Project then developed out of
this experience, and the idea to create two
pocket parks linking the two parts, east and west
of the Royston corridor, was launched.
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How did you deliver these objectiveswhat action
did you take?
Fablevision, a professional arts and community
organisation, was asked to facilitate the
development of the project by applying for
funding to local, national and European
institutions such as the Scottish Arts Council,
Glasgow City Council, the European Regional
Development Fund, the local Social Inclusion
Partnership and the European Social Fund.
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Subsequently, in order to develop a greater sense
of ownership and confidence, the parks were
chosen as a physical focus for six artists
residences. These participatory arts programmes
were designed to help and support the social and
economic regeneration of the area.
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What Resources (Financial and Human) were
required/available?
  • No employees project by project only.
  • 30 temporary jobs and training places have been
    achieved in the period of the project
  • European Regional Development Fund (45) through
    URBAN which no longer applies to the area.
  • Scottish Arts Council/Glasgow City Council 45
    Trust Funds 10
  • The URBAN Programme was good.
  • The Project could not have happened without it.
  • But It is now impossible to access European funds.

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What were the results achieved?
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A new project Luw story regeneration of lads
with artists and inhabitants
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  • This action has transformed the image of the
    whole area of the city
  • It has empowered inhabitants to be part of
    projects in their own neighborouds, and to
    participate in their environment.
  • http//www.fablevision.org/
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