TAKE A PART CIO

Furthering the field of Socially Engaged Practice. Take A Part is an organisation that supports artists, local authorities, community serving and cultural organisations to work with underserved and marginalised communities and groups through culture to develop skills, ambition, strategies and programmes that deliver activism and change. Central to this is the development and application of Socially Engaged Arts practice (SEA). An art form where collaboration, challenge, dialogue, agreement (and disagreement) is part of the process of collective creation. Socially Engaged Art practice is a dialogue where, through art, we explore ourselves, our interpersonal relationships, our communities and our wider world and we find ways to activate it, expose it, challenge it, celebrate it, mourn it or invite a wider discussion or activism around it. As leaders in the field of SEA, we at Take A Part are committed to testing new approaches, paying attention to the national and global frameworks it exists in, developing new applications and sharing and developing practice. To keep at the forefront of the application potential of the SEA art form, we keep a constant eye on the Socially Engaged Art, culture, heritage and community and voluntary sectors in the UK, tracking the needs, trends and movements. We pay attention to what SEA and its application DOES when developed within communities, what OTHERS are doing in the community building and place making spaces, what the wider cultural sector NEEDS to work more closely with the SEA art form and communities of practice. We take our learning and support the sector - artists, producers, organisations, local authorities etc to work strategically, ethically and purposefully in a values-driven way to ensure that our cultural sector is representative, responsive, robust and resilient to the rapidly changing landscape and the people that live within it. Get in touch if you want to see a more generous cultural world.