Earth Talk: The Art of Invitation
Channel: Dartington Trust
Date: 29/08/2014

A summer evening of performance, dialogue and discussion on creativity, its role in bringing people together to catalyse social and environmental change and the craft of making things happen in an unstable world with Encounters Arts Ruth Ben-Tovim and Anne- Marie Culhane. Guests include Sarah woods, Farzana Kahn (Platform London), Alan Boldon (University of London) and an performance by Fern Smith, Phil Ralph and Isabel Carlisle for Doin' Dirt Time.

The video begins with a performance of ‘Doin Dirt Time’ based on Suzy Gabliks Book Conversations at the End of Time about the role of arts in society, presented by Fern Smith and Phil Ralph fresh from the Resurgence Festival. “If the real question is, “What is our task?” I suppose our task is, at the very least, to be constantly vigilant in considering what our task is, rather than mindlessly pursuing our own agendas”. Suzi Gablik – The Re-enchantment of Art.

A creative invitation has the potential to motivate and enable people from a whole diversity of backgrounds, to contribute and explore change for themselves and the world around them. The talk includes input from Ruth Ben-Tovim and Anne–Marie Culhane who were leading The Art of Invitation short course at Schumacher and other contributors to the course who each have unique experiences of using art and creativity as part of an engaged practice.

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