Culture, Development and the Art of Change

Cultural Concerns is a small Wales-based company focusing on culture and the arts as a means of empowering individuals and communities, by organising practical projects and advising on policy development relating to participatory arts projects and grass-roots cultural activity.

Everyone can be - and can benefit from being - creative, and this applies particularly to individuals and groups who are ‘socially excluded’ or disadvantaged in some way. Cultural Concerns provides practical activities, advice, information, resources and support to community artists, funders and cultural policy-makers who want to support the development of better links between the arts, personal development and community regeneration.

The work of Cultural Concerns includes:

	importing and marketing of Fair Trade arts and crafts
	management of grass-roots cultural projects such as a local food market
	organising community festivals and special events
	managing arts-related conferences and seminars
	organising international exchanges and collaborations between artists working in the community
	music projects with disaffected young people community arts teaching and training programmes

Cultural Concerns was founded in 1998 by Steve Garrett,who has organised numerous cultural projects and initiaitives since then on a free-lance basis (see CV).

Steve has many years of experience delivering projects and formulating policy in the participatory and community arts field. He spent four years on the Arts Council of Wales; is a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs; a Churchill Fellow; a former Board member of Sound Sense (the UK support agency for community music); and a former Community Music Commission member of the International Society of Music Educators (ISME). He is currently Chair of the Riverside Community Market Association, and vice-chair (formerly Chair) of the Wales Association of Community Artists.

Read more about Steve's work.

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35 Beauchamp Street
Riverside
Cardiff CF11 6AX
Wales, UK

Services provided:

	importing and marketing of Fair Trade arts and crafts
	management of grass-roots cultural projects such as a local food market
	organising community festivals and special events
	managing arts-related conferences and seminars
	organising international exchanges and collaborations between artists working in the community
	music projects with disaffected young people
	community arts teaching and training programmes