Cultural Concerns

Culture, Development and the Art of Change

I'm Steve Garrett.                                                                  Cultural Concerns is the name for the work that I do around community-based culture and creativity.

I organise a variety of community arts projects (such as Cardiff's annual Riverside Festival) and set up collaborations and exchanges between musicians from Wales and from countries such as Africa and India.

 I believe that everyone can, and needs to, needs to express themselves creatively. 

I work with community artists, arts funders and cultural policy-makers who want to support the development of better links between 'the arts', personal development and community regeneration.

 I also perform 'green blues' under the name Stainless Steve

The work of Cultural Concerns includes:

organising the annual multi-cultural Riverside Festival
management of grass-roots cultural projects
organising community festivals and special events
managing arts-related conferences and seminars
organising international exchanges and collaborations between artists working at a community level.
organsing music projects with disaffected young people


Cultural Concerns was founded in 1998 after five years working with Community Music Wales, and since then I have organised numerous cultural projects and initiatives (see CV).

I have many years' experience delivering projects and formulating policy in the participatory and community arts field. I spent four years on the Arts Council of Wales; studied for a year at the School for Social Entrepreneurs; I am 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). I'm vice-chair (formerly Chair) of the Wales Association of Community Artists.

I love 'local food' almost as much as I love 'local music' and  I'm Founding Director of RCMA Social Enterprise ('the Riverside Market People')

Read more about my work.

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Contact details:

Steve Garrett
culturalconcerns@onetel.com

(T) +44
(0)29 2022 7982

35 Beauchamp Street
Riverside
Cardiff CF11 6AX
Wales, UK

Services provided:

Planning and marketing of participatory arts activities;
Management of grass-roots cultural projects;
Organising community festivals and special events
Managing arts-related conferences and seminars
Organising international exchanges and collaborations between artists working in the community
Running music projects with disaffected young people

Delivering event management training and mentoring