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