Communities and Social Sustainability

The Festivals 1947 1950 1978 1983 1988 1990 1994 1995 2004

Sustainability and the Arts Let's think about artists as agents of social change Let's think about the arts as places where communities can gather together to think about the world Arts programmers have a responsibility to foster social critique and community participaton

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo In depth training with at-risk youth Charity support Probably our most working class audience

Imaginate Festival A workshop for artists and activists Establishing a network Small-scale and person-focussed

How do we do this? How do we link small-scale personal change to mass participation? How does the artist- as-outsider participate in a community? How can risk-averse organisations think radically?