Register now! Four places remaining Only two more weeks to see Yarns of the Heart! Rocking Kellerberrin for the CAN WA Voices Program Launch We wish you a very CREATIVE, FUN & SAFE Christmas! CAN WA and the Shire of Brookton modernise history

Advocacy

CAN WA advocates the value of community arts and cultural development for community wellbeing, by acting as both a service and an arts producer organisation.


We do this by entering into a dialogue with all sectors and by showcasing the impact and benefits of this practice in communities.

In order to:

  • Increase the profile and capacity of the community arts and cultural development sector in WA, nationally and internationally
  • Mobilise government, communities and allied sectors to embrace community arts and cultural development as a vehicle for community wellbeing
  • Promote community arts and cultural development as an attractive area of practice for existing artists

Our best way of advocating is to engage in best practice community arts and cultural development practice.

In order to:

  • Inspire and mobilise WA communities to explore, express and grow their unique and local culture
  • Facilitate and promote participation and engagement in community arts and cultural development for community wellbeing
  • Actively engage in partnership development to facilitate and support community determined arts and culture activities

news

January 2012 -
CAN WA's Managing Director Pilar Kasat talks about the transformative power of community arts in: Arts YARNUP Australia Council for the Arts magazine -

You can read 'Pilar's passion for healing connection', pg 17 Summer 2011 issue here:

Arts Yarnup

CAN WA advocates the importance of community arts practice, providing feedback on the National Cultural Policy discussion paper!

Here was our chance to have our say, and advocate for a future where arts and culture strongly fosters the participation and engagement of communities! Comments on the goals and strategies in the National Cultural Policy discussion paper will help to set a 10-year strategic vision for arts, culture and the creative industries.

'We want a cultural policy that fosters real and meaningful arts and cultural engagement in which people have the capacity to create their own cultural content and products. A cultural policy needs to foster a voice for the diversity of communities in Australia and in particular for Aboriginal communities to rebuild and reclaim their own cultural practices as they see fit.'  CAN WA Managing Director Pilar Kasat

You can download the National Cultural Policy CAN WA submission here (PDF 627 KB)

You can also view videos of community arts and cultural development projects from around Australia (including CAN WA) that were showcased at the National Consultation Forum on the 13th October.

CAN WA's Managing Director Pilar Kasat presented at the 5th World Summit on Arts & Culture

Creative Intersections was the theme for the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture 2011 in Melbourne on 3-6 October, which brought together government and cultural leaders from over 80 countries to explore how artists can give voice to diverse communities and concerns through collaborations with experts in health and well-being, the environment, education, business, new technologies, cultural identity and more.

Read the presentations and papers from the World Summit speakers, including Pilar Kasat's here: 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture website.

Read about one of the presenters: Lucina Jimenex Lopez - Director of the International Consortium for Arts in Schools in Mexico in this article.