Creative Exchange Event - Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development:

Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development: An introduction to the Creative Exchange Levels Model

with Helen Gould and Mary Marsh

12 September 2007, 2-5pm

Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4LT

Creative Exchange is pleased to announce its next half-day workshop with Mary Marsh and Helen Gould.

Mary and Helen will present the Levels Model an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the role of culture in development.

The workshop will include an introduction to the model, its history and rationale and how it is evolving as it draws on ongoing Creative Exchange research projects. Mary and Helen will then look at how the model can be used and present examples of its application.

Helen Gould (Creative Exchange Director)

Helen Gheorghiu Gould worked as a journalist, largely in the field of arts and cultural policy, for ten years before specialising in research and networking for Culture and Development. She was Editor at the National Campaign for the Arts from 1996-1998. With the support and guidance of many others – including some current trustees - she founded Creative Exchange in 1997 and serves as its Coordinator. She served as Culture and Development Consultant to the British Council from 1998-1999 and developed their Arts Culture and Development strategy. She sat on the culture committee of UK UNESCO from 2002-2003 as a specialist in Culture and Development. She contributed to UNESCO’s implementation strategy for the UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity. She has written and contributed to a number of publications on Culture and Development most recently Culture: Hidden Development – co-authored with Mary Marsh, (2004, Creative Exchange), A Sense of Belonging (2005, Creative Exchange).

Mary Marsh (Creative Exchange Consultant)

Mary has over 30 years community development experience through government, tertiary education, NGO and community level activities in Australia, UK, the Pacific, Africa and Asia. Mary has worked to encourage participatory community-driven development addressing sustainable development, poverty alleviation, non-formal education, literacy, health (mental and general, including HIV/AIDS), gender, youth, unemployment, environment, social justice and human rights.

As a psychology lecturer at Monash University in Australia for 13 years, Mary specialised in community psychology, placing particular emphasis on local, culturally appropriate participatory methods of community development and research. Since 1995 Mary has concentrated on work in developing countries that mentors local facilitators whose aim is to build the capacity of communities to improve their own quality of life. Through the use of participatory cultural approaches to development, Mary's work has focussed on strengthening Government, NGO, civil society and community linkages and increasing institutional and stakeholder capacity to identify needs, prepare and implement action plans, and monitor and evaluate activities that encourage local ownership of issues and their resolution.

Culture: Hidden Development by Mary Marsh and Helen Gould is a useful introduction to the Levels Model and is available from Creative Exchange bookshop at www.creativexchange.org/bookshop

Places are limited and must be reserved and paid for in advance:
General Public: £25
Creative Exchange Partners: £15
Concessions (students, unemployed): £5

For further information and to book your place contact Clodagh Miskelly

Email: info@creativexchange.org
Tel: 020 70650980

Creative Exchange
Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4LT

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