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RURAL ART FESTIVALS AND CREATIVE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
This paper examines how creativity-based social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial networks in the context of small-scale rural art festivals can advance social and regional revitalization goals in peripheral island communities. This qualitative- and action-based research explores the effects of artistic activities on rural revitalization through the analysis of four small-scale rural events: a traditional matsuri (festival), and three contemporary art, music, and film festivals. The adaptability and diversity of the festivals’ entrepreneurial networks are investigated in greater depth by combining the literatures on rural revitalization, social entrepreneurship, bricolage and resourcefulness with the embedded and relational aspects of creative entrepreneurial networks. The study also analyzes the complex relationship between the individual actions of creative festival entrepreneurs and the socially engaged creative networks that facilitate population retention and resource exchanges in a community, and therefore rural revitalization.
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The arts and events
\"Both cultural heritage and contemporary arts benefit from being showcased in events. Each arts-related event is unique in reflecting local culture; it may be spontaneous as with street art or planned as with a studio tour or arts festival. The Arts and Events explores the nature and complexity of managing arts events and fills a significant gap in the available literature. It investigates the history, development and management of arts events to offer much needed insight into creating economic, social and cultural capital. It therefore contributes to a greater understanding of how arts events can create a beneficial experience for the individual and the community as well as their future sustainable development. The title explores a broad range of events from around the globe including: inspirational events for building creative (social, cultural and human) capital; affirming events for encouraging links to cultural identity or heritage; pleasurable events that offer enjoyable recreational, leisure and touristic experiences; enriching events that create opportunities for personal growth and/or to sell products or experiences, and finally, celebratory events that celebrate cultural diversity. This significant volume with be a valuable source for researchers, policy-makers and managers of arts events around the globe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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I Feel at Home: Visitors’ Perspective of Arts Festivals in Croatia
Festivals are among the fastest growing types of tourist attractions. However, unlike large and international events, small festivals are scarcely researched despite their importance for local communities. The aim of this study is to explore the perspective of visitors to small arts festivals in rural areas in Croatia. This includes satisfaction with the services and experience of the event, interaction with locals, personal benefits and suggestions for further improvement of the festival offer. The research is based on 40 semi-structured interviews with visitors of 5 arts festivals in Croatia. The research results show that when it comes to experience satisfaction, visitors particularly value the opportunities for socializing and the creation of social intimacy, which is mainly due to the small size of the festival site. In addition, a pleasant atmosphere, a feeling of relaxation and freedom, a sense of belonging to the festival location, entertainment and the educational potential of the festival are decisive factors. In terms of service satisfaction, visitors are particularly satisfied with the program content. Most visitors had no significant interactions with the local community, but they consider it an important factor in the organization of the festival. In terms of possible improvements to the festival offer, increasing media exposure, improving the gastronomic offer and the need for more involvement and personal engagement during the festival are frequently mentioned.
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Exhibiting craft and design : transgressing the White Cube paradigm, 1930-present
This book investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected, displayed, and interpreted throughout the second half of the twentieth century and recent years. The case studies discussed in this volume explain how the notion the neutral display space had worked with, challenged, distorted or assisted in conveying ideas of the exhibitions in question. In various ways, essays included in this volume analyse and investigate strategies to facilitate interaction between craft and design objects, their audiences, exhibiting bodies and the makers. Using both historical examples from the middle of the twentieth century and contemporary trends the authors create a dialogue between several strategies of use of and challenge to the White Cube paradigm of space organization.
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Transforming Trauma through an Arts Festival: A Psychosocial Case Study
Through a psychosocial lens, informed by relational psychoanalysis, this article discusses the design, delivery, and impact of The Big Anxiety’s 2022 festival in Warwick, Queensland—an arts-based program that engages with lived experiences of trauma, distress, and suicide, and in this case with the devastating impact of youth suicide, disproportionately affecting First Nations communities. It describes the festival’s methods of creative engagement, examining how these create conditions for the transformation of trauma and for experiences of growth.
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Arts Festivals and the City
There has been a remarkable rise in the number of urban arts festivals in recent decades. The outcomes of cities' engagement with arts festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly in social and cultural terms. This article reviews existing literature on urban festivals and argues that city authorities tend to disregard the social value of festivals and to construe them simply as vehicles of economic generation or as 'quick fix' solutions to city image problems. While such an approach renders certain benefits, it is ultimately quite limiting. If arts festivals are to achieve their undoubted potential in animating communities, celebrating diversity and improving quality of life, then they must be conceived of in a more holistic way by urban managers. Currently, the tasks of conceptualising the problems at issue and devising appropriate policies are hampered by the scarcity of empirical research conducted in the area.
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Cultural canvas. Experience the rural creativity, explore the artistic inspiration : the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan
The program delves into the role of art in rural revitalization. By exploring the challenges of aging and depopulation in the Echigo-Tsumari region of Japan, it reveals how art transforms this ailing land into an internationally recognized model of rural art revitalization.
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