Cultural Commoning – What it is and why it matters

by Kevin Murphy, Voluntary Arts Ireland

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Tue, March 13, 2018

1:30 PM – 4:00 PM GMT

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The Linen Hall Library

17 Donegall Square North

Belfast

BT1 5GB

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Cultural Commoning – What it is and why it matters
Tuesday 13th March
1.30pm to 4pm (with light lunch)
Performance Room, Linen Hall Library, Belfast

Cultural commoning is of its time. In a world where it is becoming clear that the everyday creative things we do have a value to us, to the social fabric and wellbeing of our communities and to the health of our democracies it offers an alternative approach to sustaining our creative lives.

With Michel Bauwens, co-founder of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation - a cross-national, not-for-profit organization, Nat O’Connor, Lecturer in Public Policy & Administration at Ulster University, and Karin Eyben from of Garvagh People's Forest. This seminar will focus on cultural commons/commoning - what it means and why it is important for personal and civic living - drawing from contributions made by cultural thinkers and doers from various parts of the world. There will be opportunity to meet and talk with some of these 'citizen commoners' as part of an open and informal civic conversation.

Hosted by Denis Stewart and Kevin Murphy of Voluntary Arts Ireland

The event is a part of the Common Interchange of Ordinary Intelligence series of conversational gatherings hosted and facilitated by Voluntary Arts Ireland in partnership with the International Futures Forum, Perspectivity and others. Together we are exploring the prospects for cultural transformation related to economics, politics, ways of living and making a living.

‘We live in an era when the consequences and effects of dominant economic, social and political paradigms are pressing upon people, damaging democracy and fomenting feelings of frustration, helplessness and despair. It is now when creating together, wisely and hopefully, matters most.’

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