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"Being Included" Artist Talk

24/9/2023

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"Being Included" Artist Talk herättää kysymyksen siitä, kuka on taiteen kentällä ulkopuolinen ja kuka sisäpiiriläinen. Kuka tai miten määritellään outsider -taiteilija? Mikä jää määritelmien ulkopuolelle? Onko mahdollista olla sijoittumatta mihinkään vai jääkö tällöin taidekentän rakenteiden ulkopuolelle? Miten 'outsider art' vaikuttaa taidekenttään, kuka inspiroi ketä? Miten mielenterveys vaikuttaa inklusiivisyyteen? Mikä on koulutuksen vastuu? Voitko osallistua tai tulla mukaan, jos olet "ulkopuolinen"?

26.9.2023
Näyttelykierros klo 17-18 Omenapuutalossa
Klo 18-20 Auditorio, Lapinlahden Lähde

Puhujat:
​Arlene Tucker
 hyödyntää työssään käännösopintoja, visuaalista taidetta, semiotiikka ja feministisiä praktiikoita. Tällä hetkellä hän työskentelee moninaisuusasiantuntijana Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelulla ja vetää Moninaisuus kuntien taide- ja kulttuuritoiminnan lähtökohtana 2025 -projektia. Moninaisuustyön ohella Tucker työskentelee taiteilijana ja kouluttajana.

SASHAPASHA on helsinkiläinen taiteellinen duo, jonka perustivat vuonna 2009 taiteilijat Sasha Rotts ja Pavel Rotts. He työskentelevät kokeellisesti ja laajasti monialaisina taiteilijoina yksin ja yhdessä.

Keskustelua moderoi performanssitaiteilija ja Taidekoulu Maan rehtori H Ouramo. Lapinlahden Lähteen näkökulmaa esittelee näyttelysuunnittelija Paula Talvikki.

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"Being Included" Artist Talk raises the question of who is an outsider and who is an insider in the art field. Who or how "outsider artist" is defined? What stays outside of the specifications? Is it possible not to be placed anywhere, or is one then left outside from the structures? How does outsider art affect the art field, who inspires whom? How does mental health affect inclusion? What is the responsibility of education? Can you participate or be included if you are "an outsider"?

26.9.2023
Exhibition tour from 17:00-18:00 in Omenapuutalo
18:00-20:00 Auditorium at Lapinlahden Lähde

The speakers:
Arlene Tucker’s socially engaged work utilizes translation studies, visual art, semiotics, and feminist practices. She currently works as a diversity expert at Culture for All Service and runs the project Diversity as a starting point for municipalities’ art and culture activities in 2025.

SASHAPASHA is a Helsinki-based artistic duo created in 2009 by artists Sasha Rotts and Pavel Rotts who work experimentally and extensively as multidisciplinary artists alone and together

The discussion is moderated by H Ouramo, performance artist and rector of Art School Maa. The perspective of Lapinlahden Lähde is presented by exhibition coordinator Paula Talvikki.
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​lapinlahdenlahde.fi/tapahtumat/huuto-goes-lapinlahti-artist-talk-being-included/
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Making our Dream Worlds in Iceland!

18/8/2023

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Making Our Dream Worlds is for people who like to build, make, and explore where we would like to live and how! We will do this at 2 locations; Sláturhúsið in Egilsstaðir and Sambuð in Djúpivogur. 

Let’s spend a playful afternoon creating our dream world together using recycled materials!
Welcome to our workshop for people 8 and up.

See you there!

xoxo, 
​arlene
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Memory as Medium

2/7/2023

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Rowing on the sea. Making memories as we discuss, create and are together.

We come together in the Saari Residence to cross our artistic and academic explorations of memory as a medium for arts creation. We understand memory as much more than what can be mapped and monitored: it is a fabulation that re-creates the present by activating the power of the ‘not-there’. We work with memory not as a vehicle to access a gone past -from the stability of a chronological present- but rather as processes reinventing present, past and future on each occasion. Memory is then understood as creative and processual movements calling for inventing inheritance and history anew.

We research how memory can be a medium for engaging with the world ‘as we know it’ otherwise, using different disciplines and approaches steaming from dance/movement, visual arts, performance, and writing. Rather than reducing memory to acts of remembering, we approach it as multiplicity, through our curiosity to understand how processes of remembering work on and through us.

We explore the following research questions:
- How can we work with memories not strengthening private identity with its proto-capitalist tendencies to individualism, but also, without focusing on collective memory as big sacks of information that erase nuanced personal experiences?
- In which ways can memory lead us away from the political, social, and cultural imperatives of the present?
- How do memory making processes take shape and reshape depending on social and political circumstances?

The working group is composed by Finland-based artists born and raised elsewhere: Japan-New Zealand, Brazil, Germany, Taiwan–USA. We are aware that our mobility and distance from all sorts of ‘home-related’ aspects affect how we perceive and problematize remembrance. Memory is a challenge to be tackled daily, in our private and political lives. Memory is inseparable from the geopolitics of post-colonial and imperial times. Thus unraveling such complexities can sustainably support diverse community building.

xoxo,
Georgie Goater, Gesa Piper, Camila da Rosa Ribeiro & Arlene Tucker

​20.6-2.7.2023
Mynämäki, Finland
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https://koneensaatio.fi/en/saari-residence/
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#StopHatredNow Guidelines & Info Checklist

16/6/2023

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Illustrations and layout by Kristiva Vasileva. https://vasilevakristiina.myportfolio.com
So happy to have been able to compile #StopHatredNow Guidelines & Info Checklist with Alex Kollerová of Globe Art Point with the support of #SHN’s working group. You can read my suggestions on how to create your own Safer Space Guidelines in the document.

We could not have done this alone. Inspiration has come from Anti-Racist Forum (ARF), Ruskeat Tytöt, Feminist Culture House ry, personal experiences and invaluable discussions and experimentation with Diversity Agents. Team effort on all fronts made this collection of hopefully helpful information happen.

Download your own copy here.

More valuable info can be found on #SHN's website:
www.stophatrednow.fi/ethical-guidelines

Enjoy!

​xx arlene
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WORKSHOP | Awareness of HowWe Communicate & Listen– NVC inspired and somatic practices at play

8/5/2023

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Arlene Tucker in Iceland. □️ Visuals: Mire Mroué @thequeerdomofgod
〰️ AWARENESS OF HOW WE COMMUNICATE & LISTEN – NVC INSPIRED AND SOMATIC PRACTICES AT PLAY by Arlene Tucker (@arlene.tucker) is for people familiar and not so familiar with NVC and somatic practices. By practicing, we can figure out how to be heard in the way intended, how to communicate clearly and how to listen empathetically.

​Held on Zoom on Friday 19th May.

For the whole programme visit www.stophatrednow.fi/program-2023.

#SHN #SHN2023 #StopHatredNow2023 #RootingChange #workshop
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Active Listening to Sharpen Self-Awareness of our Living Heritages

13/4/2023

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I had the honour of including a Good practice submission to The Wiki-Inventory for Living Heritage. Active listening is a way of safeguarding living tradition.

"Active Listening and Sharpening Self-Awareness are both communication and mindset techniques that are part of anti-racist practices. Kirsten Ivey-Colsen and Lynn Turner state, “Anti-racism is a way of life. Like starting any new habit, anti-racism requires a conscious decision to pursue it as a goal and way of being. Intention brings mindful presence and awareness to what we say and what we do.” In regards to Living Heritage, Active Listening and Sharpening Self-Awareness can improve as well as bring to light our personal histories as they are carried in our beliefs, thoughts, expressions, identities, and cultural experiences. These practices can cultivate ‘cultural self-awareness’, which can in turn enhance intercultural understanding. We may not all be in agreement, but having awareness of and truly listening to what is underlying in the narrative will bring us closer to having a deeper understanding and perhaps acceptance of different ways of appreciating unique and diverse living heritages."

Read the whole article here.
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Arlene Tucker held a Living Heritage workshop at Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki, Finland on December 14, 2022. Photo: Kamilla Śladowska
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Fair Sculpture -projekti Keskisuomalainen lehdessä!

28/2/2023

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https://www.ksml.fi/paikalliset/5751196

Fair Sculpture encourages and helps empower youth, with a focus on youths who are less exposed to different kinds of art and culture. https://www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/fair-sculpture/

Fair Sculpture –projekti luo tilaa monimuotoisemmalle Taideyliopistolle. Fair Sculpture -projekti kannustaa ja voimaannuttaa nuoria kuvanveiston avulla. Siihen osallistetaan erityisesti nuoria, joilla ei ole aiempaa kokemusta taiteesta ja kulttuurista. https://www.uniarts.fi/projektit/fair-sculpture/
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Moninaisuus kuntien taide- ja kulttuuritoiminnan lähtökohtana 2025

19/12/2022

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Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelulle on myönnetty 185 000 euroa moninaisuuden ja kulttuuritoiminnan tuomiseksi kuntiin valtakunnallisesti. Kuljetaan yhdessä kohti oikeudenmukaisempaa yhteiskuntaa!

"Nyt rahoitettava valtakunnallinen kehittämistehtävä on kolmas toteutettava valtakunnallinen kehittämistehtävä. Se kohdentuu kulttuurisen moninaisuuden haasteeseen kuntien kulttuuritoiminnassa. Tehtävä on temaattisesti ja toiminnallisesti sekä tärkeä että ajankohtainen eikä siinä ole päällekkäistä toimintaa suhteessa aiempiin kehittämistehtäviin", sanoo tiede- ja kulttuuriministeri Petri Honkonen opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön tiedotteessa (12.12.2022).

Moninaisuus kuntien taide- ja kulttuuritoiminnan lähtökohtana 2025 -hankkeen tavoitteena on vastata kuntapuolen tarpeeseen monimuotoisuuden ja tasa-arvo osaamisen lisäämiseksi muun muassa tarjoamalla koulutusta, konsultointia ja muuta tukea kulttuurille, kuntien toimintaa sekä kunnissa työskenteleviä taiteen ja kulttuurin ammattilaisia. Koulutus- ja konsultointitoiminnassa käytetään koko hankkeen ajan Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelun yhteistyössä Globe Art Pointin (G.A.P) kouluttamia moninaisuusagentteja sekä opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön (OKM) ja Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Taike) kehittämiä kulttuurisen moninaisuuden ja kestävän kehityksen dialogikortteja.

Projektissa on viisi osaa
  1. Moninaisuuskoulutus kuntien kulttuurityöntekijöille
    a.) Lyhyet verkkotyöpajat eri teemoista kuntien kulttuuritoimijoille
    b.) Pidempi moninaisuuskurssi, joka on räätälöity kunnan kulttuuritoiminnassa työskenteleville
  2. Käytetään dialogikortteja tasa-arvon ja osallisuuden vahvistamiseen kuntien sisällä
  3. Kuntien vastuullisuuskumppanuusohjelman pilotointi
  4. Lisäkoulutusta moninaisuusagenteille ja agenttiverkoston vahvistaminen
  5. Viestintäkampanja

Moninaisuus kuntien taide- ja kulttuuritoiminnan lähtökohtana 2025 tarjoaa osallistavia ja mukaansatempaavia ohjelmia valtakunnallisesti tukee moninaisuuden toimijoita sekä kouluttaa moninaisuusvastaavia.

Kaikki toimintamme vastaa ydinkysymyksiin "Edistääkö tämä monimuotoisuutta, osallisuutta ja tasa-arvoa taide- ja kulttuurialalla?" ja "Viekö tämä meitä kohti rakenteellisen rasismin purkamista ja omien ennakkoluulojemme tiedostamista sekä kuntien virastoissa että päätöksenteossa?” Lähtökohtanamme on yhteistyö ja haluamme kuunnella aktiivisesti sekä olla empaattisia, kriittisiä ja rehellisiä. Toivomme saavuttavamme ihmiset henkilökohtaisella tasolla, mikä luo positiivisen muutoksen aallon kohti osallistavampaa ja tasa-arvoisempaa yhteiskunta, johon kaikki ihmiset kuuluvat.

Hankkeen toteuttaa Kulttuuri kaikille -palvelu. Hanketta rahoittaa opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö. Hanke kestää tammikuusta 2023 joulukuuhun 2024.

Yhteystiedot
Arlene Tucker
projektijohtaja, moninaisuusasiantuntia ja -kouluttaja, Kulttuuria kaikille -palvelu
arlene.tucker@cultureforall.fi
puh. 045 116 0518

​https://www.kulttuuriakaikille.fi/moninaisuus_kunnissa
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Diversity as a starting point for municipalities' art and culture activities in 2025

19/12/2022

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Culture for All Service has been awarded 185,000 euros to bring diversity and culture activities to municipalities on a national level. Let's move towards a more equitable society together.

“The national development task to be financed now is the third national development task to be implemented. It focuses on the challenge of cultural diversity in the cultural activities of municipalities. The task is thematically and functionally both important and topical and does not overlap with previous development tasks” says Minister of Science and Culture, Petri Honkonen, quoted in The Ministry of Education and Culture’s news release (12.12.2022).

​The goal of the project Diversity as a starting point for municipalities' art and culture activities in 2025 is to respond to the need on the municipal side for increasing diversity and equality expertise by, among other things, offering training, consultancy and other support to cultural activities of the municipalities as well as  art and culture professionals working in municipalities.  The diversity agent network and cultural diversity and sustainable development dialogue cards developed by The Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM) and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) are used throughout the project in the training and consulting activities. 

Five main components of the project
  1. Diversity training for municipal cultural workers
    a.) Short online clinics on various themes for cultural actors in municipalities
    b.) A longer diversity course, tailored for those working in municipal cultural activities
  2. Use dialogue cards to strengthen the equality and inclusion within municipalities
  3. Pilot the municipalities' accountability partnership program
  4. Further train diversity agents and strengthen their network
  5. Communication campaign

Diversity as a starting point for municipalities' art and culture activities in 2025 will provide inclusive and engaging programs on a national level and support diversity agents as well as train  diversity officers. 

All of our initiatives respond to the core questions of ‘Does this promote diversity, inclusion and equity in the art and culture sector?’ and ‘Does this move us towards dismantling structural racism and discovering our own implicit biases as well as within municipal authorities, regional councils, and governments?’ As we enter the collaboration from the perspective of wanting to actively listen, be empathetic, be critical, and honest, we hope to reach people on a personal level, which will then create a wave of positive change towards a more inclusive and equitable society where all people belong. 

The project is implemented by the Culture for All Service. The project is financed by The Ministry of Education and Culture. The project runs from January 2023 to December 2024.

Contact informationArlene Tucker
Project Director and Diversity Expert, Culture for All Service
arlene.tucker@cultureforall.fi
+358 451 160 518

https://www.kulttuuriakaikille.fi/diversity_in_municipalities
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Living Heritage workshops

30/11/2022

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I have the pleasure to work as an Ambassador of Living Heritage for the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto).

On December 14th, I will be giving two workshops in Helsinki. Both have the same content.
The first workshop, from 9:30-11:30, will be at The National Museum of Finland.
The second one, from 15:00-17:00, will be at Myymälä2 gallery.

In these 2-hour workshops you will hear more about the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In the workshop we will together discuss and collect information on your living heritage and choose elements that could be added to the Wiki-inventory for Living Heritage.

Participation is free. People of all ages and walks of life are welcome! This is a great opportunity for your voice to be heard and to see how your existence makes a mark on our social fabric. 

Please send an email to Arlene if you know which session you would like to participate in. Email her at arlene.dearyou(at)gmail.com.

Hope to see you there!

xx arlene
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Living heritage or intangible cultural heritage (ICH) means practices, expressions, knowledge and skills that communities recognize as part of their cultural heritage. It can include for example performing arts, crafts, oral traditions, social practices and festivities or knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe. The project is related to the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Read here more about the work under the Convention in Finland.

The aim of the project is to bring new examples to the Wiki-inventory for Living Heritage representing various cultural groups in Finland. The Wiki was opened in 2016 to bring visibility to living heritage in Finland. It has now over 200 articles from 250 communities all around Finland. Among existing examples are the Singing tradition of Finnish Roma people and African Music and dance in Finland, but there are gaps and cultural diversity is not very well represented in the inventory.  Find here all articles in Finnish and all translated to English. The Wiki was visited by over 100 000 people from 150 countries in 2021.

The language of the workshop is English, but in the process it is possible to use other languages. In the Wiki the articles need to be in Finnish or Swedish, but it is encouraged to use other languages as well.

Project background:

For the fall 2022 project, seven people from culturally diverse backgrounds have been selected as Ambassadors of Living Heritage. The project is coordinated by the Finnish Heritage Agency together with Arts Promotion Centre Taike, Culture for All and Globe Art Point.The aim of the project is to bring more visibility to culturally diverse living heritage in Finland, to inspire discussion on how various groups participate in the safeguarding of living heritage in Finland and what measures could be developed.  
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