Person-centered Arts Practices with Communities
Person-centered Arts Practices with Communities is an approach in facilitating and evaluating arts programmes based on community needs.
Pitched across the Personal, Social, Cognitive and Cultural dimensions, person-centered arts practices identifies areas of strength and growth for the participants of any arts programme.
Pedagogical Framework
Person-centered Arts practices with Communities as a pedagogical approach was developed by Dr. Felicia Low after 15 years of practice, and 3 years of research. It was supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore.
This pedagogical approach encourages artist-facilitators and organisations to develop objectives and evaluation methods which map out how participants can be supported across their personal, social and cognitive dimensions. It also demands an aspect of recognition of the community’s cultural traits, in programme development and evaluation. In this way, arts programmes with communities will be planned and evaluated based on the unique qualities of each community group. The 4 dimensions can be used to better understand the strengths and needs of individuals within each group.
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Professional Development for Artist-Facilitators & Organisations
CCD aims to encourage person-centered arts practices with communities in Singapore.
Training courses for artists-facilitators and organisations are available onsite or online, These training courses include
- 4 sessions of 2 hours each, covering all 4 dimensions in theory and examples of practice with various communities.
- More intensive workshops where participants design their own programme proposals, activities and evaluation methods. Each workshop focuses on 1 dimension and will be conducted over 4 hours.
Custom-made workshops which encompass a mix of dimensions based on community traits are also available upon request.
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