DEMOCRATIC VISTAS FORUM WITH ARLENE GOLDBARD – Author of New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development. Tonight (November 9), from 6 – 7:30 p.m., at the University Center, 525 S. State Street, Lake Room.
Arlene Goldbard was one of the community arts movement's first national organizers, and among the seminal thinkers who have named, described and theorized the contemporary community arts movement. A definitive expert in the concepts of cultural democracy and art for social change, Goldbard, with her partner, Don Adams, has provided organizational guidance to more than 80 arts and media organizations, foundations, arts councils and other public and private agencies. Adams and Goldbard have been the authors of some of the basic texts in the field they call community cultural development. Some of their essays appeared in High Performance magazine and are archived on the Community Arts Network Web site. Two of their most notable texts, "Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development" and the anthology "Community, Culture and Globalization," were commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and are available free of charge on the foundation's Web site.