This book is the record of what was successful and what failed in the course of the Animator project. It is a guidebook for all those, who now would like to undertake culture animation activities by themselves.
Download the whole book (in PDF format): Culture Animation NOW!
Download the book by chapter (in PDF format):
AUTOR MOTOR ANIMATOR is a contribution to the discussion on culture animation and culture management and art management in Czech and European contexts.
Go on and read it for discussion – reflections – talks – impulses.
The book has been published by Spolek Richelieu within the ANIMATOR project as a conclusion of the three-part discussion project on the culture animation, culture management, its studies and practice in Czech and European context.
To read more, we publish the pdf version of the book, where the english summary is possible to find at the end.
What are - if any - connections between idea of culture animation and community arts? What are roots of community arts in England and of culture animation in Poland? Who are people belonging to "tribe of active culture"? What could be possible use of etnographic research for culture animation?
We ask these questions - and try to answer some of them - in the book Locally: Culture Animation / Community Arts based on our findings from ANIMUS and ANIMATOR projects.
Text on etnography and culture animation in English (.doc)
Book prepared by Association "Studnia O" - the group of storytellers in the framework of our previous project ANIMUS.
It present the idea of storytelling as a tool for culture animation and narrative experience of members of the group. It includes also examples of projects.
Finally the book presenting curriculum of postgraduate studies for high school teachers of study of culture and for practitioners is ready.
The project of an newly-formulated program of postgraduate studies for teachers is associated with the idea of postgraduate studies for practitioners of culture. Of course, the specific goals for these two kinds of participant - teachers and culture animators - will differ somewhat. Teachers will still be taught to teach cultural science in the course of their studies whereas for culture animators, activity is their profession and their priority . The program’s aim is to ‘animate animators’, provide them with anthropologically grounded animation skills, update their knowledge, encourage them to go beyond the institutionally consolidated image of the world, in which culture happens in a local council cultural centre, most likely on a stage. Despite these differences in specific goals, however, we assume the program will remain an integrated whole. After all, teachers play a role as a practitioners of activity in the culture and culture animators are also teachers.
Book includes curriculum itself, commentary to it and detailed programmes of classes and workshops. Its available in Polish. We attach also introduction to the book (curriculum and commentary) and the programme of media workshop in English.