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The Arts and Civic Engagement: Tool Kit from Animating Democracy
By Americans for the Arts
Publishers: Americans for the Arts
Source: This resources is available for download for logged in users.
This comprehensive toolkit features customizable worksheets containing thoughtful questions, clarifying sidebars, and examples to help users plan, design, and partner to create meaningful engagement activities. Available for purchase from Animating Democracy, the resources on this CD include: a context for understanding the possibilities at the intersection of art and civic life; definitions of common terms and diagrams to situate arts-based civic engagement work in a broader context of arts and community engagement; Imagine, Define, Design—a series of worksheets designed to help users define a project’s core artistic elements and civic or social concern and forge effective partnerships; a framework to create meaningful dialogue at arts events; and a compilation of civic engagement resources including organizations, websites, and publications. [Summary adapted from Animating Democracy's website.]
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