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I'm Steve Garrett. Cultural Concerns is the name for the work that I do around community-based arts, culture and creativity. Everyone has 'artistic talent' and can enjoy and benefit from expressing themselves creatively. My work aims to support and enable people who are getting involved with 'doing it!'.
I organise a variety of community arts projects (such as Cardiff's annual Riverside Festival) and set up collaborations and exchanges between musicians from Wales and from other countries such as Africa and India.
 I work with community artists, arts funders and cultural policy-makers to
develop better links between participation in 'the arts', personal development and community
regeneration.
I am also a musician myself, performing under the name
Stainless Steve
The work of Cultural Concerns includes:
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organising the annual multi-cultural Riverside Festival |
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management of grass-roots
cultural projects
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organising community festivals
and special events
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managing arts-related conferences
and seminars
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organising international
exchanges and collaborations between artists working at a community level.
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organising music projects with disaffected
young people
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 Cultural Concerns
was founded in 1998, and since then I have organised numerous cultural projects
and initiatives (see CV), in addition to founding the award winning Riverside Market and the Riverside Market Garden.
I have many years'
experience delivering projects and formulating policy in the participatory and community
arts field. I spent four years on the Arts Council of Wales; studied for a year at the
School for Social Entrepreneurs; I am a Churchill Fellow; a former Board member of Sound
Sense (the UK support agency for community music); and a former Community Music
Commission member of the International Society of Music Educators (ISME). I'm vice-chair (formerly
Chair) of the Wales Association of Community Artists.
I love 'local food' as much as I love 'local music'. From my perspective, the two have a lot in common, both being about high quality and authenticity and engaging with the community. I'm the founder of RCMA Social Enterprise ('the Riverside Market People')
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about my work.
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