If self-determination and self-expression can be achieved only when people’s basic needs are met, then what creative endeavours, resources, artistic labor and values must be provided to support people’s basic needs?
The Cultural Policy Convivial Action Card Deck also known as A peek into some ‘art-talk over breakfast’ strategies at our home card deck is part of the multiplatform project, Convivial Actions, by María del Carmen Lamadrid, and Staff of the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.
The card deck aimed to facilitate neither parallel nor a “right angle” to a specified line of inquiry about the Los Angeles County Cultural Policy.
It intends to persuade a group – through a series of oblique topics – to talk and engage creatively around the things that may support self-expression and the things that threatened self-expression.
Everyone has the right to self-determination and self-expression, yet self-expression for many in LA County is made vulnerable by poverty, racism, and lack of leisure time to name a few basic needs.
If self-determination and self-expression can be achieved only when people’s basic needs are met, then what creative endeavours, resources, artistic labor and values must be provided to support people’s basic needs?
If each and every division in LA County government works to address all the intersectional challenges associated with inequalities, then what role must the creative community of Los Angeles play to support those removing the obstacles that threaten self-expression?
How can the creative community in Los Angeles be more fully present on a daily-basis to generate a shift towards greater self-expression?
A total of 38 cards in English and Spanish, a poster, and a card protocol providing guidance and instructions were created for use in group meetings facilitated by staff working on the LA County Cultural Policy.
The goal of the strategy was to encourage more dialogic forms of everyday living that engage with participants around the topics of government actions, laws and programs related to arts, culture and creativity.
