News Feature: July 2006

New Web Sites Coming Soon!

Creative Exchange is going to launch its brand new website: it aims to be more user-friendly and interactive and will incorporate dynamic technologies which will help Creative Exchange’s staff to update it much more frequently and efficiently. The website will feature areas for public discussion (Forums), an E-Bookshop and a fully searchable archive of resources, news and bulletins.

Creative Exchange has also got funding from Arts Council England and the Home Office to create a new section of its website devoted to Culture, Arts and Refugees.
In early 2005 Creative Exchange presented a major report, entitled ‘A Sense of Belonging’, which addressed the role of arts and culture in the integration of refugees and asylum seekers. The report emerged from a 12-month research project involving 73 projects across the UK. Since then, Creative Exchange has been approached by people seeking to access information from the research online.
The new section, which will be launched by Autumn 2006, will feature the executive summary of the research and 14 case studies; it will also include a page signposting useful organisations, publications, resource materials and contacts. This is just the first step of a wider strategy to make information about arts, culture and the integration of refugees and asylum seekers more widely and easily accessible to the public via the Internet.

For any enquiry or further information contact info@creativexchange.org

 

Two new publications from Creative Exchange

A Sense of Belonging
Creative Exchange has launched a report and DVD, A Sense of Belonging, which addresses the role of arts and culture in the integration of refugees and asylum seekers. A Sense of Belonging is the first major report on the role of both culture (as a foundation for human development) and arts (as a means of expression, communication and sharing) in the resettlement process. The report has emerged from a 12-month research project involving 73 projects across the UK - 33 of which were explored in detail. 14 case studies were selected as exemplary projects, and nine of these feature in a DVD of 'video case studies'.

Copies (with DVD) are priced at £15 (UK Sterling) and copies (without DVD) are priced £10 (UK Sterling), plus Postage and Packaging.

Culture: Hidden Development
Creative Exchange has launched a new landmark report on Culture and International Development, funded by the UK's Department for International Development. It is intended to serve as a practical working guide to Culture and Development for the international development sector.

Copies are priced £10 (UK Sterling), plus Postage and Packaging.

Orders
Orders should be placed directly with our distributor, Eco Distribution, and not with Creative Exchange. Please contact: Jill Chandler, Eco Distribution, email: jill.chandler@virgin.net.

Creative Exchange Partners' Discount
Copies of both reports are available to Creative Exchange partners at a discount of 10 per cent off the publication price. When ordering your copy please state your partnership number, which appears on your annual partnership renewal form. The discount cannot be claimed without this number.
Please note that receipt of Creative Exchange email bulletins does not necessarily indicate you are a Creative Exchange Partner - Partners are those who enrol as members of our network and pay an annual partnership fee.