Current social practice groups

Some social practice groups that are worth visiting their sites:

Field Theory: 

Mission Statement: “We believe in making things happen. We also believe in evolving what we do”

About: This year they are working on four new projects, but past projects they raised $20 000 in six months just by asking and developing a community of support around unknown and obscure and barely conceived projects.

Field Theory (online), (2012), retrieved from www.fieldtheory.com.au

SPARC (Social Practice Arts Research Centre)

Mission Statement: “Fosters knowledge exchange and project building between artists, scientists, the public and others with a vision towards active social and environmental change. Working across disciplines, we aim to engender and support collaborations and projects that have a local, national or international impact on the public sphere.”

SPARC (2012), Social and Environmental Practice in the Arts at UC Santa Cruz: bringing together artists, specialists and the public to build creative projects for social and environmental change (online), retrieved from http://sparc.ucsc.edu/index.html 

Project V.O.I.C.E (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression) 

Mission Statement: “An international movement that celebrates and inspires youth self-expression through Spoken Word Poetry… explore and better understand their culture, their society, and ultimately themselves.”

About: Led by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, both spoken word poets who tour around the world to perform and to spread their love for poetry and to inspire others- project voice is focussed at school children. 

Kay, Sarah (2014), Project Voice (online), retrieved from http://www.project-voice.net