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Bringing Arts Closer to Local Communities: Spatial Opportunities and Impacts on Community Bonding

Author : Zdravko Trivic

Published in: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods in Singapore

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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‘Arts and Culture Nodes’ is an initiative launched by Singapore’s National Arts Council (NAC) in 2012 to bring quality arts closer to where people live, foster regular arts engagement, enrich public life and build stronger community bonds. The key mechanism employed was not only creating a comprehensive network of partnerships with artists and various neighbourhood institutions, such as community and recreational clubs, libraries and non-profit organisations across the island, but also activating a range of neighbourhood public spaces as more informal arts and culture venues. This chapter first outlines the research conducted in five Singaporean neighbourhoods to investigate spatial, social and participation impacts of the ‘Nodes’ initiative. Guided by the ‘Neighbourhood Arts and Culture Impact Assessment’ (NACIA) framework and the conceptual lenses of placemaking and cultural ecology, this chapter then discusses the roles and capacities of arts and culture initiatives in building sustainable community arts development and resilient local urban communities.

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Title: Bringing Arts Closer to Local Communities: Spatial Opportunities and Impacts on Community Bonding
Author: Zdravko Trivic
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods in Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-7047-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-13-7048-9

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7048-9_7

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