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Finding common ground: The conception of community arts festivals as spaces for placemaking
1School of Allied and Public Health Professions, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QU, UK.
Abstract:
The present research posits the significant role that arts and cultural festivals play in contributing to placemaking and generating well-being within communities. Placemaking is recognized to be important when considering how to improve population health and well-being, and festivals can be seen to amplify those benefits. Drawing on qualitative data gathered from interviews with festival organizers in SouthEast England and deploying theories of space from Foucault and Massey, the present article argues that community arts and cultural festivals support the positive creation or transformation of pro-social spaces that could support community acceptance and well-being, the ability to live together and cohesively and accepting difference.
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