World Community Arts day 2010

by Rocca Gutteridge, 17 Feb 2010

I was very happy to be invited along to the Scottish Parliament last Thursday to witness the fantastic drumming group ‘Drumatik’ play there socks off to the MSPs and passing public.

www.drumatik.com

Please check out their brilliant website!

All of this was in aid of today’s World Community Arts Day, an initiative set up by the dynamic Andrew Crummy. Today, thousands of folk from around the world will be doing one creative action through the belief of Art serving as a “catalyst for caring and sharing”.

http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm

Crummy writes: “Community Art is an important global movement, with a complex and long history. Thousands of groups and individuals are part of this story that is rich and very diverse. (Many can be found on Communityarts.net).”

The event is influenced by the life and work of performance artist Reg Bolton www.regbolton.org The boundless energy Crummy and the Craigmillar festival society offer to try and create a ‘one day world festival society’ cannot be ignored and I look forward to having both David Harding and Andrew Crummy along to an upcoming Artachat for both a critique and celebration of this remarkable event.

" But some say that they’ve heard,

A whisper in the wind,

Communities are on the move,

Their way of living to improve and festivals you’ll find."

" The powerful in the land,

Can’t bring a change of heart,

But history will be made,

When the people play their part."

Sung by the late Janet Howie

World Community Arts Day