Urban Dialogues & Women ARTogether
Urban Dialogues and Women ARTogether are 3FF's art programmes. They both aim to give people the opportunity to act as social change-makers within and between communities, but differ in others respects: While Women ARTogether builds new networks of women from different backgrounds, Urban Dialogues enables artists of different faiths to collaborate with each other or display their work together as a way to encourage interaction between communities.
What unites them is the way in which they use art as a way to encourage understanding and cooperation between people of different faiths and beliefs at different levels of society, and the passion for positive social change that fuels them both.
Urban Dialogues
Urban Dialogues is a project run by the Three Faiths Forum together with its project partners – Maslaha, Art and Christianity Enquiry, the Jewish Community Centre for London, Mica Gallery and the Jewish Museum – which creates ongoing relationships between artists. It offers artists the chance to address issues and create possibilities of change together with people from other communities.
The 2009 project culminated in the event Artifice, during which the artists took over a warehouse space in Shoreditch.
In 2010 the artists engaged in a number of collaborative artistic projects. The collaborations were displayed together with the work of individual artists at the Interfaith Arts Festival, which took place during interfaith week.
The 2011 Urban Dialogues awards are sponored by Edmond de Rotschild Foundations, Bible Society and Mica Gallery.
What is Women ARTogether?
Women ARTogether enables Muslim, Christian and Jewish women to act as bridge-builders between their communities.
By creating opportunities for women of different faiths and beliefs to meet and build new networks together, they take charge and act on the issues that matter to them – building new links between their communities in the process.
The project uses art and film as a way to bring people together - and facilitates new connections, enabling women to find out how they can work together to create change.
The project launched in July 2010 at the Lexi Cinema in Willesden, London. A Women ARTogether event was held at the Interfaith Arts Festival in November, and in May 2011 the project travelled north to Manchester and Leeds.
Get Involved!
Are you an artist, a member of a community or faith organisation or perhaps just an interested individual who would like to contribute to the programme somehow?
Contact Hadiya at 3FF and tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. There are many different ways in which you could be a part of this project. We look forward to hearing from you! |
