CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter PDF: Luminato, Creative City, Urban Renewal
Document Summary
Cracks in the creative city: the contradictions of community arts practice (heather e. mclean) In 2008, toronto"s luminato festival featured participatory arts interventions in regent. Park, canada"s oldest public housing neighborhood, then in the midst of massive redevelopment. It also promoted civic engagement in a public housing community that toronto media, planners and policymakers tend to characterize in sensationalist, racialized and classed language, depicting it as a neighborhood of degeneracy and violence. In blog posts, newspaper articles and interviews, journalists and participating artists, community workers and youth expressed divergent opinions about. Luminato promoted streetscape as an important opportunity to spark social inclusion among regent park residents and festivalgoers. In some cases, artists and arts organizations are complicit in staging culture-led regeneration initiatives that promote third-wave gentrification. "normalize market discipline and corporate priorities in policies that encourage artists and arts organizations to engage in entrepreneurial partnerships. " In some cases, festival programmers collaborate with business improvement.
