Handle with Care
The Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being international get-together invited practitioners, organisations, and institutions, policy-makers, thinkers, researchers, activists, and artivists from the cultural, social, and health sectors who worked on topics related to care, well-being, health, and culture.
The multitude of crises our societies were facing at that time, including climate and social injustice, wars, pandemic, economic, and political upheavals in and beyond Europe, required an urgent cultural response: a response rooted in care for the planet and communities, care for each other. To navigate those uncertainties, participants were in search of a compass, a sense of direction towards a sustainable, democratic, caring future.
The Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being gathering aimed to collectively explore the significance of care as an ethical and political obligation for our societies and the role culture and cultural professionals could play in this. It specifically discussed the evidence on the role of culture in improving health and well-being. The gathering delved into how culture and participation in the cultural life of communities could nourish the sense of social and individual well-being.
In recognition of the transformative power of Culture and its potential to shape a more compassionate and inclusive world, we, the undersigned, unite under the banner of care. This manifesto serves as a rallying call to artists, cultural organisations and professionals to embrace a politics and ethics of care as a fundamental element of our collective work.
To Care is to Act
Implementing a politics and ethics of care demands deliberate and intentional strategies from cultural organisations. We declare our unwavering dedication to the pursuit of a culture of care. Together, we envision a future where care is the guiding force that shapes our collective destiny.
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