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VISION
Our vision is of a community with creativity at its
heart, where art matters, and where people are
enriched and artists work.
MISSION
Our mission is to provide excellent opportunities
for people - young and not so young - to have the
opportunities for enjoyment, entertainment,
reflection, questioning and individual and communal
expression that the arts provide. The arts are
essential to the renewal, development and day-to-day
life of any community and our community is
undergoing huge change. Common Ground, working
directly or indirectly with partners, will continue
to create exciting connections between artists and
community groups and ensure that the resulting
exchanges are the best that they can be.
VALUES
The arts are a set of languages for understanding
the world in ways that offer possibilities rather
than limitations, inclusion rather than exclusion
and diversity rather than uniformity. Common Ground
believes these languages can be learned and enjoyed
by everyone and that they give those who learn them
powerful means to view and alter the circumstances
in which they live. Common Ground believes this can
be achieved through building and sustaining
relationships with partners over the long term. It
follows that Common Ground believes in the
importance of working closely with artist to
identify the transformative power of their own
practice and support them to share their knowledge
and experiences with others. In addition, Common
Ground believes it is essential to resource the
communities in Canal Communities area to actively
partner artists to advance meaningful change – on an
individual and communal level
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