«This book is an advocate for the change-making capacity of culture. It is also a source of inspiration for renegotiating our understanding of the world and affirming culture as a critical space to practice courage and perseverance amid complex societal reconfigurations. Our focus is on courageous citizens: those whose daring, sharing and inventing contribute to our collective future, and for whom culture and democracy are the starting points for vision and action. Their social energy gives rise to alternative stories, they embrace the underrepresented while opening up space for learning, living together and questioning the fundamental nature of democracy. (...)». Tirado daqui.
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Sobre o livro leia aqui.De lá: «Courageous Citizens’ aims to address the ‘role of culture in social change’ though interviews, excerpts from speeches, photographs and scribbles. Rather than a practical guide, it is an almost philosophical collection of observations and experiences of arts professionals on the question of how arts and culture besides institutional structures can help reflect current societies and create more equal ones by courage and empathy. (...)».
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