Join us for this month's Think Tank with 2022-2023 ITAC Innovator Sangeeta Isvaran (India) on Tuesday, March 28 at 5:00pm Paris time (4:00pm UK time / 11:00am New York time).
This Think Tank will explore the Arts in Mainstream Systems for Social Transformation in India.
Why should artists be a part of:
a mediation team in a war zone (not as entertainers but mediators)?
an entrepreneurship/microfinance scheme for poverty alleviation?
a medical team in a refugee camp for women and children?
a community conservation project in a snow-leopard landscape?
In over two decades of working with mainstream systems of health, education, poverty, social justice, caste and conflict in some of the most marginalised communities across the world, Sangeeta Isvaran has seen how much the arts have to offer to create more just and caring societies. While the arts offer cutting edge, innovative strategies to some of the world’s most difficult issues, she has seen very little appreciation and recognition for the skills we as artists have to offer. She believes teaching artists can and should become a part of different organisational systems, not just artistic ones; we need to show that art forms carry strategies and techniques that can serve society in multiple ways.