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20 February 2024 16:00 CET

The Arts as a Powerful Tool for Inner Development: How Creative Engagement Can Bring the Inner Development Goals to Life

- Mobilising a movement towards the IDGs - 

Together with our partner ITAC collaborative, we warmly invite you to join this special IDG gathering, exploring the transformative power of the arts and creativity in inner development and fostering positive change in the world.

Discover how Teaching Artist practices effectively contribute to conflict transformation, personal development, and community (and institutional) progress, and uncover the limitless potential of the arts in shaping a more harmonious, empowered, and interconnected world.

We will be joined by experts from Israel/Palestine, Argentina, Scotland and India, who will share how their innovative practices are transforming lives and hold much promise for the realisation of the IDGs for individual impact that builds into systemic change.


About ITAC
The International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC) is the first global network of artists working in community and educational settings to create positive social impact.

ITAC brings together thousands of artists, organisations, funders, and researchers worldwide to explore key issues relating to participatory art practices and using the arts as a vehicle for fostering inner development and societal change.

https://www.itac-collaborative...


About the IDGs

In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided us with a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. However, progress is not happening fast enough, and we urgently need to increase our collective abilities to face and work effectively with complex challenges. 

This is why we are co-creating the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) - a non-profit, open-source organisation that helps us identify and develop the collective inner skills and qualities needed to achieve the 17 SDGs and human flourishing on a healthy planet.

www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org

The gathering takes place on Zoom.

The Gathering will start at 16:00 CET and is scheduled to end at 17:30 CET. Afterwards, we warmly invite everyone to remain for an additional 30 minutes of “afterglow”, providing an opportunity to chat with fellow participants and contributors.

You will find the link in the ticket e-mail - please choose the ticket option corresponding to your economic situation.

If none of the options correspond to your economic means, please reach out to hannah@innerdevelopmentgoals.org, and we will find a way for you to join the gathering.

If you have any questions about the IDGs, please visit our information tool.

Ines Sanguinetti
Dancer, Choreographer, and Cultural Innovator (Argentina) - Acting - the arts as a way to develop positive behavioural changes and societal shifts

Inés Sanguinetti is a dancer, choreographer, and cultural leader dedicated to transforming education and working for social equity through art.

She is the co-founder and president of "Crear vale la pena", an NGO that develops social integration programs for young people, combining education in arts, artistic production and social organisation as a means for social and individual promotion and development.

Inés has curated the International Festival of Buenos Aires and is a member of the artistic department of the Cultural Center of Cooperation. She has pioneered the renowned methodology, Creative Environments-School & Community, and her mission is to empower change agents in formal education, mental health, and social engagement within vulnerable communities.

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Chen Alon
Theatre Activist, Director and Scholar (Israel/ Palestine)- Relating - theatre as a tool for de-stigmatising ‘otherness’

Dr. Chen Alon is a theatre activist, director, scholar and head of the Community Theatre and Artivism (Art & Activism) Program in the Theatre Arts Department at Tel-Aviv University. He is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a movement of Palestinian and Israeli combatants who have abandoned the way of violence and struggle together non-violently against the occupation. Chen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Suleiman Khatib, Co-Founder of Combatants for Peace (2017-2018). 

Activism in the complicated reality in Israel/Palestine led him, as a professional actor and director, to search and create new forms of activist theatre with conflicted groups of Palestinian and Israelis, prisoners, drug addicts, homeless people and youth. 

Chen also founded Holot Theatre, a company of African asylum seekers and Israeli citizens. The 'Polarized Model of Theatre of the Oppressed' that Chen has developed in the past two decades is depicted in the documentaries Disturbing the Peace (Stephen Apkon & Andrew Young, 2015) and Between Fences (Avi Mograbi, 2016).

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Madeline McGirk
Managing Director, ITAC (Scotland)

Madeleine McGirk is the Managing Director of ITAC, who supports, facilitates and coordinates activities across the organisation, including assisting in the delivery of the groundbreaking ITAC conferences held biennially.

Madeleine coordinates international partnership projects and network development, attends/presents at international arts education conferences and organises regular development opportunities for the network. She is the former Executive Director of the Scottish European Educational Trust (SEET), a national educational organisation based in Scotland that encourages international education and language learning through innovative practices. 

With a background in Theatre and Film, Madeleine still performs as an actress, primarily focusing on new writing and contemporary work. She is passionate about her work in the arts and education and is committed to furthering international connectivity in the arts field and beyond.

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Sangeeta Isvaran
Founder Wind Dancers Trust (India) - Collaborating - dance as a way to develop agency

Sangeeta, founder of the Wind Dancers Trust, is a dancer-performer who developed the Katradi method, working in marginalised, underprivileged communities using arts in education, empowerment and conflict resolution across 30 countries. For her scholarship in the arts, she has been honoured with the highest national award for young dancers – the Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar. 

Sangeeta collaborates with therapists and awareness platforms in her projects, for which she has been described as a ‘thinking dancer’, and she has been credited for bringing classical dance beyond a limited scope of aesthetic appeal.

She is a Fellow of the International Institute of Conciliation, USA, and is an Honorary Associate of the Nature Conservation Foundation, India. Speaking eight international languages, she has taught at over 20 universities and international organisations.

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