This toolkit is useful for practitioners aiming to develop new exercises and approaches for engaging older people in creative work. Sue Mayo, Entelechy Arts & Lois Weaver, 2017
Aesthetics Short Takes
This framework offers eleven attributes for using arts as a tool for change. It aims to enable artists to shape the criteria by which their work is assessed. For more Animating Democracy resources go here. Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts, 2017
The Basics of Social Impact Evaluation
A useful resource setting out a straight forward model of social impact evaluation for creative projects, with a step by step guide and appendices that offer more information on the theories underpinning it. BYP, 2018
Cultural Democracy in Practice
Cultural Democracy describes an approach to arts and culture that engages everyone in deciding what culture is, where it happens, who makes it, and who experiences it. The toolkit looks at how we can achieve culturally democratic practices. 64 Million Artists, 2018
The Citizen’s Handbook
A toolkit for community-based activism covering community engagement, facilitation and community organisation. The toolkit is useful for practitioners seeking to understand group dynamics, sustainable community engagement. Citizen’s Handbook, 2019
Imaginings: A DIY guide to arts-based community dialogue
Imaginings are art-infused gatherings for community visioning, inviting diverse groups of artists, organisers, and community members to envision their communities’ futures. The toolkit includes historical context as well as tools for project management and delivery. US Dept. Arts & Culture, 2019
Beautiful Rising
This toolbox catalogues a broad range of principles and tactics for activism. Whilst not strictly developed from arts practices, it provides explanations to theories and movements that have informed participatory theatre and is useful for arts activists. Beautiful Rising, 2019
