Join us for an enlightening webinar featuring Charles Landry, renowned urbanist and author, as he delves into inspiring stories of how other communities around the world are finding solutions to the kinds of challenges that we are currently facing in Gloucester. While Landry resides outside of London, over the years he has networked with cultural leaders on the North Shore. In her former role at the Mass Cultural Council, Moderator Meri Jenkins first introduced us to Landry's work. It’s great to welcome them back for a conversation that will help us explore how Gloucester can approach its comprehensive community development plans.
About Charles Landry:
Charles Landry is a prominent figure in the field of urban development and innovation. He is best known for popularizing the Creative City concept through his influential book, "The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators," which has revolutionized how we approach city planning and management. Charles Landry's extensive work with places reimagines city-making by exploring the nomadic world, intercultural cities, the psychology of urban spaces, risk and fragility, creative bureaucracies, and the measurement of creativity in cities. With a diverse background, Charles Landry's career has focused on how we can rethink, replan and act differently. He established Comedia, a think tank, publisher, and consultancy in 1978, which significantly contributed to understanding cultural resources, urban innovation and the creative economy so impacting on cultural studies. He has worked all around the world and in 2018 he co-founded the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin. See www.charleslandry.com About Meri Jenkins:
Meri Jenkins has cultivated numerous dialogues among diverse stakeholders on creative place-making, sector capacity and tourism. From 2000 to 2018, she developed and supervised the Creative Economy initiatives at the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Commonwealth's arts agency, managing cities and towns through cultural facilities funding, district designations, and so much more. She is a powerful and clear voice when it comes to cultural development and resource management. Meri Jenkins believes that artists play a pivotal role in the well-being of communities, oftentimes drawing attention to issues in ways that foster greater understanding and better communication -- an active and engaged artist community with vibrant cultural assets is characteristic of communities that are thriving.
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Gloucester Cultural Initiative, Event Organizer
Manship Artists Residency, Community Partner
This program is funded in part by the Bruce J Anderson Foundation.
