CArtsCon is an annual conference that brings together people who are interested in the arts to share their ideas, knowledge, and experience around a theme. The theme for 2019 is “Changing the Narrative“.

We are now considering proposals for papers, workshops, films, etc. The deadline for this is March 1, 2019.

Narrative: a spoken or written account of a connected set of events; a story (Oxford English Dictionary)

Our lives are full of stories – we hear them, see them, make them, experience them, live them. Stories are also often told from one particular point of view i.e. the creator’s.

All art tells a story—from the earliest cave paintings to Mozart’s operas to Hitchcock’s films to JK Rowling’s books to photographs of your children. Art can be an expression of someone’s mind or feelings, or it can relate events that happen, or it can create imaginary worlds for a viewer to inhabit. Even the most abstract tells a story, and all of the stories art tells take on different meanings for different people.

We have seen how movements like #MeToo have changed Hollywood, the films it makes and the people who make them. We have seen how people can change their country through the choices they make, or by allowing others to make choices for them.

2019’s CArtsCon theme challenges you to change the narrative. Change the story. Change the storyteller. Change the protagonists. Change the medium. Does an artist make art, or does art make an artist? Can you create multiple stories for your audience? Or can the audience create art with you?

To that end also, we invite people who work with communities to come forward and share how the arts have changed their communities.

Come along and join (or add to) the debates and discussions.

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