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No / We co-designed and piloted ‘Festival in a Box’, an outreach programme to enable socially isolated people with dementia to engage with and enjoy cultural activities in their homes. It comprised 3–4 weekly home visits, each led by a professional artist to create art works using materials brought in ‘the box’. Activities included music, poetry, pottery, crafts and photography. We qualitatively interviewed 13 participants (6 people with dementia, 4 artists, 3 befrienders). Six participants with dementia completed, enjoyed and engaged with the planned visits. Main themes were: engagement, reflection on value of previous cultural activities, precariousness and isolation in current neighbourhood and the importance of a voice and being heard. Befrienders reported their preconceptions of what participants could do were challenged. Artists reported shifts in their preconceptions about dementia and the influence of the project on their professional practice. We propose that the ‘Festival in a Box’ pilot study suggests a means through which community arts festivals could work with socially isolated people with dementia to contribute to the creation of ‘Dementia Friendly Communities’. A larger-scale pilot study is now needed to develop this hypothesis.

El objetivo de la presente investigación, consiste en evaluar el impacto del diseño de información, como medio de difusión, en las agendas culturales limeñas. Por lo cual, se debe de examinar el nivel de eficiencia comunicativa de la información y analizar la estrategia de difusión que tiene. Lo que conlleva a que la implementación de los principios del diseño de información en donde prima la eficiencia comunicativa y su utilidad, contribuya a la mejora en el acceso de contenido y comprensión del teatro como actividad cultural de Lima. Este trabajo tiene como finalidad examinar si las agendas culturales limeñas presentan información eficiente sobre el teatro y cuentan con un diseño de información que facilite al lector la obtención y comprensión de la información presentada. Por ello, se llevará a cabo una investigación mixta, en donde se analizarán las agendas culturales limeñas, entrevistar a expertos y desarrollar encuestas. Los resultados de la investigación establecen que siete de los nueve medios de difusión analizados no implementan correctamente los principios del diseño de información. Ello provoca que el acceso y comprensión del contenido no sea efectivo en el lector meta. Gracias a ello se puede concluir que al no aplicar el diseño de información, el nivel de eficiencia comunicativa de las agendas culturales como estrategias de difusión del teatro limeño no brinda el contenido necesario para asistir a una actividad cultural. / The objective of this research is to evaluate the impact of information design, as a means of dissemination, in Lima's cultural agendas. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the level of communicative efficiency of the information and analyze the dissemination strategy it has. This means that the implementation of the principles of information design contributes to improve the access to the content and understanding of theatre as a cultural activity in Lima. The purpose of this work is to examine, if Lima's cultural agendas, present efficient information about the theatre and have an information design that facilitates the reader's understanding. For this reason, a mixed research will be carried out, in which the Lima cultural agendas will be analyzed, experts will be interviewed and field research will be developed. The results of the research establish that seven of the nine media analyzed do not correctly implement the principles of information design. This means that access to and understanding of the content isn't effective for the target reader. Therefore, it can be concluded that by not applying the information design, the level of communicative efficiency of the cultural agendas as strategies of diffusion of the Lima theater, don´t provide necessary content to attend a theatrical presentation. Consequently, there is a low influx in the performing of cultural activities. / Trabajo de investigación

Integration in municipal cultural activities – A study on organization and institutional theory. The purpose of the study is to provide knowledge on how local municipal cultural activities and civil servants understand and work with integration. The study is characterized as a case study. It is based on two selected local municipal cultural activities. Officials from each municipal cultural activities were interviewed for the paper. Documents from the cultural units and from municipal cultural units represent empirical material. The paper shows certain aspects that are important among the officials when they discuss integration in relation to cultural activities. Officials reconnect to the outside world’s importance to translate integration in relation to culture. The current social climate incorporated when cultural activities molded and planning cultural activities. It emerges from informants that new events or storytelling has been used to address the need to indorse the integration of newcomers.

Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka om det fanns någon association mellan deltagande i kulturella aktiviteter och känsla av sammanhang bland äldre personer på två äldreboenden. Metod: Ett frågeformulär baserat på Antonovskys SOC-13-formulär med tillagda egenformulerade frågor, såsom kön, ålder, deltagande i kulturella aktiviteter och funktionsnivå användes.  Frågeformuläret delades ut till 76 personer över 65 år utan demenssjukdom på två äldreboenden i mellansverige och besvarades av 40 respondenter. Materialet bearbetades och analyserades i statistikprogrammet SPSS, där beskrivande statistik framställdes och ett chi-två-test samt en logistisk regression genomfördes. Resultat: Ingen statistiskt signifikant association mellan deltagande i kulturella aktiviteter och känsla av sammanhang fanns. Däremot fanns en association mellan funktionsnivå och KASAM-poäng.  Ju lägre funktionsnivå, det vill säga ju mer hjälp respondenten behövde i sin vardag, desto lägre känsla av sammanhang tenderade respondenten att ha. Slutsats: Funktionsnivå verkade ha högre inverkan på en individs känsla av sammanhang än deltagande i kulturella aktiviteter i den givna studiepopulationen. / Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any association between participation in cultural activities and sense of coherence among seniors living in two nursing homes. Methods: A questionnaire based on Antonovskys SOC-13-questionaire was used, with added self-formulated questions including gender, age, level of physical function and participation in cultural activities. The questionnaire was distributed to 76 people 65 years and older without dementia at two nursing homes in central Sweden and 40 respondents answered the questionnaire. The material was processed and analyzed in the statistic computer program SPSS, where descriptive statistics were prepared and a chi-square analysis and logistic regression analysis was performed. Results: No statistically significant relationship between participation in cultural activities and sense of coherence could be seen. However, there was a correlation between the level of function and SOC scores. The lower level of function, i.e. the more help the respondent needed in everyday life, the lower sense of coherence. Conclusion: Functional level seems to have greater impact on an individual's sense of coherence than participation in cultural activities in the given study population.

Essa tese parte da hipótese que uma pesquisa na área da cultura, envolvendo o método de pesquisa-ação e que faz uso de meios digitais, pode estruturar- se como uma ação cultural em si ou um conjunto de ações culturais capazes de produzir alguns resultados, tanto para os pesquisadores quanto para os pesquisados, concomitantes à sua implementação, instaurando um processo contínuo de retroalimentação crítico-reflexivo para ambos os grupos. A tese também examina os procedimentos metodológicos adotados no âmbito do projeto de políticas públicas Territórios Híbridos: meios digitais, comunidades e ações culturais, em especial nas ações realizadas no conjunto habitacional Waldomiro Lobbe Sobrinho, em São Carlos, objetivando sistematizar o conhecimento produzido na realização de ações culturais com meios digitais que envolvam atores públicos e privados, instituições acadêmicas e organizações do terceiro setor, em uma perspectiva de instruir futuras aplicações no escopo de políticas culturais, em especial em conjuntos habitacionais de interesse social. / The Thesis\' hypothesis is that research in cultural fields which embrace Action- Research methods and digital media resources can be structured as a cultural action or a set of cultural activities able to produce results concomitantly ot their implementation both for researchers and for the community or group of people who participate the research, establishing a continuous process of critical and reflexive feedback for both groups. The Thesis also examines the methodological procedures adopted in the public policies research called \"Territories Hybrids: digital media, communities and cultural activities\", especially in the actions performed in public housing complex Waldomiro Lobbe Sobrinho in São Carlos, in order to systematize the knowledge produced during the performance of cultural activities with digital media involving public and private stakeholders, academic institutions and nonprofit organizations, with the perspective of instructing future applications in the scope of cultural policies, especially in public housing context.

1918-1940 m. Lietuvoje lenkų tautinė mažuma aktyviai organizavo ir plėtojo kultūrinę veiklą. Viena iš intensyvių ir kartu labai reikšmingų lenkiško kultūrinio gyvenimo išraiškų buvo teatras. Lietuvos lenkai, turėję du draminio pobūdžio mėgėjiškus teatrinius kolektyvus Kaune ir po vieną Panevėžyje ir Ukmergėje, nuolat statė spektaklius pagal įvairaus pobūdžio repertuarą. / During the years of 1918 – 1940, the Polish minority was active in organizing and spreading cultural activities in Lithuania. One of the most intensive and in the same time a very significant Polish cultural expressions was the theatre. The Lithuanian Polish had two amateur drama type theatre companies in Kaunas and one each in Panevėžys and Ukmergė. They were constantly staging plays for a various types of repertoire.

Regeringen vill lägga mer vikt på att stärka möjligheten till kultur och social delaktighet. De belyser vikten av att skapa trygghet och att minska isolering inom grupper som till exempel långtidssjukskrivna och långtidsarbetslösa. Kulturaktiviteter som konst, film, musik och teater har bevisats ha en positiv effekt på hälsan genom bland annat ökad social funktion, ökad livskraft och ökad fysisk hälsa. Det avser både att delta i samt att uppleva utan att delta i kulturen. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om kulturaktiviteter kan påvisa en skillnad i återgång till arbete och psykisk ohälsa hos långtidssjukskrivna personer med psykisk ohälsa, samt undersöka vilken påverkan egna förväntningar har på återgång till arbete. Det insamlade materialet kom från enkätdata ur projektet Kultur och hälsa, genomförd av landstingets enhet Kompetenscentrum för hälsa i Västerås stad. Resultatet visade att andelen som åter var i arbete efter deltagande i kulturaktiviteter hade ökat och den psykiska hälsan hade förbättrats, men inga statistiska samband kan fastställas i denna studie. Mer forskning behövs inom området kultur som hjälp för återgång till arbete efter långtidssjukskrivning. / The government wants to put more emphasis on strengthening the ability to culture and social participation. They highlight the need to provide security and to reduce the isolation of groups such as long-term sickness and unemployed. Cultural activities such as art, film, music and theater have proven to have a positive effect on health by, improved social functioning, increased vitality and physical health. It refers both to participation in and to experience without participating in culture. The aim of this study was to investigate whether cultural activities may effect in a difference in the return to work and mental illness among long-term sick people with mental health problems, and investigate the impact of their own expectations on return to work. The collected material was taken from the project Culture and Health, made ​​by Department of public health, Västmanland County council in Västerås. The results showed that the proportion of who was back in work after participating in cultural activities had increased and mental health had improved, but no statistical link could be established in this study. More research is needed in the area about if culture help people to return to work after long term sickness.

Essa tese parte da hipótese que uma pesquisa na área da cultura, envolvendo o método de pesquisa-ação e que faz uso de meios digitais, pode estruturar- se como uma ação cultural em si ou um conjunto de ações culturais capazes de produzir alguns resultados, tanto para os pesquisadores quanto para os pesquisados, concomitantes à sua implementação, instaurando um processo contínuo de retroalimentação crítico-reflexivo para ambos os grupos. A tese também examina os procedimentos metodológicos adotados no âmbito do projeto de políticas públicas Territórios Híbridos: meios digitais, comunidades e ações culturais, em especial nas ações realizadas no conjunto habitacional Waldomiro Lobbe Sobrinho, em São Carlos, objetivando sistematizar o conhecimento produzido na realização de ações culturais com meios digitais que envolvam atores públicos e privados, instituições acadêmicas e organizações do terceiro setor, em uma perspectiva de instruir futuras aplicações no escopo de políticas culturais, em especial em conjuntos habitacionais de interesse social. / The Thesis\' hypothesis is that research in cultural fields which embrace Action- Research methods and digital media resources can be structured as a cultural action or a set of cultural activities able to produce results concomitantly ot their implementation both for researchers and for the community or group of people who participate the research, establishing a continuous process of critical and reflexive feedback for both groups. The Thesis also examines the methodological procedures adopted in the public policies research called \"Territories Hybrids: digital media, communities and cultural activities\", especially in the actions performed in public housing complex Waldomiro Lobbe Sobrinho in São Carlos, in order to systematize the knowledge produced during the performance of cultural activities with digital media involving public and private stakeholders, academic institutions and nonprofit organizations, with the perspective of instructing future applications in the scope of cultural policies, especially in public housing context.