Micro Galleries
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Welcome to our creative clinic where we develop innovative, creative solutions to local and global issues. Pick the kind of change you want to fire up...
CHANGE THE WORLD
Our annual program of creative disruptions, interventions and initiatives aims to make art accessible to people who need it the most, using art to make positive social, environmental and political change.
Our annual program of creative disruptions, interventions and initiatives aims to make art accessible to people who need it the most, using art to make positive social, environmental and political change.
CHANGE OUR WORLD
Harnessing a global creative community to to contribute ideas, work, and innovative solutions that explore and address critical social, political and environmental issues and build new pathways, for a better future
Harnessing a global creative community to to contribute ideas, work, and innovative solutions that explore and address critical social, political and environmental issues and build new pathways, for a better future
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...that we all want to see throughout the realm!
About us
Micro Galleries is a socially conscious global arts initiative, social impact project and virtual creative hub that uses art as a vehicle to generate small injections of positive change into your life, others lives, and the world. Think of us as creative clinic where we empower, and develop innovative, creative solutions to local and global issues
We make change possible through dynamic interventions in public and virtual spaces, workshops, art tours, symposiums, think tanks, creative residencies, or simply through bringing our artists' inventions and work into your lives to make them a little better and a lot brighter.
We make change possible through dynamic interventions in public and virtual spaces, workshops, art tours, symposiums, think tanks, creative residencies, or simply through bringing our artists' inventions and work into your lives to make them a little better and a lot brighter.
Micro Galleries Cultural Manifesto
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Freedom of Expression
We believe freedom of expression is a core human right. We create, explore and communicate through the framework of Article 19 (United Nations Declaration of Human Rights), and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Art is For Everyone
We work towards a reimagining of what art can be, and who it is for (hint: everyone!)
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Arts is Vital
We respect, value and champion the diverse and powerful contribution that art and artists make to our lives, society, culture, and economy. We believe that art is vital for the health and wellbeing of individuals and society and are dedicated to the transformative power of art
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Grassroots and Socially-Engaged
We advocate for and exemplify investment in grassroots and socially-engaged creative organisations, visions, projects, and infrastructure
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Artists Are Essential
We make visible the fact that artists inspire agency and change within their communities and they play an essential role in public life
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Arts Creates Change
We work together with urgency to address significant challenges and inequalities via creative processes and mindsets
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Collaborative and Evolving
We create a cultural environment that is collaborative rather than competitive, and understand leadership is a collective experience. Roles are organic, evolving and created for everyone to thrive in
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Excellent in Approach
We hold to excellence in approach. We deliver all work on time, actively and regularly participate in all group activities across all forms of communication and creation, and engage in every discussion/workshop/activity/creative development/research process/project with active enthusiasm
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Creating for Tomorrow
We are creative farmers, seeding, nurturing, and supporting innovation, dialogue and creative solutions for the heritage of tomorrow
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Sustainable and Transformational Change
We are dedicated to produce an environmentally sustainable future and will use our unique tools as artists and cultural workers to help innovate and inspire the transformational change that is needed, and find ways to envision environmentally-responsible and inclusive ways of being.
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Openness and Intersectionality
We commit to openness in our discussion, and understanding, of the barriers that affect people working in the arts and those who do not participate. We commit to openness of knowledge-sharing lived experiences, and learning of new/other ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Our personal experience is not the default
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Solutions-Based
We adhere to a solutions-based culture, and blameless problem-solving. We approach everything with a generosity of spirit
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Weird and Magical
We defend the freedom to keep it weird and magical
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Fun!
We keep it fun - everybody in the pool!
HOT OFF THE VIRTUAL SPACE PRESS
RIGHT NOW!
These are the cool things happening right now...
The Nature of Cities Festival
Our Artistic Director, Kat, will be running a Seed Session at the upcoming The Nature of Cities Festival, based in New York. The program is designed to push the boundaries of collaborative engagement by mixing the arts, sciences, urban practice fields, and performance to draw urban thought leaders and changemakers together to build better cities!
Global Day of Creative Action, 2021
While people sit in rooms talking about it, artists from across the world participated in a Day of Creative Action: a visible, powerful, immediate and tangible response to the detrimental and significant effects of climate disruption on our communities. Over 50 artworks emerged over 24 hours. Click here to see the map of works and stay tuned for our online exhibition and catalogue - released soon.
MG International Artist Coloring Book
There's only so much crisis we can all take in one day! Ammiright!? One thing this world needs right now is some color, some life, some je ne sais quoi! that you all know, only the team at Micro Galleries can bring in small bucket-loads. So...WE MADE A COLORING BOOK!
This book will make you think, question, color, STAY SANE, and best of all – help communities in need by bringing art, enquiry and color into the lives of people who need it the most.
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This book will make you think, question, color, STAY SANE, and best of all – help communities in need by bringing art, enquiry and color into the lives of people who need it the most.
ORDER YOURS NOW!
What We Do That Makes A Big Difference...
We know no one can bridge gaps, and create innovative solutions like an artist, and we have a global community of them!
We Roam and Surpass Boundaries
We go anywhere there's a need and do not remain in the same place. We surpass geographical, economic, political and cultural boundaries to act as positive change catalysts, using art to transform communities, minds, and lives.
We Know the Unique Places and People
We are on-the-ground meeting people, artists, and community in the most interesting, and unusual places in the world. Which means we have forged pathways and possibilities in unique and hard to access places.
The Most Vulnerable, Are the Most Important
We bring creativity and opportunity to the least served communities and sectors in the world.
Little Statements About Us
[MG] demonstrated exceptional vision on the transformative power of the arts and how the arts could be implements in Kathmandu Valley.
Christian Manhart, UNESCO
Nepal
No one can lose when you connect us with the rest of the world. I have achieved that through Micro Galleries and Kat, and my community is grateful. Community members are still talking about you!"
Thamisanqa Sjila
South Africa, Langa Township
While collaborating with other female artists at Urban Paradise Gallery, it was my first time discussing art and collaborating with people from outside my country, something that can not be forgotten. Especially the way women convey their ideas. I became very inspired by the way they work and spoke, which is still rare among female artists in Indonesia
NurNus, Ladies on Wall
Indonesia
The project brought together diverse groups in our community: generational, cultural and socioeconomic. It all seems to bring together different segments of the community such as business, residents, council and creating industries, all working together for free public art. This initiative demonstrates how affective art can be in bringing life, creativity and enthusiasm to a business centre that has elements of despair, empty shops and concerns about retail trading.
Ann Sudmalis, MP Federal Member for Gilmore
Australia
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