SKIS - Community engagement program

Set Culture in Play (SKIS) moving into social housing areas and develop new challenging art and culture to users and citizens who today do not even seek out cultural institutions.

OVERVIEW:

• Set Culture in Play (SKIS) is an initiative of Culture Metropol Sound, where municipalities can draw from each other's experiences and jointly organize big events.
  
• SKIS is a four-year project to develop cultural institutions offer to users in selected social housing areas that usually do not even seek out institutions.
  
• SKIS has a special focus on families with children.
  
• SKIS consists of project partnerships in social housing areas - across municipalities.
  
• Citizens are actively helping to create cultural projects.

SKIS (Sæt Kulturen i Spil) - translats to: “SET OF CULTURE IN GAME” is part of the Cultural Convention and is a collaboration between six municipalities; Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Herlev, Ishoej, Ballerup and Furesø, 22 cultural and 6 selected social housing areas. Replace the culture of Games (SKIS) moving into social housing areas and develop new challenging art and culture to the 30% of the population today not even seek out cultural institutions. 

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Posted by Mille Klein on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 13:50

MOTIVATION:

• The best way to get people into your cultural institution is to meet them face to face.
  
• It is a unique opportunity to get hold of a new, versatile and future audiences.
  
• By letting users put themselves in the game opens you up for the unexpected and new ideas can emerge.
  
• SKIS can lead to a more loyal audience because they have invested themselves in you.
  
• By working together with other municipalities creates an experience and new projects arise. Together, we think better and is stronger.
  
• Opportunity to take part in a long-term project that will eventually be anchored locally.
  

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