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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr" id="divRpF739270"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Sue Dodd [Sue.Dodd@vu.edu.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 18 October 2010 9:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> aehd@vu.edu.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [aehd] Reminder Tomorrow 11am: Neighbourhood Watching - a guest lecture by Michael Needham<br>
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<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">You are cordially invited to a guest lecture </span>
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<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Neighbourhood Watching</span> by Michael Needham,
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<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">facilitated by <br>
The School of Communication and the Arts, </span><br style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development </span>
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<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">at the Footscray Park Campus, </span><br style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tuesday October the 19th at 11am in <font color="black" size="1" face="Tahoma">
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<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">All welcome.</span><br style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
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Michael writes; "I am an artist and social entrepreneur, and over the past 8 years I have been the steering force behind
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Neighbourhood Watching</span>, a community arts project I initiated on the housing estate where I live in East London. The estate was built in 1967 as part of London's new wave of social housing, but is now located in one of
Europe's most deprived boroughs. <br>
Included as a case study in '<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Creative Neighbourhoods</span>', a Housing Corporation publication, and short-listed for a cultural contribution award by the
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Academy for Sustainable Communities</span>, it continues to operate successfully with autonomy outside government regeneration policy.
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The organisation is managed from my flat, a space recognised by residents as home, office, and creative studio; and running parallel is my multi-faceted role as artist, coordinator, and neighbour. It is this combined concept of living and working within the
estate that is the catalyst for its success, and whilst government policy for strengthening communities is implemented through distant stakeholder partnerships, and a general consensus of
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">'What is right for that community'</span>, I have been able to tackle local estate issues through more personal insight. We should encourage and nuture leadership from within our creative communities, assigning roles and responsibilities
to those who are closest to the communities in which they live."<br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Kind regards,</span><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Sue Dodd</span><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" size="1">Teaching and Learning Coordinator<br>
Visual Arts Coordinator<br>
School of Communication and the Arts<br>
Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development<br>
St Albans Campus, RM 8.220<br>
Ph: 03 9919 2333</font><br style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
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a thing; it is a way </span></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: rgb(255,0,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="body"></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: rgb(255,0,255)" class="body">Elbert
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