A programme of art, culture and new infrastructure to reimagine the future of the UK’s biggest council housing estate
New Town Culture Podcast 1
Identity and Culture in Social Work (What is Culture?)
First broadcast November 2021
'Culture' means so many different things and can be quite intimidating as a term. In social care, ‘culture’ often refers to cultural identity e.g. ethnicity and gender. Here New Town Culture talk about culture in terms of creativity and the things we produce as we live our lives: cooking, sewing, rapping, painting.
Youth Offending workers Lonnie Robinson and Nelly Henshaw, artist and social worker Marley Starskey Butler and artist Paul Crook discuss how our creativity emerges in our professional work and how these cultural interests can be used as tools in our work with people in social care.
New Town Culture is a programme of artistic and cultural activity taking place in adult and children’s social care and curated by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Funded by the GLA’s Young Londoners Fund, the MOPAC Violence Reduction Unit, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The podcast was created by artist Hannah Kemp-Welch.
