City of Women practices and promotes participatory or community-based art, which aims to change the traditional relationship between the artwork, the artist and the audience. We place the process before the final artwork and encourage horizontal decision-making by all participants during the creation process. In community art practices we address issues such as gender inequality in society, its intersectionality with class and race, power relations in the school system, issues of integration and problems of discrimination based on language, age, class, sexual orientation or identity. In the context of international art projects, we work at a local level to promote intergenerational networking, develop local audiences, and involve artists from outside the arts in our projects. Such projects include Be Part, Performing Gender, Women on Women, Chorus for the Audience, Burnout Aid,... All these themes were addressed in May at the Community Building Lab.
