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The Transformative Power of the Arts and Culture

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Katharina Domscheit is a German curator and the founder and director of Peppina Art, with a Master of Arts in Arts Policy and Management from Birbeck, University of London. She has worked as an artist consultant and a gallery manager in England. In the first of her lectures in a series titled How Art Can Create Change: The Power of the Arts and Culture at the Kokum Design Centre, she expounded the idea of the arts and culture as a means to transform society in a progressive manner. The arts would comprise of dance, music, theatre, literature, visual arts and the combined arts. Culture is an amalgamation of the arts and the values, beliefs, traditions and ways of life of people. Art and culture together would be represented by architecture, news media, the World Wide Web, fashion, food, etc. A division of the arts can be traced with dance, music, mime, drama, films and literature being categorised as the performing arts. The visual arts consist of paintings, photography, installation ar