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The net has its fare share of cultural activists, but none more experienced at the business of social change through cultural endeavour than author and Circus Oz co-founder, Jon Hawkes.

We’ve recently had the pleasure of working with Jon and the Cultural Development Network on a new blog, fourthpillar.biz.

Jon describes the Fourth Pillar blog as being designed to:

… give you and me the opportunity to develop more articulate expressions of the ways that cultural action can support the development of societies whose members are engaged and empowered.

Jon goes further to ask:

Has a consciousness of how social meaning is constructed through public planning processes developed among those who do it?

Has the essential contribution of regular, participatory and collaborative community-based creative activities to the well-being and sustainability of society been recognised by our representatives?

We’re wrapped to have worked with Jon on the Fourth Pillar blog, one of the sites that I do hope stimulates the kind of discussion it seeks in this the year we make a difference!