Mekong Cultural Hub

The learning workshop will be a series of conversations guided by Deirdre Prins-Solani, a practitioner with rich experiences in working with ethical issues in the arts and culture field.  

A maximum of 15 people will be selected to participate in the learning workshop. Participants will come:

• prepared to share experiences of dealing with ethical dilemmas in arts practice,
• open to open-ended and generative conversations,
• keen to listen and to support each other to gaining better understanding about ethical issues, ways of new thinking,
• wanting to seek better methods for decision-making and references from the learning workshop

There will be one 2-hour orientation and then four 3-hour weekly workshops over 4 weeks online.  The sessions will include; presentations by the facilitator e.g. ‘what is ethics’ and ‘strategies to integrate ethics into your arts practice’; small group discussions on case studies and exchange individual experiences with the group; and plenary discussions supported and guided by the facilitator.

There will be an exercise or reading between each weekly workshop and it will take approximately 60 minutes to complete.  The final weekly workshop will include sharing an action plan from participants about how they plan to integrate their learning into their practice after the workshop. 

The facilitator will support the participants to use collage as a method to visually express and analyse contexts, experiences, feelings and thoughts as so much of what guides our ethical practice and behaviour are intertwined with these.   

Between workshop 2 and workshop 4, participants can sign up for a one-to-one time to talk to the facilitator regarding their learning and any issues they want to focus and explore.

If you have any questions about the program, you can contact us at jennifer@mekongculturalhub.org

As mentioned above, this guided Learning Workshop will be delivered by an experienced practitioner Deirdre Prins-Solani, she has expertise in cultural heritage and creative industries with practice focusing on capacity building for art sectors, inclusion and wellbeing.

Deirdre Prins-Solani is based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a closet poet, dabbler in visual arts and avid reader. She has worked in museums, world heritage and professional capacity building in the cultural sector for more than two decades.  She is a UNESCO facilitator in intangible cultural heritage (ICH or living heritage).  She serves as a committee member of the ICH subcommittee for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.  She has conducted training and policy advisory services across the African continent, the Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific. 

Deirdre is invited to lead the learning workshop by MCH and the workshop will be supported by MCH team, including Jennifer LEE, Program Manager and Frances Rudgard, Director.  

Deirdre has run several workshops with Living Arts International (including MCH) on Embedding Ethical Practices throughout 2022.  She also facilitated The MCH “Learning Workshop – Guided conversational learning about ethical dilemmas in arts practice” in 2023 and 2024. Deirdre is working with MCH to produce a publication of case studies on ethics in arts practice, which will be released in 2026.