Connect
A global network linking members, communities, organizations, institutions, initiatives, and strategic partners.
SoArt Movement
A global networked and digital movement that connects people, knowledge, initiatives, and resources so art can become a living force for healing, community, learning, and social transformation.
The 21st century is shaped by displacement, trauma, polarization, and the erosion of belonging. Art offers more than expression: it creates meaning, restores trust, opens dialogue, and helps people move from experience to shared action.
From sporadic initiatives to a connected global field.
All around the world — artists, educators, therapists, social entrepreneurs, activists, researchers, and communities — use creative practices to support and strengthen hope, participation, identity, and resilience.
Most of this meaningful work remains local, isolated, and one-off. SoArt is being built as a shared global infrastructure for connection, documentation, learning, recognition, and cumulative impact.
Figure iiA living ecosystem for people, knowledge, and initiatives.
Create
Art-based action that supports expression, belonging, healing, dialogue, civic participation, and community-led change.
Learn
Documentation, training, applied research, evaluation, and shared professional learning from field practice.
Scale Impact
Turning local experience into accessible knowledge, stronger partnerships, public recognition, and broader social influence.
How art creates change.
CommunityCommunity Art
Art created within community contexts, by and with community members, to strengthen belonging, voice, participation, and shared identity.
CapacityHuman Capacity Building
Creative processes that strengthen agency, resilience, self-expression, confidence, identity, and personal growth.
ActionActivist Art
Art used as civic and activist action, aiming to influence the public agenda, mobilize active human participation, and challenge social realities.
DialogueBridging & Encounter
Art that opens dialogue, shifts narratives, creates empathy, and builds spaces of understanding between groups.
SoArt turns lived creative practice into connection, connection into shared knowledge, and shared knowledge into collective impact.
— Foundation charterA FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE OF SOART
SOCIAL ART WEEK — SGW
One week. Local action. A global movement for social art.
Social Art Week brings together artists, communities, organizations, institutions, and cities around the world to explore how art can strengthen people, build community, and create social change. Each partner creates from within its own local context, while becoming part of a shared international network of learning, collaboration, and impact.
Shared vision. Local autonomy. Global connection.
From community projects and public-space interventions to education, healing, dialogue, and future building, SGW turns local artistic action into part of a wider international movement.
Discover Social Art Week
Six fields of action within one living ecosystem.
The movement on the ground.
Moments from the communities we work alongside — from Israel, Uganda and East Africa to the Balkans and beyond.
Let's make a change.
SoArt is currently in its design and founding stages. Register to take part in upcoming conversations, pilot communities, collaborative initiatives, and the building of the global platform.
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FROM TOPAZ INTERNATIONAL TO A GLOBAL MOVEMENT
SoArt grew out of more than two decades of social innovation and community-based practice within Topaz International.
Topaz International develops and supports social initiatives that connect people, communities, knowledge, and action. Over the years, its work has brought together educators, artists, social entrepreneurs, community leaders, organizations, and institutions across diverse social and cultural contexts.
Within this work, art has emerged not as an addition to social action, but as a powerful way to build connection, strengthen communities, support healing and resilience, create dialogue, and enable people to take an active role in shaping change.
SoArt takes this accumulated experience into a new phase: building a global movement and professional field for social art. It carries forward Topaz's experience in social entrepreneurship, community development, partnership-building, and applied learning — while creating a growing international network where local knowledge, artistic practice, and social action can connect and develop together.
From years of practice in the field to a global movement for social art.Discover Topaz International
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