A new offering
What is Culture Tarot?
Culture Tarot is a creative planning and facilitation tool that is joyful, expansive, and centred on new ways of doing. We help the arts, not-for-profit and creative sector to re-frame the future.
Our approach is rooted in artistic and creative practices, while our research is inspiration-based, emerging and multidisciplinary - an ever-evolving mix of carefully chosen possibilities there to guide you.
This offering is for the creative thinkers and doers, purveyors of culture, artists, makers and storytellers, planners, community builders, dreamers, activists and futurists. Now is a moment to be brave, take risks and define your future.
The Cards
Culture Tarot offers up seven themes that reflect the spirit of our time. Each card is an invitation to explore a horizon of possibilities.
Rootedness
How do we relate to what has come before us and what stands now?
Be of a Place
Belonging
Multilayered Stories
Creative Wellbeing Card: Two hands holding delicate white flowers with light starburst overlaid.
creative wellbeing
To what extent do creative practices have the power to heal us?
Artistic Expression
Self-care
Joyful Play
sustainability
How do we meaningfully address the climate crisis within our lifetime?
Stewardship
Environmentalism
Regeneration
Community Building
What does it mean to build a healthy and deeply connected community?
Sharing
Lasting Connections
Collective Power
Decolonization
How do we take accountability in a caring yet critically conscious way?
Accountability
Truth and Reconciliation
Divestment
Virtual Placemaking
How can virtual environments support authentic interactions, gatherings and experiences?
Interactivity
Accessibility
New Technologies
New Futures
What new ways of doing are most needed to transform the future?
Paradigm Shifts
Innovation
Alternative Models
about the facilitator
“There’s so much despair right now, the arts and non-profit community need to design how we think about the future differently. Organizational planning processes can be uplifting, caring and fun with an underlying commitment to stewardship and creating positive public impact.”
– Christina Bagatavicius, 2024.
The creator of Culture Tarot, Christina Bagatavicius brings over 20 years of facilitation experience, guiding groups through planning processes that embody creativity, care and a sense of possibility in the collective future. Christina's approach to facilitation creates a culture of connection that centers the wellbeing of the entire group. Her methods are highly participatory, ensuring sessions are both productive and joyful. She’s lived many professional lives: from the Head of Interpretation at the Tate in London, to a business lead at Bruce Mau Design, a global design studio. Today, she is the principal and creative force behind Bespoke Collective, a cultural and civic consultancy she co-founded 15 years ago. Christina is also a mindfulness practitioner and a Reiki Healer.
In her many years of working with clients on planning processes, Christina has seen firsthand the limitations of applying corporate models to arts and culture planning and foresighting. She created Culture Tarot as a tool to inspire organizations to have more thoughtful, expansive and community-minded conversations that engage the mind alongside the heart, body and soul, while responding to the most pressing issues in our current climate. Today, as the arts face a crisis, Christina is looking to support clients in reimagining new and better futures.
Offerings
We offer Culture Tarot as a framework for:
Visioning Retreats
Strategic Planning Processes
Thematic Workshops
Conferences & Symposia
Team-building Exercises
Insight Reports
Creative Manifesto-making
