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26-643: Harrow Arts Centre ( HAC ) is a professional arts venue in the London Borough of Harrow . HAC is located in Hatch End , Pinner , North London, in the Elliott Hall and other buildings that were previously part of the Royal Commercial Travellers School. It is the only dedicated performing arts venue in the borough. Since 2022 the building has also hosted meetings of Harrow Council and housed

52-515: A dedicated dance studio , 5 art rooms, an ICT suite, and 8 multi-purpose rehearsal spaces and meeting rooms. The Elliott Hall is the largest performance space, with 438 seats. The Studio is a black box performance space with 120 seats. The Gallery at HAC is a contemporary art gallery, and exhibitions are also displayed year round in the Corridor Galleries. HAC presents a programme of performances, events, exhibitions, and workshops throughout

78-457: A part of the obsession. Some people might see those who follow certain fads as unreasonable and irrational. To these people, the fad is ridiculous, and people's obsession of it is just as ridiculous. The third is, after it has reached a peak, it drops off abruptly and then it is followed by a counter obsession. A counter obsession means that once the fad is over, if one engages in the fad they will be ridiculed. A fad's popularity often decreases at

104-400: Is already popular at the time. Recreation and style faddists may try out variations of a basic pattern or idea already in existence. Another way of looking at the spread of fads is through a symbolic interaction view. People learn their behaviors from the people around them. When it comes to collective behavior, the emergence of these shared rules, meanings, and emotions are more dependent on

130-517: Is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture , a generation , or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follow an impulse for a short time period. Fads are objects or behaviors that achieve short-lived popularity but fade away. Fads are often seen as sudden, quick-spreading, and short-lived events. Fads include diets , clothing, hairstyles, toys, and more. Some popular fads throughout history are toys such as yo-yos , hula hoops , and fad dances such as

156-488: The Macarena , floss and the twist . Similar to habits or customs but less durable, fads often result from an activity or behavior being perceived as popular or exciting within a peer group , or being deemed " cool " as often promoted by social networks . A fad is said to "catch on" when the number of people adopting it begins to increase to the point of being noteworthy or going viral . Fads often fade quickly when

182-560: The Park cafe in Pinner . In 2019, a competition was launched to select an architect to create plans for additional classrooms and workshops for the Gallery, which was won by Chris Dyson Architects. In 2022 Harrow Council moved its full council meetings and mayor's parlour to the building following the decision to close its former headquarters at Harrow Civic Centre . The Grade II Listed B G Elliott Hall

208-426: The cues of the situation, rather than physiological arousal. This connection to symbolic interactionism, a theory that explains people's actions as being directed by shared meanings and assumptions, explains that fads are spread because people attach meaning and emotion to objects, and not because the object has practical use, for instance. People might adopt a fad because of the meanings and assumptions they share with

234-526: The dangers of the fad. Not everyone completely abandons the fad, however, and parts may remain. A study examined why certain fads die out quicker than others. A marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Jonah Berger and his colleague, Gael Le Mens, studied baby names in the United States and France to help explore the termination of fads. According to their results,

260-468: The fad, some might start to see it as "overcrowded", and it no longer holds the same appeal. Many times, those who first adopt the fad also abandon it first. They begin to recognize that their preoccupation with the fad leads them to neglect some of their routine activities, and they realize the negative aspects of their behavior. Once the faddists are no longer producing new variations of the fad, people begin to realize their neglect of other activities, and

286-466: The faster the names became popular, the faster they lost their popularity. They also found that the least successful names overall were those that caught on most quickly. Fads can fit under the broad umbrella of collective behavior , which are behaviors engaged in by a large but loosely connected group of people. Other than fads, collective behavior includes the activities of people in crowds , panics, fashions , crazes, and more. Robert E. Park ,

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312-661: The highly popularizing effect of Oprah's Book Club . Though some consider the term trend equivalent to fad , a fad is generally considered a quick and short behavior whereas a trend is one that evolves into a long term or even permanent change. In economics , the term is used in a similar way. Fads are mean-reverting deviations from intrinsic value caused by social or psychological forces similar to those that cause fashions in political philosophies or consumerisation . Many contemporary fads share similar patterns of social organization. Several different models serve to examine fads and how they spread. One way of looking at

338-425: The man who created the term collective behavior, defined it as "the behavior of individuals under the influence of an impulse that is common and collective, an impulse, in other words, that is the result of social interaction". Fads are seen as impulsive, driven by emotions; however, they can bring together groups of people who may not have much in common other than their investment in the fad. Fads can also fit under

364-500: The mayor's parlour. The Elliott Hall was built in 1904 and was the assembly hall to a much larger, but since demolished, building of the Royal Commercial Travellers School designed by Herbert Osborn Cresswell. It is named after Bignell George Elliott, one time pupil and scholar at the RCT, who was President of the Committee tasked with the funding and building of the hall. After the closure of

390-436: The ones that introduce certain fads, but other people must choose to adopt those fads. Others may argue that not all fads begin with their adopters. Social life already provides people with ideas that can help create a basis for new and innovative fads. Companies can look at what people are already interested in and create something from that information. The ideas behind fads are not always original; they might stem from what

416-534: The other people who have adopted that fad. People may join other adopters of the fad because they enjoy being a part of a group and what that symbolizes. Some people may join because they want to feel like an insider. When multiple people adopt the same fad, they may feel like they have made the right choice because other people have made that same choice. Primarily, fads end because all innovative possibilities have been exhausted. Fads begin to fade when people no longer see them as new and unique. As more people follow

442-413: The perception of novelty is gone. The specific nature of the behavior associated with a fad can be of any type including unusual language usage , distinctive clothing , fad diets or frauds such as pyramid schemes . Apart from general novelty, mass marketing , emotional blackmail , peer pressure , or the desire to conformity may drive fads. Popular celebrities can also drive fads, for example

468-463: The rest of Europe it is common among most art centres that they are partly government funded, since they are considered to have a positive influence on society and economics according to the Rhineland model philosophy. Many of those organisations started in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as squatted spaces and were later legalized. Italy Palestine Fads and trends A fad , trend , or craze

494-544: The school in 1967 the site was purchased by Harrow Council to house Harrow College of Further Education and St. Teresa's School. In 1987 Harrow College of Further Education closed down. A year later, the arts venue began operating at the site. Harrow Council has been managing Harrow Arts Centre since 2007. Prior to its move to the current Hatch End site, Harrow Arts Centre was based at a much smaller venue in Harrow Weald. HAC comprises two performance spaces with dressing rooms,

520-419: The spread of fads is through the top-down model, which argues that fashion is created for the elite, and from the elite, fashion spreads to lower classes. Early adopters might not necessarily be those of a high status, but they have sufficient resources that allow them to experiment with new innovations. When looking at the top-down model, sociologists like to highlight the role of selection. The elite might be

546-411: The umbrella of "collective obsessions". Collective obsessions have three main features in common. The first, and most obvious sign, is an increase in frequency and intensity of a specific belief or behavior. A fad's popularity increases quickly in frequency and intensity, whereas a trend grows more slowly. The second is that the behavior is seen as ridiculous, irrational, or evil to the people who are not

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572-402: The venue houses Harrow Music Services, and Harrow Council's Adult and Community and Family Learning Team. The venue's two resident companies are Srishti and Bearfoot School of Performing Arts. Hatch End library is within the arts centre building, and Hatch End swimming pool is beside the dance studio. The cafe, Simply Daisy's, and bistro are run by the same company who run the popular Daisy's in

598-531: The west end with a connecting balustered walkway spanning the gabled elevation. Arts centre In the United States , "art centers" are generally either establishments geared toward exposing, generating, and making accessible art making to arts-interested individuals, or buildings that rent primarily to artists, galleries, or companies involved in art making. In Britain , the Bluecoat Society of Arts

624-451: The year, both programmed by the in house team and presented by companies and individuals who hire performance or classroom space. The programme includes regular work with community groups and schools; for example, in 2012 HAC worked with artist Alistair Lambert to create a mural with Years 3 and 5 at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School for the subway next to their school. As well as the HAC team,

650-519: Was founded in Liverpool in 1927 following the efforts of a group of artists and art lovers who had occupied Bluecoat Chambers since 1907. Most British art centres began after World War II and gradually changed from mainly middle-class places to 1960s and 1970s trendy , alternative centres and eventually in the 1980s to serving the whole community with a programme of enabling access to wheelchair users and disabled individuals and groups. In

676-563: Was the assembly hall to the much larger, but now demolished, building of the Royal Commercial Travellers' School. The site of the demolished school building is now occupied by a supermarket . The listing of the building by National Heritage describes it has a " Neo-Tudor , 9-bays with cross wing at east end. Red brick with stone dressings. Mullion and transom windows. Entrance at west end in single-storey wing of 7-bays under traceried west window. Square corner towers dominate

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