Creativity in the field of activity of animator of culture

The text has got a form of explanation and review. Its purpose is to explain and sort out notions which are attributable to animation of culture and its relation to creativity. In the first part of the text the theoretical background has been presented. The review of contemporary conceptions of creativity from the area of pedagogy and psychology has been done. In the further part the author has reviewed the conceptions and recognized the notions related to creative attitude of a human. Regarding the presented assumptions, the animation of culture has been presented as a process which facilitates the development of creative attitude and potential resources which human being has at his/her disposal or is able to have. The author points out that this conception is built on the foundations of Western humanism and postmodernism and the vision of our social life they propose. The author believes that the animators should be close to the wide understanding of creativity as every kind of activity which transcends simple scheme. In the text the animation of culture is presented as the process that is focused on supporting human being in striving for the complete self-realization which Abraham Maslow wrote about. The animator, from the author’s point of view, acts as the facilitator of creative processes. He is a catalyst of the creative attitude which is widely interpreted and helps to build self-consciousness of a human. Creativity has been presented as a significant conceptual category defining animation activities. In the text the idea has been presented that each animation of culture implicates emanation of creative potential of human being, which corresponds with humanistic theories of creativity of A. Maslow, C. Rogers and E. Fromm