Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning (eBook, PDF)

The Power of Arts-Making in Finding Voice and Creating Conditions for Seeing/Listening

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers stories about how various art and creative forms of expression are used to enable voices from the margins, that is, of underrepresented individuals and communities, to take shape and form. Voice is not enough; stories and truths must be heard, must be listened to. And so the stories gathered here also speak to how creative processes enable conditions for listening and the development of empathy for other perspectives, which is essential for democracy. The chapters, including some that describe international projects, illustrate a variety of art-making practices such as poetry, visual art, film, theatre, music, and dance, and how they can support individuals and groups at the edges of mainstream society to tell their story and speak their truths, often the first steps to valuing one’s identity and organizing for change. Some of the authors are community-based artists who share stories thus bringing these creative endeavors into the wider conversation about the power of arts-making to open up spaces for dialogue across differences. Art practices outlined in this book can expand our visions by encouraging critical thinking and broadening our worldview. At this time on the earth when we face many serious challenges, the arts can stimulate hope, openness, and individual and collective imaginations for preferred futures. Inspiration comes from people who, at the edges of their community, communicate their experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sense Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789463004831
• Artikelnr.: 46925908

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1: Telling Our Story through Visual Arts; Feminist Arts-Based Adult Education with Homeless and Street-Involved Women; “I Still Have My Hands”: Rural Women, Depression, and Zines; Weaving Community Together: Learning at the Loom; A Psychotherapist Brings Art-Making to Patients in Zimbabwe: The Gift of Presence; Section 2: Creative Expression: Increasing Understanding between Communities; Amplifying Voices: Film Festivals, New Perspectives, Critical Reflection, and Inspiration; Through the Lens of Transformative Learning: A Photovoice Pilot Project with Persons with Diverse Abilities in Belize; Meeting on the River of Life: Fostering Loyalist and Mohawk Exchanges through the Arts; Voice, Identity, and Community: The Possibilities and Challenges of Facilitating Arts-Based Engagement; The Art Peace Project; Section 3: Enacting & Embodying; Speaking Truth to Power: The Political Fashion Shows of Filipino Activists; Fractured Fables: A Prison Puppet Project; The Park Bench Players: Telling Stories of Living with Mental Illness with Sincerity, Humour, and Respect; Telling Old Stories in New Ways: Popular Theatre in Western Kenya; A Mother/Daughter Distance Dance: Virtually Connecting Incarcerated Mothers and Their Daughters through Choreography; Conclusion: The Strands and the Braid; Contributors.