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Recent News: Community Arts Around the World
April 29, 2010
Call: Nominations for Freedom To Create Prize
Freedom To Create is calling for nominations for the Freedom To Create Prize, open online from May 1 to August 15, 2010.
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April 27, 2010
UNESCO's 2nd World Conference on Arts Education
UNESCO's Second World Conference on Arts Education will be hosted by the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Seoul, May 25-28, 2010.
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April 13, 2010
New in CAN BlogNet: The ArtCorps Blog
Keep up with artists blogging from Cental America in the ArtCorps blog, a new addition to CAN's BlogNet collection of blogs from the field appearing automatically on CAN's front page.
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April 12, 2010
Government Supports Art for Social Change
Hugo Chávez's government in Venezuela is supporting an army of street artists whose murals are a central element of its promotion of the state ideology.
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April 7, 2010
E.U. Ministers Call for Culture in Economic Plan
European Union ministers have called for culture to be put at the "heart" of the bloc's new economic plan, the Europe 2020 strategy according to Helen Spongenberg on euobserver.com (4/6/10).
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"Creative Spaces" in the Land of the Long White Cloud:
Report on community arts conference in New Zealand.
By William Cleveland
(October 2003)
A Bridge Conversation about Animating a Latin American Idea in the U.S.:
Paul Chin and Vanessa Whang talk about crossing lines of culture and politics, race and ethnicity, and the local and global.
By Vanessa Whang
(April 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on Traditional and Organic Bridging:
Francisco Guajardo and Edyael Casaperalta on intentionality, consciousness and creating new opportunities.
By Edyael Casaperalta
(April 2008)
ActALIVE: Addressing HIV/AIDS-Related Grief and Healing Through Art:
An international arts coalition with 300 members in 35 countries contends with a pandemic.
By Janet Feldman
(August 2007)
Artibarri: To Share and Debate in Catalonia:
A community arts network animated by ideas.
By Arlene Goldbard
(September 2007)
Belfast's Mount Vernon: Community Arts Shapes a New Vision:
Case study of change in a community known for its paramilitary past.
By Anne-Sophie Morrisette
(January 2006)
Book Review: Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World Frontlines:
What are the roles that artists can play in the midst of severe violence?
By Craig Zelizer
(July 2008)
Cómo un teatro en Bolivia enfrenta los problemas de la privatización del agua:
How a community-based theater in Bolivia addresses the problem of water privatization. (Spanish Language translation)
By Eve Tulbert
(May 2004)
Cannons and Muses: Art in Real-time Crisis:
You're invited to participate in an international collaboration that began in Israel when two art students organized an "urgent conference" during the 2009 Gaza war.
By Moran Been-noon
(June 2009)
Canoes in New Zealand: Coastal Mappings:
Making art with people near the end of life in a New Zealand hospice.
By Petra Kuppers
(April 2006)
Community Arts, Popular Participation and Teatro Comunitario: Buenos Aires’ Programa Cultural en Barrios:
Grassroots cultural policy and community-based theater partner to support neighborhood-level activism in Buenos Aires.
By Ruth Juliet Wikler-Luker
(August 2007)
Community, Culture and Globalization:
Chapter One of "Community, Culture and Globalization," anthology published by the Rockefeller Foundation.
By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
(January 2002)
Conference Notes, Toronto – Community Arts: What's in a Name?:
Some new insights from a lively gathering in Ontario.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2006)
Converging Streams: The Community Arts and Sustainable Community Movements:
Are we truly on the brink of a new paradigm?
By Patricia A. Shifferd and Dorothy Lagerroos
(November 2006)
Creative City Fever: The 2010 City, Culture and Society Conference, Munich:
Has the construction of the Creative City, as practiced by cities competing for global standing, exacerbated economic disparities?
By Tom Borrup
(March 2010)
Cultura para Todos: Colombian Community Arts... and politics:
Maybe political participation is what keeps the arts relevant and thriving in our communities.
By Susan Appe
(January 2007)
Cultural Exchange vs. Cultural Tourism:
There are significant questions about the ethics of cultural tourism, and they extend to the ethics of cultural exchange.
By Bau Graves
(February 2010)
Culture After Saddam: Video Artists Restore a Country's Identity in Iraqi Kurdistan:
Article on the work of Iraqi Kurdish video artists and filmmakers who provided first-hand perspective on life in northern Iraq after the Gulf War of 1991. Published in High Performance #65, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1994.
By Ann Zimmerman
(December 1999)
Culture and Development: A New Paradigm:
Essay on cultural development in Europe.
By Cristina Losito
(October 2000)
Dancing Dolphins: Approaches to Eco-Arts and Community Dance:
Dancers and scientists join forces in New Zealand to save the endangered Maui's Dolphin.
By Petra Kuppers
(September 2005)
Days and Nights with DAH:
A journey to Yugoslavia, a visit with DAH Teatar, a reflection on art and war.
By William Cleveland
(February 2005)
Demarginalizing Art:
CAN reviews the Centre for Creative Communities' "Creative Community Building through Cross-Sector Collaboration, a European Mapping and Consultation Initiative."
By Caron Atlas
(July 2005)
Euro Bytes:
Review of the book "New Media Culture in Europe."
By Robin Oppenheimer
(March 2000)
From Ghana to Greece to Lakota Sioux Nation: Cultural Diversity in Arts in Corrections:
Project Youth ArtReach of Class Acts Arts has 40 artists from around the world working with incarcerated people in the Washington, D.C., area.
By Claire Schwadron
(November 2009)
Fugitive Sites, Fugitive Meanings:
Review of "Fugitive Sites: New Contemporary Art Projects for San Diego-Tijuana."
By Arlene Goldbard
(May 2003)
Growing Together: Artists & Farmers Meet in Lancashire:
Conference Report: Creative Rural Industries, Lancaster, England, September 2006.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(October 2006)
In His Own Words: An interview with Augusto Boal:
Boal discusses his Theatre of the Oppressed and its critics in the U.S. and other places. First published in High Performance #72, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 1996.
By Douglas L. Paterson and Mark Weinberg
(December 1999)
In Search of Katha — Celebrating the Power of Story in India:
Teaching at Katha, the kaleidoscopic story institute of Delhi.
By Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein
(April 2004)
Integrating Community Arts and Conflict Resolution: Lessons and Challenges from the Field:
Key observations on working in conflict transformation.
By Craig Zelizer
(June 2007)
Just a Little Drop of Water: How a community based theater in Bolivia addresses the problem of water privatization:
How a community-based theater in Bolivia addresses the problem of water privatization
By Eve Tulbert
(May 2004)
Lessons from the Art of Solidarity: A Teaching Experience in Nicaragua:
U.S. artists talk deeply about their intensive collaboration with activist groups, artisans, families and high-school students in Nicaragua.
By Cinder Hypki
(November 2009)
Meaning or McCalgary?:
Speech on meaning in public life, delivered to the Alberta Cultural Think Tank in Canada, February 21, 2002
By Maryo Gard Ewell
(March 2002)
Mother Africa Laughs: The Rwandan Folk Tale Project:
A light-hearted look at best-laid plans gone awry.
By Judd Hardy
(December 2006)
Muraleando — Community Arts in a Havana Barrio:
Community-development arts project in the streets of Cuba.
By Henri Ewaskio
(July 2004)
Notes on Prison Theater in Northern Uganda, Part 1:
A prison collaboration in a country that has known no peace for 45 years.
By Kevin M. Bott
(September 2007)
Notes on Prison Theater in Northern Uganda, Part 2:
The second installment of the artist's project journal.
By Kevin M. Bott
(October 2007)
Notes on Prison Theater in Northern Uganda, Part 3:
The third and last installment of the artist's project journal.
By Kevin M. Bott
(November 2007)
On the Side of the Deepest Soul on Earth: An Interview with Ja Kyung Rhee and Hye Sook of Theatre 1981:
Two Korean artists talk about their shamanic theater of protest against the use of mass violence against peoples everywhere. Published by High Performance #45, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1989.
By Steven Durland
(September 2002)
Paradigms on the Move: The Groundworks Monongahela Conference:
Leading eco-artists come together to share their community experiments in solving environmental problems and planting seeds of change in Pennsylvania and around the world.
By Cynthia Robinson
(December 2005)
Poems in the Public Interest:
A public poetry project from the U.K.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(April 2010)
Que No Se Vuelva a Repetir:
El Salvador's Revolutionary Youth Theatre remembers the Scorched Earth massacre of 1981.
By Aryeh Shell
(May 2008)
Rehearsing for Dramatic Change in Afghanistan:
A theater scholar uses Boal technique in a global hotspot.
By Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
(December 2004)
Signals of Exchange:
What are the qualities of community in this new era of globalism?
By Johanna Poethig
(October 2009)
Silk Road Theatre Project's Alternative Cultural Education:
Starting a conversation with U.S. students about the cultures of the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes connecting China, Asia and the Mediterranean world.
By Carol Ng-He
(February 2009)
Social Imagination: Documenting Engagement in Canada:
Canadian artists test digital video as a means to capture the aesthetics of their community arts practice.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(February 2009)
Surviving Genocide: The Rwanda Healing Project:
News from Lily Yeh and Barefoot Artists working in the survivor villages of Rwanda.
By Lily Yeh
(December 2005)
Talk About Change: A Conference in Belfast:
"Arts -- Towards an Inclusive Society" at the Community Arts Forum in Northern Ireland. Includes videos!
By Linda Frye Burnham
(January 2006)
The Artist as Citizen: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Felipe Ehrenberg, David Avalos and Judy Baca:
A discussion of four artists from Mexico, the border region and southern California and their art strategies for involvement in binational political struggle. Published in High Performance #35, Vol. IX, No. 3, 1986.
By Emily Hicks
(September 2002)
The Creative Economy: Views from Abroad:
A report from the Creative Clusters international conference in Glasgow, and thoughts on what community-based art can bring to the table.
By Tom Borrup
(January 2009)
The Crisis in Agriculture Is a Crisis of Culture:
In response to what it sees as a worldwide crisis in agriculture, the U.K. organization Littoral/Projects Environment has created a new Arts and Agriculture Initiative, including projects, a forum and an international conference.
By Ian Hunter and Celia Larner
(January 2001)
The Dandelion School Transformation Project in China:
Barefoot Artists help Chinese students "find angels in hell."
By Lily Yeh and Kelly Tannen
(August 2008)
The Funder's Tale:
An award-winning Canadian storyteller ponders his new job: community-arts grants officer.
By Dan Yashinsky
(June 2007)
The Gentle Giant:
A Scottish artist writes about his public art commission from the Craigmillar Festival Society when he was an inmate in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison.
By Jimmy Boyle
(June 2005)
The Pedagogy of Intangible Heritage: Los Cenzontles and Mexican Folk Music:
Cenzontles is more than an "arts services provider." It's a hub for cultural critique.
By Maribel Alvarez
(May 2006)
The Streets: Where Do They Reach:
The noted Mexican performance artist looks at the theater of the street in the biggest city in the world, in a time of severe economic crisis. Published in High Performance #28, Vol. VII, No. 4, 1984.
By Guillermo Gmez-Pea
(September 2002)
The Walking Project: Desire Lines, Walking and Mapping Across Continents:
Walk & Squawk Performance Project uses the paths people make across Detroit and South Africa to explore how our paths are formed through culture, geography, language, economics and love.
By Erika Block
(June 2005)
Town Artist: An Interview with David Harding:
The artist talk about his stint as the town artist of Glenrothes, Scotland, 1968-1978. Published in High Performance #34, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1986.
By Moira Roth
(September 2002)
Trans-Siberia and Back Again: Capturing the Moving Mind:
Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet take their latest project to a conference on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
(March 2006)
Transcending Words: Dance For Tolerance:
Teens from violent neighborhoods in Brazil and Colombia visit Brooklyn to prove dance is a medium for social change.
By Dana Edell
(July 2007)
Trouble in Oz: Australia's Community Cultural Development Programs Threatened:
What to do about the dimming of a shining beacon of possibility for cultural democracy.
By Arlene Goldbard
(March 2005)
Uma Faveleira Resistente (A Hardy Plant):
A community performance project blooms in the hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro.
By Bill Grow
(March 2004)
Walaalo! Diverse Ambitions in Community-based Arts:
A compendium of case studies looks at New WORLD Theater's collaboration with women of the Somali refugee community in western Massachusetts.
By Ayaan Agane
(September 2009)
World Savvy: Mapping a Creative Path to Global Education:
In New York City, teenagers from all over the world create an arts project with a heartbeat.
By Dana Edell
(August 2008)
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From the Archive...
" One day in 2001, a local priest, Padre Pedro, was preaching about the importance of commemorating the martyrs of the infamous massacre of El Mozote. A woman bravely spoke up and said, “When are we going to talk about our massacre?” Padre Pedro asked, “What massacre?” and the wounds of an unspoken history were opened."
—Aryeh Shell in
¡Qué No Se Vuelva a Repetir!
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