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Essays for Community Arts Around the World

"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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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 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 Gómez-Peña (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)

 
 


New Essays: International
Que No Se Vuelva a Repetir
El Salvador's Revolutionary Youth Theatre remembers the Scorched Earth massacre of 1981. By Aryeh Shell (May 2008)
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)

 

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