Acting together. Volume II, Building just and inclusive communities : performance and the creative transformation of conflict. / edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Polly O., editor.

Gutierrez Varea, Roberto, editor.

Cohen, Cynthia E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building and theater.

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : New Village Press, 2011.

Summary:

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence , emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, while Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities , focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence focuses on the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities for expression, communication, and transformative action, and creatively support communities in grappling with conflicting moral imperatives surrounding questions of justice, memory, resistance, and identity. The individual chapters, written by scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, and artists who work directly with the communities involved, offer vivid firsthand accounts and analyses of traditional and nontraditional performances in Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India, Cambodia, Australia, and the United States. Complemented by a website of related materials, a documentary film, Acting Together on the World Stage , that features clips and interviews with the curators and artists, and a toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," that is included with the documentary as a second disc, this book will inform and inspire socially engaged artists, cultural workers, peacebuilding scholars and practitioners, human rights activists, students of peace and justice studies, and whoever wishes to better understand conflict and the power of art to bring about social change. The Acting Together project is born of a collaboration between Theatre Without Borders and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University. The two volumes are edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, director of the aforementioned program and a leading figure in creative approaches to coexistence and reconciliation; Roberto Gutierrez Varea, an award-winning director and associate professor at the University of San Francisco; and Polly O. Walker, director of Partners in Peace, an NGO based in Brisbane, Australia.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Foreword: The Rebellion of the Masks

Preface: Speak to the Past and It Will Heal Thee

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Section I: Changing the World as We Know It: Performance in Contexts of Structural Violence, Social Exclusion, and Dislocation

Introduction to Section I

1. Performing Cross-Cultural Conversations: Creating New Kinships through Community Theatre

2. Youth Leading Youth: Hip Hop and Hiplife Theatre in Ghana and South Africa

3. Change the World as We Know It: Peace, Youth, and Performance in Australia

4. Stories in the Moment: Playback Theatre for Building Community and Justice

5. "Do You Smell Something Stinky?": Notes from Conversations about Making Art while Working for Justice in Racist, Imperial America in the Twenty-First Century

Section II: Reflections and Recommendations

6. The Permeable Membrane and the Moral Imagination: A Framework for Conceptualizing Peacebuilding Performance

7. Lessons from the Acting Together Project

Section III: Resources

Introduction to Section III

8. Facilitating Discussion and Exchange

9. Designing and Documenting Peacebuilding Performance Initiatives

10. Recommendations and Action Steps: for Strengthening the Peacebuilding Performance Field

Afterword: Reflecting on the Intersection of Art and Peacebuilding

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 8, 2018).

ISBN:

1-61332-062-0