Creating together : participatory, community-based, and collaborative arts practices and scholarship across Canada / Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner, editors ; foreword by Rita L. Irwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Diane, 1961- author, editor.

Contributor:

Sinner, Anita, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Research--Canada--Methodology.

Arts.

Research--Canada--Citizen participation--Methodology.

Research.

Learning and scholarship--Canada--Methodology.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates collective knowledge. The artistic processes and works in an arts-based approach to scholarship make use of aesthetic, experiential, embodied, and emotional ways of knowing and creating knowledge in addition to traditional intellectual ways. The anthology also addresses the growing trend in arts-based research that takes a participatory, community-based, or collaborative focus, and encourages scholars to work together, with other professionals, and with community groups to explore questions, create knowledge, and express shared understandings. The collection highlights three forms of research: participatory arts-based research that engages participants in all stages of the inquiry and aims to produce practical knowing to benefit the community; community-based arts research that has community/public space at the heart of practice; and collaborative arts approaches involving multi-levelled, multi-layered, and interdisciplinary collaboration from diverse perspectives. To illustrate how such innovative work is being accomplished in Canada, the collection includes examples from British Columbia to Newfoundland and across disciplines, including the fine arts, education, the health sciences, and social work.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword, Middle, and Lingering Afterword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""I: PARTICIPATORY ARTS PRACTICES""; ""Sharing the Talking Stones: Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops as Collaborative Arts-based Health Research with Indigenous Youth""; ""Uncensored: Participatory Arts-based Research with Youth""; ""The Co-creation of a Mural Depicting Experiences of Psychosis""; ""Participatory Action-based Design Research: Designing Digital Stories Together with New Immigrant/Refugee Communities for Health and Well-being""

""The Use of Staged Photography in Community-based Participatory Research with Homeless Women: Methodological Learnings""""II: COMMUNITY-BASED ARTS SCHOLARSHIP""; ""The Living Histories Ensemble: Sharing Authority Through Play, Storytelling, and Performance in the Aftermath of Collective Violence""; ""Co-activating Beauty, Co-narrating Home: Dialogic Live Art Performance and the Practice of Inclusiveness""; ""Using Drama to Build Community in Canadian Schools""; ""Witnessing Transformations: Art with a Capital “C��Community and Cross-cultural Collaboration""

""III: COLLABORATIVE ARTS APPROACHES""""Wombwalks: Re-attuning with the m/Other""; ""Seeing Through Artistic Practices: Collaborations Between an Artist and Researcher""; ""Soot and Subjectivity: Uncertain Collaboration""; ""Arts-based Representation of Collaboration: Explorations of a Faculty Writing Group""; ""A Poetic Inquiry on Passive Reflection: A Summer Day Breeze""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781771120258

1771120258

OCLC:

909233520