STORIES OF NOW: Wonder’neath Art Society
“STORIES OF NOW” is part of a project ArtBridges is working on with Judith Marcuse Projects’ ASCN (Arts for Social Change Network) and ICASC. It is about gathering and sharing stories emanating from ...
Toward Training: The Meanings and Practices of Social Change Work in the Arts
"Introduction:
This study is motivated by Canadian choreographer and producer Judith Marcuse’s desire to develop opportunities for artists to learn to put their arts practice toward making mea...
Social Circus: The Cultural Politics of Embodying "Social Transformation"
"In the later decades of the 20th century, principles of cultural democracy became prominent in discourses of community art (see Goldbard 2006; Graves 2005) in the hope that this approach could redres...
Re-approaching community development through the arts: a ‘critical mixed methods’ study of social circus in Quebec
"Community arts projects have long been used in community development. Nevertheless, despite many liberatory tales that have emerged, scholars caution that well-meaning organizations and artists may i...
Re-approaching community development through the arts: a ‘critical mixed methods’ study of social circus in Quebec
"Community arts projects have long been used in community development. Nevertheless, despite many liberatory tales that have emerged, scholars caution that well-meaning organizations and artists may i...
Re-approaching community development through the arts: a ‘critical mixed methods’ study of social circus in Quebec
"Abstract
Community arts projects have long been used in community development. Nevertheless, despite many liberatory tales that have emerged, scholars caution that well-meaning organizat...
Cultural Appreciation From A First Nation Perspective
Artist-In-Residence, Michael Cywink, shares a beautiful candid video about his program ‘Cultural Appreciation From A First Nation Perspective’ with children at Phelps Public School (Redbridge, ON)
Rights
A statement of participant rights created by Chrysalis Advocacy Group participants on behalf of all Chrysalis participants. This statement is publicly displayed in the Chrysalis space in Calgary. Chrysalis...
Time River Blue Mouths Infinite Absence: Madness, Grief, Art
"This thesis explores social conceptions of madness, drawing on theorists such as Tobin Siebers, Sara Ahmed, Lynne Huffer and Ann Cvetkovich, and engaging with works of art by people who have been inv...
Appropriating City Spaces: Exploring Practice, Process and Policy in Aboriginal Street Art
"In this thesis I analyze the city of Toronto’s graffiti management policies, constructing street art as a new commons to offer a means of understanding cultural production, appropriation, and resis...
Common Threads
"Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: working with unwanted natural materials,...
Social Determinants of Health: Aboriginal experiences with racism and its impacts
This arts & health paper discusses racism, how it is expressed in society, and how it is experienced by Indigenous people in Canada "in interpersonal, structural and sometimes violent ways." ...
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