This compelling collection of inspiring case studies from community arts projects in five countries will inform and inspire students, artists, and activists. VIVA is the product of a five-year transnational research project that integrates place, politics, passion, and praxis. Framed by postcolonial theories of decolonization, the pedagogy of the oppressed articulated by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, and the burgeoning field of community arts, this collection not only analyzes the dynamic integration of the critical and the creative in social justice movements, it embodies such a praxis. Learn from Central America: Kuna children's art workshops, a community television station in Nicaragua, a cultural marketplace in Guadalajara, Mexico, community mural production in Chiapas; and from North America: arts education in Los Angeles inner-city schools, theater probing ancestral memory, community plays with over one hundred participants, and training programs for young artists in Canada. These practices offer critical hope for movements hungry for new ways of knowing and expressing histories, identities, and aspirations, as well as mobilizing communities for social transformation.

Beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, the book also includes a DVD with videos that bring the projects to life.

Deborah Barndt is Professor and Coordinator of the Community Arts Practice (CAP) Certificate Program and Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Second Edition and editor of Wild Fire: Art as Activism.

Categories

• Photoessays & Documentaries
• Study & Teaching

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Product Details

ISBN: 9781438437668
ISBN-10: 1438437668
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: November 20th, 2011
Pages: 188
Language: English
Series: Suny Series