Viva! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas. Suny Series, Praxis: Theory in Action [with Dvd

__Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building.__ 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. This book is divided into two parts. Part I, Recovering Cultural histories: From Indigenous to Diasporic Contexts, contains the following: (1) Planting Good Seeds: The Kuna Children's Art Workshops (Jesus Alemancia); and (2) The Lost Body: Recovering Memory--A Personal Legacy (Diane Roberts). Part ii, Transforming Urban Spaces: From Post Colonial Neighborhoods to Public Squares, contains the following: (3) Out of the Tunnel There Came Tea: Jumblies Theatre's Bridge of One Hair Project (Ruth Howard); (4) Telling Our Stories: Training Artists to Engage with Communities (Christine McKenzie); (5) a Melting Pot Where Lives Converge: Tianguis Cultural de Guadalajara (Leonardo David de Anda Gonzalez and Sergio Eduardo Martinez Mayoral); (6) Painting by Listening: Participatory Community Mural Production (Sergio G. Valdez Ruvalcaba); (7) Connecting the Dots: Linking Schools and Universities Through the Arts (Amy Shimson-Santo); and (8) With Our Images, Voices and Cultures Bilwivision: a Community Television Channel (Margarita Antonio and Reyna Armida Duarte). A glossary and an index are included Contents 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgments 17 Introduction 22 PART I. Recovering Cultural Histories:Engaging Creative Tensions in Indigenous and Diasporic Contexts 40 1.Planting Good Seeds:The Kuna Children’s Art Workshops 50 2.The Lost Body:Recovering Memory—A Personal Legacy 63 PART II. Transforming Urban Spaces:From Postcolonial Neighborhoods to Public Squares 76 3.Out of the Tunnel There Came Tea:Jumblies Theatre’s Bridge of One Hair Project 81 4.Telling Our Stories: Training Artists to Engage with Communities 96 5.A Melting Pot Where Diverse Lives Converge:Tianguis Cultural de Guadalajara 107 PART III. Community-University Collaborations:Blurring the Boundaries 120 6.Painting By Listening:Participatory Community Mural Production 123 7.Connecting the Dots:Linking Schools and Universities through the Arts 134 8.With Our Images, Voices, and Cultures:BilwiVision—A Community Television Channel 147 Epilogue:Critical Hope 153 Notes 160 Glossary 167 About the Editor, Contributors, and Videographers 172 Contacts for VIVA! Project Partner Organizations 175 Photo and Drawing Credits 176 VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas:A DVD with nine bilingual videos 177 Index 179 A 179 B 180 C 180 D 181 E 181 F 182 G 182 H 182 I 183 J 183 K 183 L 184 M 184 N 185 O 185 P 185 Q 186 R 186 S 187 T 187 U 188 V 189 W 189 Y 189 Z 189 Recovering Cultural Histories: Engaging Creative Tensions In Indigenous And Diasporic Contexts -- Transforming Urban Spaces: From Postcolonial Neighborhoods To Public Squares -- Community-university Collaborations: Blurring The Boundaries. Deborah Barndt, Editor ; With Viva! Project Partners. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.