Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning : : The Power of Arts-Making in Finding Voice and Creating Conditions for Seeing/Listening / / edited by Shauna Butterwick, Carole Roy.

• Superior document: International Issues in Adult Education
• HerausgeberIn: Butterwick, Shauna.; Roy, Carole.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Language: English
• Series: International Issues in Adult Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 192 p.)

This volume gathers stories about how various art and creative forms of expression are used to enable voices from the margins, that is, of underrepresented individuals and communities, to take shape and form. Voice is not enough; stories and truths must be heard, must be listened to. And so the stories gathered here also speak to how creative processes enable conditions for listening and the development of empathy for other perspectives, which is essential for democracy. The chapters, including some that describe international projects, illustrate a variety of art-making practices such as poetry, visual art, film, theatre, music, and dance, and how they can support individuals and groups at the edges of mainstream society to tell their story and speak their truths, often the first steps to valuing one’s identity and organizing for change. Some of the authors are community-based artists who share stories thus bringing these creative endeavors into the wider conversation about the power of arts-making to open up spaces for dialogue across differences. Art practices outlined in this book can expand our visions by encouraging critical thinking and broadening our worldview. At this time on the earth when we face many serious challenges, the arts can stimulate hope, openness, and individual and collective imaginations for preferred futures. Inspiration comes from people who, at the edges of their community, communicate their experience.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Shauna Butterwick and Carole Roy -- Feminist Arts-Based Adult Education with Homeless and Street-Involved Women / Darlene E. Clover -- “I Still Have My Hands” / Paula Cameron -- Weaving Community Together / Murray Gibson -- A Psychotherapist Brings Art-Making to Patients in Zimbabwe / Brian Nichols -- Amplifying Voices / Carole Roy -- Through the Lens of Transformative Learning / Beverly A. Hoffman -- Meeting on the River of Life / Bryan Bowers -- Voice, Identity, and Community / Kim Villagante -- The Art Peace Project / Gordon Mitchell -- Speaking Truth to Power / Shauna Butterwick , Marilou Carrillo and Kim Villagante -- Fractured Fables / Ingrid Hansen and Peter Balkwill -- The Park Bench Players / Verna MacDonald -- Telling Old Stories in New Ways / Jan Selman and John Battye -- A Mother/Daughter Distance Dance / Elizabeth Johnson -- Conclusion / Randee Lipson Lawrence -- Contributors / Shauna Butterwick and Carole Roy.