Resources

A  fascinating look at process and some of the ethics and implications of interview-based community arts creation:

The Worst Thing by Ruth Howard, Artistic Director, Jumblies Theatre Pure Research Report January 2011

Community theatre artist and activist Ruth Howard and colleagues from Jumblies Theatre in Toronto turned the process of interview-based theatre creation (a core community arts approach) on themselves - taking their own lives as the subject of the interviews and subjecting themselves to the awkwardness, risk, exposure and depth of feeling that they regularly ask of the individuals participating in their projects.

Together they explored the question "What does it feel like to tell someone about the worst things that have ever happened to you and then have them performed or presented?"

http://www.jumbliestheatre.org/pdf/Jumblies,Nightswimming_PureResearchReport.pdf

 

Resources from Arts Engage! Training and Symposium, 2010

Community Arts Project Management by Alice Evans:
http://prezi.com/i1g20vkpzsar/arts-engage-alice-evans/

Instructions for making Pebble Mosaics from Glen Anderson:
http://www.4csfoundation.com/content/pebble-mosaic-instructions

Publications

Community Arts Workbook: A Vital Link
http://www.arts.on.ca/PageFactory.aspx?PageID=48

 

Mapping the Field: Arts-Based Community Development

By William Cleveland  (Archived document)

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2077/20100906195318/http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2002/05/mapping_the_fie.php

 

The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena
An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978-1998
Edited by Linda Frye Burnham & Steven Durland
As fascinating document/archive that is now only available at this archived webpage:

 http://wayback.archive-it.org/2077/20100906194833/http://www.communityarts.net/ca/index.php

Recommended Books

¡Viva! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas
Deborah Barndt

 With examples from community arts projects in five countries, this collection 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. http://www.btlbooks.com/bookinfo.php?index=227

 

City Repair's Placemaking Guidebook and Transforming Space Into Place (dvd)

http://cityrepair.org/how-to/pmresources/