¡VIVA!: Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas

Contents

Preface. Who, Why and How VIVA? vii Acknowledgments xvi Introduction. Rooted in Place, Politics, Passion, and Praxis: Decolonization, Popular Education, Community Arts, and Participatory Action Research 1 PART I. RECOVERING CULTURAL HISTORIES: Engaging Creative Tensions in Indigenous and Diasporic Contexts 19 Introduction 19 Chapter 1. Planting Good Seeds: The Kuna Children’s Art Workshops 29 Jesús Alemancia (CEASPA, Kuna Yala, Panama) Chapter 2. The Lost Body: Recovering Memory—A Personal Legacy 42 Diane Roberts, with Heather Hermant and Lopa Sircar (Personal Legacy Project, Vancouver, Canada) PART II. TRANSFORMING URBAN SPACES: From Postcolonial Neighborhoods to Public Squares 55 Introduction 55 Chapter 3. Out of the Tunnel There Came Tea: Jumblies Theatre’s Bridge of One Hair Project 60 Ruth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto, Canada) Chapter 4. Telling Our Stories: Training Artists to Engage with Communities 75 Christine McKenzie (Catalyst Center, Toronto, Canada) Chapter 5. A Melting Pot Where Diverse Lives Converge: Tianguis Cultural de Guadalajara 86 Leonardo David de Anda Gonzalez and Sergio Eduardo Martínez Mayoral (Tianguis Cultural and IMDEC, Guadalajara, Mexico) PART III. COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIONS: Blurring the Boundaries 99 Introduction 99 Chapter 6. Painting by Listening: Participatory Community Mural Production 102 Sergio G. (Checo) Valdez Ruvalcaba (Metropolitan Autonomous University, UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico) Chapter 7. Connecting the Dots: Linking Schools and Universities through the Arts 113 Amy Shimshon-Santo (UCLA ArtsBridge, Los Angeles, USA) Chapter 8. With Our Images, Voices and Cultures: BilwiVision—A Community Television Channel 126 Margarita Antonio and Reyna Armida Duarte (URACCAN, Bilwi, Nicaragua) Epilogue: Critical Hope 132 Notes 139 Glossary 146 About the Editor, Contributors, and Videographers 151 VIVA! Project Partners’ Contacts 154 Photo and Drawing Credits 155 VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas: Nine Bilingual Videos (on accompanying DVD) 156 Index 158 ...