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The DVD accompanying this book includes the following nine bilingual videos that correspond with the chapters ; the first video offers an overview of the VIVA! project presented in the preface and introduction to this volume. The other eight can be viewed while reading the case study chapters.¡VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas (23 minutes) Produced by Maggie Hutcheson and Pato Esquivel The VIVA! project is introduced, with its collaborators offering glimpses of the community arts projects in five countries, as well as international exchanges in Toronto, Panama, and Mexico, focusing on decolonizing art and education. Kuna Children’s Art Workshops (Panama) (15 minutes) Produced by Laura Reinsborough Between 1993 and 2000, Kuna communities off the coast of Panama involved children in a diverse range of cultural activities, using painting, theatre, dance, music, song, and poetry to recover cultural values and promote ecological consciousness. The Personal Legacy Project (Canada) (12 minutes) Produced by Heather Hermant The Personal Legacy project developed by theatre artist Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas A DVD with nine bilingual videos Diane Roberts draws from West/Central African dance and story traditions to involve artists in probing their ancestral memories in a physical/dramaturgical process where the teller/dancer and the story/event are in a dynamic and changing relationship. Jumblies Theatre (Canada) (12 minutes) Produced by Maggie Hutcheson Informed by the British community play movement, the Bridge of One Hair project of Jumblies Theatre has engaged many artists and residents in a culturally diverse west-end Toronto neighborhood in exploring diverse histories , identities, and bridges across their differences. Telling Our Stories (Canada) (16 minutes) Produced by Loreto Bravo and Lisa Campbell In 2005–2006, the Catalyst Centre in Toronto brought together artist educators for a popular education trainthe -trainer process that led them to design and facilitate projects with youth to explore and express their stories in many different artistic forms. Cultural Marketplace / Tianguis Cultural (Mexico) (18 minutes) Produced by Pato Esquivel Organized in 1995 by activist youth in Guadalajara, Mexico,TianguisCulturalweeklydrawsovertwohundred exhibitors (countercultural youth, Indigenous and solidaritygroups ,NGOs,artistsofallkinds)andsixthousand visitors to a cultural marketplace that offers a safe space for alternative urban identities and a noncommercial forum for interaction among groups that share a progressive social vision. Painting by Listening (Mexico) (18 minutes) Produced by Loreto Bravo and Heather Hermant Through a training program for young artists/animators, Checo Valdez is developing and extending a unique process of engaging communities in community mural production that comes from the people themselves, and has been applied in communities from the Zapatista autonomous communities to Munich, Germany. UCLA ArtsBridge (USA) (16 minutes) Produced by Lisa Campbell-Salazar UCLA ArtsBridge involves students in arts education residencies with inner-city schools in Los Angeles, nurturing the creativity of the diverse student bodies, cultivating mutually beneficial, respectful, and responsive relationships between the schools, community arts centers, and UCLArts. BilwiVision Community TV (Nicaragua) (12 minutes) Produced by BilwiVision staff directed by Reyna Armida Duarte BilwiVision, the community television station of URACCAN , is developing an alternative practice of communications to reflect the cultural diversity of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua through their voices and images. Maggie Hutcheson (Canada) and Pato Esquivel (Mexico), coproducers of VIVA! videos. ...

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