Creating Together

Diane Conrad is an associate professor of drama/theatre education at the University of Alberta. Her participatory, arts-based research involves work with high-risk and incarcerated youth. She is the director of the Arts-based Research Studio at University of Alberta. Her recent publications include Athabascas Going Unmanned: An Ethnodrama about Incarcerated Youth (2012). Anita Sinner is an assistant professor of art education at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests include pre-service and in-service teacher education, community-based art education, life and light writing, and digital media. She brings interdisciplinary perspectives to research involving qualitative approaches and many forms of arts research in relation to curriculum studies and social and cultural issues in education.

Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada, edited by Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner Foreword Rita L. Irwin Acknowledgements Introduction Anita Sinner and Diane Conrad I Participatory Arts Practices Sharing the Talking Stones: Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops as Collaborative Arts-based Health Research with Indigenous Youth Warren Linds, Linda Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Karen Schmidt, Heather Ritenburg, and Allison Whiteman Uncensored: Participatory Arts-based Research with Youth Diane Conrad, Peter Smyth, and Wallis Kendal The Co-creation of a Mural Depicting Experiences of Psychosis Katherine M. Boydell, Brenda M. Gladstone, Elaine Stasiulis, Tiziana Volpe, Bramilee Dhayanandhan, and Ardra L. Cole Participatory Action-based Design Research: Designing Digital Stories Together with New Immigrant/Refugee Communities for Health and Well-being Narueen Mumtaz The Use of Staged Photography in Community-based Participatory Research with Homeless Women: Methodological Learnings Izumi Sakamoto, Matthew Chin, Natalie Wood, and Josie Ricciardi II Community-Based Arts Scholarship The Living Histories Ensemble: Sharing Authority Through Play, Storytelling, and Performance in the Aftermath of Collective Violence Nisha Sajnani, Warren Linds, Alan Wong, Lisa Ndejuru, Lucy Lu, Paul L. Gareau, and David Ward Co-activating Beauty, Co-narrating Home: Dialogic Live Art Performance and the Practice of Inclusiveness Devora Neumark Using Drama to Build Community in Canadian Schools George Belliveau Witnessing Transformations: Art with a Capital 'C'Community and Cross-cultural Collaboration Nancy Bleck III Collaborative Arts Approaches Wombwalks: Re-attuning with the m/Other Barbara Bickel, Medwyn McConachy, and Nan Jordan Seeing Through Artistic Practices: Collaborations Between an Artist and Researcher Vera Caine and Michelle Lavoie Soot and Subjectivity: Uncertain Collaboration Patti Pente and Pat Beaton Arts-based Representation of Collaboration: Explorations of a Faculty Writing Group Heather McLeod, Sharon Penney, Rhonda Joy, Cecile Badenhorst, Dorothy Vaandering, Sarah Pickett, Xuemei Li, and Jacqueline Hesson A Poetic Inquiry on Passive Reflection: A Summer Day Breeze Sean Wiebe, Lynn Fels, Celeste Snowber, Indrani Margolin, and John J. Guiney Yallop About the Contributors Index