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Title:Arts activism, education, and therapies: transforming communities across Africa
Editor:Barnes, Hazel
Year:2013
Periodical:Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society (ISSN 0932-9714)
Volume:44
Pages:308
Language:English
City of publisher:Amsterdam
Publisher:Rodopi
ISBN:9789042038066; 9789401210539
Geographic terms:Africa
Southern Africa
Subjects:arts
social change
health
External link:https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/44/1/mata.44.issue-1.xml
Abstract:This volume collects a set of essays stemming from research initiated or supported by the Drama for Life programme within the Division of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, School of Arts (South Africa). The essays focus on arts activism, education and therapies, and explore their potential in transforming African communities, as well as the healing qualities of arts in an African context. The volume also addresses the question of how government and education policies can enhance the role of arts in transforming communities in Africa. The first part 'Arts for social change' contains contributions on: facilitating social change through the visual arts (Kim Berman); theatre as a means to combat violence (Zimbabwe) (Owen Seda and Nehemiah Chivandikwa); addressing inter-generational trauma through dance (Rwanda and Great Lakes Region) (Théogène Niwenshuti); exploring conflict management strategies through applied drama (South Africa) (Kennedy Chinyowa); exploration of an arts-based programme for youth sex offenders (Kristy Errington and others). The second part has contributions on issues concerning arts in Africa and healing: music in everyday life and music as therapy (South Africa, Mercédès Pavlicevic); IsiZulu prison theatre: theatre in Westville Correctional Facility in Durban (South Africa) (Christopher John); intervention theatre in Kenya (Christopher Odhiambo Joseph); 'Washa mollo': women's theatre for conversations and healing (South Africa) (Sara Matchett and Makgathi Mokwena); using story to structure a child protection programme (South Africa) (Petro Janse van Vuuren); ethics and politics of narration in 'Elephant', a theatre production involving both British and South African artists (Leigh Nudelman); art counselling with educators (South Africa) (Michelle Booth); musical theatre traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District (Botswana) (Connie Rapoo); drama as a means of healing for HIV-positive women (South Africa) (Myer Taub). The third part brings together four contributions on applied arts and aesthetics (by Lynn Dalrymple, Emelda Ngofur Samba, Veronica Baxter and Emma Durden). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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