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Title Acting together : performance and the creative transformation of conflict. Volume II, Building just and inclusive communities / edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker
Published Oakland, CA : New Village Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents Foreword: The Rebellion of the Masks -- Preface: Speak to the Past and it Will Heal Thee -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- SECTION I: Changing the World as We Know It -- Introduction to Section I -- 1: Performing Cross-Cultural Conversations: Creating New Kinships through Community Theatre -- 2: Youth Leading Youth: Hip Hop and Hiplife Theatre in Ghana and South Africa -- 3: Change the World as We Know It: Peace, Youth, and Performance in Australia -- 4: Stories in the Moment: Playback Theatre for Building Community and Justice -- 5: Do You Smell Something Stinky: Notes from Conversations about Making Art while Working for Justice in Racist, Imperial America in the Twenty-First Century -- SECTION II: Reflections and Recommendations -- 6: The Permeable Membrane and the Moral Imagination: A Framework for Conceptualizing Peacebuilding Performance -- 7: Lessons from the Acting Together Project -- SECTION III: Resources -- Introduction to Section III -- 8: Facilitating Discussion and Exchange -- 9: Designing and Documenting Peacebuilding Performance Initiatives -- 10: Recommendations and Action Steps: for Strengthening the Peacebuilding Performance Field -- Afterword: Reflecting on the Intersection of Art and Peacebuilding -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
Summary Describes peacebuilding performances in different regions of the world fractured by war and violence
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed March 8, 2016)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2019)
Subject Peace-building and theater.
Theater -- Political aspects
Theater and society.
War and theater.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General.
Peace-building and theater
Theater and society
Theater -- Political aspects
War and theater
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Cynthia E., 1953- editor.
Gutierrez Varea, Roberto, editor.
Walker, Polly, 1950- editor.
ISBN 9781613320624
1613320620