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Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence

Catherine Filloux, Roberta Levitow, Ruth Margraff, Dijana Milosevic, Charles Mulekwa, Abeer Musleh, Aida Nasrallah, Madhawa Palihapitiya, Lee Perlman, Devanand Ramiah. Edited by Cynthia Cohen, Roberto Varea, Polly Walker
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Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence focuses on the role theatre and ritual play in both the midst of and in the aftermath of violence. It highlights the stories of courageous artists and community leaders who create works of great power and beauty while telling truth to power and rebuilding severed relationships.
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Publication of the first issue of the new journal, Art & the Public Sphere. The journal provides a new platform for academics, artists, curators, art historians and theorists, whose working practices are broadly concerned with contemporary art’s relation to the public sphere.

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The book provides the reader with a deep insight into the history of Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) that for four decades has undertaken and celebrated cultural diversity in the arts in Australia. http://www.multiculturalarts.com.au/events2011/givingvoice.shtml

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This book investigates wide ranging issues raised by the interaction between art practice, community participation and the environment.

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The Journal for Artistic Research is a new international, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies. With the aim of displaying and documenting practice in a manner that respects the artist’s modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers its contributors a dynamic online canvas where text can be woven together with image, audio and video material. The result is a journal which provides a unique ‘reading’ experience while fulfilling the expectations of scholarly dissemination. The inaugural issue of JAR was released on 17 February 2011.

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This guide will help not-for-profit cultural organisations and individual artists understand the formalities associated with receiving philanthropic gifts. This is your one-stop-shop for tax and legal information about philanthropic fundraising.

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This book is a series of interviews with social theorists and scholars, philanthropists, scientists, theologians, artists, community development and community arts activists. Several recent books, including The Great Turning by David Korten, and A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, have made the argument that a new way of organizing our relationships to each other and to nature will be necessary in the coming years. The subjects, some 30 in all, were all asked to comment on this eventuality and to provide their perceptions of what role that artists and arts organisations should play in contributing to a more just and sustainable society.

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The second issue of Journal of Applied Arts & Health. This issue continues to expand on the important work many are doing to advance research related to arts and health. Articles in this issue examine the need for best practice in participatory arts in health care, and for participants to understand and consent to the level of risk involved in arts based experiences. Other articles explore the benefits of singing as a group activity, of using theatre as a way of raising school students’ aspirations towards higher education, and of using drama in arts and health.

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A new online peer-reviewed international journal addressing theory, practice and research in relation to art therapy has been developed in collaboration between a consortium of art therapists, art therapy educators and Goldsmiths, University of London. Art Therapy Online (ATOL) is an open access, index linked journal which will explore the relationships between art, therapy, politics and culture. It publishes contributions by practitioners who engage with different kinds of therapeutically-oriented, art-based work in health and disability services and social, educational and criminal justice systems in different countries.

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Australia’s evocative Mallee region is rich with histories, impressions and geographical complexities. It is also a microcosm of a world in turmoil. Ground Truthing allows the Mallee to speak: to show it’s nurturing and renewable self. In searching for the principles that bring the Mallee into being, Carter digs, plots and weaves a creative passage. A Wotjobaluk man, ‘Jowley’, the poet John Shaw Neilson and pastoralist William Stanbridge are among characters that give access to the place. Their voices mingle with those of vanished peoples and an ecological future crying out for renegotiation. Through this spatial history of the Mallee, we see that there are regions within regions and that this is the poetic key to the production and sustenance of all places. Information: www.materialthinking.com.au

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