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Hul'q'umi'num' Language Heroes: A Successful Collaboration between Elders, Community Organisations, and Canadian West Coast Universities
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Sadeghi-Yekta, Kirsten – Research in Drama Education, 2019
Community collaboration is essential to the survival of theatre and performance labour in the neoliberal university. This evidentiary document describes one project of a successful collaboration between Hul'q'umi'num' Elders and teachers, community organisations, and a range of Canadian West Coast universities, including the University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Community Programs, Older Adults
Recovery Capital and Collaborative Theatre Making: How Actors in Recovery from Substance Addiction Value Their Participation in Addiction Prevention Plays
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Snyder-Young, Dani; Houston, Ashley; Bell, Ana Bess Moyer; Short, Andy; Lincoln, Alisa – Research in Drama Education, 2022
Improbable Players (IP) has been creating applied theatre for substance use disorder prevention since 1984, training more than 200 sober actor/teaching artists to perform plays and facilitate workshops addressing addiction, alcoholism, and the opioid crisis. The company operates, for its actors, as a long-term arts- integrated peer recovery…
Descriptors: Drama, Prevention, Addictive Behavior, Drug Abuse
'Your Luxury Loft, My Daily Misery!' University Theatre, Neighbours, and Schools Combat Gentrification through Applied Theatre Practices in a Marginal District of Majorca, Spain
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de Castro, Juanjo Bermúdez; Berbel, Noemy; Jaume, Magdalena – Research in Drama Education, 2022
This article focuses on three applied theatre projects, framed within the Theatre of the Oppressed: "Neighbourhood Herstories" (2018), "West Majorca Story" (2019), and "My Life in the Borough" (2019). We explore how theatre students from the University of the Balearic Islands and neighbours in the marginal district of…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Foreign Countries, College Students, Community Change