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Hi Annie Good to hear of your community practice. I don't know if Lyn Ferrand is still around in Exeter but she used to run a community theatre group called Turning Point that did excellent work using Augusto Boal's (Brazillian dramatist and politician ) forum methods of putting so called private issues on the public stage. Writing the plays involved participatory methods, doing workshops with groups of people whose lives were affected by an issue (eg. unemployment, caring for a relative)as well as getting them to change places with the actors and so on. There is a fantastic group called The London Bubble (I think it was linked historically with Cardboard Citizens) which does a lot of community work with young people and adults, and which puts on performances every summer in a range of venues from the royal parks to adventure playgrounds and industrial wastelands. Their creative artistry is stunning but it is really the community engagement and participation that is so inspiring. They know how to do it! Anyhow, you may have read in the press that the Arts Council has changed its funding priorities and lots of community arts organisations are having their grants cut completely. The minister for arts has produced some paper which now focuses on "excellence". I haven't read it but I gather its all about "world class" arts and perhaps having the occasional free performance at the Royal Opera House to show it's not elitist. What it means is that participation and community engagement have dropped off the agenda as far as I can tell. So London Bubble will be losing 100% of its Arts Council funding at the end of March. If any one on the list is interested, go to www.londonbubble.org.uk which tells you more about their work - you can also sign their petition against the removal of funding. Not quite what you asked maybe Annie, but very important. Good luck with your project. Louise Louise Goodbody Year 2 Director Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, CASPD, Salomons, Broomhill Rd., Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 0TG Tel: 01892 507671 / 507667 Fax: 01892 507660 Email: [log in to unmask] ##### MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED - THIS IS THE NEW ONE. PLEASE USE IT FROM NOW ON ##### Please note: I usually work here Wednesday to Friday only. -----Original Message----- From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell Sent: 14 January 2008 17:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Community practice Fab stories, Paul and Mark. My form of community practice is, I;m a member of a women's playback theatre company - (google playback theatre south west if interested): Playback is a form of participatory theatre where people's stories are played back to them with the intention of creating shared experience of community.. ( does it? We had a Playback performance at our last conference in York...what did people think of it ?) We are thinking of working up a research bid for the new Lottery funding for third sector research - are people aware of this - details http://www.bigresearchprogramme.org.uk/content.php?key=home Does anyone have experience of doing shared/ participatory research with community drama groups - I believe Carolyn has done in Manchester, has she, Mark? Annie Annie Mitchell Clinical Director, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, School of Applied Psychosocial Studies, Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Peninsula Allied Health Collaboration, Derriford Road, Plymouth, Devon PL6 8BH Phone Programme Administrators: Jane Murch, Emma Hellingsworth 01752 233786 Please note I work 3 days per week: usually Monday, Tuesday & either Wednesday or Thursday. From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Cotterill Sent: 14 January 2008 17:05 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Community practice Similarly, except without the doctor name or neighbour shagging bits (as far as i know), we moved in as real outsider types about 10 years back, got stuck into the village school that was on its uppers with no additional services etc etc. five years ago I (by then chair of money at the school) was told by an astonishingly patronising (and i've been patronised before) school advisor that we had to be realistic aabout our ambitions, we were just small school and would have to face life with two teachers. Five years later we're just recruiting our fifth teacher, we have a pre-school and a full nursery opening when they finally give us planning permission for the extension (and they will...), loads of local people employed doing stuff, the footie club across the road planning to expand into - unspeakable notion 5 years ago - girl's footie, AND people go to the (survived) pub to meet each other. mind you it's taken 10 years and my hair's gone white "The UK Community Psychology Discussion List" <[log in to unmask]> writes: There are numerous people on this list (Penny Priest speak up) who can respond to Mark's suggestion that we look for examples of community work rather than community psychology. Tho this is riven with problems (e.g, in my village I have been in several sub-communities in the past 20 years and at least 50 people don't count me as a local because my family name isn't in Richard Gough's History of Myddle, pub 1701) but here's a simple example: Apart from involvement in the PTA, Primary School Governors etc (now there's an education) Isabel and I have contributed time, money, toys, form-filling and committee skills to the Pre-school for a long time. Being called Dr has helped when confronted with Govt bureaucrats - even Offsted backed off while Isabel was first Chair then secretary. The outcome has been a safe place for local kids to play (with Govt targets all kept in the bin), a chance for local parents to meet each other and swap skills (logs for plumbing was a good example), for parents to get drunk together at "Race night" etc. Single parents have been able to get P/T jobs (Engels wouldn't approve), stay home, shag the neighbour (Foucault would like this - see Care of the Self) and, if all else fails, pleasure themselves during daylight hours (David Cooper would approve - he said the ONLY time we escaped the impact of Capitalism was during orgasm - see The Language of Madness). So, it's a small example - but you must THINK SMALL - nonsense about overthrowing the system is just distraction. Craig ___________________________________ COMMUNITYPSYCHUK - The discussion list for community psychology in the UK. 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