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
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell
Sent: 14 January 2008 17:27
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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
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Cotterill
Sent: 14 January 2008 17:05
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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"
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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
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