Volume 2: Arts Activism, Education and Therapies: Transforming Communities Across Africa

Arts for Social Change

Ch 1: Imagination and agency: Facilitating social change through the visual arts by Kim Berman

Ch 2: Theatre in Combat with Violence: The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture – Some Basic and Non-Basic Contradictions by Owen Seda and Nehemiah Chivandikwa

Ch 3: Dance as a communication tool to address inter-generational trauma for a healthier psycho-social environment in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa by Theogene Niwenshuti  

Ch 4: Exploring conflict management strategies through applied drama : A Wits University case study by Kennedy Chinyowa    Ch 5: Dancing Drumming and Drawing the Unspeakable: an exploration of an arts-based programme as complimentary interventions in the diversion of youth sex offenders by Kristy Errington, Sheri Errington, Helen Oosthuizen and Ntombifuthi Sangweni

Arts for HIV/Aids education, prevention and rehabilitation

Ch 6: Dramatic Art at the Frontiers of Ontology: Reconsidering Aesthetics by Emelda Ngofur Samba

Ch 7: Christine’s Room: re/voicing the document by Myer Taub

Ch 8:  Theatre as border crossing among women living with HIV: A Case Study of Zandspruit Informal Settlement by Tendai Mtukwa

Arts, Africa and Healing

Ch 9: Music, Musicality and Musicing: Between Therapy and Everyday Life by  Mercedes Pavlicevic

Ch 10: Catharsis and Critical Reflection in IsiZulu Prison Theatre: A Case Study from  Westville Correctional Facility in Durban by Christopher John

Ch 11: In Between Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya by Christopher Odhiambo

Ch 12: Washa Mollo: Theatre as a Milieu for Conversations and Healing by Sara Matchett and Makgathi  Mokwena

Ch 13:  The Keep Them Safe 2010 Project: using story to structure a programme with sustainable impact for 7 000 children by Petro Janse van Vuuren

Ch 14: Elephant in the Theatre: The ethics and politics of narration in an international collaboration by Leigh Nudleman

Ch 15: Supporting educators to support learners: An art counselling intervention with educators by Michelle Booth

Ch 16: Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic in the Musical Theatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana by Connie Rapoo

Contributors

Index