2019
DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12411
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Building Communities in Tense Times: Fostering Connectedness Between Cultures and Generations through Community Arts

Abstract: Highlights• Collaboration, central to arts projects, took different forms and fostered community resilience.• The arts process offered a space for migrant participants to have a critical look at the host society.• Commitment was fluctuating, which could be explained by participants' vulnerable position.• Sharing personal stories was a way for participants to build bridges across social divides.

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“…Young people face many blockages because they hold on to certain emotions that are difficult to expose in these unstable times, and 4) Belonging to a larger whole; this is about inserting oneself into a larger whole and feeling that one belongs by creating something meaningful together. (BEAUREGARD et al, 2019). It is the result of the attention paid to oneself and others and then of the integration of oneself through artistic experience.…”
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“…Young people face many blockages because they hold on to certain emotions that are difficult to expose in these unstable times, and 4) Belonging to a larger whole; this is about inserting oneself into a larger whole and feeling that one belongs by creating something meaningful together. (BEAUREGARD et al, 2019). It is the result of the attention paid to oneself and others and then of the integration of oneself through artistic experience.…”
Section: Limitation and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Resilience comes under two different conceptions : 1) at an individual level, resilience is related to the ability of individuals to solve problems by overcoming them through the deployment of various coping strategies (ibid.) and 2) at a collective level, resilience, as referring to the ability of community members to adapt positively and work cohesively towards common goals in order to overcome a situation of collective suffering and cope with adversity (BEAUREGARD et al, 2019). This dynamic process varies according to contexts, variables internal to individuals and external changes in the social and political environments, and cultural spaces in which they are located.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…By bringing together artists and audiences who experience different levels of access to power, political theater can help cultivate both a physical and symbolic “space of encounter” (Mayblin, Valentine, & Andersson, 2016, p. 216) in which intercultural exchange is facilitated and social distance is reduced (Sajnani, 2012). These spaces can be distinguished from “contact zones” (Pratt, 1991, p. 34) which are often used in community art projects to bring together culturally diverse groups to co‐develop an art piece (e.g., Beauregard et al, 2020; Madyaningrum & Sonn, 2011; Mohatt et al, 2013). Specifically, contact zones are defined by ongoing interactions between individuals with varying lived experiences while spaces of encounter are singular and temporary events, much like one would expect of an artist‐audience interaction at a theater performance.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Community arts practices have already been applied to a range of injustices to enact change from the individual to the community and with the potential to support enduring systemic transformation. Such settings include: mental health (Faigin & Stein, 2015; Mohatt et al, 2013), migration (Baker, Sonn, & Meyer, 2020; Beauregard et al, 2020) racial profiling (Sonn, Quayle, Belanji, & Baker, 2015), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer activism (LGTBQ; Wernick, Kulick, & Woodford, 2014), homelessness (de Oliveira, 2019), and intimate partner violence (Sajnani, 2010) to name a few. Although artistic expression can take many forms, the focus of the current research is on examining how theater can bring silenced and oppressed narratives into public awareness which, in turn, can facilitate critical reflexivity among the audiences who witness them.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Research also suggests that art can influence social variables that indirectly affect health, such as social support (Fancourt & Finn, 2019; Murrock & Madigan, 2008), social cohesion, solidarity, and a sense of collective self in society (Fancourt, 2017). Community art initiatives have the power to encourage connections between people, create a sense of community, foster social change, and promote inclusion and dialogue (Beauregard et al, 2020). Other studies point to the power of community-based arts initiatives for promoting personal growth, citizen participation, cultural awareness, and community development (Stein & Faigin, 2015).…”
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