Digital Displacement

Erika Piazzoli is an assistant professor in Arts Education at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland. Her practice and research include drama, music and dance in second language education; arts-based methods and embodiment in language teacher education. Erika has facilitated arts-based projects in Italy, Australia and Ireland. She is co-editor of the Scenario journal and author of Embodying Language in Action (Springer).Rachael Jacobs is a lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Western Sydney University, Australia, and a former secondary arts teacher (Dance, Drama and Music). Her research interests include creativity and assessment, language acquisition through the arts and decolonised approaches to embodied learning. Rachael has facili-tated art projects in community settings all over Australia, including in refugee communities, in prisons and in women’s refuges. Garret Scally is a lecturer and applied theatre practitioner-researcher at the Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, Ireland. He uses theatre and drama in educational, community and social settings and has worked in the field for over 20 years. His research and practice interests include devised theatre, applied theatre, playful-ness, football, belonging and diaspora, performative teaching, and pedagogical approaches, including the teaching and learning of additional languages through theatre.

• 1 Introduction - Erika Piazzoli.- 2 Digital Displacement - Garret Scally and Rachael Jacobs.- 3 Inside Outside and Beyond: Storytelling in the Digital Space with Young Refugees and Migrants - Erika Piazzoli, Rachael Jacobs, and Garret Scally.- 4 Digitally Displaced? Embodied Pedagogy and Creative Arts Practice in a Time of COVID-19 - Shaz Oye.- 5 Chaos, Newness, Respite and Hope: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students’ Experiences of Embodied Arts Learning During COVID-19 - Rachael Jacobs.- 6 Decolonising Performance Training: Voice Messages from the South African Day to the Australian Night - Claire French and Sibusiso Mkhize.- 7 Enabling Constraints: Anonymity and Intimacy as Forces of Creative Potential in Virtual Filmmaking Workshops - Prue Adams and Susanne Gannon.- 8 Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Digital Displacement and a Pivot Toward Healing-Centered Engagement - Kathryn Dawson.- 9 The Strangest Year: Theatre in the Time of COVID-19 - Helen White.- 10 An Unsettled Ending- Michael Finneran and Garret Scally.