¡Viva!

Deborah Barndt is Professor and Coordinator of the Community Arts Practice (CAP) Certificate Program and Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Second Edition and editor of Wild Fire: Art as Activism.

• Preface. Who, Why and How VIVA?AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Rooted in Place, Politics, Passion, and Praxis: Decolonization, Popular Education, Community Arts and Participatory Action ResearchPART I. RECOVERING CULTURAL HISTORIES: From Indigenous to Diasporic Contexts Introduction1. Planting Good Seeds: The Kuna Children’s Art WorkshopsJesús Alemancia (CEASPA, Kuna Yala, Panama)2. The Lost Body: Recovering Memory—A Personal LegacyDiane Roberts (Personal Legacy Project, Vancouver, Canada)PART II. TRANSFORMING URBAN SPACES: From PostColonial Neighborhoods to Public Squares Introduction3. Out of the Tunnel There Came Tea: Jumblies Theatre’s Bridge of One Hair ProjectRuth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto, Canada)4. Telling Our Stories: Training Artists to Engage with CommunitiesChristine McKenzie (Catalyst Center, Toronto, Canada)5. A Melting Pot Where Lives Converge: Tianguis Cultural de GuadalajaraLeonardo David de Anda Gonzalez and Sergio Eduardo Martínez Mayoral (Tianguis Cultural and IMDEC, Guadalajara, Mexico)6. Painting by Listening: Participatory Community Mural ProductionSergio G. Valdez Ruvalcaba (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico)7. Connecting the Dots: Linking Schools and Universities Through the ArtsAmy Shimson-Santo (UCLArtsBridge, Los Angeles, USA)8. With Our Images, Voices and Cultures Bilwivision: A Community Television ChannelMargarita Antonio and Reyna Armida Duarte (URACCAN, Bilwi, Nicaragua)Epilogue. Critical HopeNotesGlossaryAbout the Editor, Contributors, and VideographersVIVA! Project Partners’ ContactsPhoto and Drawing CreditsVIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas: Nine Videos (on accompanying DVD)Index

"¡VIVA! is a powerful read, raising the bar on what we need to know and where we can grow. It is heartening to sense that we are part of a rising stream on its way to becoming a river. This book will become a touchstone in a growing international network of allies, so that more untold stories and projects can be heard and become part of a building momentum." — Beverly Naidus, author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame