Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP Research Series

Introducting our Editors CAIP Series

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Editor

Cheryl McLean MA is an independent scholar and educator and Founder, Publisher and Executive Editor of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and Editor of The CAIP Research Series and books, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" (August 2010) and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (for release Sept. 2011) Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Published by Detselig Enterprises Inc., Calgary, Alberta).

Cheryl McLean has a background in journalism, social science, the arts and adult and community education (BA, Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London) (MA , Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Fine Art, Concordia University, Montreal). As an actor she also studied and worked in projects for two years (Stanislavski,realism) under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold, formerly the Artistic Director of the Saidye Bronfman Theatre, Montreal. Her research took place with low income seniors in an "over 60 community mental health programme" at Maimonides Jewish Geriatric Hospital and the Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology. She wrote and performed the "ethnodrama" "Remember Me for Birds" based on data gathered in research and true stories (a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors) and toured the performance as an actor raising awareness about aging, mental health and autonomy in keynote solo presentations for national conferences, universities and medical schools in Canada and the U.S. The work was produced as an educational film in 2006.

An agent of change and longtime arts advocate, as publisher of IJCAIP and Editor of the CAIP Research Series, Cheryl McLean continues to publish new research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and has presented to audiences across Canada contributing to education and knowledge in the emerging international field raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play for hope and change in communities worldwide. She has taught the course "Creative Responses to Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario, London and facilitates creative arts for community change workshops for professionals across disciplines at The Windermere Manor (UWO), London. She continues to be an active member of the London arts community with special interests in writing, acting and contemporary theatre.
She is currently researching and writing the third volume of the CAIP research series, VOICE, Transforming cities through citizen stories and the arts in action
CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Associate Editor

Robert Kelly Ph.D., Associate Editor CAIP Research series is an artist and educator as well as an author writing about creativity processes in action. Robert Kelly is an associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and an adjunct associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary where he teaches creativity theory and practice, studio art and curriculum theory and design. Robert’s research is focused on the concept of creativity and its applications for educational practice. Of particular research interest is the nature of idea generation and the development of supporting environments and practice. His recent book Creative Expression, Creative Education (co-edited with Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia) presents the case for creativity as a primary rationale for education.

His creativity research, through his Creativity Education Project, extends to the development of courses on creativity and educational practice and personal creative development for graduate and undergraduate students and the general public.

Robert received his undergraduate training in education at the University of Western Ontario followed by master’s graduate work in art education at the University of Victoria and doctoral work in education at the University of Calgary.

Robert Kelly has been a featured keynote speaker at lectures and workshops across Canada speaking on creativity theory and practice across disciplines.Visit Robert Kelly's website

Review reports text shows how arts may be used in social research to raise awareness and move pubic to act

2011-04-15T13:17:00.001-04:00

A review of the International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, research text "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" by Dr. Amy Clements-Cortes, Baycrest Centre and University of Windsor, was published today in the newsletter Doorway to Rm. 217 published by Bev Foster Executive Director of the Room 217 Foundation. The complete review can be found at the Room 217 website.

Excerpt from review below:

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, is a unique collection of research that features participative, communal, active and experimental methods. The book is conceptualized in 5 parts and provides firsthand accounts from leading researchers, educators, physicians, artists and others who use the creative arts in their practices.

Part 1: Creative Arts in Research and Action for Community Change tells stories and provides examples of how the arts may be used in social research to raise awareness, move the public to act, and provide help to marginalized populations. Information about various social issues is combined with stories of arts research projects, demonstrating the power of the arts to reach people and bring about change.

The text inspires readers with its narratives of people coming together, helping one another and finding meaning through the creative arts. It is clear from the research that arts-informed research methods are inclusive to diverse populations."

(read the complete review here)

More information about the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" can be found at http://www.ijcaip.com. The book can be purchased directly from the website.

Creating and Living Stories for Hope and Change

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A spring day workshop presented by:

The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP

Creating and Living Stories for Hope and Change

June 4, 2011 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Windermere Manor, London, Ontario

Accessing and creating personal stories through movement, drama, writing and performance this is a learning and experiential group workshop about the creative arts in action in interdisciplinary practice for change.

Group members will connect in a rich and creative group process to access, express and share stories embodying a personal and communal experience with story and the arts while learning about the most recent research and topical developments in the emerging field of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP. Building on the success of the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research series, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” and the upcoming book, “Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change” both published by Detslig Temeron Books, this workshop will be facilitated by Cheryl L. McLean, Executive Editor and Publisher of the International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and Editor of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series.

The workshop

The day workshop “Creating and Living Stories for Hope and Change” to be held June 4 at the Windermere Manor, London, is designed to be active, experiential and educational. This workshop will be well suited for educators, researchers, healthcare professionals, therapists, social workers, community workers and those with an interest in the creative arts in practice for the betterment of individuals and communities.

Participants take part in a developmental group process that uses movement, drama methods, writing/narrative and group performance to access and express personal stories and human experiences. Movement, drama, writing and performance, as well as listening actively and witnessing stories in action, can help lead to change by raising awareness, fostering empathy and increasing human understanding. In addition to the unique opportunity to participate in a rich and creative process which encourages self expression, participants will learn how to foster and encourage others to express stories in a group, how to use arts methods in a variety of ways to help others communicate experience and how to facilitate listening and create important opportunities for witness. Illustrative and topical examples of the creative arts applied in interdisciplinary practice for community change will be discussed drawing from the groundbreaking books “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, and “Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change”, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, Detselig Temeron Press."

The workshop will be held in a setting ideal for an arts gathering, the rustic and elegant Windermere Manor located near the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Fully appointed executive suites are currently available for overnight stays. We have been informed that there are rooms currently available. We suggest you book these early.

http://www.windermeremanor.com/accommodations.htm

PRE-REGISTRATION BEFORE May 24

120 registration fee only

160 registration fee (includes l copy of the book Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP)

students 95

*all registrations include lunch.

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AFTER May 24

150 registration fee only

190 registration fee with 1 copy of the book Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP

students 95

*for this workshop the purchase of the text book is optional, all workshop attendees will receive a workbook with handouts provided.

REGISTRATION:

There are two payment options:

1. Register directly through event registration site/paypal
(link here for registration)

http://livingstoriesofhopeandchange.eventbrite.com/

If you have registered directly through eventbrite and paypal we would appreciate an email confirmation of your registration sent to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com. A receipt will be issued by IJCAIP at this time.

2, For those who would prefer to pay by mail please send your cheque payable to:
Cheryl McLean,
c/o 165 Huntington Cr., Dorchester, Ont., NOL lG3.

Include your name, address and email, phone # with your payment.
For further information CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

visit the workshop blog for more information here

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Contributor Speaking About Narrative in Palliative Care

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CAIP Contributor Speaking at Palliative Care Conference

Susan MacRae, Nurse, Clinical Ethicist and former Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics will be presenting from her chapter, "To be Human with Other Humans" A Caregiver's Narrative", from the book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change", Editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, publisher Detselig Temeron Press (2010). Susan will be presenting on Wednesday, March 23 for The Central West Palliative Care Network conference in Brampton. The theme of the conference will be "Excellence in Palliative Care."

To read a copy of this article visit http://www.ijcaip.com

Info about the conference here

Doctoral student Lesley University Identifies Empathy as Important Theme in Creative Arts in Interdiscisplinary Practice Book

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As part of our special series at this blog about our readers and the research book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change," in our last post we featured Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Sue Spencer RN from Northumbria University UK. Today, we bring you comments from Pete Cormier, a doctoral student in Educational Studies at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusettes who is researching the engagement practices of performance art as pedagogy for community service. He is also managing director of the Cornerstone Performing Arts Centre in Fitchburg Massachusettes, an organization which provides training and performance opportunities to the region's marginalized youth. (see website and excerpt film premier "Fresh Water")

Pete Cormier reports the book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" has a broad, cross disciplinary appeal and identifies empathy as an important thematic thread running through the text.

"This book is filled with research, narratives and ideas for the student, scholar, community art-maker and anyone interested in using the arts to connect with and engage the marginalized in our communities. In Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, editor Cheryl McLean enlists a talented and passionate group of researchers and practitioners to share their experiences using various art forms to change lives and skillfully weaves a tapestry of empathic and innovative practices that provide a series of effective real-world strategies for engaging marginalized populations who are facing daunting social issues. Empathy is clearly the thread running through the text which connects the stories and experiences of the practitioners, patients and researchers described in these pages. " P. Cormier, MS, Non Profit Management, Worcester State University, BA, Sociology, The University of Notre Dame)

In creating the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" it was our intention to show, by way of illustrative examples, the considerable breadth and scope of the research. First hand topical accounts are featured from leading artist/researchers, academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, envirommentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edge research and in methodologies for health, hope and change.

About the book

Table of Contents

NEW! Read chapter quotes from contributors

No Wall Too High for RN Educator Working Across Borders in Arts and Health

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Article by Cheryl McLean, Publisher International Journal for the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP,

In an emerging field that finds itself working for change between and across disciplinary borders, the picture we received from registered nurse and educator Sue Spencer taken on a cold January day as she sat on the rocks near Hadrian's Wall holding a copy of the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" seems fitting. The ancient military fortification was originally constructed to keep the barbarians from nearby countries and invading forces at bay and is still one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northern England, where to most it is known simply as The Wall.

Sue Spencer RN is currently a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Northumbria University UK. Sue has been shaped not so much by The Wall itself, but rather by the borderlands, the liminal spaces "in between". It is here where she finds inspiration to encourage and challenge her students to creatively express their feelings about new placements in palliative care settings.

"We live on the border of two counties and the spaces in between are always my inspiration," says Spencer. "Hadrian's Wall and the borderlands continue to be a stimulus for writers and visual artists and I am drawn back to this borderland over and over again. I am starting a project with hospice staff around the use of story in their work and how they can "make" poems with patients and families. Last week I ran a workshop with Occupational Therapy students inviting them to explore the role poetry might have in palliative care and yesterday I ran a seminar with first year student nurses encouraging them to write haiku poetry about a challenging or difficult experience on their first placement. I continue to champion the service user viewpoint in health care particularly those living with long term and life-limiting conditions."

Sue Spencer has found the narrative section of the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" helpful in her work, particularly the stories by contributor Susan MacRae RN, formerly the Deputy Director of The Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, who has used narrative methods in health education for students beginning clinical practice.

"I am particularly drawn to the (narrative) work of Susan MacRae, "To be Human with Other Humans, A Caregiver's Story" (pg. 287) 2. I have found myself teaching ethics and nursing in Newcastle and my starting point is from the humanities perspective as ultimately many of the reasons I ended up interested in creative work in healthcare was from a moral viewpoint."

It is always inspiring for me to receive news from our readers and to learn how each, a champion in her or his own right, is bringing novel approaches to traditional disciplines while advancing the creative arts in education and practice well beyond borders. As an educator working for change who is drawn to the borderlands between the creative arts and health it seems there is no wall too high for Sue Spencer as she introduces her work and the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change " to her students in healthcare education at Northumbria University.

1. Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, "To be Human with Other Humans, A Caregiver's Narrative", Susan K. MacRae (Pg. 289), Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary (August 2010)

About the book

Table of Contents

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More info.

Upcoming IJCAIP Issue Features Book Contributors

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In the upcoming issue of IJCAIP, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Issue 9, February 2010, “Expressing the Human Story” we are featuring two full text papers, the first by IJCAIP Advisory Board member, Johnny Saldana, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University, “Ethnodramas About Health and Illness, Staging Human Vulnerability, Fragility and Resiliency”, a descriptive selective literature review of thirty-eight ethnodramatic play scripts about health and illness. The second full text article featured will be contributed by Susan K. MacRae, former Deputy Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, “To Be Human with Other Humans, A Caregiver’s Narrative” which illustrates how qualitative approaches and expressing the human story through written accounts and narrative can be transformative and healing for the caregiver. Both papers were originally published in the research book “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change”. An IJCAIP project, this book is the first book in the CAIP Research Series and was published by Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary, (Editor, Cheryl McLean and Associate Editor, and IJCAIP Advisory Board member, Robert Kelly, University of Calgary). The contemporary research text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles contributed by leaders across many disciplines who use the creative arts in research and practice, among them leading academics and highly respected adult educators, artist/researchers, playwrights, directors and dancers, nurse educators, physicians, dietitians, social work educators, and environmental activists.
This book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" was released August 2010.

About the book

Table of Contents

Overview of content, contributors

NEW! Read chapter quotes from contributors

Editors

Chapter Quotes from Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change Book

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Chapter quotes from the book……

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change

“ In this book we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, and narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose.”

From the book introduction, “Shaping the Field”

Cheryl McLean

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“The collaborative “Homelessness Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed Research” illustrates a particular case in which arts can be brought together in various ways to raise awareness and promote social change…The use of arts was particularly effective because it allowed for the meaningful inclusion of people who are homeless in the research process as peer researchers and the artwork created by those who have experienced homelessness first hand.”

Collaborating to Tell the Stories of Homelessness in Toronto

Isumi Sakamoto, Matthew Chin, Cyndy Baskin

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As an artist researcher working in communities I use the arts as form, method, analysis and more as the art/inquiry itself moves us toward social justice and equity: new forms of relatedness. My work does its best to be participatory and community based, but there are practical and economic considerations that need to enter the conversations….I also understand that the best conditions for this work are not always in place and so must engage where we are invited, working with the limits of the contingencies of each project. Finally, I must admit the importance of using art as process and product in communities, and how staying with arts practices, staying in the metaphors as they emerge, reveals significant personal and community shifts.”

The Voice of the Artist as Researcher, Homelessness in Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax

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Ultimately, Community Environmental Forum Theatre proves most valuable to science as a bridge process: each project increases scientific literacy within a given community and builds capacity for informed citizens and community based organizations to collaborate on increasingly more complex public health research.”

Engaging Neighbors, Transforming Toxic Realities

John Sullivan

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Photovoice is a creative arts medium which has great potential as an intervention for health promotion and disease prevention. Our experience using a photovoice-based intervention with Latino mothers and daughters demonstrates how broadly the arts can be used to intervene on and advocate for the health and well being of individuals, families and communities.”

Our Voice through Pictures Mother and Daughter

Carolyn Garcia, Sandi Lindgren

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“Empowerment suggests that marginalized communities help to create a space for alternative voices to be heard. That is to say, through engagement in the social construction of the community’s notion of what it means to be healthy, boundaries are crossed, difference is celebrated and cultural empowerment becomes the source of citizen participation. Community participation became the translational bridge for co-creating meaning of the event into positive action of many attendees.”

Health Disparities in Our Community: Reflections in Art and Performance A Community Based Participatory Approach with Arts as a Translational Bridge to Knowledge

Olga Idriss Davis

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“I returned to dance, intuitively, instinctively. The dance of death was now my dance of life. As I danced, like a woman possessed, my conscious mind snuffed out the reality of my loss. While my world as wife and mother had been cruelly wrenched from me, I came to understand that my identity as a dancer had survived, an identity that no outside force could destroy. As I willed movement into my paralyzed arms and legs; step by step, gesture by gesture, my still body came to life.”

Revealed by Fire, A Woman’s Personal Story of Grief, Dance and Transformation

Lata Pada

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“Ethnodramatic representations and presentations of health and illness bring participants’ vulnerability, fragility, and, in most cases, resiliency to heightened prominence. Perhaps more than the academic journal article, the ethnotheatrical performance, if well done for a receptive audience, holds potential to increase awareness, deepen understanding and provide experiences that generate sympathetic and empathetic responses and memories for future application and transfer into clinical practice and possibly healthy care policy.”

Ethnodramas about Health and Illness: Staging Human Vulnerability, Fragility and Resiliency

Johnny Saldana

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Throughout our work, the concept of “empathy” and the practical realization of empathic encounters in performance have proved central to our development of reflective based practice. …We all have a “thinking body” which takes into account the coupling of emotional visceral responses found in empathy. In the area of dance, the term empathy is often used in tandem with the word kinaesthetic to place emphasis on the corporeal. ..Empathy has gained momentum as a concern in performance practice today because of the need to understand one’s own being in relationship to the being of another.”

Performance Based Approaches and Moving Toward Kinaesthetic Understandings

April Nunes Tucker, Amanda Price

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“In order to address the complex challenges now facing our world, the ability for intentional deep listening becomes critical. Arts-based practice can contribute to intentional deep listening as it assists individuals in the development of creative capacity.”

Mining the Depths: Performing Stories of Home and Homelessness

Ian Prinsloo, Jessie Negropontes, Sarada Eastham, Christine Walsh, Gayle Rutherford

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“Through participating in community based media creation novice directors and photographers strengthen their ability to advocate on their own behalf. ..while becoming a director, marginalized individuals learn to actively express themselves in the process of creating new media works, regardless of the commercial potential of the work. In the process of training a novice director, the artist/researcher makes the connection between self-expression and self-determination explicit allowing the novice to apply artistic knowledge to their social relationships.”

Community Media Arts, Encouraging Citizenship through Creative Self Expression

Lorna R. Boschman

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“Psychological and psychosocial interventions including music therapy play their part by assisting clients in rebuilding social, emotional, education, recreational and vocational skills and can lead to enhanced social functioning and quality of life. In recent years, there has been an increase in evidence based research and literature promoting the effectiveness of music therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia and like illnesses. “

Rapping from the Inside Out, Music therapy and Rap Music

Anthony DiGiacomo

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“Making theatre has the potential to shift identities, create relationships and build communities. ..Making theatre is not only a construction of a story, it is the construction of a new reality…Theatre, at its best, is social dreaming, on the stage, behind the scenes, in the audience and outside the theatre walls.”

Community, Hope and transformation for a Hard of Hearing Student

Theresa Webber, George Belliveau, Graham Lea

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“When I started the narrative ethics group at The University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics, I began to understand that such narrative practice allowed a more robust and deeper human inquiry to emerge beneath the layers of intellectual dialogue about ethical issues in healthcare. The layers of reality that a narrative exploration uncovered added significantly, in my opinion, to the intellectual discussions we were having as clinical ethicists on notions of right and wrong.”

To be Human with Other Humans , a Caregiver’s Narrative

Susan K. MacRae

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“ This project enlisted dietitians in an experiential, narrative inquiry through use of a Resiliency Map. Three themes emerged: disconnection, workplace conflict and relational resiliency which were further informed by gender, emotionality and burnout. “

Mapping Resiliency: Building Bridges Toward the Future, An Experiential Arts-based Narrative Inquiry with Dietetics Professionals

Jacqui Gingras, Jennifer Atkins

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“Creative leadership demands creative problem solving and there are many areas..in which arts based learning can assist leaders in developing innovative solutions…Management programs in higher education are looking toward the arts to cultivate the leadership skills and attributes necessary to succeed in the current marketplace. The application of the arts in management education encompasses cross sector leadership skills that include collaboration, team building, communications, innovation and creativity; with the intent of strengthening these skills through arts based learning.”

Creating A Place for the Arts in Healthcare Management Education

Sherry Fontaine

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“I believe my personal experience with illness drastically changed the way I practiced medicine in many ways. It led me to practice with more empathy and greater understanding of the importance of active listening, validating experience, and involving patients in decision making among other things.”

Honouring the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education

Seema Shah

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“ students eagerly began the process of creating their own digital stories as representations of patient narratives. They recognized early on that process was just as important as form and function. Their goal was not simply to reproduce what they had heard, but to communicate the rich multidimensional experience they witnessed. What came forth was their own unrealized artistic talent and originality, an appreciation for the challenges that go into writing and rewriting the narrative and the sense of sheer joy in creating a lasting communication product.”

Digital Stories and Experiential Learning, Teaching Medical Students about Patients as Educators

Kim a. Bullock, Kathleen McNamara, Donna Cameron

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“ The shoreline of Newfoundland is where I return, in body whenever I can, or at other times at least in spirit, to reflect, to write my life—its present, its past and its future. My mother’s body gave me life, remembered my past, and could foretell my future.”

My mother’s body, A story of grieving, remembering and touch

John J. Guiney Yallop

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“As daughters of women who lived with and died with Alzheimer’s disease, we remember and use the practical and emotional realities that were our own experience of caregiving to guide our work. Rooted as we are in the everyday routines of caregiving, we found ourselves drawn to three dimensional installation art with its assemblage quality of found materials. Using the “everyday” and “ordinary” as guides we chose universal, domestic symbols and forms in order to keep “the academy and the kitchen table” together and make our work broadly accessible.

Paying Tribute to Caregivers through Arts informed Research as a Path to Hope and Change

Ardra Cole and Maura McIntyre

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“At the center of this inquiry into ethics, aesthetics, the power of public mourning and connection to place, is a series of questions about home’s properties, associations, and manifestations (or lack there of) in the political, cultural, emotional and embodied realms. How do the stories we tell about home influence our experiences of home? Once displaced, what are the conditions necessary for making home anew?”

Performing Beauty, Practicing Home

Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement

Devora Neumark

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Book Featuring Leading Edged Research and Art that Matters

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The inaugural book in the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, research series, "Creative Arts in Interdiscip linary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" Published by Detselig Enterprises, Calgary, editor Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, associate editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Fine Art, University of Calgary, is a project of IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. The groundbreaking book introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles featuring artists, leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.

At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that actively re-illuminate lived experiences and foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. In this book, we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change" Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal.

About the book

Table of Contents

Editors

Inside news contributors

Here are just few of our contributors;

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Ardra Cole, EdD, Professor and Co-director, Centre for Arts informed Research, OISE, University of Toronto

Devora Neumark, Interdisciplinary artist, Faculty member MFA Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College, Vermont

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Looking Back and Moving Forward, A Retrospective Look at The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP

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Editorial

“Our mission is to publish, disseminate and make accessible worldwide, quality information,research and knowledge about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice.”

September 2006

As our February IJCAIP Issue 9, "Expressing the Human Story", is expected to be released in the next few weeks it might be an opportune time to reflect on the story and history of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and how we have progressed toward our goals over the last five years.

The seeds for IJCAIP were planted in the spring of 2006. At that time we had envisioned a global community linked around the creative arts and its broader applications in research and practice, a network that would extend beyond any single modality, methodology or exclusive field of study drawn from across disciplinary borders in health, education and training.

To achieve this goal, and to provide the necessary communication channels for research and information, individuals were identified and organizations interested in arts in health, training and education were contacted personally to ask if they might like to access a web based newsletter that featured articles about the creative arts as applied across disciplines. The response to this inquiry was overwhelmingly positive. The Canadian Creative Arts in Health Training and Education e/newsjournal or CCAHTE as it was known, was launched in September 2006 as an open access (OA) internet news/journal, the interdisciplinary journal of the creative arts in health, training and education.

An advisory board was established with representation from leading universities and institutions across North America and diverse disciplines in education, the arts and healthcare (nursing, public health, medicine) fine arts, design and business. As an Open Access journal, we operated CCAHTE on a free subscription basis and welcomed articles from contributors worldwide.

Three years later, in consultation with the journal advisory board and to reflect the publication's broadening scope and international status as the open access peer reviewed academic journal in the field, the journal was renamed The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.

Today IJCAIP has an Advisory Board made up of leaders across disciplines and has a large international subscriber base. The web based open access publication is accessible to researchers, educators and students in over 15,000 libraries in 60 countries around the world including developing nations.

IJCAIP Advisory Board

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa

Lace Marie Brogden, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

Michael Hutcheon MD, FRCP, Deputy Physician and Chief of Education, Toronto University Health Network

Robert W. Kelly Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary

Pia C. Kontos Ph.D., Research Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

Patricia McKeever Ph.D., Health Sociologist, Senior Scientist, Bloorview Research Institute, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Nick Nissley, Ed.D., Dean of Business, Cincinnati State, formerly Director Leadership Development, Banff Centre for the Arts

Lubomir Popov Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, Interior Design, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Johnny Saldana MFA, Professor of Theatre, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University

Publishing activities at IJCAIP have contributed significantly to propagating a new and fertile knowledge base for research and information about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice. The open access free subscription publication sponsors a number of interconnected IJCAIP websites and blogs as well as a monthly subscriber newsletter. In August 2010, IJCAIP with Editor, Cheryl L. McLean (Publisher and Executive Editor, IJCAIP) and IJCAIP Advisory Board member and Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, University of Calgary , published the book, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change”, Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary, the first text in the CAIP Research Series. This contemporary research text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles contributed by leaders across many disciplines who use the creative arts in research and practice, among them leading academics and highly respected adult educators, artist/researchers, playwrights, directors and dancers, nurse educators, physicians, dietitians, social work educators, and environmental activists.

The second text in the CAIP Research Series,“Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change” is scheduled for release in 2011. This book takes a global perspective featuring research and projects that have used the creative arts in varied forms for community and cultural change. The timely and critical role of the creative arts in action in many forms for social change is discussed and illustrative research articles address topics such as immigration and identity, racism, aboriginal health and institutional life, mental health, disability and other vital community issues such as access to clean water and raising environmental consciousness.

It has been our intention to illustrate the considerable breadth and scope of this field while featuring leaders active in the work in action and practice. We have worked to forge relationships and build collaborative interdisciplinary networks and pool expertise and resources from many diverse fields. Our IJCAIP Advisory Board, representing leaders across disciplines, has been vital to our success and professionalism as a peer reviewed journal and members have generously shared their expertise and scholarly advice to help us advance toward our goals. Our organization continues to foster and encourage research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice as well as carry the message across disciplines publishing articles in international publications, presenting at national conferences, and on conference panels sharing news about the many applications of the creative arts in research and practice. In the last five years, IJCAIP and our related sites and resources have provided open access to a much needed communication hub for research and knowledge in the field. We embraced the philosophy of information sharing and open access at an unprecedented time of change and opportunity in academic publishing. As an Open Access OA journal we continue to offer worldwide access to our web based publication, archives and related blogs without fees or membership charges. We have recently created additional opportunities for research and knowledge dissemination for those who wish to share related news and research developments with our worldwide readership through custom developed supplementary issues through our IJCAIP Supplementary Issues Programme.

With the recent release of the first book in the CAIP Research Series, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” and the scheduled release of our second book in the CAIP Research Series, “Creative Research for Community and Cultural Change” we enter the New Year with a sense of great pride and optimism for the future.

Our mission when we launched our journal in 2006 was to publish, disseminate and make accessible worldwide, quality information, research and knowledge about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice. We have helped contribute to a field of study that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the arts in research and practice, added new research to a growing body of knowledge that seeks to give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, offered a place to express the human story and provided new opportunities to share those deeply personal accounts with a world in desperate need of truth and authenticity. We have demonstrated that in these challenging and changing times the arts have a fundamental role to play in creating communities that care for their citizens. We invite you to join us and support IJCAIP and our ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice. Visit our website at http://www.ijcaip.com and share in our issues and archives where you will witness the creative arts in research and action for hope and change. Invite your friends to subscribe, without charge, to IJCAIP Journal with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com “please subscribe" in subject line. Visit our blogs. Learn more about our books and introduce The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP Series to your students. Pass along the good word and share the news with colleagues.

It has been an exciting five years. Best wishes for 2011,

The journey continues.

C. L. McLean, Publisher, Executive Editor, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP

CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

IJCAIP website:

http://www.ijcaip.com

IJCAIP BLOG http://www.ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.com

CAIP Research Series BLOGS:

http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com

http://creativecommunitychange.blogspot.com/

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Book Contributors and Table of Contents

2011-01-01T08:36:00.009-05:00

The book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" Editor Cheryl L. McLean, Publisher International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D., Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary published by Detselig Temeron Press features first hand topical accounts about the creative arts in research and practice. Leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, social workers, educators. environmentalists, artists and others candidly share their experiences with the creative arts in research while voicing the stories of the work in practice. At over 400 pages, and featuring over 40 contributors, this is a varied and multifaceted collection of creative research in action, an accessible yet highly informative book that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and methodologies while demonstrating how the creative arts can uniquely cross disciplines in search of solutions while creating new communities for change in the process.

Among the contributors to the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, Choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, Playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Table of Contents

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change

PART 1

Creative Arts in Research and Action for Community Change

Community Based Research, Collaborating for Change
Collaborating to Tell the Stories of Homelessness in Toronto
Izumi Sakamoto, Matthew Chin, Cyndy Baskin

The Voice of the Artist Researcher, Homelessness in Toronto
Writing Toward Homelessness, An Artist/Researcher's Reflections
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax

Engaging Neighbours, Transforming Toxic Realities
Community Environmental Forum Theatre to Promote Environmental Justice
John Sullivan

From the field, Photography and Theatre in HIV Research
Javier Mignone, Carla Pindera, Jennifer Davis, Paula Migliardi, Carol D.H. Harvey

Our Voice through Pictures, Mother and Daughter
The Story of a Community based Latina Mother and Daughter Photovoice Intervention
Carolyn Garcia, Sandi Lindgren

Cultural Art and Performance in Communicating
and Addressing Health Disparities in Our Community
A Community Based Participatory Approach with Arts as a translational Bridge to Knowledge
Olga Idriss Davis

PART 2

Performance in Health, Embodied Understandings

Revealed by Fire
A Story of Grief, Dance and Transformation
Lata Pada

Dramatizing the Data, Ethnodramas about Health and Illness
Staging Human Vulnerabiility, Fragility and Resiliency
Johnny Saldana

Moving Toward Kinaesthetic Understandings of Illness in Healthcare
April Nunes Tucker, Amanda Price

Mining the Depths: Performing Stories of Home and Homelessness,
Creating the Space for Deep Listening and Understanding
Ian Prinsloo, Jessie Negropontes, Sarada Eastham, Christine Walsh, Gayle Rutherford

PART 3

Creative Arts in Action and Practice Special Populations
Self Expression, Identity, Community

Encouraging Citizenship for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Creative Self-Exprssion and Community Media Arts
Lorna R. Boschman

"Rapping from the Inside Out", Music therapy and "Rap" for Self Expression with an Individual Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: A Case Study
Anthony DiGiacomo

From the Field, Music and Songwriting for Closure at End-of Life
Amy Clements-Cortes

Community, Hope and Transformation for a Hard of Hearing Student
Theresa Webber, George Belliveau, Graham W. Lea

PART 4

Narrative and Story

To be Human with other Humans,
A Caregiver's Narrative
Susan K. MacRae

From the Field, Creative New Directions in Dietetics Research and Education,
A voice for Change
Catherine Morley

Mapping Resiliency: Building Bridges Toward the Future in Dietetics,
An Experiential Arts Based Narrative Inquiry
Jacqui Gingras, Jennifer Atkins

From the Field,
The Convergence of Expressive Art and Community Based Cancer Education
Melany Cueva

Creating a Place for the Arts in Healthcare Management Education
Sherry Fontaine

Narrative and Honouring the Patient's Voice in Health Professional Education
Seema Shah

From the Field, Digital Storytelling in the Social Work Classroom
Christine Walsh

Digital Stories and Experiential Learning,
Teaching Medical Students about Patients as Educators
Kim A. Bullock, Kathleen McNamara, Donna Cameron

From the Field, Sharing the Voices of our Elders through Digital Story
Patti Fraser

My Mother's Body: An Autoethnographical Story
A Story of Grieving, Remembering and Touch
John J. Guiiney Yallop

Paying Tribute to Caregivers through Arts Informed Research
Arts Informed Research as a Path to Hope and Change
Ardra Cole, Maura McIntyre

PART 5

Interdisciplinary Art Practice for Personal and Community Healing
Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement
Devora Neumark

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IJCAIP Announces CAIP Research Text Nomination

2010-12-27T09:55:00.002-05:00

Book nomination

The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, is pleased to announce that the research book,"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change", Editor Cheryl L. McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D., Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary, (Publisher, Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary) has been nominated for The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, qualitative book award. This award is conferred annually to a member of the qualitative and ethnographic community who has published an English-language book that helps contribute to the study and practice of qualitative approaches. Criteria include success in experimenting with new and traditional writing forms, inclusion of critical reflections on the writing and research process, contributions to living meaningful lives, and insights into creating a socially just world.

ICQI hosts the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry May 18-21, 2011

at The University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

The recipient will be announced by the judges in 2011 and the award will be presented at the annual ICQI meeting. It is expected there will be many exceptionally high quality nominations submitted for this prestigious qualitative book award. For our editors, publisher and all who contributed to our research text it will be an honour to be a part of the process as we participate in this international competition.

"The book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" was created as an illustrative collection of articles which would show by example how the creative arts in research working actively with qualitative (and other aligned approaches) can help point to a new path for hope and change while making a meaningful difference for individuals and society. This is a contemporary research collection targeted to a very broad interdisciplinary audience which crosses borders and includes academics and non academics, educators, researchers and artists, healthcare professionals, those active in social service and advocacy work, activists and policymakers. In keeping with our broad communication goals, articles and chapters are written intelligently in accessible language and include illustrative examples of work in practice. It was our intention to show, by way of example, the considerable breadth and scope of the research. The accounts traverse methodological borders while addressing multiple challenges and serving diverse populations in practice. That being said articles share a common interest in mobilizing communities for justice and social change."

About the book

Table of Contents

Editors

Inside news contributors

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice book features creative arts in research and practice across disciplines

2010-12-04T22:12:00.008-05:00

A new book featuring illustrative examples of the creative arts in research and action will help shape the emerging field of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice.

The inaugural book in the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, research series, "Creative Arts in Interdiscip linary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" has been released and is now available for purchase. The book (editor Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, associate editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Fine Art, University of Calgary) is a project of IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, and is published by Detselig Temeron Books, Calgary. The groundbreaking book introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles featuring artists, leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.

At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that actively re-illuminate lived experiences and foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. In this book, we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change" Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal.

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CONTRIBUTORS
a list of a few of our featured contributors;

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Ardra Cole, EdD, Professor and Co-director, Centre for Arts informed Research, OISE, University of Toronto

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Shaping Change Transforming Communities, Upcoming Presentation

2010-11-04T19:39:00.005-04:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Shaping Change, Transforming Communities

November 10, 2010

Creative and Critical Studies

UBC, Okanagan Campus

Kelowna, BC

Presenter Cheryl McLean

Cheryl McLean, Publisher of the International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and Editor of The CAIP Research Series and books, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" will be speaking at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna campus, about the vital role of the arts in interdisciplinary practice shaping change and transforming communities. Drawing on illustrative examples from topical research this talk will demonstrate how the arts in inquiry and in research and practice across disciplines can lead to creative and community based solutions addressing some of the most critical social issues of our modern and challenging times.

Info: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Using arts in research to collaborate for change, Stories of homelessness in Toronto

2010-11-03T13:32:00.006-04:00

In an article published in the recently released book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change", (Eds. Cheryl McLean, Robert Kelly, Detselig Temeron Press, August 2010) researchers reported on the process of a major arts informed collaborative community based project which brought together eight community based research projects with a goal to help give voice to the lived experiences of homelessness in Toronto, Ontario. These cutting edge arts informed projects set out to inform the public and raise awareness about the issues with hopes of changing social policy and improving quality of life for homeless persons.

Izumi Sakamoto a Ph.D and Associate Professor of Social Work at The University of Toronto was the lead researcher for the collaborative effort. The article reports, "the use of arts was particularly effective because it allowed for the meaningful inclusion of people who are homeless in the research process. Further, various modalities and representations of arts made it possible to communicate the message of "the need for inclusion and accountability" from diverse voices without bombarding people with words.

The research was disseminated in a number of ways including the launch of a joint art exhibit, policy report and website. A highly publicized event, this launch attracted print media and radio coverage and a wide range of participants including politicians, bureaucrats, social service agency administrators and front line workers as well as people with experiences of homelessness.

The full article can be found in the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" pg. 21 - 39.
"Community Based Research, Collaborating for Change, Collaborating to Tell the Stories of Homelessness in Toronto"

More from the voice of an artist researcher

UWO Homecoming Issue features News about CAIP

2010-09-16T19:40:00.006-04:00

Special thanks to David Scott, Editor of The University of Western Ontario Alumni Gazette for the mention in the Homecoming issue. The book Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change was featured among the new releases in the magazine on Pgs. 37 - 38. As editor of the text it was especially appreciated that the news was published in the Homecoming 2010 issue. For this UWO alumnus it was a nice way to celebrate the occasion and the book's recent release.

You can read the Gazette online at: www.alumnigazette.ca

or visit The University of Western Ontario here

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change Book features Creative Arts in Research and Practice Across Disciplines

2010-09-09T07:56:00.013-04:00

Just Released!

Press Release, August 24, 2010
IJCAIP office, London, Ontario

A new book featuring illustrative examples of the creative arts in research and action will help shape the emerging field of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice.

The book is published by Detselig Enterprises, Calgary with (editor Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, associate editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Fine Art, University of Calgary) and is a project of IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. The groundbreaking book introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles featuring artists, leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.

At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that actively re-illuminate lived experiences and foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. In this book, we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change" Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal.

About the book

Table of Contents

Editors

Inside news contributors

Just a few of our featured contributors:

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Arts and Research as a Path to Hope and Change

2010-09-03T21:36:00.008-04:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"Conventional forms of research are primarily results oriented, focus on advancing propositional knowledge and reach limited audiences. In the service of our lofty goal of putting care on the map, we are informed in our research approach by principles, processes and forms related to the arts. The main purposes of arts informed research are to enhance understanding of the human condition through alternative (to conventional) processes and representational forms of inquiry; and to reach multiple audiences by making scholarship more accessible. The methodology infuses the languages, processes and forms of literary, visual and performing arts with the expansive possibilities of scholarly inquiry for purposes of advancing knowledge."

Ardra Cole EdD and Maura McIntyre EdD, Paying Tribute to Caregivers through Arts informed Research as a Path to Hope and Change, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change", pg. 401.)

Ardra Cole EdD is Professor and Co-director of the Centre for Arts informed Research (CAIR) in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies of Education, OISE, University of Toronto. Her most recent book is "Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples and Issues" (2008) published by Sage.

Maura McIntyre EdD is an Adjunct Professor at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of The University of Toronto. She is a founding member of the Centre for Arts Informed Research at OISE, University of Toronto

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Maura McIntyre, Ardra Cole

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About the book

Table of Contents

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More Inside news contributors Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Practice text

(go to this post then scroll down to read other posts and meet a few of the contributors to the text, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" )

The Voice of the Artist as Researcher

2010-09-03T21:23:00.006-04:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"As an artist researcher I use the arts as form, method, analysis and more as the inquiry itself moves us toward social justice and equity. My work, often done in communities, does its best to be participatory and community based but there are often practical and economic considerations that need discussion. My work recognizes the long-term commitment and hence understands the years it takes to work within and build relationships with communities. It also is familiar with the importance of using art as process and product in communities and how staying with arts practices, staying in the metaphors, reveals significant subjective and community shifts."

(From, Writing Toward Homelessness, An Artist Researcher's Reflections, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" pg. 45)

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Disability Studies, York University brings her interdisciplinary experience to her teaching and research which is located at the intersections of health care, gender, embodiment, difference and disability, arts informed research and pedagogy. She has worked broadly in health research using the arts and documentary and participatory methods with economically displaced persons in Canada. Her research uses the arts for sustaining and creating conversations around social change, self determination, social auto/biographies and for engaging communities in cultural democracy.

Leading Edge Research Featured in Book Shaping Emerging Field of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

2010-08-24T21:52:00.021-04:00

Just Released!

Press Release, August 24, 2010
IJCAIP office, London, Ontario

A just released research text will help shape the emerging field of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice.

The inaugural text in the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, research series, "Creative Arts in Interdiscip linary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" has been released today and is now available for purchase.

The book (editor Cheryl L. McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice associate editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Fine Art, University of Calgary) is a project of IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, and is published by Detselig Temeron Books, Calgary.

The groundbreaking text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles featuring artists, leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.

At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in research and action, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that actively re-illuminate lived experiences and foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. In this book, we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change"
Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal.

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About the book

Table of Contents

Editors

Inside news contributors

Here are just a few of our contributors featured in the book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change:

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Ardra Cole, EdD, Professor and Co-director, Centre for Arts informed Research, OISE, University of Toronto

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Final Call for Abstracts Creative Arts in Research

2010-07-17T15:52:00.004-04:00

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for Book 2 in the CAIP RESEARCH SERIES

Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change, Editor , Cheryl McLean, Publisher, International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary, will be the second text in the groundbreaking Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (CAIP) Research Series published by Detselig Temeron Press.

Taking a global perspective, the text “Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change” will explore the creative arts applied broadly across disciplines in research shaping cultural understandings, fostering peace and bridging communities, creative arts approaches around migration, peace and reconciliation, communities and environmental action, disability culture as well as discussing applications of the creative arts in many forms addressing critical health issues for improved quality of life.

The text will feature informative and thought provoking articles describing applications of the creative arts in research within neighborhoods, villages and cities integrated in distinctive ways to help investigate, explore, articulate and communicate research findings while working creatively and actively within and beyond borders to foster transformative change. This important contemporary research text will be a new and valuable source of information as well as a call for creative new approaches in contemporary research leading to individual and community empowerment and meaningful action.

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FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

(Book 2 in the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series)

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher, International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary

Publisher Detselig, Temeron Press

· Send an abstract (max. 1 pg.) email to: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

· “submission Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change” in the subject line.

· Word attachment

· Include a short bio and brief list of selected references supporting your content

· Due date for abstracts: July 23, 2010. Selected candidates advised by July 30, 2010.

Final papers due September 15, 2010.

Meet our editors:

http://creativeartpractice.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-our-editors-caip-research.html

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change Table of Contents

2010-07-09T15:58:00.015-04:00

Table of Contents

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change

PART 4

Narrative and Story

To be Human with other Humans,
A Caregiver's Narrative
Susan K. MacRae

From the Field, Creative New Directions in Dietetics Research and Education,
A voice for Change
Catherine Morley

Mapping Resiliency: Building Bridges Toward the Future in Dietetics,
An Experiential Arts Based Narrative Inquiry
Jacqui Gingras, Jennifer Atkins

From the Field,
The Convergence of Expressive Art and Community Based Cancer Education
Melany Cueva

Creating a Place for the Arts in Healthcare Management Education
Sherry Fontaine

Narrative and Honouring the Patient's Voice in Health Professional Education
Seema Shah

From the Field, Digital Storytelling in the Social Work Classroom
Christine Walsh

Digital Stories and Experiential Learning,
Teaching Medical Students about Patients as Educators
Kim A. Bullock, Kathleen McNamara, Donna Cameron

From the Field, Sharing the Voices of our Elders through Digital Story
Patti Fraser

My Mother's Body: An Autoethnographical Story
A Story of Grieving, Remembering and Touch
John J. Guiiney Yallop

Paying Tribute to Caregivers through Arts Informed Research
Arts Informed Research as a Path to Hope and Change
Ardra Cole, Maura McIntyre

PART 5

Interdisciplinary Art Practice for Personal and Community Healing

Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement
Devora Neumark

Book (440 pgs. )

About the Book

EDITORS, Cheryl McLean, Robert Kelly

Inside news about some of our featured contributors

History of The International Journal
of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
IJCAIP

Book Release August 2010

2010-07-08T21:44:00.004-04:00

Cover design J. Dangerous

Click on cover and read about contents.

SEE TABLE OF CONTENTS

For release August 2010.

Book Offers Hope for Change Through Research and Story, American Society for Clinical Pathology Features Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

2010-06-23T18:09:00.049-04:00

Special thanks to award winning editor, Ellen J. Sullivan, for featuring the recent article about the research text, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, Editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly published by Detselig Temeron Press, in the just released magazine Critical Values, Volume 3, Issue 3 pgs. 36 - 40.

Critical Values is the official magazine for The American Society for Clinical Pathology in Chicago and is sent to their 130,000 members across the nation working as pathologists and laboratory professionals. The article features news about the book and describes content referring to articles contributed by Johnny Saldana, a leader in the emerging genre "ethnodrama", Susan MacRae, formerly Deputy Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics who uses narrative and story methods to help foster self expression and Kim Bullock MD family medicine and emergency room physician and Director of Community Health Division in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Centre in Washington DC a physician who has used digital story methodologies as an approach for teaching and training medical students. The article also features a photograph of the collage installation that was used in developing "Remember Me for Birds" an ethnodrama about aging, mental health and autonomy.

A photo of the book cover created by artist James Dangerous is prominently featured and highlights the research text's contemporary approach and design.

"If you were to put your life under the microscope what would be the story behind the slide?"

The article begins with an interesting question, "If you were to put your life under the microscope what would be the story behind the slide?" This question opens the way for introspection and self examination through story to meaningfully and creatively explore the individual and the profession.

It is an unprecedented time of transition for the profession of pathology and laboratory medicine with an increasing demand for lab professionals to manage pivotal roles as scientists and creative problem solvers. Pathologists also take on additional roles as consultants, collaborators, teachers and communicators. This article featured in the American Society for Clinical Pathology magazine "Critical Values" helps demonstrate, through illustrative examples, the many ways the creative arts as applied in research and interdisciplinary practice could offer hope as the profession seeks to broadly communicate a multi faceted image while sharing the human stories behind the microscope and the lives behind the slides.

Check out the article now in Critical Values Magazine, American Society of Clinical Pathology

http://www.criticalvalues.org/cv_july-2010/index.html

use the navigation arrow and go to pgs. 36 - 40 to access the article. Or download the pdf at the website.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" published by Detselig Temeron Press will be released August 2010 to be followed by two additional research texts, "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" and "Story, Technology and Transformation" Ordering information: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Cheryl McLean, Editor, CAIP Research Series.
CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Stories in Palliative Care, A Place for Creative Discovery and Self Expression

2010-06-10T13:36:00.020-04:00

Posted by, Cheryl McLean, Publisher International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP
Editor, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP Research Series

It is well known that the creative arts can be helpful in health and healing in many ways.

How can drama and story help caregivers access and express stories for hope and change? In supportive work with caregivers and healthcare providers drama and story work can help facilitate a deep form of personal self discovery while fostering empathy and understanding. Performing drama influenced activities can also help caregivers and other healthcare providers reach within and access their own stories reflecting on the past while drawing actively on the creative and expressive capabilities of the body.

Through drama and story we be and we be/come, seeking to intimately know and understand, connecting with the sacred places of memory and the many stories that shape our present personal and professional identities. Embodied actions (drama exercises, enactments, performing monologues ) as well as writing personal narratives, may lead to epiphanies or resonating rediscoveries which awaken us deeply to new meanings and purpose. Narratives and stories that spring from this kind of active exploration often reflect a sense of discovery and immediacy and the process can be as rich and evocative for the writer as it is for those who are privileged to learn and witness through the performance experience.

I had a special opportunity on June 9 to present as a keynote speaker at the 16^th Annual Spring Palliative Care Conference presented by The North Simcoe Muskoka Palliative Care network. (NSMPCN) I have presented may times for palliative care professionals and bereavement organizations and I was most pleased to see that the North Simcoe Muskoka Palliative Care network was arranging a conference specifically around the theme,“Stories in Palliative Care”.

This conference, arranged by the Conference Planning Task Group of the NSMPCN Education Standing Committee and supported by the Ontario North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network, also featured speakers; Maureen Thornton, Nurse Educator and Practice Leader Geriatric Services, Challenges of Serious Mental Illness combined with Palliative Diagnosis, Kerry Berhalter-Whalen,Client Care Coordinator for the NSMPCN, Overcoming the Challenges, Making a Difference, Jennifer Jilks, (who provided palliative care to her mother at home and her father in long term care) Living and Dying with Dignity: A Daughter's Journey through Long-term Care" and humorist and cartoonist Mike Moore, "Laugh More Live Longer".

^{My keynote presentation (l hr. 15) “Living Stories of Hope and Change” is delivered in a narrative style , a collection of “tellings”…made up of illustrative and linked stories that draw on personal experiences as well as true stories of my clients and caregivers as well as other dramatic examples of story used in research and practice by researchers and health professionals. In sharing these authentic accounts and narratives through story with audiences I perform and show how personal stories and lived experiences can be communicated in multi sensory ways, embodied physically in role, performed in monologues and presented in poetry and through ritual. A Power Point Presentation and film clips from the research based performance, “Remember Me for Birds” support the presentation with dramatic examples and offer an intimate glimpse into the real lives of persons living in residential care and their caregivers. I also support the presentation with illustrative research examples drawn from the text, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change", (editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, Detselig Temeron Press). The goal is to help audiences directly experience how narratives and stories are shaped within a contextual framework which draws on past and personal history, life changing events and present environment while learning about the importance of accessing, expressing and witnessing personal stories to help illuminate the lives of individuals as whole persons be they patients, caregivers or other healthcare professionals. The talk concludes with time for closure, questions and discussion. This presentation is particularly well suited for healthcare organizations (palliative care, hospice, aging, mental health) and is followed by the workshop “Honouring Life Creating Your Own Stories of Hope and Change”…which is an experiential opportunity for health professionals to take part in “step by step” drama and story based activities while working together within a community of peers to access, create and express their own stories.}

Info: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Presentation Raises Awareness about Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice for Change

2010-06-10T10:24:00.028-04:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Shaping Change, Transforming Communities

Presenter: Cheryl McLean

Cheryl McLean is an independent scholar, educator and executive editor and publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and editor of The CAIP Research Series and books, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Published by Detselig Temeron Books, Calgary). In her current presentation Cheryl speaks about the vital role of the creative arts in contemporary research and interdisciplinary practice shaping change and transforming communities. Drawing on leading edged research and the creative arts in practice, this compelling talk demonstrates (through topical research examples, stories, narratives, monologues, poetry and film) how the arts applied across disciplines can help foster quality of life while addressing some of the most critical social issues of our modern times.

Cheryl McLean M.A. has a background in academic publishing and journalism,Adult Education and Social Sciences (Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London) mental health and the arts (MA Concordia University, Montreal). In her graduate work and research she studied Creative Arts Therapies and acting (Stanislavski/realism) under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold, formerly the Artistic Director of the Saidye Bronfman Theatre, Montreal and worked as a group therapist with older persons in mental health in residential care with Maimonides Jewish Geriatric Hospital and The Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology. She wrote the “ethnodrama” script “Remember Me for Birds” about aging, mental health and autonomy based on data gathered in research and true stories (a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors) and toured, performed as a solo actor, in keynote solo performances for national conferences, universities and medical schools in Canada and the U.S. (among them The National Association of Drama Therapy,Rhode Island, Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Educators' National Conference,Congress of the Humanities, McGill Medical School, McGill Division of Geriatric Medicine) She has taught the course "Creative Responses in Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario, London and has presented about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice for health research and university based creative arts programmes as well as organizations in healthcare, hospice,palliative care and bereavement and recently presented for The Dietitians' of Canada National Conference and The University of British Columbia, UBC, Okanagan. Her research based ethnodrama was produced as an educational film in 2006.

An agent of change and longtime arts advocate, as publisher of IJCAIP and Editor of the CAIP Research Series, Cheryl McLean continues to publish new research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice to help shape the emerging international field raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play for hope and change in communities worldwide.

Information: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com Booking now for 2011-12

IJCAIP Shaping the Field, Planting the Seeds, Beginnings

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(from the introduction to the text, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change")

IJCAIP Beginnings.....

The seeds were planted in the spring of 2006. At that time I had envisioned a global community linked around the creative arts and its broader applications in practice, a network that would extend beyond any single modality, methodology or exclusive field of study drawn from across disciplinary borders in health, education and training.

Art by Robert Kelly

To achieve this goal, and to provide the necessary communication channels for research and information, individuals were identified and organizations interested in arts in health, training and education were contacted personally to ask if they might like to access a web based newsletter that featured articles about the creative arts as applied across disciplines. The response to this gentle inquiry was overwhelmingly positive. The Canadian Creative Arts in Health Training and Education e/newsjournal or CCAHTE as it was known, was launched in September 2006 as an open access (OA) internet news/journal, the interdisciplinary journal of the creative arts in health, training and education. The advisory board was established with representation from leading universities and institutions across North America and diverse disciplines in education, healthcare (nursing, public health, medicine) fine arts and design. We operated CCAHTE on a free subscription basis and welcomed articles from contributors worldwide.

Three years later, in consultation with the journal advisory board and to reflect the publication's broadening scope and international status as the open access peer reviewed academic journal in the field, the journal was renamed The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.

Today, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, has a large international subscriber base and is accessible to researchers, educators and students in over 15,000 libraries in 60 countries around the world including developing nations.

Publishing activities at IJCAIP have contributed significantly to propagating a new and fertile knowledge base for research and information about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice. The publication sponsors a number of interconnected IJCAIP websites as well as a monthly newsletter and several creative arts in interdisciplinary practice blogs. This year, IJCAIP with Editor, Cheryl McLean (Publisher of IJCAIP) and Advisory Board member and Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, will be publishing two new research texts, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (Detselig Temeron Press). These books will be followed by the third research text in the CAIP series, "Story, Technology and Transformation".

It has been our intention to illustrate the considerable breadth and scope of this field while featuring leaders active in the work in action and practice. We continue to foster and encourage new research as well as carry the message across disciplines sharing news about the many applications of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice with a growing worldwide readership.

The journey continues,

Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

IJCAIP Advisory Board

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa

Lace Marie Brogden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

Michael Hutcheon MD, FRCP, Deputy Physician and Chief of Education, Toronto University Health Network

Robert W. Kelly Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary

Pia C. Kontos Ph.D., Research Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

Patricia McKeever Ph.D., Health Sociologist, Senior Scientist, Bloorview Research Institute, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Nick Nissley EdD., Executive Director, Banff Centre for the Arts, Leadership Development

Lubomir Popov Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, Interior Design, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Johnny Saldana MFA, Professor of Theatre, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University

subscription to IJCAIP Journal is free with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "please subscribe"

Dangerously good design for Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

2010-04-27T18:00:00.024-04:00

I thought our CAIP blog visitors may like to hear straight from the artist designer who has designed our cover for the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change". James Dangerous from Calgary, Alberta, is one of the most knowledgeable designers I have ever worked with in terms of the history of typography and typeface and the art of letterforms. An artist and "interdisciplinarian" James is also a musician, writer, editor and poet as well as an actor... and (soon-to-be) father.

In the post below James Dangerous generously explains his design process:

"The design of the text—being for a book of many parts and visions—is complex yet intended to read simply. The bulk of the book is set in the Adobe Caslon family, as it a classic-style typeface with a plethora of stylistic variations and ornamental options. This allows for a clean, modern look to the text while gesturing towards the weight and trace of historic authority, while allowing a wild amount of creative variation when needed.
Many of the titles and subheads in the book are set in Arno pro, a typeface that has many of the same positive qualities of Adobe Caslon (modern-yet-classic, many variations, etc.) but is much more suitable and adaptable for titling. The sans face used for captions and some subtitles in the book is Bell Gothic, a clear and functional face with small radical flourishes: traditionally associated with the avant-garde, Bell is a wonderfully adaptable and useful sans serif type. Each of the book's major sections are heralded with the use of a font mimicking an old Dymo label-maker. Aside from adding a bold splash of contrast to the opening section, it gestures towards a "hands-on" approach to creativity in interdisciplinary practice, as well as helping the book develop a strong design identity (i.e., utilizing the classical-yet-modern stylings of Arno and Caslon to show erudition and a familiarity with history, Bell to gesture towards avant-garde approaches, and Dymo to gesture towards an idea of bricolage).

Pages are set according to a very tight grid based on the lead: 0.2312", to be precise. Margins are also based on the lead, with the proportions of 3:3:4:5. Using a tight grid allows for a precise uniform sense of layout, enabling good spacing and gutters, and yet it can be manipulated in a very precise way to allow for interesting and dynamic layout of pictures, captions, tables, and more. The margins themselves can be "violated" by having type, text, or image bleed into the margins; as long as the items laid out thusly remain on the grid, they can puncture the margins without offending the eye. There are thirty-four gridlines across the page and forty-two from top to bottom, giving an immense range of space to play in while keeping a strong sense of precision.

With regards to the cover, the "butterfly" theme could easily stray into a thematic design more associated with less important and rigorous works than Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. Fairly or not, the butterfly could easily be misinterpreted as "frilly" or "flaky", as its importance as a symbol of transformation, rebirth, weightlessness, and beauty have been appropriated many times by less-than-skilled artisans of the visual metaphor.

In the case of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change a butterfly of living grass grows on dead paper. This has the suggestion of creativity allowing life to bloom where it did not before, as well as gesturing towards creative mediums (paper, canvas, etc.) The grass is also a landscaper's sod, as opposed to wild meadowgrass: this is a cultivated and urban life, rather than one of the wilderness. The cover uses Arno Pro and Bell Gothic Typefaces to present a face that is uniform with the interior of the book.

About James Dangerous

James Dangerous edits and designs non-fiction books of all sorts. He also designs filling Station magazine, and—with his wife, Jocelyn Grossé—edits the non-fiction section of the same magazine. His most radical design work has been seen in posters and packaging for musical acts. Many designers begin as visual artists; James found his way into the field via an enduring love of typography.

As a writer, James has published fiction, poetry, non-fiction and more in Canada and Sweden, and free-lanced as an interviewer and reviewer, most notably in FFWD Weekly. He also loves to draw and read comics, and occasionally releases graphic reviews of graphic novels.

When he's not designing, writing, or drawing, James works as a musician. He leads the nine-piece radical country band, James Dangerous & the CIA; homeless children, animal lovers, political junkies, senior citizens, and death metal enthusiasts have all delighted in the CIA's music as they've brought their boundlessly enthusiastic live show to everything from charities to metal bars. James also plays lead guitar in The Ogden Owls, Bowser's Brood, and with Elise Hall-Meyer's solo work; he frequently sits in with bands Haggard Beat, crime scene inFUNKstigation, and The Pickled Hicks. Much of his live music performance borrows heavily from his days as an actor working in theatre — He hopes to re-engage in film and performance in the future.

His latest adventure is fatherhood.

Visit James Dangerous at www.jamesdangerous.com

About Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Inquiries for Hope and Change

Meet our editors

Available July 2010.

Lights on for the CAIP Blog

2010-04-21T09:25:00.003-04:00

We've turned the lights on here at the blog. If you've visited before you may have noticed the change of colours and lighter background. We've had some feedback requesting that we use a lighter background so that the posts would be easier to read. I'm listening. Hope you enjoy the new look.

CM

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Travels Across Disciplines with a Message for Hope and Change

2010-04-19T11:50:00.009-04:00

The American Society for Clinical Pathology publication "Critical Values" has published an article about the book “ Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” in the July issue Vol. 3, Issue 3, pg. 36 - 40. of the quarterly magazine “Critical Values”. The society represents 130,000 members across the U.S. working as pathologists, physicians, pathologists’ assistants, laboratory professionals, medical students and laboratory students. The ASCP is based in Chicago and provides education, certification, and advocacy on behalf of patients, pathologists, and laboratory professionals. The society has recently featured a new section called "Arts and Culture" in their official publication of the ASCP, which is yet another important indication of the growing international interest in the arts in practice across disciplines.

To view the article visit the website
go to archives Volume 3, Issue 3, navigate to pg. 36-40

At the Dietitians of Canada national conference On Friday May 28 in Montreal, Quebec, there will be a panel and session titled, "Crafting Our Stories: Art, Leadership and Change in Dietetics" hosted by The Advisory Committee for Professional Affairs.

Among the speakers, Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice will be presenting about research and the growing momentum in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and significant interdisciplinary connections between the arts and dietetics education and practice. Cheryl McLean will present a story and narrative workshop designed to help dietitians access and express their own personal stories through writing and performance.

June 9, 2010 The 16^th Annual Palliative Care Conference in Orillia, Ontario will be held for palliative and hospice care providers. The theme of the conference will be “Stories In Palliative Care”. Cheryl McLean, will be the keynote speaker at the conference presenting “Living Stories of Hope and Change” featuring dramatic examples of research based performances in stories about aging and end of life as well as new research and accounts about the creative arts in Interdisciplinary practice for hope and change. The presentation will be followed by a workshop, “Honouring Life, Expressing Stories for Hope and Change”.

All of this is encouraging news as we share our work in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice,

The journey continues,

Cheryl McLean, Publisher, IJCAIP

Harvard Medical School Reference Good News for IJCAIP

2010-04-01T17:05:00.017-04:00

Every so often, driven by curiousity, I do a quick IJCAIP search on the internet to see who is citing IJCAIP, (The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice) and what individuals or institutions are referencing our international journal or referring to our books. Since our beginnings in 2006, we have published research and articles from leaders across disciplines active in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and we frequently see our journal listed on CV's with researchers' lists of publications.

In a recent article, The Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia referenced an article from Issue 8, "Stories and Society Using Literature to Teach Medical Students About Public Health and Social Justice" contributed by Martin Donohoe MD, FACP.

IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice has been indicated among the medical reference journals listed at The Stanford School of Medicine, Center for Bioethics.

In the March 2010 report by UNESCO prepared by the Council of Ministers of Education and Canadian Commission for UNESCO, article 211, IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Education, was referenced. "The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice is a Canadian‐based open access and peer reviewed journal that focuses on research and knowledge about the arts in health and interdisciplinary practice. The March 2007 issue (the journal was then called Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal) had articles on such issues as teaching opera in medical school to raise awareness about issues of death, loss, and suffering; the use of storytelling in nutritional counselling; and integrating dance and choreography for teaching children with cerebral palsy."

I see Harvard Medical School, considered one of the most prestigious medical schools in The United States, listed the IJCAIP website as one of the references for The Harvard Medical School, 2010 Longwood Seminar.

Ontario Medical Association recently referred to us in their wellness web links.

We are pleased to witness these recent developments. Such high profile references are encouraging news for the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and IJCAIP as we contribute toward the accessible knowledge in the field.

To some people a reference may be just a reference but as a publisher of academic journals and books I find this all very exciting. In the age of Open Access one never knows where things may lead or how far the story goes...

The journey continues,

Cheryl McLean, Publisher,
International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP

Announcing the 2nd text in the CAIP Research Series, Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change, About the Book

2010-03-25T23:19:00.023-04:00

Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

Visit our Blog for News on this book

http://creativecommunitychange.blogspot.com/

Press Release

September 8, 2010

With the successful release of the inaugural text in the CAIP Research Series, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice for Hope and Change, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice is actively engaged in creating the 2nd text in the series, Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change, Editor Cheryl McLean, Publisher, International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP and Associate Editor Dr. Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary. This ambitious publishing project has been launched by The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and is the second text in the groundbreaking Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (CAIP) Research Series to be published by Detselig Temeron Press.

Building on the fundamentals of Book 1, the inaugural text, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, Book 2 in the CAIP Research Series, Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change, features informative and thought provoking articles describing applications of the creative arts in research within neighborhoods, villages and cities integrated in distinctive ways to help investigate, explore, articulate and communicate research findings while working actively within and beyond borders to foster change. In this action oriented collection, creative arts and community based, participatory approaches are featured as well as other methodologies. Taking a global perspective, the book explores creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for cultural and community change through hands on illustrative accounts, for example, the creative arts in research fostering peace and bridging communities, creative arts in research and action in community practice in addiction work, creative arts in research exploring issues of migration and racism, arts for community change addressing environmental issues, creative arts and its role in cultural change as well as discussing applications of the creative arts in many forms in practice in communities addressing critical health issues for improved quality of life.

Articles raise questions and mobilize by example pointing to alternative forms of discovery and resolution through community action that challenges stereotypes of race, gender and identity. At a time of desperate need and ongoing unrest internationally, this important contemporary research text is a valuable source of information as well as a call for creative new approaches in contemporary research leading to meaningful action. Creative Arts for Community and Cultural Change provides first hand insights into evolving processes unique to the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice as well as a wealth of information and examples for in class review and highly relevant in-depth dialogue and debate.

Raging Asian Women, Expressing Feelings Through Taiko Drumming

2010-03-23T11:45:00.015-04:00

Raging Asian Women will be performing tonight at the OISE Auditorium, University of Toronto at the Social Workers Got Talent Fundraising event for Zanmi Lasante a Haitian organization that was founded in 1983 by a group of doctors and community organizers who believe that the poor deserve no less than the best medical treatment and medications available. Understanding that the root causes of poor health lie in the structural violence of poverty, Zanmi Lasante offers comprehensive social and medical support to its patients, providing them not only with health care, but also with access to potable water, adequate food and housing, schooling, and economic opportunities

I was pleased to see that the Taiko drumming group Raging Asian Women will also be featured at this fundraising event. Isumi Sakamoto, Social Work, University of Toronto, is a member of RAW and FYI she is also a contributor to the inaugural book in the CAIP, (Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice) Research Series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change".

Social Workers Got Talent
WHERE: OISE AUDITORIUM,
252 BLOOR STREET WEST
WHEN: TUESDAY MARCH 23rd

TIME: 7pm-9:30pm

The suggested donation is $10.
Proceeds go to solidarity efforts with people of
Haiti, through Zanmi Lasante.
For more information about Zanmi Lasante, please
visit this website:
http://www.pih.org/where/Haiti/Haiti.html

If you have any questions
please feel free to contact Elizabeth at elizabeth.
mccarville@utoronto.ca, Mutamba at rainosm@
gmail.com

Info about Raging Asian Women:

http://www.ragingasianwomen.ca/

We hope you enjoy this Youtube video clip by Rick Miller with commentaries from the RAW group members.

IJCAIP Features Arts Based Health Research with Winter 2011 Issue

2010-03-17T10:09:00.002-04:00

The publisher of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP would like to announce we will be publishing a sponsored supplementary section of the Winter 2011 IJCAIP issue featuring news and articles from an academic collaborative organization in Toronto exploring the translation of new knowledge through arts based health research.

As an open access interdisciplinary and international journal accessed globally, at IJCAIP we are proud to support international researchers active in the field of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice exploring progressive approaches and methods which may have the potential to benefit individuals and communities worldwide.

C. McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com
Editor, CAIP Research Series
http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com

Introducing our Editors, CAIP Research Series

2010-03-13T09:23:00.068-05:00

Editor

Cheryl McLean MA is an independent scholar and educator and Founder, Publisher and Executive Editor of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and Editor of The CAIP Research Series and books, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" (August 2010) and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (for release Sept. 2011) Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Published by Detselig Enterprises Inc., Calgary, Alberta).

Cheryl McLean has a background in journalism, social science, the arts and adult and community education (BA, Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London) (MA , Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Fine Art, Concordia University, Montreal). As an actor she also studied and worked in projects for two years (Stanislavski,realism) under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold, formerly the Artistic Director of the Saidye Bronfman Theatre, Montreal. Her research took place with low income seniors in an "over 60 community mental health programme" at Maimonides Jewish Geriatric Hospital and the Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology. She wrote and performed the "ethnodrama" "Remember Me for Birds" based on data gathered in research and true stories (a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors) and toured the performance as an actor raising awareness about aging, mental health and autonomy in keynote solo presentations for national conferences, universities and medical schools in Canada and the U.S. The work was produced as an educational film in 2006.

An agent of change and longtime arts advocate, as publisher of IJCAIP and Editor of the CAIP Research Series, Cheryl McLean continues to publish new research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and has presented to audiences across Canada contributing to education and knowledge in the emerging international field raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play for hope and change in communities worldwide. She has taught the course "Creative Responses to Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario, London and facilitates creative arts for community change workshops for professionals across disciplines at The Windermere Manor (UWO), London. She continues to be an active member of the London arts community with special interests in writing, acting and contemporary theatre.
She is currently working on the third volume of the CAIP research series, VOICE, Transforming our cities through citizen stories and the arts in action
CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Robert Kelly has been a featured keynote speaker at lectures and workshops across Canada speaking on creativity theory and practice across disciplines.Visit Robert Kelly's website

2010-03-13T08:16:00.002-05:00

I would like to share with you news about the book Cinderella Story by James Haywood Rolling Jr. published by Alta Mira Press.

From a post at Graeme Sullivan's Blog, Art Practice as Research:

"Cinderella Story argues that a poststructural and unexpected identity can be created from the charred embers of self-imagery strewn about an ash heap of stereotypes—reinterpreted atop a pyre of modern identity constructs, authoritative stories, and assigned names. Consequentially, a Cinderella ending is not the end of a story; rather, it is the inauguration of a new ever after. While this new book contributes to the canon of African American Studies literature, it will not present yet another dubious narrative of the pathology of being Black in America. In fact, the story of being Black in America has always been a story of transformation; as such, this book may be considered a Cinderella Story and is so titled. The variations of the story of being Black in America are too profuse to be contained within the oversimplified and fictive contemporary signifier known as race. And that is the point of this writing. African Americans are more than we are expected to be, more than racial definition allows—an ongoing reinterpretation of injurious social constructs. Cinderella Story is an arts-based inquiry—the outcome of a methodology that researches contemporary visual and popular cultural markers in search of a story still under construction—as well as an inquiry that depicts identity as a continuing work of art, and the arts as a continuing work of collective identity."

Both Graeme Sullivan and Norman K. Denzin have endorsed the book.

The superb cover art is also by James Haywood Rolling Jr.

Get the News First, Alert List for CAIP Series

2010-03-10T16:05:00.009-05:00

We are compiling a special alert list for educators and others who want to be among the first to know when the text, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is available for ordering. The text is scheduled for release July 2010. This research text will be of special interest to qualitative researchers, adult educators, nurse educators, physicians, healthcare educators (medical education/nursing/pathology, other) health administrators and those active in health promotion and health policy, aging studies, educators in Social Work and Dietetics, Peace/Cultural Studies, Fine Arts, Drama/Performance based research, Sociology, Women's Studies, Disability Studies, Counselling, Medical Humanities, Art Therapies, Counselling and other related fields...as well as curators, university librarians and the general public and those who have special interest in illustrative stories about the arts in research,action and practice for social change.

For information or to request to be on the new book alert list contact us at CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with "book" in the subject line.

FYI you can also subscribe free to IJCAIP, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice with an email to CherylMclean@ijcaip.com "please subscribe"..
by subscribing to IJCAIP you'll have access to our journal issues and archive at the IJCAIP website and you'll be advised directly by email about our calls for papers for journals and books.

Update New Book, Creative Arts in Research For Community and Cultural Change

2010-03-09T18:01:00.013-05:00

A note from Cheryl McLean, Editor, CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research Series

We would like to thank those of you who have sent us abstracts for the second text in the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (CAIP) Research Series, “Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change” Editor, C. McLean (Publisher IJCAIP Journal), Associate Editor, R. Kelly (Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary), Publisher Detselig/Temeron Press.

The final deadline for abstract submissions for the second text in the CAIP Series, "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" is March 20 and, once again, we have had an overwhelming response to our call for abstracts for this groundbreaking contemporary research series. See submission information

When we have had an opportunity to review all abstract submissions we will be in touch with selected authors for full paper submissions by email. We hope to complete this process by the end of April. Detailed information will be provided for those who will be submitting full papers at that time as well as more information about themes and content. Additional feedback or suggestions may also be provided. Prospective contributors should be aware we are seeking research related submissions and our publisher has requested original and previously unpublished articles.

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly and I have been inspired by the incredible scope of the international submissions received over the last several months. Clearly the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice is making an important and meaningful difference for individuals across cultures and communities worldwide. It is an honour to have the opportunity to share these topical research accounts from leaders in the field with a vital and expanding worldwide readership.

The journey continues.

Cheryl McLean, Publisher, International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP

http://www.ijcaip.com

Editor, CAIP Research Series

email: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Copies of the inaugural text in the CAIP Research Series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" are expected to be available for purchase in May.
Hear featured contributors from the text, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" speak about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change here.

Watch for upcoming news soon about the third text in the CAIP Research Series,
"Story, Technology and Transformation"

Contact the editor for more information CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com.
Inquire about submissions, books, conference presentations...

Transforming Grief Through Dance

2010-01-25T19:49:00.012-05:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"I returned to dance, intuitively, instinctively. The dance of death was now my dance of life. As I danced, like a woman possessed, my conscious mind snuffed out the reality of my loss. While my world as wife and mother had been cruelly wrenched from me, I came to understand that my identity as a dancer had survived, an identity that no outside force could destroy."
Lata Pada

Lata Pada is Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance creations, an award winning Canadian dance company recognized for its distinctive choreography spanning a dynamic range of classical bharatanatyam and contemporary dance works. Lata has trained with India's distinguished gurus, Kalaimamani K. Kalyanasundaram, Padma Bhushan and Kalanidhi Narayanan. Lata holds a Masters in Dance from York University and is currently an Adjunct Professor in York University's Master's program in Dance. In January 2009, Lata was awarded The Order of Canada. She has the distinction of being the first Indian artist to receive this national honour.

More about Lata Pada and her story here Toronto Star

Empathy Can be Taught Experientially

2010-01-25T13:18:00.009-05:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"The goal (of the inquiry) has a practical outcome; to develop methodologies whereby empathy must be taught experientially as part of the nursing curriculum."

"In the performance....we rehearsed the actions over and over but my initial emotional response to this action resolutely refused to be erased by professional discipline and remained, therefore, as a moment of empathic encounter in performance. We let it remain as it was in the piece...a moment of vulnerability, anger and uncertainty which was awkward and ungainly, charged with fear. As a performer I always approached this moment with trepidation because it made me feel like I was out of control, at risk..which was, of course, precisely as it should be."

April Nunes Tucker, Amanda Price

Graduates from the Performing Arts Degree Course University of Bedfordshire UK

April Nunes Tucker works as a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom. She holds an MA in Dance from the Laban Centre, London and a BA in Dance from The University of California Irvine. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Dance at Middlesex University, UK. Her research interests include: performance and reflective practice, site-specific choreography, Butoh and the influences of somatic practice such as yoga on contemporary dance techniques.

Dr. Amanda Price works as a Principal Lecturer in Theatre at The University of Bedfordshire in The United Kingdom. She holds an MA in Theatre from The University of Leeds and her PhD offered a comparative analysis of contemporary playwrights in Africa and the UK. She is a founding member of Famous & Divine, a theatre company committed to exploring our contemporary relationship to the "uncanny". Her research interests include performance and reflective practice, energy and transformation in performance.

Inviting the Emotions Into Research

2010-01-19T10:14:00.008-05:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"As educators, as researchers, we are often taught to not pay attention to our emotions, except to control them and keep them out of our teaching and out of our research. I do the opposite. I invite the emotions into teaching and into research. I believe that we need to listen to our emotions, that we need to pay attention to what they are saying to us, what they are showing us, what they are teaching us."

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D. from an article (forthcoming) by Day, L. and Guiney Yallop, J.J., "Researching teaching and learning through poetry: A shared journey".

John J. Guiney Yallop, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Acadia University. Dr. Guiney Yallop's research includes poetic inquiry, narrative inquiry, autoethnography and performative social science.

Embodied Learning Through Playbuilding

2010-01-18T10:08:00.018-05:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"Learning is often challenging to capture through text alone. For instance (through playbuilding) the diverse perspectives of the participants were able to physically come to life, and allowed for the intangible and/or unvoiced learning to emerge through embodiment and dialogue. As I read and re-read the pre-service teachers' journals, my field notes on the project...what continued to catch my attention was how their collective play and lived experience seemed to increasingly blend over the course of the playbuilding process...they played out their understandings during improvisations, and, in turn, progressively (and likely subconsciously) wrote themselves into the script."
(excerpt from article Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal, CCAHTE, June 2006)

Dr. George Belliveau is an Associate Professor and Graduate Academic Advisor in The Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His areas of research include theatre/drama education, research based theatre, teacher education, Canadian theatre and drama in second language learning. He is currently the Principal investigator, Co-Investigator on projects su ch as "Becoming Pedagogical through A/r/tography in Teacher Education", "Addressing the Role of the Bystander in Bullying"
and " Assessing Ethnotheatre as a Form of Educational Research."

George Belliveau is also an Advisory board member for The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.

Minutia Matters

2009-12-24T14:20:00.007-05:00

Robert Kelly, Minutia Exhibit McIntosh Gallery and lecture, King's University College, , University of Western Ontario, September 2009, Photography C. McLean.

New Call for Abstracts for 2nd book in the CAIP Research Series, Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

2009-12-23T14:01:00.039-05:00

CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series

Publisher: Detselig Temeron Press

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D.

Call for Abstracts

Book 2 in the CAIP (Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice ) Research Series

Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

The CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research text series was launched with the inaugural text “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” published by Detselig Temeron Books, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, scheduled for release in April 2010. (http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com )"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" introduced the emerging field with illustrative examples, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the applications of the creative arts in research action and interdisciplinary practice. About the book

New Call for Abstracts:

In the second research text in the CAIP series, "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" there will be a particular focus on creative arts and research that transforms and empowers individuals and communities. We are interested in creative arts and research within neighbourhoods and cities, across continents and beyond borders. Currently we are seeking illustrative and accessible research accounts of new work offering hope for change across cultures and communities locally and globally.

These are a just a few of the themes and subjects areas of special interest:

arts and community based research and participatory methods
arts in research and practice re-building or bridging communities in conflict (visual arts, dance, performance, narrative/poetry, installation etc.)
arts in research and interdisciplinary practice across cultures for global change
ethnographic/oral history field studies leading to arts for social justice, anti-oppression work, empowerment
arts in research for improved health and quality of life, poverty, homelessness, environment, disability, youth, crime, aging, urban studies

arts in research and interdisciplinary practice that is used in distinctive and innovative ways, transformative new methods and creative approaches to help investigate, explore, articulate and communicate research findings while working actively within communities and beyond borders to foster change.

Submissions for Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

Send an abstract (max. l pg.) as a Word attachment, with a short bio and a brief list of academic references to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with “submission Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" in the subject line.

. Due date for full articles will be July 30, 2010.. Please be aware that we are seeking research related articles.

Arts a Bridge for Access to Good Science and Local Knowledge

2009-12-04T19:16:00.012-05:00

photo Olga Davis

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

“How do arts-based communication channels serve as a “translational bridge” for providing communities the access to good science and researchers the access to important local knowledge? A community-based participatory health communication approach to health literacy highlights the role that art and performance can play in intervention and offers a culturally based model for replication in other marginalized communities."
Olga Ildriss Davis

Olga Davis Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University (ASU) and co-Principal Investigator of the Community engagement/Community Outreach Core of the SIRC NIH-P20 Centre of Excellence grant for the Study of Health disparities in the Southwest. Her research agenda is in the domain of critical cultural and performance studies in the disciplinary area of human communication. Her work explores the performative struggle of identity within the African Diaspora, the Black body as a site of racialized and sexualized oppression, and the function of memory as ritualized healing among survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Central to the work is the study of narrative—how narrative empowers, creates, and fosters cultural awareness to provide a space for social change.

More Information

Filmmaker Opening Opportunities to Communicate Through Film and Media

2009-12-04T15:42:00.021-05:00

photo from Citizenshift website
Six films were made by This Ability Media Club, a group of adults with developmental disabilities who have learned to use video to tell their stories.

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"While becoming a director, marginalized individuals learn to actively express themselves in the process of creating new media works, regardless of the commercial potential of the work. In the process of training a novice director, the artist, researcher, or artist-researcher makes the connection between self-expression and self-determination explicit, allowing the novice to apply artistic knowledge to their social relationships."
Lorna R. Boschman

Lorna R. Boschman has been a documentary and media artist for over twenty years; her work has shown at many festivals and venues, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Two of her works are part of the collection at The National Gallery of Canada. Currently Boschman is a PhD student and sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology. She was the director of the community-led media arts training workshop for self-advocates and their supporters called, this ability media club.

This Ability is an innovative filmmaking project that puts the tools of media creation directly into the hands of adults with developmental disabilities. Formed as a partnership between the National Film Board of Canada and the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion (BACI), with support from Philia and the United Way, the aim was to move away from videos that merely observe people with disabilities, towards ones that give an inside perspective on the human experience of disability.

Through regular workshops and hands-on training, the filmmakers in the This Ability Media Club developed the skills to tell their own stories in their own way. Filmmaker Lorna Boschman worked over the course of a year with a dedicated group of six to eight people, meeting weekly, building a relationship and helping them become comfortable with the cameras and other technical gear they would need to make their own films.

From the National Film Board of Canada website

see film directed by Michelle McDonald, "Be Kind to Spiders"
Project Director, Lorna Boschman
This Ability Media Club/National Film Board of Canada/Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion
Watch here:
http://citizenshift.org/be-kind-spiders

Arts Based Health Research More Synergy Across Canada

2009-11-24T09:13:00.012-05:00

"transformation" Photo C. McLean

C. McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

Having been active in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for several years, I'm very encouraged by all the recent buzz about arts based health research as we see a number of new investigative initiatives springing up across Canada. Artists, health researchers, scholars and educators are meeting at the same conference tables to explore new and creative forms of arts based research to discuss the work, approaches and processes. One recent meeting agenda described their workshop as "a unique opportunity for researchers of multiple disciplines to bring to bear, under one collective umbrella, matters of meaning and communication, matters of methods and matters of theoretical knowledge that feed and enrich the area of arts based research."

On October 26, representing The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, I was invited to attend a workshop on "Exploring Transformative Potential of Arts based Health Research" hosted by Scientist, Katherine Boydell, ( The Hospital for Sick Children), at Hart House, University of Toronto. I was pleased to note that among the participants were social scientists, scholars, nurse educators, students as well as many artists in attendance including nationally recognized dramatists, visual artists, artist researcher/poets, dancers and others lending their voices and opinions to the animated discussions at the workshop. On November 20, another workshop took place in Vancouver at The University of British Columbia called "Arts Based Methods in Health Research" hosted by investigators Susan Cox, Centre for Applied Ethics and George Belliveau, Language and Literacy Education. Dr. Belliveau is also an Advisory Board member for The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.

These recent meetings in Canada, attended by educators and leaders across disciplines, are yet another encouraging indication of the growing interest globally in the field of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice. We will hope that as a result of these new initiatives, successful creative arts, science and health research alliances will be forged within our country and beyond, partnerships that could help create enriching and innovative opportunities for learning and the potential for future programmes benefitting individuals and communities worldwide.

Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, http://www.ijcaip.com
Editor, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"
http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com

Aesthetic Quality Important for Ethnodramas About Human Condition

2009-11-02T19:45:00.013-05:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
Contributor Features

"Some scholars in the social sciences may employ the term “performance” in casual ways that irk the sensibilities of those deeply involved in the culture of theatre, for mounting a theatrical production, regardless of its magnitude, is hard work. Nevertheless, theatre is one of the artistic media through which fictionalized and non-fictionalized social life—the human condition—can be portrayed symbolically and aesthetically for spectator engagement and reflection."

"The art of writing for the stage is similar to, yet different from, creating a dramatic narrative for qualitative reports, because ethnotheatre employs the media and conventions of theatrical production. A researcher’s criteria for excellent ethnography in article or book formats don’t always harmonize with an artist’s criteria for excellent theatre. This may be difficult for some to accept but, to me, theatre’s primary goal is neither to educate nor to enlighten. Theatre’s primary goal is to entertain—to entertain ideas as it entertains its spectators. With ethnographic performance, then, comes the responsibility to create an entertainingly informative experience for an audience, one that is aesthetically sound, intellectually rich, and emotionally evocative. Ethnotheatre reveals a living culture through its character-participants and, if successful, the audience learns about their world and what it’s like to live in it."

Johnny Saldana
quotes from: Ethnodrama: an Anthology of Reality Theatre, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005.
protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher for permission to copy, distribute or reprint.

Johnny Saldaña is a Professor of Theatre in the School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University where he has taught since 1981. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change Through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003), a research methods book and recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Ethnography Division; Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (AltaMira Press, 2005), and The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Sage Publications, 2009), a handbook on qualitative data analysis. His forthcoming textbook, Understanding Qualitative Research: The Fundamentals, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

Johnny Saldana is a contributor to the recently released book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change", eds. Cheryl McLean, Robert Kelly, Detselig Temeron Press. ("Ethnodramas about Health and Illness, staging Human Vulnerability, Fragility and resiliency" pg. 167-180) ) He is also an Advisory Board member for IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

http://www.ijcaip.com

Arts Gaining Momentum in Medical Education

2009-10-23T13:52:00.027-04:00

Arts Alive and Thriving in Medical Education

It has been reported that the use of arts and humanities in medical education may help develop observational skills and enhance understanding of the human condition. Programs integrating the arts and humanities in medical education continue to flourish and gain momentum with leading medical schools offering programming such as Stanford School of Medicine, Arts, Humanities and Medicine, established to “promote creative and scholarly work at the intersections between the arts, humanities and medicine in order to enhance our understanding of the contextual meanings of illness, healthcare, and the human condition.” 1 In Canada, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Humanities in Medicine, offers five core initiatives: History of Medicine; Narrative Medicine (oral storytelling film, mass media, and literature); Music; Spirituality; and Visual Arts. 2 The Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine Program at the University of Alberta was launched in May 2006. The program is directed to engendering a balance of scientific knowledge and compassionate care with a mission statement that formally acknowledges “the explicit recognition within the Faculty that clinical practice is both an art and a science.” 3

The arts are alive and thriving in medical education today, offering opportunities for learning and a place for self expression and healing. A leader in the field of Narrative Medicine, Dr. Rita Charon, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at the Columbia University 4 has long advocated for the use of narrative in medical education to honour stories of illness. Dr. Arthur Frank, Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary, and author of “The Wounded Storyteller, Body, Illness and Ethics”, writes about the meaningful uses of storytelling for those experiencing illness, “The personal issue of telling stories about illness is to give voice to the body, so the changed body can become once again familiar in these stories.” 5

In our current issue of IJCAIP, http://www.ijcaip.com, "Physicians Speak Out About Arts in Medicine" we've offered physicians a place to voice their stories and share how they use the arts in education.
Our featured article in issue 8 of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, “Stories and Society, Using Literature to Teach Medical Students About Public Health and Social Justice,” has been contributed by Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Community Health, Portland State University and Senior Physician of Internal Medicine at The Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Centre. Donohoe offers an argument for “enhancing public health education of medical students through the use of literature with the goal of creating activist physicians knowledgeable about, and eager to confront, the social, economic and cultural contributions to illness”. He has also generously provided an extensive list of books, articles and resources. A follow up commentary by Jay Rosenfield, MD, MEd, FRCPC, Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, stresses the need for continuing research to examine the use of literature and story in medical education further, particularly when linked to advocacy and health of populations and patient outcomes.

Maureen Rappaport MD, FCCFP, is a family doctor who splits her time between working in a busy community practice in Montreal , Quebec, and teaching family medicine residents and medical students. In the article, “The Poetry of Practice” she writes about the creative writing course she teaches as an elective to fourth year medical students at McGill University, a course that provides an important place for students to express their feelings through narratives and poetry.

Physician and Educator Pippa Hall MD, CCFP, MEd, FCFP, at The University of Ottawa, has been a palliative care physician for over ten years. She has integrated arts into learning activities for pre-licensure students and in post graduate programs as well as in continuing professional development activities in nursing and spiritual care. She explains how she has found the arts in many forms provide opportunities for learning while offering new insights into the human condition.

Seema Shah, MD, MSPH, offers a unique perspective as both a physician and patient who has experienced chronic illness. Working with The University of British Columbia Community Partnerships for Health Professional Education Initiative, she facilitated group sessions using literature and story to help teach students about the lived experience of illness.

Our closing commentary explores the exciting potential for other innovative and creative technologies incorporated into teaching and medical education. Kim Bullock, MD, family medicine and emergency room physician, and Director of the Community Health Division and Assistant Director of Service Learning in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University, Medical Centre, Washington, believes digital storytelling in medical education has the potential to “link the social, environmental, and historical issues that influence health and illness through graphics”. “What emerges,” she writes, “are voices from the community that bear witness to issues that influence health including problems related to the environment, housing, public safety violence, inequities ..”

The voices represented in this issue of IJCAIP speak about progressive approaches to learning that have the potential to offer hope and change in education and in healthcare practice. There may yet be questions to be answered but, given the space, there will always be stories to tell and those who will witness, learn and be transformed.

Thanks to all the physicians who joined us in this issue of IJCAIP for sharing their articles and commentaries while contributing to this lively discussion about the arts in medical education.

Issue 8 is accessible and available at the website for subscribers.
We invite you to read the full articles available and accessible from the IJCAIP home page in HTML and PDF formats. We hope you will share these stories with your friends and colleagues.

C. McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

Subscribe free to IJCAIP Journal with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "please subscribe"

Read more about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in the upcoming book “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” to
be published by Detselig/Temeron Press, 2010, Editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly.

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1.About the Program, Stanford School of Medicine, Arts, Humanities and Medicine, http://bioethics.stanford.edu/arts/

2. Dalhousie University Humanities in Medicine Program http://humanities.medicine.dal.ca/

3. Arts in Humanities in Health and Medicine Program, University of Alberta, http://www.med.ualberta.ca/education/AHHM/index.cfm

4. The Program in Narrative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University,

People/Leadership/ Rita Charon MD, Ph.D. http://www.narrativemedicine.org/about/people.html

5. Frank, Arthur, “The Wounded Storyteller, Body, Illness and Ethics”, University of Chicago Press,

1995, (pg. 21, Chapter l)

Collaborative Meeting Around Transformative Potential of Arts Based Health Research

2009-10-21T19:15:00.027-04:00

I look forward to a meeting early next week with over 60 professionals, scientists, health researchers, educators and artists at The University of Toronto, people connected to a new collaborative project that has the potential to open the way for innovative and transformative arts based health research in Canada and internationally. It's encouraging to witness the potential for real change in the making as scientists, researchers and artists join together meeting at the same table to discuss how each might contribute to the creative methods and solutions that could profoundly shift the ways we experience, express and understand health research. I'm glad to have an opportunity to participate and to represent IJCAIP The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice at the workshop. And I look forward to connecting with others with common interests around the creative arts in research and practice for hope and change.

C. McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
Editor, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"

Arts Informed Research and Community Based Research

2009-10-09T16:16:00.012-04:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"Arts may be used in various stages of the research process in a variety of ways for envisioning exercises during the planning phase, to generate knowledge through data collection or analysis or to disseminate research results. The method allows those directly affected by the issue to document and express their concerns and their worldviews effectively."

Isumi Sakamoto, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Toronto.
Professor Izumi Sakamoto is a former Fulbright Scholar, a Michigan Society of Fellows Associate Fellow, and a “Community of Scholars” Fellow of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sakamoto’s training and practice span North America and Japan, and she brings interdisciplinary perspectives from social work, social psychology, cultural psychology, and women’s studies.

Digital Story Facilitates Reflective Process Among Future Physicians

2009-10-04T10:18:00.016-04:00

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
Contributor Features

"The purpose of incorporating digital storytelling in medical education at Georgetown University (Washington DC) is to facilitate a reflective process among future physicians. This process is based on active listening, personal commitment and building physician-patient trust which is essential in providing quality care. Through eliciting stories that relate to personal health, patients are engaged as educators who contribute to the students comprehensive understanding of interrelated determinants of health. By promoting patients' participation in their own health affairs, physicians are ultimately able to provide better and more lasting care."
Kim Bullock, MD

Kim Bullock, MD is a family medicine and emergency room physician as well as Community Health Division Director and Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Centre. She has infused social learning theory and reflective patient and community centred practice into her classroom and clinical teaching. Dr. Bullock also serves as Director of The Community Health Division and Assistant Director of Service Learning where she has strengthened community partnerships within pre-clinical medical education and used digital stories to expand student participation and engagement in diverse local communities.

Look for commentary by Kim Bullock in October issue The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP.

About the Book

2009-09-30T15:31:00.027-04:00

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Pratice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is the inaugural text in the groundbreaking CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research Series. Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and Associate Editor Dr. Robert Kelly, Fine Art, University of Calgary and Published by Detselig Temeron Books, this contemporary research text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles about the creative arts in research, action and interdisciplinary practice.

First hand topical accounts are featured from leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists, artists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edge research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.

Researchers candidly share their experiences with the creative arts in research while voicing the stories of the work in practice. A varied and multifaceted collection of creative research in action, this is an accessible yet highly informative academic text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inqurires for Hope and Change is the first text in the CAIP research series, an action oriented and transformative research text that points to a new path for hope and change while showing how the creative arts in inquiry and in action applied across disciplines can make a critical difference for individuals and society. Through compelling accounts, this information rich text demonstrates how the creative arts can uniquely cross disciplines and fields in search of solutions while creating new communities for change in the process.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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IJCAIP A Place for Physicians to Speak Out About Arts and Medicine

2009-09-21T20:47:00.012-04:00

Almost to the finish line for the next issue of IJCAIP, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. It's expected the new issue will be accessible to subscribers at the website on or about October 25 at http://www.ijcaip.com. If you haven't heard about this creative arts/ interdisciplinary practice open access journal we suggest you visit the site and take a look. It's free for subscribers to access with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com and you can also access issues as well as the archive back to March 2006. IJCAIP also runs a companion blog called "Arts Crossing Borders".

The next issue of IJCAIP "Arts in Medical Education, "Physicians Speak Out About Arts and Medicine" will feature a lead article by Martin Donohoe MD, FACP, Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Community Health at Portland University and Senior Physician, Internal Medicine, Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Centre, who writes about the values of using literature to help teach medical students about issues in public health and social justice. There will be comments from Jay Rosenfield MD, MEd, FRCPC, Vice- Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto as well as several other articles and commentaries in the next issue of IJCAIP from physicians actively using narrative, literature and poetry in medical education.

We will be featuring a section on story and narrative in the upcoming book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change".

posted by: C. McLean, Publisher/Editor, IJCAIP, International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
Editor, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"

Durham University Site Offers Advice About Writing in the Social Sciences

2009-09-13T10:08:00.010-04:00

FYI I came across an informative site today at The Durham University Department of Anthropology , Writing Across Boundaries website. Featured at the site are short essays and words of advice from leaders in the social sciences. Arthur Frank, Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary and author of "The Wounded Storyteller" writes about "Writing as a Form of Analysis". Norman Denzin, Harry Wolcott, Marilyn Strathern and others are also featured.

C. McLean

The Narrative: A Healing Qualitative Exploration

2009-09-12T16:10:00.013-04:00

"My goal with telling these stories is to inspire others to tell the truth about what it means to be a clinician, what it really means to them. In this way, narrative has been more than just storytelling for me, it has been profoundly healing and life changing...it is the type of research that I believe healthcare needs to encourage so as to allow clinicians to tell their own rich, unique and hidden stories. In this way we can inspire a more profound and rich qualitative exploration into a narrative between human beings in healthcare."

Sue MacRae RN, Nurse, Clinical Ethicist, Former Deputy Director of the University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Transpersonal Psychotherapist

Arts and the Experience of Homelessness

2009-09-10T21:45:00.017-04:00

"In empathic listening we move our attention away from ourselves, we stop observing facts that are interesting or new to us so that we can open our hearts to the living person with whom we are in contact. "
Photo from: http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/uofcpublications/oncampus/february2009/reading
Read more here

Ian Prinsloo MFA, actor, director and artistic director facilitated "The Lower Depths Project" organized by the University of Calgary’s Department of Drama and Faculty of Social Work. The project was an arts-based exploration of the experience of homelessness. He has worked as a professional theatre director in Canada for the past 20 years working with The Shaw Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Blyth Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre and was Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary from 1997 to 2005.

Book Blog Community Meeting Place, Text will offer Additional Opportunities for Learning at Blog

2009-08-03T13:27:00.020-04:00

By Cheryl McLean, Editor

The idea for a book blog to help preview themes and information about the upcoming research text "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" has been a great success. We've received hundreds of emails and responses about the reference text as a result of the blog where we have posted news previewing information about themes and content while offering inside news about topical stories relating to the work in action and practice.

With the help of the internet and Google Blogger we can do more than publish articles or report the latest data...through video, we introduce you to the contemporary researchers, artists and educators working in this interdisciplinary field and we offer opportunities for you to participate and be a part of the action. We meet as a community with common research interests and "in this room" where we gather we witness these stories and experience energy, creativity, humanity in action.

The stories, reports, videos and helpful links to new sites and resources found here at the book blog will eventually coordinate directly with text content and illuminate each chapter..offering opportunities to enhance class readings and discussions with dynamic and illustrative information directly related to the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change".

As an academic and contemporary text one of our goals was to help raise awareness about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and enliven the learning experience increasing the accessibility to research through internet technologies. An engaging idea. I think if recent feedback is any indication of our progress to date, we are definitely on the right track.

The journey continues.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is the inaugural text in this series of contemporary research texts about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice.

Book l Inaugural Text
Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change

Book 2
Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change
Across Cultures and Communities for Change

Book 3
Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change
Story, Technology and Transformation

Want to be informed when the book is available and ready for purchase from the publisher? Send email: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "order info"

Empowering Communities for Environmental Action Through Drama based Methods

2009-08-03T11:04:00.018-04:00

The article "Engaging Neighbors, Transforming Toxic Realities" Community Environmental Forum Theatre, Using Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed to Promote Environmental Justice" by John Sullivan Adjunct Faculty member Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch is featured in the book Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change (Pt. l, Creative Arts in Research and Action for Community Change, pg. 61).

"Community Environmental Forum theatre (is) a bi-directional, educational interface empowering communities with peer-reviewed science, infusing science with a bias toward action on social justice issues and an ethical perspective that prioritizes inclusion, respect and commitment to addressing community needs, honoring community historical perspectives, and integrating community cultural practices directly into participatory research methodologies."
John Sullivan

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Performance Can Offer Hope for Change

2009-07-18T10:25:00.005-04:00

"The ethnotheatrical performance, if well done for a receptive audience, holds potential to increase awareness, deepen understanding and provide
experience that generates sympathetic and empathetic responses and memories for future applications and transfer into clinical practice and possibly health care policy."

Johnny Saldana, Professor, Associate Director, Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Book Welcomes Interest from Leaders Across Disciplines from Canada, U.S., UK, Australia

2009-07-13T14:42:00.007-04:00

Summer at IJCAIP has been productive and we have received outstanding research based article chapters and submissions for "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" from leaders across Canada the USA, UK and Australia representing Education and The Fine Arts, Humanities, Medicine/Healthcare and the Social Sciences.. academics and health researchers, adult educators, physicians, nurse educators, designers, dietitians and therapists, visual artists, photographers, environmentalists, dramatists and activists. Our illustrative and definitive text, among the first texts of its kind in this emerging interdisciplinary field, will bring together an outstanding cross section of researchers and professionals sharing their experiences and knowledge, their inquiries and their methods in informative and compelling articles about the creative arts applied in research and interdisciplinary practice for hope and change.

This is the first book in a series of contemporary texts about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice. For ordering information send an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Book l Inaugural Text
Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change

Book 2
Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

Book 3
Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change
Story, Technology and Transformation

Wordelling Toward Meaning

2009-06-12T12:23:00.001-04:00

Working on a project? Try creating your own Wordle.

A Creative Journey Begins

2009-06-05T08:30:00.011-04:00

"Divergent waves continue throughout a creative exploration, as several alternatives and possibilities are continually generated. Inventive momentum develops as ideas morph and hybridize in an idea environment saturated with alternatives and stimuli."
"Inspiration for tactics can be derived from a vast array of sources that include nature, art, music, dreams and travel....enablers promote mental readiness, provide motivation through personal connection, prevent repetition of old strategies and patterns and diminish inhibitions in idea generation. The best intended strategies and tactics for idea generation could be easily undermined if the appropriate enabling environments were not in place."

Robert Kelly, from " Creative Expression, Creative Education" (pg. 31)

Robert Kelly Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, University of Calgary and an artist. He is Associate Editor of the texts "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" and "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research for Community Change Across Cultures"

An Embodied Learning Experience for the Researcher as Actor

2009-05-24T23:13:00.026-04:00

"Working as a researcher as well as writer and actor allowed me to take part in an active and creative learning experience by witnessing, writing script and then physically embodying the stories. A performance can raise awareness educating well beyond the podium conveying lived experience in action with elements visual, emotional physical and spiritual. In this field process we are told and we tell stories engaging in one of the most primal, meaningful and universal of human connections." Cheryl McLean

Cheryl McLean is Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP and Editor of the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series.

About Jacob, 87, A Survivor and a Volunteer in the Hospital Cafeteria:

"Jacob would meet me for the first time, each time we would meet, but he spoke seven languagues fluently. He told me he had learned them all in the death camps. When Jacob would serve me my coffee he would usually offer a little advi ce and, on this day, he told me..to be happy you should never want for another's spoon... but hold on to your own spoon very carefully! One day I was sitting in the cafeteria having coffee with Jacob and I asked him, "Jacob, with all you have seen, and all that you know how is it that you can still be so happy every day? And he told me"Wake up every morning at 5:30, say your prayers and don't forget to watch the sun rise."

From the Ethnodrama "Remember Me for Birds" info: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com