IJCAIP Announces Supplementary Edition Featuring Arts in Health Based Research

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IJCAIP Offers International Platform for Leading Edge Research

There is growing international interest in arts methodologies applied in health research and scientists and others across disciplines hope to discover more about new and emerging methodologies that use the creative arts in health research.

The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (IJCAIP Journal) will be providing an international platform for leading edge information in this area of research with a special IJCAIP supplementary issue to be published in early 2012 dedicated to Explorations in Arts Based Health Research. The supplementary issue will focus on an ongoing Arts-based Methods in Health Research project involving over 60 individuals and partners from across disciplines. The project is currently under the leadership of Dr. Katherine Boydell, Senior Scientist and Scientific Director of Qualitative Inquiry in Child Health and Evaluative Sciences at The Hospital for Sick Children and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at The University of Toronto.

As the international and open access journal in the field at IJCAIP we are pleased and proud to support initiatives that have the potential to add to the knowledge base while opening up new research opportunities for the creative arts as applied in inquiry and in practice.

Inquiries about our paid IJCAIP supplementary issue programme can be sent to
the publisher at CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com.



C. McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal
http://www.ijcaip.com

The Monument, Moving Performance for Peace

We would like to draw your attention to this moving reading of the play, "The Monument"
written by Colleen Wagner and directed by Jennifer Capraru. Read more about "The Monument" in this Toronto Star article by Kelly Toughill.

Kings Features Workshops and Five Ways Leading to Creativity

Creativity-Five Ways

The Centre for Creativity

Kings University College, University of Western Ontario

Workshops, Saturday October 23rd

The Centre for Creativity is pleased to announce that we have an exciting participatory workshop entitled Creativity-Five Ways that is taking place at King’s University College on Saturday October 23^rd.

The five workshops featured include:

· Creativity as Soul Work with Isabella Colalillo Kates

· Creativity & Design with Robert Kelly

· Poetry Explorer with Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy

· The Undoing Dance Workshop with Srividya Natarajan

· Looking Inward & Looking Outward with Lynette Richards

For further information about the event or the workshops, and to register please go to www.kings.uwo.ca/cfc You can click on the download brochure link to see a description of the workshop and information about the presenters. The cost of each workshop is $10.00 ($5.00 for students). You are welcome to join one or two workshops (one in the morning and/or one in the afternoon). Lunch is included. There is a 20 person limit per workshop and the first 20 people to register for the workshop will be accepted. All are welcome.

If you have any further questions please contact me at lweber@uwo.ca

Living Stories of Hope and Change, Opportunity to Witness Creative Arts in Research and Action

Cheryl McLean has presented keynote presentations in Canada and the U.S. which feature the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice and applications of story in research and action for hope and change. Her current presentation "Living Stories of Hope and Change" has been well received by academic audiences and diverse organizations across disciplines.

Cheryl McLean M.A. is CEO, Founder and Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, and Editor of the CAIP Research Series and groundbreaking texts , “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, (publisher Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary). She graduated (Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario) and after close to twenty years as a journalist, adult educator and arts administrator attended graduate school at Concordia University, Montreal (MA, Faculty of Fine Art, Creative Arts Therapies) studying creative arts and drama methods in group therapy and interning in gerontology at Maimonides Jewish Geriatric Hospital and The Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology.

She trained as an actor in projects for two years (Stanislavsky, realism) under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold, formerly the Artistic Director of The Saidye Bronfman Theatre, Montreal. In research and therapeutic work with older persons (a number who were Holocaust survivors) Cheryl McLean used drama and creative arts methodologies in research and practice to help individuals express their stories and lived experiences. This research, based on true stories, became the basis for a thesis performance/ethnodrama called “Remember Me for Birds” about aging, mental health and autonomy. The work was presented as keynote performances in 2005 for The Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Educators National Conference (CASSWE),Congress of the Humanities, University of Western Ontario, 2005; Celebrating Gerontology, Interdisciplinary Programs in Gerontology, Centre for Education and Research in Aging and Health (CERAH), Lakehead University, McGill Interdisciplinary Geriatric Seminar, McGill Medical School and NADT, National Association of Drama Therapy, Rhode Island and was produced as an educational film in 2007.

Living Stories of Hope and Change




The presentation “Living Stories of Hope and Change” (l hr. 15) is delivered in a narrative style and is a collection of “tellings” made up of illustrative and linked stories that draw on personal experiences as well as true stories of creative arts in research and action for change. The talk also features other dramatic examples of story used in research and practice by artists, researchers and professionals across disciplines featuring topical research examples drawn from the recently released research text, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” (released August 2010) and upcoming


text, Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change.” (upcoming December 2010) both edited by Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Dr. Robert Kelly,( publisher Detselig Temeron Press.) In sharing these authentic accounts and narratives through story, narrative, performed monologues, readings and original film and poetry, Cheryl McLean demonstrates compellingly how the creative arts in contemporary research and action across disciplines can lead to hope and change.


Currently booking engagements through 2010 and 2011-2012.
Information: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

Staging Sustainability Conference, Arts, Community, Culture and Environment key topics

Staging Sustainability

Arts Community Culture Environment

April 20 - 22, 2011
York University, Toronto

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About the Conference

How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours?

The goal of the Staging Sustainability conference is to create an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government – to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the issues and challenges associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance.

To borrow a phrase from the art critic, author, curator and environmentalist John Grande, we want to foster discussions that will “engage the borderline between art and what is perhaps the most pressing global concern in the new millennium – the quality and sustainability of the environment.”

The conference will consider how the arts engage questions of sustainability from a dual vantage point: cultural and ecological. Thus, the conference encourages an approach to sustainability that encompasses aspects of subjectivity with respect to community and identity.

Staging Sustainability is produced and presented by the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

For more information about this conference

4elements Living Arts Seeking Artists for Field Study

Four Elements Living Arts is partnering with the geography department at Queens University and is seeking artists to develop a Manitoulin based field study course. We'll bring 18 - 24 3rd year students to the island. We are looking for 4 local artists (writers, visual artists, sculptors, land artists) Each artist will be paired with a group of students to research the same place using your own approaches and media. The goal is to use arts and academic research and to build depth about our knowledge of place.


Please send a short bio. 3 images of your work (low res.) , a short para. about why you would like to work on this project and any experience you have working interdisciplinarily by Sept. 30.


More info:

4elements@manitoulin.net

Fellowship Ethnographic Writing, University of Toronto

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing

The Centre for Ethnography (CE) at the University of Toronto, Scarborough (UTSC) is pleased to announce an annual Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing. Writing is a key component of the work of an anthropologist but it takes time and benefits from some distance from the fieldwork itself and from other obligations. In recognition of this fact the CE is introducing a Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing. The Fellowship will be awarded for one academic term (Fall or Winter, for 3 months) and will be held at UTSC. The successful Fellow will be expected to be present at least two days a week at UTSC, to participate in all events at the Centre during that term, including colloquia, to offer a seminar presentation of the work in progress, and possibly to offer one or two guest lectures in undergraduate courses, as appropriate.

The call is now open for a fellowship during winter 2011. Applicants should supply a statement of no more than 5 double spaced pages describing their writing project, indicating the stage which it is at, and precisely what they wish to accomplish during the duration of the fellowship.

Explicit attention to questions of genre, narrative, and audience are welcome but not essential. Successful applicants will be either at the postdoctoral stage (engaged in transforming a thesis into a book or

articles) or in the process of completing the doctoral thesis.

All applicants must have completed their doctoral fieldwork and begun writing up. The current stipend is set at $10,000; during tenure of the Fellowship it is expected that the Fellow will devote full attention to the writing and thus not serve as a course instructor or teaching assistant.

The closing date for applications for winter 2011 is September 30 and a decision will be announced within 2-3 weeks thereafter. Please send all applications, including the names of two referees, to Professor Michael Lambek, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough ON M1C 1A4, Canada and also an electronic copy to lambek@utsc.utoronto.ca