CAIP Research Series Award Nomination

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

Qualitative Researcher Positions

Research, Employment

Qualitative Researcher Positions

Centre for Research on Inner City Health,

St. Michael’s Hospital

The Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital is seeking a part-time qualitative data coder and qualitative interviewers for the qualitative evaluation component of the “At Home” Research Demonstration Project in Homelessness and Mental Health.

Application Deadline: August 20, 2009

Information: Please contact Maritt Kirst for position details: kirstm@smh.toronto.on.ca.

Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease, Researchers at University of Toronto Put Caregiving on the Map

Putting Care on the Map
Portraits of Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease Across Canada

A Research Exhibit

Ardra Cole

and Maura McIntyre

September 22 - 27, 2008
Toronto City Hall

This experiential exhibit features photographic portraits of family caregivers, audio recordings of stories of care and emblems and artifacts that speak of the caregiving experience.

We recently heard from CCAHTE subscriber Maura McIntyre, a researcher at The University of Toronto, about an upcoming exhibit to be held at Toronto City Hall. We are pleased to bring you news today about this arts informed research exhibit.

"We are researchers from the University of Toronto working on a study about caregiving and Alzheimer’s disease sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In Putting Care on the Map we are interested in raising the profile of care and caregiving across Canada. The Alzheimer’s Project is a seven-piece art-research project about caregiving and Alzheimer’s disease that pays tribute to those with the illness and those in caregiving roles. One purpose of the exhibit is to make Alzheimer’s disease more familiar to a wide public audience. Another aim is to provide opportunities for those directly affected by the illness to feel affirmed and supported. We used two and three dimensional images and objects to represent, communicate and educate about aspects of caregiving and Alzheimer’s disease, while also inviting the audience to experience and make meaning of the work."

"We are seeking to understand more about the emotional complexities of Alzheimer’s disease and what it means to care. We want to show Canadians where care lives and what it looks like for family members caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. "Putting Care on the Map" is a tribute to family caregivers and to the worthiness of care and caregiving in general. We invite you to help us put care on the map. "
Maura McIntyre, Ardra Cole

View the PDF invitation to "Putting Care on the Map"

See Video clip
"Front row seats" for Ardra Cole & Maura McIntyre presentation

Visit Ardra Cole's website

New Book Call for Authors, Poets, Artists

At the CCAHTE, Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education blog "Arts and Health Crossing Borders" we encourage our readers to share topical news about new projects underway and we are pleased to support scholars actively engaged in arts informed research. We recently heard from CCAHTE subscriber, Dr. Pauline Sameshima, with a call for submissions for the upcoming book "Revealing Red: Inspiring Responsive Research" a sequel to "Seeing Red: A Pedagogy of Parallax."

Pauline Sameshima is Assistant Professor at Washington State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, an M.A. from San Diego State University, and a B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Sameshima publishes and presents in the field of education and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Education and the Arts.

This announcement will be of special interest to Professors in Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Art Education, Cultural Studies, Gender and Feminist Studies, Artful Qualitative Research, Life-history Research, Language and Literacy Studies as well as graduate students.

A Call for Papers, Poetry and Art for an Audience Created Sequel to "Seeing Red"

"It is not possible to submit to this project without first reading the book, Seeing Red. "Seeing Red" http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=4&bid=109 is made up of letters, poetry and art from a researcher-teacher graduate student, Julia, written to her advisor. The sequel reveals the letters written from the advisor back to Julia. Submissions will be letter responses to the first book....This edited collection of letters, poems, and art will demonstrate the methodology of arts-informed research and share provocative thinking that explains, contradicts, or expands issues raised in the prequel while providing an academic venue for writing truth, inspiring creativity, and allowing stories to be told."

Call for selected submissions from authors, poets, artists

Advance publication contract issued from Cambria Press.
Submission deadline: June 15, 2008

See below: sample chapter "Seeing Red"

http://www.cambriapress.com/samplechapters/Sameshima%20Sample.pdf

Please send submissions to redsletters@cambriapress.com.

Concordia University Research Records Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War

Life Story in Research
Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q.
Life Story Research Uses Oral History to Record Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations

Montrealers who have come from areas of violent conflict will be able to record their stories and have them preserved through a five-year, $ 1-million project funded by a national program called CURA, the Community-University Research Alliances.

This is Concordia University's first CURA project, and has the potential to promote healing in divided communities and a greater understanding of the impact human rights violations have on the lives of those affected.

Steven High will serve as principal investigator for the project. It will be housed in the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling which High was instrumental in creating.

Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations developed as a way to build on the History Department’s strengths in oral history and genocide studies through Frank Chalk’s Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.

From http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20071025/recording_survivors.php

RESEARCH PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

"Like most urban centers in Canada, Montreal has a large, diverse immigrant population. In 2001, 25% of the city’s residents were foreign-born. Yet one distinguishing feature of Montreal as an urban community is that a significant proportion of its immigrant population is composed of people displaced by mass violence, ranging from the Holocaust to war and atrocity crime in Rwanda, Cambodia, Latin America, Haiti, and South Asia. Our proposed CURA project, Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations, will use the methodology of oral history to explore survivors’ experiences and social memories of trauma and displacement. By conducting life story interviews with 1000 residents the project will examine how horrific events in other parts of the world have shaped the lives of individuals and refugee communities in Montreal. This project will make a significant, original contribution to the preservation of historical memory in Canada both with respect to transnational and local community contexts and realities."

See More about Project Description and Details:
http://artsandscience1.concordia.ca/history/cohr1/CURA/TheProject.html#

Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference Banff Centre

"The eighth annual international, interdisciplinary Advances in Qualitative Methods conference will be held at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada from September 21-24, 2007. Previous AQM conferences have attracted visitors from all continents, representing more than 30 countries overall, in academic disciplines including business, dentistry, education, geography, nursing, medicine, anthropology, information science, sociology and history.
We welcome you to participate in this conference, whether you come to present a paper or poster, attend a workshop, or come to hear the presenters and meet with like-minded researchers. AQM 2007 will prove to be a valuable learning and networking experience for all involved."

Excerpt and info from: http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/aqm2007.cfm

I note that one of the preconference events will feature Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary, presenting "Letting Stories Breathe: A Workshop on Narrative Analysis."
According to information at the conference site the talk will focus on several questions;

What is a story, as opposed to non-story modes of representation and expression? What are stories uniquely equipped to do in the lives of persons, groups, and nations? Why do people need stories? What do stories do to people? What does narrative analysis study, and in particular, how do we practice a symmetrical analysis, that understands stories as actors acting upon other actors?

A good opportunity to visit Banff while exploring developments and advances in qualitative methods.

And, while on the topic of Banff Centre events, there will be a Playback Theatre presentation at the Banff Summer Arts Festival on August 19.

"The Dance of Life – Keeping Pace"

Sunday, August 19, 7:30 p.m. , Laszlo Funtek Room 224

A Playback Theatre / Banff Leadership Arts Ensemble presentation that looks through the lens of dance to explore the principles and practices of how to slow down, reflect, and gain better focus in a world of rapid acceleration.

See Banff Summer Arts Festival events http://www.banffcentre.ca/bsaf/2007/

I may meet you at the mountains!

Cheryl.

Narrative Matters Conference 08 Call for Papers and Presentations

Narrative Matters 2008: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Narrative Research, Perspectives, Practices and Issues

"Storying our World"

May 7-10, 2008

University of Toronto

Call for Papers and Presentations

Deadline: September 30, 2007

"As humans we continually story our experiences. We construct our world through our personal, community, institutional and political narratives. The 2008 Narrative Matters conference theme aims to explore all of these narrative sites. Narrative continues to gain recognition as something people do, use and research. The Narrative Matters conference provides a meeting place for people interested in doing, using and researching narrative in diverse contexts and fields. The blurring and crossing of boundaries catalyzes discussion and inquiry at Narrative Matters conferences. We invite proposals for papers, presentations or participatory sessions on a variety of topics around the practice, use and research of narrative."

For more information see website: http://www.narrativematters.com/

(info. above excerpt from website)

Arts Research, Arts Based Educational Research Conference Highlights Narrative and Performance

Arts Based Educational Research Conference

July 5th, 6th, 7th 2007
Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol

The second international arts-based educational research conference

This conference provides a bi-annual focus for the blurring of genres between arts and social science research, arts-based research as an inclusive and participatory form of inquiry and arts-based methods of disseminating educational and human science research. This year the conference coincides with and pays particular tribute to the 2007 celebrations and commemorations of the abolition of slavery within the UK and the 40th St Paul's Carnival in Bristol (July 7th).

Presenters:

Peter Clough, Liverpool Hope University, author of ‘Narratives and Fictions in Educational Research’ and Andrew Sparkes of the University of Exeter, author of ‘Telling tales in sport and physical activity’ in conversation about writing as a form of inquiry

Yvonne Sliep, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, author of ‘Narrative theatre for social action’ and Casper MBatha of the Narrative Theatre Group will be presenting and performing their work.

Salome Raheim, University of Iowa, USA will be presenting a singing keynote, an African-American journey from the times of slavery to the present day

Martin Hughes, Wan Ching Yee and Theatr Iolo, delivering a performance/ presentation of 'Ready or Not?', using drama to increase the impact of the
Home School Knowledge Exchange Project

Rita Irwin, Gu Xiong, Kathryn Ricketts, University of British Columbia, Ruth Beer, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Pauline Sameshima, Washington State University on behalf of the A/r/tography research group exhibiting/ presenting work in progress from the 'city of richgate' project

Jane Speedy, University of Bristol (Plus the 'unassuming geeks' project) and Libby Worth (plus Physical theatre postgraduate students) , Royal Holloway, University of London presenting work in progress 'moving with the data'.

Excerpts from website: http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/research/centres/central/abrc
For information about this conference E-mail educ-aber@bristol.ac.uk

Researcher Raises Awareness About Cancer and Homelessness Through Photodocumentary, Photovoice, Story and Narrative Methods

Urgent! From the Day in the Life Photography and Story Collective

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax is an interdisciplinary researcher, scholar and artist. Her work is located at the intersection of the arts (broadly conceived), the body, healthcare, and the ordinary places of daily living in the context of urban communities.
She completed her Post-doctoral Fellowship Innovations in Cancer Education, Using Drama, Storytelling and the Arts for Information Dissemination on the Internet working with people with colon cancer using documentary methods in the development of textual and photographic expressions related to the cultures of disability and illness challenging both medical and popular representations of the stigmatized body. This work shares a place of being and body not in accord with dominant medical, social and cultural discourses.

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax held conversations with
people living with colorectal cancer, interviewing them and asking them to represent their experiences through journal writing and photography. What they revealed is represented on

the website "Things That Matter" http://www.storiesthatmatter.com/ This web site is in the form of creative non-fiction and photographs. The stories are built on the experiences, photographs and language of the participants.

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax was also Principal Investigator on the Wellesley Central Urban Health Enabling Grant A day in the life: Photovoice and the social determinants of health, partnering with Street Health Community Nursing Foundation. Together they engaged in a community based research inquiry supporting a research agenda identified by a community of underhoused and homeless individuals. Through their inquiry they documented three social determinants of health: poverty, social exclusion and the lack of secure housing. This research resonated with her Post-doctoral work as she continued with her determined grace to work with vulnerable communities, translating knowledge using photodocumentary and narrative methods.

Source: Centre for Global EHealth Innovation

http://www.ehealthinnovation.org/user/165

Visit website "Stories That Matter"

http://www.storiesthatmatter.com/

Visit blog site by Nancy Davis Halifax, Anagraphia/Photography and Story
http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/index.html

What dreams appear here?
"I took down Urgent on Friday night. Wrapped it up. Literally. Looked over the comments and began to think about how we provide space for stories that are "out of place" in the larger social and cultural memories of a citizenry. Each of the photographs shows place in a way that disrupts central concepts of its daily use.These forgotten people - but how can we forget people who are in plain sight? How are we able to construct an account of life that leaves them out of any rights-based sociey where social justice matters? How have we forgotten their belonging? Their place?In this photograph a person re-creates their nightly ritual of going to sleep with a blanket, by taking off their shoes and carefully placing them by their side for the night. This space feels too open for my personal safety, yet it was chosen deliberately because it is safe. And I wonder what dreams appear here?"
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, read more at blog http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/index.html



Read about Urgent! and see photos from The Day in the Life Photography and
Story Collective, from Reconstruction Studies in Contemporary Culture Realistic Possibilities of Passing Interest, Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Fred Yurichuk http://reconstruction.eserver.org/071/halifaxyurichuk.shtml

Read Report "Failing the Homeless Barriers
in the Ontario Disability Support Program
for Homeless People With Disabilities"
http://www.streethealth.ca/Downloads/FailSum.pdf

Info. about Photovoice http://www.photovoice.com/

We featured a story about Nancy
in our June 06 issue of the CCAHTE Journal
"Honouring the Creative Arts in Life and in Practice"
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And this news just in from Rebecca Fortin by way of Sandra Knol HCTP, University of Toronto

Students Use Photography and Blogging to
Raise Awareness about Young Parents/homelessness

"With my summer placement at Toronto Public Health, I am working on a
project called: I WAS HERE. This project puts digital cameras and
online blogging into the hands of young parents, who are experiencing
homelessness. I have just met all of the artists on Friday and they
are some of the strongest, most beautiful, and talented women you
could ever meet. This project has also produced a "declaration of
needs" and has received overwhelming attention from the City of Toronto.
There is an opening reception for the I WAS HERE exhibit at the
National Film Board this Thurs. at 6:00 pm (150 John Street). I will
be there, and I would love for you all to hear about the project first
hand. If you cant make it the photos will be exhibited for the entire
month of May as part of the Contact Festival."

Rebecca Fortin

See video Filmmaker in Residence NFB

http://www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence

http://www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence/blog/?page_id=9

See info about "I Was Here"