7th Gen is a safe space for Aboriginal Youth to make art. Through special projects, weekly drop-in programs, and commissioned works, we create opportunities work for youth to gain arts mentorship, and make work ranging from drawing to video to interdisciplinary media. 7th Generation Image Makers is directed by input from youth, and dedicated to nurturing and celebrating strong young Aboriginal Voices.

ACT 3 International is an arts company that believes in promoting the Arts to children. Believing in an all-round learning environment when it comes to children, we cover all aspects of Drama and Theatre.

We work in both the private and public sectors on commissioned projects where we marry the Arts with the Environment, Heritage and Culture. Our unique position allows us to give children a valuable experience of learning through the Arts.

A dialogue about what it means to teach socially engaged arts (both in academia and other community contexts), to encourage cross-feeding amongst those who are doing activist art teaching. These conversations will hopefully cross many boundaries including those of region, class, gender, culture and aesthetic prejudices. We can introduce ourselves to each other by naming the kinds of teaching that we have been doing and how it relates to our individual, collaborative and/or community-based art practices, activism and writing.

Africa Speaks is a project in Zimbabwe that promotes cultural independence, cultural exchange and a future for the African continent and its young people. Through song, dance, art, crafts and writing, Africa Speaks unites youth and celebrates Africanism for the purpose of developing a positive African identity to counteract past and present injustices.

The mission of Al Laz is to serve as a laboratory, in which original and innovative theatre work by Israeli artists develops; to encourage and nourish the search for new modes of expression, the development of interdisciplinary work and the creative dialogue between Israeli Arabs and Jews, between the City of Acre and the artists that work with the theatre.

Albany Park Theater Project is a multiethnic, ensemble-based theater company of teens and young adults. They create original performance works based on the real-life stories of immigrant and working-class Americans.

Amakhosi (aka the City of Kings) is a leading multi-media institution based in Bulawayo. The city prides itself for having one of Africa’s most unique and leading Production House, Academy and Multi Media Distribution Centre, the Township Square Cultural Center. Drawing its inspiration from the African Renaissance, Amakhosi's vision is to give the world a rare opportunity of experiencing world class taste in multi-media production, learning and distribution from the African eye.

The Applied Theatre specialization provides a theoretical and practical foundation to students interested in applying theatre to teaching; cultural, recreational and community planning; historic and environmental sites; museums; social and correctional services; and healing and health agencies.

ArcheDream is an archetypal mask theatre that uses ritual, movement and myth to present allegorical dramas, drawing inspiration from varied cultures, past and present. It seeks to reflect contemporary issues and reveal and uplift humankind. ArcheDream brings in the young and talented in the field of performing arts with a view to developing their abilities into concrete, well-structured productions, and to launch their careers through grounded experience. The integrity of ArcheDream is founded on the quality of the individual artist participating in a collaborative effort.

The purpose of the argentina autonomista project (aap) is to bring news about events in Argentina to North America and Europe, through people-to-people exchanges and the internet (web and email) and to facilitate non-hierarchical communication within Argentina, especially among groups with a minimum of resources.

Art City is a non-profit community art centre located in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood. Art City is dedicated to providing high-quality, free-of-charge art programming to participants of all ages.

ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE is an international programme which provides training and opportunities for artists to work with children and young people at risk. The programme was established in 1997 by the European Cultural Foundation with two separate components: Play Against Violence for the region of South-Eastern Europe and Art in Action for the Baltic States and Poland. The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate is the Bulgarian Resource Centre of the programme.

ArtSpot Productions is a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation and production of original multidisciplinary performance works for local, national and international presentation. We believe that all stories and voices need to be expressed, and that performance is an essential element of collective healing for all communities.

ArtCorps' mission is to advance social change initiatives by promoting arts and culture as powerful tools to generate cooperative and sustainable work between development organizations and the communities they serve. We send artists to Central America to work with environmental, health and human rights organizations. During one-year residencies, artists train organizations to integrate art and culture as tools to promote the organizations' environmental and social messages and engage the local communities as agents of change.

A non-profit organization that supports the Community Arts Network and produces a monthly newsletter. Archives of High Performance magazine (1978-1997) are also available.

The African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI) acts as an “organizing network” having over 500 youth and community-based organizations in Africa as members. In its capacity, ARYI brings people and groups together to develop joint projects, distributes relevant resources to members, provides financial grants, develops long-term relationships with local groups, and assists with fundraising and general development.

Imagine an old warehouse, abandoned, barren, its window panes broken, its light bulbs burnt out. Then imagine light, colour and beauty injected into this tired space. This is the vision behind presentations which delight audiences with dance in unconventional spaces, like old warehouses, public parks, and factories. Its aim is to build a new relationship between the audience and the art through performances in settings that offer new and exciting dimensions.

The purpose of AZUR Development is to contribute to the development of Congo. Its goals are: to promote the autonomy of the women and sustainable development; to promote art and culture; to bring a multiform assistance to the infirm and to vulnerable people; to work for the protection of the environment.

The work of the Beehive Collective has three major facets: the Hive is appreciated internationally for its educational graphics campaigns; at a regional level for its stone mosaic murals and apprentice program; and locally for its dedication to the revitalization of the old Machias Valley Grange Hall, a landmark building.

Black Theatre Workshop's mission is to encourage and promote the development of a Black and Canadian Theatre, rooted in a literature that reflects the creative will of Black Canadian writers and artists, and the creative collaborations between Black and other artists. The company strives to create a greater cross-cultural understanding by its presence and the intrinsic value of its work.

Engaging youth in areas they are interested in allows BluePrintForLife to reach out to a wide range of young people - including youth at risk, aboriginal youth,and those from other cultures. BluePrintForLife brings together teams of highly respected and talented young adults to engage youth in physical and educational workshops. They challenge youth in a variety of ways and rethink the media’s portrayal of HipHop, focusing on the positive element’s that are often overlooked.

BUSHWORKS, home of Bush Radio and an ever-expanding list of social service programmes, is building itself a solid future in Cape Town. Having begun as a singular voice in the local media actively participating in the struggle against apartheid, today BUSHWORKS continues to empower communities to take up the challenges of building a new democratic society.

Community Service-Learning (CSL) is an educational approach that integrates service in the community with intentional learning activities. Within effective CSL efforts, members of both educational institutions and community organizations work together toward outcomes that are mutually beneficial.

The Indigenous Arts & Culture Program exists to provide, support and consider the growth of an active youth arts arena that’s designed specifically for the cultural needs of young Indigenous South Australians. Its programs include: Handprints, an e-based newsletter distributed monthly to primarily Indigenous arts organisations, artists, arts workers and general submitters.

Cardboard Citizens is the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company. The company specializes in making Forum Theatre but has broadened into the provision of a range of performance-based cultural actions with, for, and by homeless and ex-homeless people.

The Center for Art and Public Life creates community partnerships using the arts to address issues of social justice, diversity, community development, and education. Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and serves the diverse populations of the San Francisco Bay Area.

One of the goals of the Center is to raise critical issues of the arts within the Tisch School of the Arts and for the general public. The Center umbrella also includes the Office of Community Connections (OCC).

Since its inception, CCAP has been transforming the lives of Chicago's young people by creating communities of learning in and through the arts.

The Centre's goals are to contribute to the advancement of the genre of arts-informed research; to create a context for emerging and established researchers to explore methodological issues associated with arts-informed research; to work toward the development of a local, national and international community of arts-informed researchers; to promote open dialogue and collaboration among researchers, professional artists, communities, and schools; and to provide opportunities and spaces for public access to alternative forms of research.

The Centre encourages and fosters individual human rights and community dialogue through personal improvisational theatre. It also provides comprehensive training in playback theatre, and advocates for the application of playback theatre for such purposes by coordinating, facilitating, and providing assistance relative to resource development, management and conservation; program development; public advocacy; and administrative support.

CSA&C is an association of creative leaders from business, government and the arts who have succeeded in building bridges between the arts and a wide range of community, public and private sector interests. It provides expert guidance for developing artistic, educational, funding, community development and political collaborations among artists, arts organizations and school and community based partners. We also help educational institutions strengthen their relationships with the broader community using the arts.

Charnwood Arts is committed to developing participation in the arts and media in Charnwood and the East Midlands, UK. Our aim is to creatively engage with any art form or media approach towards creating collective outcomes which give expression to the unique voices of the individual, the group or community with which we are engaged.

Through most of her young life, Cherry Kingsley lived with abuse and exploitation. At the age of 22, Ms. Kingsley overcame 8 years of drug addiction, sexual exploitation and abuse as a child prostitute by reconnecting with her First Nations' roots. Cherry took to action, shortly after, spreading her story and encouraging other young women and youth to tell their stories to the world. Taking these stories, Ms. Kingsley holds conferences, such as Out of the Shadows to increase awareness of the lives of fear child prostitutes live.

Chickenshed is a theatre company that uses an inclusive creative process which means everyone is welcome, and everyone is valued. Chickenshed runs Children's and Youth Theatre workshops for 600 people, education courses for over 100 students, community outreach projects and a network of satellite 'Sheds' across the country (and one in Russia) so even more can benefit.

Chol is a pioneering intercultural theatre company based at the Lawrence Batley theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. They make innovative theatre and arts projects with young people, emerging artists and experienced professionals. Chol’s work offers a fresh perspective on contemporary local, national and international issues.

Civic Youth Strategy is the youth branch of the City of Vancouver’s Social Planning Department. The organization enables the youth of Vancouver to share their expertise with City staff in the interest of making Vancouver an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable city that cherishes, nurtures, welcomes and celebrates people of from all backgrounds and of all ages.

COBA, Collective of Black Artists is dedicated to creating and presenting the finest traditions in dance and music that celebrate and reflect an Africanist aesthetic. Our mission is to preserve the cultural traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora through education, research and public performance. The Collective presents Traditional West African dance, music and folklore; Caribbean Indigenous Folk dance, music and rituals in their purest forms possible for a theatrical stage.

The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Headquartered at its Web site on the Internet, CAN is a program of Art in the Public Interest (API), a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina.

The Regional Arts Commission was founded in 1985 to promote, encourage, and foster the arts and cultural institutions in St. Louis City and County and to contribute to the economic development of the area through a strong presence of the arts.

Concentric Media is an independent video and digital production company based in Northern California with a focus on films that document issues of social justice. It has produced documentaries on various human rights issues, including the historic struggle for reproductive freedom in the United States, the ongoing efforts in Ethiopia to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the need to add progressive values and courses to our schools and efforts to strengthen women's rights in India.

CONTACT Inc is a dynamic cultural development organisation, beginning in 1989 as a youth theatre and in 1996 shifting to a broader cross-art focus on youth arts and cultural development. CONTACT Inc is driven by artistic processes and practices based on social justice and peace-building principles. Its purpose is to help foster peace with young people and their communities by creating spaces where cultures can safely and meaningfully meet, particularly from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Polynesian and refugee and migrant communities.

The Creative City Network of Canada is an organization of people employed by municipalities across Canada working in arts, culture and heritage policy, planning, development and support. Municipalities are playing an increasing role in the development of arts, culture and heritage in Canada. The Creative City Network of Canada exists to connect the people who share this working environment so we can be more effective in cultural development in our communities.

UK-based network for organizations and artists working with arts and culture for socialdevelopment. Offers an e-forum news bulletin that reaches over 1,300 readers. Also includes a list of publications and resources, many available on the website.

CuriousWorks is in the business of reclaiming the digital media space for those pushed to the margins of society. Their focus is not reporting on 'the marginalised', but providing them with the tools to express themselves in an innovative fashion, for the long-term. They aim to enable people to not be passive recipients of media about the world but active creators of work that represents it from their own perspective.

Dance United was founded in 2000 on the conviction and evidence that dance has the power to change lives. Since then, the organisation has delivered projects across the UK and around the world, and has seen hundreds of children, young people, elderly men and women, street and working children, prisoners and many more constituent groups inspired and empowered through dance.

The David Suzuki Foundation works to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, forests and wild lands, climate change and clean energy, and the web of life – the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that help conserve nature.

The Theatre Department's Specialization in Theatre and Development (TDEV), formerly called Drama for Human Development, focuses on the history, theory and practice of theatre from the perspective of art's capacity to inform and to effect personal and social change. At the level of the individual, applications such as developmental drama, drama in education, and drama therapy are examined for their educational, therapeutic, and rehabilitative efficacy.

Multicultural dance group that uses club, American and African dance to tell its equally multicultural stories.

A website exploring the connections between theatre, performance, community development and civic engagement. This site offers researchers, academics, students, practitioners and community activists (not to mention the many wild and wonderful varieties of thespians and theatre-lovers) an overview of the community-engaged theatre 'movement' over the past 20 years, along side the most recent reflections and new directions of some of the foremost practitioners in the field.

Dalia Levy (B.A., UBC) uses her theatre and horticultural expertise to facilitate grassroots ecological projects, workshops and performances with diverse youth. Her workshops engage participants in a variety of applied and social theatre techniques to facilitate creative learning and dialogue on wide-ranging ecological issues. Other workshops employ Levy's natural dye practice to facilitate creative ecological textile and horticultural engagement.

The En'owkin Centre is an Indigenous cultural, educational and creative arts institution located in Penticton, BC, which offers university/college transfer diplomas and certificate programs. Our Centre is comprised of highly qualified educators who are also professional artists and writers, facilitators and Indigenous advocates. The En'owkin Centre provides a culturally sensitive, nurturing and challenging learning environment.

EUnetART stimulates exchange, connection and collaboration among art professionals - bringing the arts alive for children and young people in Europe.

EUnetART is a place to meet, exchange and learn, a framework for developing co-operation projects, a platform to raise issues and a voice for arts for children and young people in Europe. Founded in 1991 in Bologna, the European Network of Art Organisations for Children and Young People is a multi-disciplinary cultural network of over 100 organisations in approximately 28 countries.

FAHPAC Enter-Educate Troupe (FEET) is a 20-member youth entertainment project of the Family Health and Population Action Committee (FAHPAC), Nigeria. The project involves in and out of school youth ranging from ages 12-27. It aims to empower youth and women with information and skills for success in education, business ventures, democracy and governance, maternal and child health and reproductive health through entertainment. The youth adapt theatrical, musical, and dance techniques to address reproductive health and community development-related issues.

Gallery Gachet is a unique artistic institution founded in Vancouver in 1992. Named after Vincent Van Gogh's homeopathic doctor, Paul Gachet. Gallery Gachet strives to provide a focal point for dialogue amongst outsider/dissident artists. They aim to use the canvas of the outside work to educate and demystify the public on issues related to mental health and to advance the artistic discourse around these issues. They provide the artists informed by mental health issues with opportunities to exhibit, curate, perform, read, teach and to develop their leadership skills.

GYCA is a youth-led, UNAIDS and UNFPA supported global network of 4,000 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

The Grasshoppa Dance Exchange is dedicated to the fine and not-so-fine art of Hopping. Essentially, Hops are unannounced performances that take place outdoors in public places. Unsuspecting observers are not solicited for financial contributions. Hops are inspired by the environment in which they hoppen (natural, human, etc.). A Hop may carry a theme, address a reality or propose something altogether different. The act of bringing dance into unusual spaces is empowering for performers and observers alike. Observers participate in the performance by simply being 'in the way'.

Harbourfront Centre, on Toronto's waterfront, is an innovative non-profit cultural organization which creates events and activities of excellence that enliven, educate and entertain a diverse public.

The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a collaborative, multi-lingual, and interdisciplinary consortium of institutions, artists, scholars and activists throughout the Americas. The organization's mission is to map new areas of knowledge based on understanding embodied practice - performance - as a way of creating new meaning and transmitting cultural values, memory, and identity.

Hot Sun Films is a film/video production and training company based in Nairobi and in Kibera, Kenya. We tell stories from people seldom seen on screen. We use media and art to cause social transformation. Through our non-profit arm, Hot Sun Foundation, we work to tell the stories of the marginalized people in the society. We are working to show a new picture of Urban Africa, revealing new talents to the world, and creating role models.

The collaborators of IIRC share an interest in developing interdisciplinary, image-based research methodologies and artistic forms of representation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In our individual and collective projects, we variously use video, film, art installations, photography, performance, and fictional practice to research questions relating to gender, age, body, popular culture, and/or identity. Many of our projects involve critical self-study and collective inquiry.

The Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue grew out of a perceived need for imaginative ways to convene conversations on social issues. It is a 'think and do tank' where artists make work about social change. They are now redesigning the Institute with the intention to ignite a new generation of artists who will be able to combine skill, artistic virtuosity and the intellectual passion to pose powerful questions about the state of our world and the ever evolving human condition.

The Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences curriculum is a program of advanced study in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The focus of the curriculum is the comparative study of peoples, groups, societies, cultures and environments within the United States and selected regions of the world.

Intersect's mission is to employ a new concept and organizing principle to create powerful, multi-disciplinary Intersect coalitions for social mobilization across countries worldwide to end the co-epidemic of HIV and violence against women and girls.

The Island Institute is a non-profit society for education and dialogue on art, ecology and community. Through an innovative, interdisciplinary online education program now under development, Islands Institute courses will help participants use art to address real-world issues in ecology, equity and economy, while they explore creative solutions for the survival of the planet. The Islands Institute offers professional and personal development to artists who want to extend their practice, educators, planners, environmentalists, citizens, community service providers, elders and activists.

Created in 1980, Judith Marcuse Projects is a not-for-profit arts company that works in the disciplines of dance, theatre, music, film and new media. They aim to create excellent art, to nurture the voices of youth and adults on issues of relevance to our society, and to create dialogue that leads to progressive action. This three-fold mission is driven by the simple but profound idea that art is a powerful force for positively transforming lives, catalyzing social change and contributing to the development of civil society.

Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Their website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Their blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. They believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.

KAIPPG is a community-based volunteer organization which operates in western Kenya, addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS, poverty and malnutrition. In their HIV/AIDS education and prevention work they made use of the arts such as theatre. They are trying to form a broad-based arts coalition of groups and individuals utilizing the arts to address HIV/AIDS.

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Kickstart’s (formerly the Society for Disability Arts and Culture) mission is to produce and present works by artists with disabilities and to promote artistic excellence among artists with disabilities working in a variety of disciplines.
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Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture was incorporated November 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Our objectives are:
- to produce cross-disciplinary festivals of disability arts and culture,
- to encourage and support artists to create and present authentic interpretations of the disability experience,

Kurruru Youth Performing Arts Inc is one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth performing arts companies. It is committed to supporting the ongoing maintenance of culture, community and identity through the provision of quality performing arts opportunities for children, young people and their communities.

The Live Art Development Agency offers resources, professional development initiatives, and projects for the support and development of Live Art practices and critical discourses in the UK and internationally. The Agency works strategically, in partnership, and in consultation with artists and organisations in the cultural sector.

Los Angeles Poverty Department was founded in 1985 by director, actor, activist, and writer John Malpede. At its inception, LAPD was the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people. LAPD is dedicated to building community on Skid Row, Los Angeles.

MADaboutART provides innovative, interactive educational programmes that equip children with practical skills and knowledge about HIV and AIDS and begin to dismantle fundamental misunderstandings, taboos and stigma. They deliver clear, accurate and accessible HIV education in a way that is engaging to children and young people, within the context of building life skills and self-confidence so they may grow up with the skills and knowledge they need to protect their future.

MAPP International Productions is a unique performing arts organization that produces the work of artists who take risks with content, form and creative process. We connect artists with presenters and public communities to bring their works both to the stage and into peoples' lives, provoking dialogue and inspiring engagement with contemporary culture. In advocating for vital exchange across borders, we embrace a global network and foster multidirectional infiltration and invigoration.

Media Matters is a registered non-profit trust working in the area of community development and development communication for the past seven years. Its mission is facilitating equity, equality and empowerment through participation at all levels in the development process. It uses various artistic forms to communicate its information, including theatre, puppetry, video documentation, and playscripts.

The focus of Miscellaneous' work is creating, directing and producing professional, original, issue-based performances written with and performed by non-professional participants. Most of their work has integrated “mainstream” and at-risk/high risk youth.

The trail-blazing Moving into Dance Mophatong (MIDM) Performance Company was founded in 1978 by Sylvia 'Magogo' Glasser as a non-racial dance company and training organisation, during the height of apartheid. Dance was used as a form of cultural resistance to apartheid. At the basis of all the work was the concept of integration - integration of people as well as the integration of African and Western cultures. MIDM offers programs in schools called Edudance, a creative teaching methodology developed at MIDM by Sylvia Glasser.

MS (Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke) Nepal is a Danish NGO which cooperates with Aarohan, a Nepali theatre group, to create a village theatre about conflicts as they are seen from the point of view of the oppressed.

Myths and Mirrors is a multi-disciplinary arts organization; our mediums include theatre, performance art, murals, mosaics, music and drumming, gardens, celebrations, rituals, stilting, face painting, costuming, visual arts, installations, video, film, games and popular education. Myths and Mirrors takes on projects that challenge assumptions, build community and inspire hope.

The objectives of Natasha Community Theatre Arts are: to educate about and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, and also entertain and bring about awareness of issues that concern society and community; to promote the image of Zambia as a society rich in culture, and to keep the traditional norms, customs, and instruments from becoming extinct; to keep alive the traditions of live music, theatre and dance; and to draw some continuity between the new forms of art and traditional forms and concepts of art.

Established in 1993, Native Women in the Arts is a not-for-profit organization for First Nations, Inuit and Metis women from diverse artistic disciplines who share a common interest in culture, art, community and the advancement of Indigenous peoples.

NextAid's mission is to promote community-driven environmentally, economically and socially empowering responses to the AIDS orphan pandemic. NextAid collaborates with individuals, businesses and nonprofits to produce culturally-rich, awareness-raising projects and music events involving technology, the arts, public education projects, and volunteer opportunities.

Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata is an enterprise of contemporary artistic expression, which defines its activities in the field of African dance, with the specific objective to explore and develop the particular aesthetics of this art form as it relates to music, poetry, mythology, ritual and the related arts, bringing forth essential aspects which link the ancestral with the contemporary. This process includes choreographic creation, dance performance, musical composition, writings, conferences, the teaching and promotion thereof in a local, national and international context.

One World Beat is a non-profit organization that unites musicians of all genres to unite and convey a message of hope through their music. Bands from around the world perform gigs under the One World Beat banner and use their place in the spotlight to do more than just sing about changing the world - they actually do it. By raising funds and awareness for the One World Beat help projects they inspire people and music fans to step out of the shade and take action.

Pacific Cinematheque's Education Department offers film and media education programs and resources for youth, teachers and other community members. From intensive and engaging digital filmmaking programs to film literacy workshops and youth screenings at our theatre, we aim to foster an appreciation and passion for the art of film as well as an understanding of the impact of visual media in the world around us. We are especially committed to supporting a vibrant and active youth-in-film community in the Lower Mainland and throughout the province.

Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist working across, and sometimes in between, the boundaries of medium and discipline. She makes visual art, constructs installations, works with language, and is engaged in film, video, and most recently, performance. She works alone (inside and outside of her studios), and collaborates with others (sometimes individuals, sometimes communities). Based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, she travels extensively to pursue the creation and presentation of her work, and to teach graduate students in the U.S.

People's Palace Projects creates performances, workshop programmes, debates and publications that push the boundaries of where, how and why art matters. Based at Queen Mary, University of London in East London, where PPP's founder and Director Paul Heritage is also Professor of Drama, People's Palace Projects has for 10 years produced theatre that acts for individual and social change in Britain, Burkina Faso, Brazil and Azerbaijan.

Sponsored by All Stars Projects, Inc., this is a regular (usually annual) three-day 'happening' of performances, workshops, panel discussions, lectures, community tours and improvisation. Performing the World 2008 (PTW '08) brings together activists, artists, educators, young people, practitioners and scholars from dozens of countries, all of whom are involved in the emergence of performance as a new way of relating to, understanding and changing the world. It also provides networking resources for performing artists.

PETA is an educational theatre organization composed of artist-teachers who are dedicated to the pursuit of artistically excellent theatre, aesthetics and pedagogy toward the empowerment of people and society. Their goal is to promote and guide the growth and development of theatre arts in the Philippines and serve as a coordinating agency for a national association of drama groups.

Photovoice blends a grassroots approach to photography and social action. It provides cameras not to health specialists, policy makers, or professionals, but to people with least access to those who make decisions affecting their lives. From the villages of rural China to the homeless shelter of Ann Arbor, Michigan, people have used photovoice to amplify their visions and experience.

Founded in 1990, The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) is committed to original work in the arts in Michigan correctional facilities, juvenile facilities, urban high schools, and communities across the state. Their process is guided by respect and a spirit of collaboration in which vulnerability, risk and improvisation lead to discovery. PCAP makes possible the spaces in which the voices and visions of the incarcerated can be expressed.

Puente' means 'Bridge' in Spanish. Puente's mandate is to use theatrical experience to bridge between cultures. Ms. De Guevara's vision for PUENTE is to express the immigrant experience while striving for the highest artistic standards. PUENTE endeavours to gain respect for the cultural heritage that immigrants bring to our new homeland, and to facilitate the integration of newcomer artists with the local theatre environment.

Punjab Lok Rahs is a youth-lead arts and cultural organization working since 1986. The volunteer members of organization are committed to creating people’s art; deep rooted in indigenous culture and socio-political context, for the peoples of Punjab.

Rang Bahar was established to provide a new platform to the talented young generation in the fields of music, dance & drama and promote artists, poets, dancers, musicians, singers and dramatists. Since then Rang Bahar has been organising events in India and abroad. It has been training people for a brilliant career in the field of Performing Arts. Folk dance-workshops are regularly organised in tribal areas, and general diploma courses in acting, music and dance are organised by Rang Bahar in collaboration with various schools in Ahmedabad.

Reel Youth (RY) is a not-for-profit, media empowerment program supporting young people to create and distribute films about their visions for a better world, and the issues that concern them most.

Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre is a youth driven, not-for-profit organization located in the heart of Regent Park, Toronto. Regent Park Focus is motivated by the belief that community-based media can play a vital role in building and sustaining healthy communities and seeks to increase civic engagement and effect positive change through youth-led media productions. The program is aimed at marginalized and culturally diverse youth living in and around the community.

Roadside Theater is creating a body of drama based on the history and lives of Appalachian people and collaborating with others nationally who are dramatizing their local life.

S.A.F.E. is a charity that uses theatre, combined with community activities and education, to deliver life-saving information about HIV/AIDS in the most under-served areas in Kenya. S.A.F.E. is a mobile organisation, taking performance, education and vital HIV information to communities in neglected areas that do not have access to services or conventional means of information dissemination (i.e. public health television or poster campaigns).

Sanaa Art Promotions (SAP) is an organisation of artists, researchers, social scientists and communication specialists active in the use of arts to promote socio-economic development within East African communities. Founded in 1985 under Kenya’s Non Governmental Organisation Act, SAP visual and theatre arts for communication uses the Participatory Interactive Media Model (PIMM) to advocate for behaviour change primarily among youth and, secondarily, through the ripple effect, the community.

The Setagaya Public Theatre is now well known as a successful theatre, and plays a leading role as a model for other public theatres in Japan. It aims to produce and present high quality performing arts productions, especially contemporary drama and dance by both national and international artists. It also holds creative workshops for theatre practitioners or dancers with a view to developing future productions, researching the contemporary performing arts, producing outstanding productions, and providing outreach programs to schools in the Setagaya area.

Shylene is a community focused artist living on Vancouver Island. "I am very interested in my community, both local and global. I strive to provide the message of 'use what you have', and 'just because it's broken doesn't mean it has to be thrown out', within most my work."

Sierra Youth Coalition is a national, youth-driven, and diversenon-profit organization working in Canada. Through grassroots
action, SYC aims to address globalization, consumption and
climate change through a solutions-based approach of promoting
education for sustainability, bioregionalism, sustainable
communities and lifestyle simplicity. The Coalition is the youth
arm of the Sierra Club of Canada and has been active since 1996.

SPARC espouses public art as an organizing tool for addressing contemporary issues, fostering cross-cultural understanding and promoting civic dialogue. Working within this philosophical framework, over the last 31 years SPARC has created murals and other forms of public art in communities throughout Los Angeles and increasingly in national and international venues.

Sonja Kuftinec is a teacher, writer, and artistic collaborator focusing on community-based theater who works in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota.

Southern Edge Arts is a youth performing arts company based on the southern edge of Western Australia. Southern Edge Arts is a full time regional youth company catering for 5 to 25 year olds by providing workshops in circus, drama, dance and music. These workshops culminate in public performances and presentations in Albany and the Great Southern.

Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues.

Teesri Duniya Theatre is dedicated to producing socially and politically relevant theatre that supports a multicultural vision of society, promoting interculturalism through works of theatre, and creating theatrical styles based on the cultural experiences of visible minorities living in Canada. The company believes that culturally diverse theatre and artists are an integral part of the theatre landscape of the country. The company is committed to multiethnic casting and stories.

The Catalyst Centre is a non-profit worker co-op that celebrates and promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change.

In 2000, a group of Pacific Northwest Native American tribes and civic groups from Washington and Oregon asked Maya Lin to participate in a project commemorating the bicentennial of the journey of the Corps of Discovery—the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06. These disparate groups were brought together by the hope that Maya Lin would rethink what the commemoration of the bicentennial could be.

IDEA members from more than 90 countries are working in hundreds of thousands of different cultural communities, shaping drama/theatre education today.

The Merasi School believes that education is the most constructive response to poverty. Their mission is shaped by the voices of the Merasi, a community of lower caste musicians living in Rajasthan, India. For 37 generations, the Merasi have composed, performed, and maintained a rich folk music legacy. Yet despite their cultural significance, the Merasi are considered 'Untouchable'. Moreover, with modernization blazing across India, traditional music, the Merasi's one recognized form of social worth, is on the brink of total extinction.

The Social Impact of the Arts Project is a research center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. SIAP conducts research on the role of arts and culture in American cities with a particular interest in strategies for arts-based revitalization. Since 1994, SIAP has focused on developing empirical methods to study the links between cultural engagement and community well-being.

Theatre Beyond Words is an internationally renowned physical theatre company that has played to over 2 million people since its inception in 1977, delighting audiences from New York to Madrid and Toronto to Tokyo with its unique style of visual theatre. The ensemble develops original works for both young and general audiences, garnering international acclaim for its artistic and entertaining performances that transcend language barriers with the innovative uses of mask, puppetry, mime and music.

Theatre Direct Canada's mandate is: to create and present sophisticated and uncompromising theatre for, with and by young people that provokes, challenges and inspires; to present theatre that is socially conscious and reflects and interprets the diversity of the Canadian experience; and to nurture our audience’s appreciation of the arts and each other through community and education based programs.

TREE, or Theatre for Research Education and Empowerment, intends to explore and exploit the potential of theatre as an effective means of social mobilization. Our corporate philosophy focuses on “Shaktimoy Manoosh”—a strong-spirited, self-confident people, aware of and active in various health and socio-cultural issues to better their lives.

Theatre Terrific is a theatre company with a mission to provide opportunities to transform lives through the power of theatre; it strives through its productions and practices to contribute to creating a world where the artistic voices of disabled artists are seen, heard, challenged and respected.

La TOHU is a non-profit organization founded by En Piste (the national association of circus arts), the National Circus School and Cirque du Soleil. Up and running since June 2004, La TOHU is now one of the world's largest gathering places for circus arts training, creation, production and performance. It is remarkable not only for its facilities but also for the extraordinary influence its citizens exercise on the international stage. In addition to managing the site, La TOHU puts on programming designed to bring life to the public spaces it occupies and administers.

Touchstone is a not-for-profit producing and presenting organization, which fosters inter-cultural, international and community collaborations. The focus of their presenting season is original work by other innovative theatre ensembles and solo artists.

Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. They do this from a woman-centered perspective, as members of the African Diaspora community, in order to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond.

Based in the Downtown Eastside since its founding in 1983, award winning Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT) has presented thousands of performances, workshops and lectures to over half a million audience members in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Over these 25 years VMT has collaborated with performing and visual artists of many genres, techniques and traditions to create original repertoire, and to produce numerous education programs, community residencies and festivals.

In July 2005, the Victorian College of the Arts launched the inaugural Post-Graduate Diploma Course and Masters Program in Community Cultural Development practice. Community Cultural Development (CCD) is a community-based cultural practice, which engages artists/animateurs and communities in a process of participation, transformation and self-determination.

The Walker Art Center, a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences, examines the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities. The Center includes indoor and outdoor facilities, allowing us to share more of our resources--from objects in the permanent collection to books in our library to an inside view of the artist's own creative process--with our growing audience. Increasingly, this ability to link ideas from different disciplines and art forms is seen as a model for cultural institutions of the future.

Westside Circus is a vibrant and growing community arts organisation creating circus, performance, physical theatre, music and leadership opportunities for young people. Our core aim is to make a difference for young people between the ages of 3 and 25 from diverse social, and cultural backgrounds to access exciting and challenging programs which build confidence, promote personal well-being and create positive relationships both with peers and the community.

Youth Onstage is the newest program and youth theatre of the All Stars Project, Inc., which staged its first production ever in January 2004. It offers young people, ages 14 to 21, the opportunity to perform in and create plays that have something to say about the world and its future. It also offers, through its Community Performance School, free theatre training for young people of all experience levels and economic backgrounds.