Check out the ASC! Project's final report!In 2013, a national team of academic researchers and community partner organizations, hosted by SFU’s International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC.ca) received a $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humani……read more
ASC! August 15, 2019by Tracey Leacock and Judith Marcuse
In this blog series, we’d like to seed conversations about what meaningful community-engaged participatory arts for social change (ASC) partnerships can look like, how they can be effective and enriching, while also discussing some of the challenges and difficulties. The co……read more
Check out the ASC! research project video, Social Circus in Québec: anatomy of a socially engaged arts program, created by Jennifer Beth Spiegel and Flick Harrison!
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Check out this latest addition from the ASC! research project!
The Art for Social Change (ASC) Web: an online interactive teaching and learning resource for community-engaged participatory arts
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ASC!, Resource July 2, 2019by Tracey Leacock and Judith Marcuse
In this blog series, we’d like to seed conversations about what meaningful community-engaged participatory arts for social change (ASC) partnerships can look like, how they can be effective and enriching, while also discussing some of the challenges and difficulties. The co……read more
One of our former ASC! Researchers, Tara Mahoney (Co-Founder and Creative Director at GenWhy Media), has published an article on political engagement and participatory art in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, using her ASC! fie……read more
ASC!, Resource June 5, 2019by Tracey Leacock and Judith Marcuse
In this blog series, we’d like to seed conversations about what meaningful community-engaged participatory arts for social change (ASC) partnerships can look like, how they can be effective and enriching, while also discussing some of the challenges and difficulties. The co……read more
ASC!, Resource May 13, 2019by Tracey Leacock and Judith Marcuse
In this blog series, we’d like to seed conversations about what meaningful community-engaged participatory arts for social change (ASC) partnerships can look like, how they can be effective and enriching, while also discussing some of the challenges and difficulties. The co……read more
"Canada outlawed Aboriginal spiritual practices, jailed Aboriginal spiritual leaders and confiscated sacred objects. Canada separated children from their parents, sending them to residential schools. This was done not to educate them, but primarily to break their link to their culture and identit……read more
ASC!, Resource February 21, 2019by Tracey Leacock and Judith Marcuse
In this blog series, we’d like to start conversations about what meaningful community-engaged participatory arts for social change (ASC) partnerships can look like, how they can be effective and enriching, while also discussing some of the challenges and difficulties.
The con……read more
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