"Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups, this book includes: international case studies and first-person stories by practitioners and participants; sample exercises, both practical and reflective; study questions; excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners. This book can be used as a stand-alone text or together with its companion volume, The Community Performance Reader, to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction, 1
2 Remembering histories, 15
3 Setting up and running a group, 58
4 Finding motivations: images, sounds, tastes, touches, 108
5 Finding inspirations: stories, legends, myths, 132
6 Documentation, evaluation, reporting, 173
7 Building sustaiability, 199