We are an international community-based collective of arts educators, art therapists, artist teachers, and educators committed to facilitating arts and education initiatives with children and youth in conflict-affected environments. Through respect, open dialogue, and long-term cooperation, we work with local partners to create, produce and share these experiences with a broader global audience.
We believe the fostering of capabilities associated with the arts – from engaging in creative expression and reflection to big picture thinking – can provide people with the freedoms, abilities, and agency to respond to and take action in their daily lives.
We believe the fostering of capabilities associated with the arts – from engaging in creative expression and reflection to big picture thinking – can provide people with the freedoms, abilities, and agency to respond to and take action in their daily lives.
More than 426 million children and youth currently live in conflict-affected areas. One in five grow up in a war zone. The humanitarian group Save the Children (STC) estimates that conflict now impacts children at the highest rate in a generation. ArtsAction Group is committed to working with these communities, side by side, through the arts and education.
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic our lives have been altered in ways that none of us could have imagined. It has been too long since we, ArtsAction Group, have been able to be in community with our partners. We look forward to joining our global, extended families in 2023 starting with Kosovo in spring 2023!
Making Connections Project, Ilavalai, Sri Lanka
We've got new publications!
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Arts and culture is one of the most expansive modes of social transformation. Even in the face of social emergencies, it brings people together- sparking hope, life, and global connections. Our our recent Routledge publication Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice provides multiple and nuanced expressions of the work of development using the power of arts and culture. It emphasizes practice, including ethics and responsibility (towards each other) and impact (self cultivation and responsibility together). Aligning with the belief that all individuals deserve the opportunity to participate and to engage in building lives of personal value and dignity including "the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community" (UN General Assembly, 1948), we recognize that we need each other in this mutual endeavor. It takes purposeful action with others in this work. At this moment in time, as we witness another devastating global emergency, these tenets are particularly salient.
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In 2021 we published one article and three new catalogues documenting our work in Kosovo and Sri Lanka. Utopia/Dystopia: Utopike/Antiutopike: Kosovo shares our 2017 project and Transformimi: Dikur, Tani Dhe Nesër/Transformation: Past, Present, Future ArtsAction Group: Kosovo shares our 2019 project. Transformimi is available via a website here or the book version here. The ArtsAction Group Collective Sri Lanka documents our work from 2016 to 2019. You can also find our article, Artful Coalitions through Socially Engaged Art, a new publication in the journal, Canadian Art Teacher.
Transformation: Past, Present, Future
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Utopia/Dystopia
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ArtsAction Group Collective Sri Lanka
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Partnerships
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