"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) more

"The book discusses how trauma presented in the media spills over national boundaries and can be found in images across divergent cultures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America." (Publisher description)