Field Studies
Uncover the latest developments and key issues shaping the vibrant terrain of arts-based community development, including topics centred around the intersection of arts and community work, through a series of thought-provoking essays, explainers, and multimedia presentations.
In the second of this 2-part series, Regina De Rozario explores the various aspects of diversity community-engaged practitioners should look out for. Drawing on insights from our recent ArtsWok Learning Forum, she offers practical suggestions on how diversity can be consistently recognised and upheld over time.
In the first of this 2-part series, Regina De Rozario reflects on points raised at the inaugural ArtsWok Learning Forum and synthesises her personal takeaways from the Day 1 panel. She examines the artist’s place within a community project and what goes into their labour when crafting sustainable community spaces.
With the greater push for arts practitioners to develop artistic projects in community spaces, it is essential to examine the skills and capabilities required of those engaging in the field today. Field study guest contributor Regina De Rozario—artist, writer and researcher—writes about the significance of cultural competence and how it might be fostered through arts-based community work.
Arts and Health is an interdisciplinary field integrating creative practices into community and care settings, aiming to transform health and experiences of healthcare. Field study guest contributor Salty Xi Jie Ng chats with Michael Tan—creative health practitioner, researcher and educator—about this promising field.
What does co-creation mean to you? At ArtsWok, we see co-creation as an important methodology guiding each of our programmes, such as The Greenhouse Lab, which had its second edition in Yuhua. We interviewed five of the Labbers, and this resulting article serves as a receptacle for their insights on how engaging in co-creation can bring value to arts-based community development. Read further for more ideas on how you too can co-create with others.
Fresh from her sabbatical and as the new Co-Artistic Director of Drama Box, Han Xuemei shares her underlying philosophies that guide her work with communities in our interview with her. Built into her practice with engaging communities is an innate sense of being human that forms the foundation to the relationships involved. Alongside her reflections on this, she offers advice to those wishing to begin working with communities using arts processes.
