Tailoring Content for Authenticity and Adoption: Community-Based Participatory Research and the Co-creation of Story-Based Health Communication for Underserved Communities

This perspective presents concrete examples of how community-based participatory research can be used effectively to decolonize health communication through the co-creation of health communication content specifically tailored to minoritized and underserved communities. The authors describe how community members and researchers partnered to conduct community listening, observation and co-create stories to be used in fotonovelas (graphic stories), radio stories, serious games and community theater. Community members are experts on their experiences and can best translate those experiences into stories that ring true for target audiences from similar backgrounds. Truly participatory research grounded in community values can be slow and take unexpected turns, but it is critical to create health communication content that resonates with audiences and contributes to influencing attitudes and behaviors. When Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is used in true collaboration with the community, marginalized communities, which were historically exploited by community researchers, can become the architects of their own health outcomes.

Managing Theater Training to Increase Children Creativity (Case Study in Learning Community at Tanah Ombak)

This study aims to determine how the planning, implementation, evaluation of managing theater training to increase children's creativity in the learning community of Tanah Ombak Padang. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. data collection to collect the required data, including the method of participatory observation, interviews, and documentation. qualitative analysis through stages in accordance with predetermined procedures, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation/presentation, and verification/drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the creativity of learning residents grows and develops through theater training using 3 aspects, namely: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The process of planning, implementing and evaluating learning community theater training can foster creativity, recognize potential and insight, mental attitudes and children's character Keywords: children creativity, theater training, learning community.

Songbird

This chapter examines Khan’s development into a powerhouse singer and talented songwriter as the frontwoman of Rufus. Drawing Khan’s childhood experiences described in her memoir, as well as musicologist Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.’s notion of black community theater, the chapter demonstrates how she transposed her rebellious spirit, evidenced briefly during high school as a volunteer worker for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, into a self-conscious and contrarian artist who epitomized funk aesthetics. As one of the few women funk singers who didn’t have a gospel background or grow up in a musical family, Khan developed a jazz-inflected vocal technique and a singular, Chicago-based, rhythm-and-blues sound that became a funk trademark. At the same time, the chapter demonstrates that Khan’s interpretation of funk as a concept, particularly its nonconformity, which she exemplified in exhilarating eroticism during live performances, proved to be a double-edged sword. While she captivated music fans, Khan battled executives at ABC Records over racialized images of her sexuality.

“O mistério das ovelhas”: montagem de espetáculo teatral como instrumento de educação do campo no Assentamento Poço Longe / "O mistério das ovelhas": the production of a theater spectacle as a countryside education instrument in Poço Longe...

O presente artigo visa apresentar o início dos trabalhos de teatro e Educação do Campo desenvolvidos através de ação cultural no Assentamento de Reforma Agrária Poço Longe, no sertão baiano, a partir da análise e descrição do processo de montagem do espetáculo "O mistério das ovelhas". Serão apresentadas as bases e escolhas conceituais e cênicas, as metodologias e didáticas desenvolvidas por dois anos, a partir do teatro, do riso, do teatro de máscaras e da Commedia dell´Arte, com crianças e jovens do assentamento, para a análise acerca da montagem do espetáculo e seus aspectos de recepção.Palavras-chave: Educação do campo; Teatro em comunidade; Assentamento; Pedagogia do teatro; Ação Cultural. This paper aims to present the beginning of working processes in theater and Rural Education, both developed through cultural actions in Poço Longe, an agrarian reform settlement located in Bahia’s countryside, from an analysis and description about the production of the play "O mistério das Ovelhas". In addition to the bases, as well as conceptual and scenic choices that will be presented, methodologies and didactics involving acting, laughter, theater of masks and Commedia dell’arte, all developed in the course of two years with children and young people of the agrarian reform settlement, in order to analyse the production of the spectacle and its reception’s aspects.Keywords: Countryside education; Community theater; Agrarian reform settlement; Theater pedagogy; Cultural action.

The Shelves that Won't Hold: Material Politics and Social Inequality in Spatial Design Practice

This article discusses how a material divide that leaves vulnerable communities with homes made of poor quality material is perpetuated in the system of spatial design. It examines a vignette about the development of the community theater in London to illustrate the unequal access to and participation in the design process as “intentional problem-solving” by different stakeholders. The discussion outlines how materiality can become the locus of public dispute and power struggle, as well as the key reference point for valuation frameworks and calculation practices. The article points out that material politics within spatial design practice play a central role in legitimizing unequal treatment within the material planning of space, and that individual designers can rarely challenge these structures themselves.