Results
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A completed literature review to inform research definitions
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A PowerPoint with the findings to share with Journey to Justice
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Created in partnership with JtoJ, as they offered much support for this project, and informed that PowerPoint would be the best form of presentation
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A video to provide a different format of engagement with this project
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Making this website the "one stop shop" for everything that one may need to learn about this research project and its results
Project
Deliverables
What are the specific benefits to a community and its members from participating in arts-based social justice work?
overall for the CRTE
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Bringing different groups together
"It brought youth choirs, adult choirs, elderly choirs, from the north and south of the borough... people in the south of the borough don't [usually] travel to the north."
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Increased connection to their community and its individuals
"[Attendees said] that they felt, you know, really connected - it gives them connection to their local community people who look like them."
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Increased connection to social justice issues, and US / UK history
"[The CRTE] got people thinking about the way their history connected to social justice issues."
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New skills for young people and artists
"This was an opportunity for [artists] to prepare some repertoire, write a piece that was relevant to JtoJ, just thinking of local stories or their own lives."
What are the specific benefits to a community and its members from participating in arts-based social justice work?
for the art-based aspects of the CRTE
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Increased connection to their community and its individuals
"[The CRTE art projects] really raised people's consciousness about the local stories didn't even- they didn't even know about."
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New skills for young people
"But to me that the process was as much as the end product, it was where that young person felt comfortable and often getting them work in groups sharing the process of producing art."
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Mental and physical health benefits
"The emotional well-being of people is often linked to how they feel about themselves; can they express themselves in different ways [as arts does]?"
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Increased inclusivity; engaging new people
"I would say art-based, it makes it much more inclusive than when there's not an art-based aspect, so by doing the arts you often can include way more people."
How does including local stories of social justice within arts-based initatives make a difference in the outcomes of the work?
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Increased connection to community; relationship building
"Seeing how a moment of humanity, a small incident, [that leads to] a big dramatic point over time showing how we are all inescapably connected to each other."
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Increased empathy for others
"There were stories in the exhibition... and people could relate to some of those and gave people the chance to feel that their humanity towards others could be expressed."
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Increased motivation to act on social justice issues
"The stories allowed people to think maybe for the first time in some respects... or reinvigorated the idea that human rights could make a difference in people's lives."
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Storytellers feel validated
"Talking to somebody else allows you to reflect and think, articulate your point however that is because it can be accepted within the group."
Word bubble created from coded interview quotations.