VIVA!: Art, Education and Politics in the Americas
A Proposal for a Bilingual Book and DVD

Brief description

The Message Board is a place to communicate with VIVA partners. When you make a new page, it's like leaving a note or starting a conversation. You can respond to messages by adding a comment at the bottom, and then check back in regularly to see if your comment has been responded to or not!

And here’s how:
1. Click on “create content” in the navigation menu.

2. Select “forum topic.”

3. Enter all required information (denoted by a red asterisk): Subject, Language, Categories, and Body. (You can add images to forum topics by using the “image assist” icon. See “How to add an image to a page you are creating/editing” in this handbook for detailed instructions.)

Please find a feedback form below for you to respond to each book chapter draft. We'll be using these to begin a dialogue around each chapter during our meeting in Chiapas. They will serve as the foundation for our chapter revisions.

You can download a Word document version of the feedback form near the bottom of this page. Or, you can copy and paste the questions from here:

Book Feedback Form
VIVA! Book

1) What are the strengths of this chapter? What major themes or messages do you get from it?

2) After reading this chapter, what questions remain for you about the project?

3) In what ways can it be improved (clarity of expression and language, description, analysis, examples)?

VIVA! Community Art Nurtures Critical Hope in the Americas
(brainstorm titles in Chiapas meeting)

I. VIVA! is born

Remapping the Americas: the context and purpose of the project

Who is VIVA? Introduction to partners and projects

Spiraling through time and space: framework for project and for book

Dreaming (2002-2003)

II. Framing and Naming (October, 2004) – Toronto, Canada

Principles of Bilingual International Research
Starting from our diverse understandings (of popular education,
community arts, and the role of both in social movements)
Context is critical
Crafting the objectives of the VIVA! Project
Our theoretical grounding
Creative tensions
Our methodology

One of our collective commitments is to develop a glossary or genealogy of the terms we use in our distinct contexts. Through this process, we hope to learn more about our different cosmovisions and practices.

Proposal for the collective book on the VIVA! Project
(developed by Checo, Amy, and Deborah – Feb. 18, 2006 in Mexico City)

Collective authorship

The VIVA ! Project (in contrast to normal academic practice) will not use specific authors’ names on the cover, but rather just ‘The VIVA ! Project.’ On the first pages of the book, we will include the names of all the people who have contributed to the project, and in what forms : e.g. the core group, the GAs, interns, editorial committee of the book, video, and web page, etc

The audience

1) Educators, activists, community artists
2) Participants y communities of the local projects
3) Social science professionals and community development workers