4 Cs Foundation
The "only grant-giving private foundation in Canada that specifically funds community arts projects." Focuses on projects that build creative connections between children and their communities through art projects at a neighborhood and school level. Provides workshops, events, trainings, network for community arts practitioners, Web space for Community ArtsConnect database and an Art Bikers program. Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

7000 Oaks
Joseph Beuys' environmental arts project to plant 7,000 oak trees throughout Kassel, Germany, the first stage in a global scheme of tree planting to effect environmental and social change. Being continued after Beuys' death by Dia Center for the Arts.

7th Generation Image Makers
Native youth and art program based at Native Child & Family Services of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Works with at-risk Native youth creating murals and art projects such as regalia making, painting, mixed media and photography.

A Measure of Culture
Study tracking cultural activities in New Zealand to guide cultural policy that would support a thriving culture and a strong cultural identity, particularly of the Maori heritage. Statistical framework divides cultural activities in N.Z. into nine major categories, and organizes data around creators (artists), organizations (producers and distributors), products (cultural goods and services) and consumers (individuals or organizations). Written, published by Cultural Statistics Programme, Statistics New Zealand, 2002.

ARROW
Art: a Resource of Reconciliation over the World (ARROW). Web-centered project to build a creative dialogue between schools in Plymouth, England and their counterparts in Palestine, Kosovo and South Africa. Partnership of The College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth City Council Department for Life-Long Learning, The Barefoot Project, Christian Aid and Burnley Youth Theatre.

Abhivyakti Media for Development
Based in Nashik, India, dedicated to promoting popular control of economic and community development. Assists organizers with low-cost media. Projects focus on youth, women, environment.

ActALIVE
"Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision, Education." Coalition of groups and individuals using arts and media to address HIV/AIDS and other human-development challenges. Prevention, education, amelioration activities. 300 members in 25 countries, including Natasha Community Theater, Zambia; Punjab Lok Rahs, Pakistan; Gram Bharati Samiti, India; YONECO, Malawi; FULDEP, Burundi; Adriana Bertini, Brazil.

Action Factory Community Arts
Organization in Blackburn, England, that develops, manages and delivers participatory arts workshops and projects in a range of settings, including work in education, with youth and community groups, at festivals and events, voluntary and campaign groups, with health agencies and housing and regeneration initiatives. Programs include V-Train, 10-week part-time course for developing participatory arts work skills; C-Pal, regional professional-development consortium for participatory arts learning; placements for secondary-school students; volunteers. Twenty years old.

Action for Neighbourhood Change
Learning initiative of United Way of Canada to develop creative, locally based solutions for sustainable community development and neighborhood revitalization. Has partnered with National Film Board and Headlines Theatre. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Africa Exchange
Program of 651 ARTS in New York City, designed to "preserve, transmit and nurture African culture within U.S. communities and create links between African and U.S.-based artists and explore new artistic forms and mutual influences between cultures."

Africancolours.com
A portal to African visual art, including connections to artists and galleries, public art, magazines, archives, training, artists rights, indexes and products for sale

Africanhiphop.com
A Web site about rappers from the African continent.

AfroReggae
Cultural group (break-dance, capoeira, circus and 11-piece band) established in the favela (shantytown) of Vigário Geral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1993. They aim "to take young people out of the drug trade through arts-based activities," working in the poorest, most violent communities in Rio. Insight programme: community-based mixed-arts workshops, debates and trainings.

Age & Opportunity
Irish national agency working to: "challenge negative attitudes to ageing and older people and promote greater participation by older people in society." Numerous service and information programs. Arts and Culture programs include: Bealtaine, month-long national festival in May celebrating creativity in older age; Arts in Care; reading groups and other programs in public libraries.

Age Exchange
U.K. organization conducting creative-aging programs in "reminiscence work." Visual and performance arts projects, intergenerational projects, exhibitions, publications and documentary film. Based at Reminiscence Center in Blackheath, southeast London, home to national reminiscence training and resource center, reminiscence theatre company, museum of everyday life, cultural and social activities, gallery with changing exhibitions and headquarters of U.K. and European Reminiscence Networks. Founded 1983.

Aid to Artisans
Offers practical assistance to artisan groups in the world’s poorest areas worldwide; collaboration in product development, business skills training, development of new markets. Commercial connections, small grant program. Founded 1976, partially funded by U.S. Agency for International Development.

Alan Potter Public Art and Design
British artist with more than 50 public commissions for cities, towns, hospitals, universities, colleges, schools, public parks and nature reserves.

Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va., dedicated to building peace through innovative education, training, research and practice worldwide. Established February 1999 by professional swho have conducted conflict transformation and peacebuilding projects in over 30 countries. Programs: civil society development, community building, ethnic conflict, intercultural relations, organizational learning, research. Maintains ACT Forums for information on jobs, scholarships, grants and events in peace and conflict resolution, international development, humanitarian relief, human rights and related fields. Regional specializations in Balkans, Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East, United States and Pacific Rim. Summer institutes, publications. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Amplifier
Three-year program in Suffolk, England: series of public workshops and events to teach young musicians all aspects of modern music. Includes community music.

Andante.com
Educational site dedicated to classical music. Searchable calendar of current performances worldwide; magazine with news, reviews, interviews, commentary; academic journal; reference database; profiles; directories.

Andrija Ilic Photo Gallery
Gallery of photos by Andrija Ilic of Belgrade, who uses photography to document social changes in his environment and daily events in Yugoslavia. He is a photo editor at the FreeSerbia web site and teaches photography at the Open Youth Club in Belgrade.

Antarctic Artists & Writers Program
Provides opportunities for artists and writers to work in Antarctica. By National Science Foundation.

Art & Architecture Journal
Quarterly print journal of contemporary art and architecture focusing on art in the public context. Founded in U.K. 1980, relaunched 1995. Comments on public art and design worldwide including: commemorative and memorial public art, environmental and land art, sculpture parks and gardens, urban regeneration, art in health, education and training, critical debate and dialogue, temporary projects, performance and installations, festivals and biennials, political and community issuee, experimental areas of film, digital media and sound, literature, dance and music.

Art & Community Landscapes
Partnership of the National Park Service the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and NEA supporting residency projects to inspire greater involvement in protecting and enhancing rivers, trails, and greenways in collaboration with local communities.

Art Center Nabi
Award-winning media-arts center in Seoul, Korea. Interactive projects on the cross-platform of media arts, urban planning, architecture, technology and social sciences. International competitions, education programs, workshops, lectures, participation in international media-arts networks. Site is available in English.

Art Child
France-based association with international mission: "To unite children around the world by organizing contests and collaborative events related to Art and Culture...to improve the sociability and the collaborative qualities of children." Partner in U.N./UNESCO's "2001-2010 international decade for a culture of peace and nonviolence for the children of the world." Partners in 150 countries. Fresco and choral-music contests, traveling exhibitions. Financial support to organizations that benefit street children in seven countries.

Art Farm Project
Art exhibitions outdoors at Middle Rocombe Farm, an organic farm near Newton Abbot, Devon, England. Artists in South Devon used redundant farm buildings and surrounding landscape to produce large exhibitions and create an artist network.

Art Threat
Volunteer-driven blog about politics and the arts. Covers political art of all genres, discusses policy as it pertains to culture, and showcases artists whose work inspires social change. Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Edited by Rob Maguire. A cross-sector resource.

Art and Mental Illness: Myths, Stereotypes and Reality
Document bringing together papers presented at a forum held at Neami Splash Art studio, Melbourne, Australia, June 1, 2007. Forum coincided with exhibition, “For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, ” at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre and Neami. Includes historic account of the development of theories linking modernism with art of the so-called insane; analysis of changing attitudes to relationship between art and mental illness; presentations by artists whose work was included in the exhibition.

Art for Healing Foundation
Organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dedicated to bringing the healing power of art and art education to hospitals, hospices and shelters and to improving the welfare of those participating in the healing process as healthcare givers and as patients. Numerous galleries in various Montreal institutions and organizations.

Art for Humanity
Visual-arts organization based in South Africa promoting human-rights awareness. Specializes in print portfolios, exhibitions, billboards and research projects. Newsletter, HIV/AIDS program, "Women Artists and Poets Advocating Children's Rights."

Art for Social Change
Artists' network of ten European Resource Centers working with young people in areas of social and political turmoil. Supported by the European Cultural Council.

Art-public.com
Paris-based online magazine about European public art; access by subscription.

Art: a Resource for Reconciliation Over the World (ARROW)
Program based at University College Plymouth, St Mark & St John, Plymouth, England, developing a global network of artists, educators, young people, organizations and institutions "with a commitment to building bridges across perceived boundaries and barriers, by sharing our stories, challenging prejudice and stereotypes and developing the arts as a resource for reconciliation and the creative transformation of conflict." Inspired by work of Desmond Tutu and the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Story-exchange workshops, youth conflict-resolution course.

ArtCorps
Pairs volunteer professional artists with Central American organizations (NGOs) for 12-month residencies to "creatively communicate their messages through art. " Uses theater, mime, puppetry, mural painting, sculpture and poetry to "bring the organizations' environmental and social messages to life and engage the local community in its activities." Project of New England Biolabs Foundation in Massachusetts.

ArtHeart Community Art Centre
Art center in Canada's largest housing project Regent Park, Toronto. Focuses on creative-skills development with hands-on visual arts programs for children, youth and adults year-round and free-of-charge. Studio space, instruction, art supplies and ties with other supportive organizations. Uses art as a vehicle to address child poverty, homelessness, lack of employment and mental-health issues. Founded by Seanna Connell in 1991 as A Home for Creative Opportunity.

ArtThrob
Online magazine from South Africa about contemporary visual arts. Covers both national art world and South African artists on the international podium. Monthly, with news about artists and expositions, reviews, items, discussions and photos.

Artfull
National initiative to develop, promote and map the arts and the role they play in improving mental health and wellbeing of people living in Scotland; developing and building partnerships between arts providers and public-sector agencies. Artfull Peer Learning Network: capacity-building program for artists and arts organizations. Reading Room, calendar. Joint initiative developed by Scottish Government’s National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing and Scottish Arts Council.

Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP)
Nonprofit organization based in New York, N.Y., that partners with local artists and organizations worldwide to provide arts education for populations of children with limited access. Programs; art camps for disadvantaged children in South Africa and Florida; opportunities to serve as teaching volunteers for children in India. Founded 2006 by artist Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

Artists for Human Rights Trust (S. Africa)
Durban-based association that promotes the international cooperation of artists and human-rights organizations; special focus on HIV/AIDS.

Artists in Exile
Multicultural movement of professional artists, refugees from around the world collaborating in celebration of cultural diversity. Based at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, West London, England. Launched during Refugee Week in 2001.

Arts & Business
U.K. arts and business professional networking service. Programs: New Partners (investment in partnerships); professional-development programs promoting exchange and development of skills between business and arts communities; advice, training, networking, consultancy for members; advocacy and lobbying; dissemination of information about value of arts/business partnerships through research and evaluation.

Arts & Ecology
Program supporting work of the arts in examining and addressing environmental concerns in an international arena. Conferences, publications, competitions and projects that look at arts efforts to challenge and propose solutions to pollution, waste and loss of natural habitats. Exchanges between artists and politicians, scientists, journalists. Commissions. Blog. Based in U.K.

Arts Access Aotearoa
Organization in New Zealand specializing in arts access for people with disabilities.

Arts Catalyst
"The science art agency," a U.K. arts organization that actively makes connections between art and science through commissions and strategic projects. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arts International
New York-based organization facilitating international exchange and collaboration in the arts. Publications and projects.

Arts Projects for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Initiates and manages arts projects for asylum seekers and refugees in Portsmouth, England. Ad hoc diverse group affiliated with Friendship Centre, Pallant House Gallery and Portsmouth City Council. Projects: Identity (film and sculpture, 2005-6), New Explorations (music, 2006).

Arts and Culture in Regeneration
International review of literature on the impact of art and culture on the regeneration of neighborhoods and cities, focusing on: iconic buildings and cities of culture; cultural quarters and clusters; and cultural dynamism. Includes "outstanding questions" about the process, sustainability and assessment of such interventions, and a list of resources on the topic. Commissioned for the third World Summit on Arts and Culture, held in NewcastleGateshead, England, in June 2006. Written by Phyllida Shaw and Graeme Evans; published by IFACCA and Arts Research Digest.

Arts+medicine
Bi-monthly magazine distributed to doctors. Devoted to impact of arts on health and well-being. Published by iMedia Asia Pacific in Australia.

ArtsLink
Program of CEC International partners promoting open access, creative exchange and ongoing dialogue between American artists and those of Eastern and Central Europe.

ArtsOnline.com
The Arts Council of England's Web site for and about the arts.

B.C. Artists in Healthcare Society
Promotes establishment of "ArtCare" artist-in-residence programs in hospices, palliative care and healthcare communities in British Columbia, Canada.

Banksy
Activist U.K. graffiti artist and "art terrorist" who mocks arts institutions and (lately) the wall between Israel and Palestine (see "News").

Banner Theatre Company
Socialist theater company based in Birmingham, England. Documentary theater works based on recordings of dialogue with people in their communities. Roots in radical political theater, popular theater, theater of resistance. Performs to community and trade union audiences in pubs, clubs and community centres and at rallies, festivals and conferences. Founded 1973/4.

Barefoot Artists
Public art team that "brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world." Includes Rwanda Healing Project. Founded by Lily Yeh.

Beaded Prayers Project
Three-part worldwide community art project: traveling exhibition (Beaded Blessings, over 4,000 beaded prayers inspired by African amulet traditions; each contributed piece is a sealed beaded packet containing written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of international participants), slide lectures (on accumulative community art projects and cultural traditions, amulets, beadwork), hands-on workshops (on making beaded proyaers). Video available. Directed by Sonya Clark.

Belfast's Cathedral Quarter
Neighborhood Web site of historic district in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Site created by artists, businesses and residents concerned about area's future and "to gain support for our vision of what the cathedral quarter can become."

Bielenberg Institute at the Edge of the Earth
Graphic-design institute in Belfast and Seaport, Maine, inspired by Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio. Purpose: "To inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world." The Institute's Project M has done a communications project in a Costa Rica conservation area; delivered donated equipment and supplies to Gulf Coast designers displaced by Hurricane Katrina; and assignments for Womens Trust, AIGA and Family LifeCenter. Founded by John Bielenberg.

Black August Hip Hop Project
International cultural-activist exchange founded by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Stress Magazine, and Students for Jericho. Develops and implements International Human Rights Campaign using Hip Hop as a tool and common language. International network of hip-hop artists and activists in three countries. Hip Hop Activism workshops, exchanges between international communities, annual events, DVD and mix tape, benefits for political prisoners. Named after organization established in California prison system in early 1970s by men and women of the Black Liberation Movement.

Bond St. Theatre
New York physical-theater ensemble that create educational and artistic programs for refugee camps, theaters, universities, schools and centers for women and children. Works in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Israel, Indonesia, China, Japan and elsewhere. Founded 1975.

Border Crossings
Documentation of a "Traveling Archive of Work on Immigration, Migrant Labor and More" by MIT artist Ute Meta Bauer. Focused on border zones and border life, consisting of two stationary exhibits - in Tijuana, B.C., Mex., and San Diego, Calif. - and a mobile unit that moved between organizations and institutions on both sides of the border. Installations covered labor, environmental issues, migration and human rights, questions of identity, women's rights and youth culture in the border region. Mobile unit facilitated events, discussions, film screenings addressing wide range of issues and audiences. Originally created for inSite_05, now being developed for Austria/Slovakia border.

Bridging to the Arts
Online guide to innovative theme-based programming at New Mexican summer programs for children and families in 17 sites around the state. By New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

Brown's Mart Community Arts
Association in Darwin, NT, Australia, that focuses on grassroots arts development in the Darwin region. Located in historic colonial-era "reserve" (1885). Performance presenting, community collaborations. Projects: Arts Access Darwin, Sculpture in the Park, Indigenous Performance, Multicultural Arts Services, Darwin Fringe Festival, Fist Full of Films, Bamboo Lounge, Darwin Poetry Cup. News feeds with RSS. Soon to change name to Darwin Community Arts Incorporated.

BuildaBridge International
Nonprofit arts education organization based in Germantown, Pa. Provides "direct arts-integrated intervention (social, spiritual, educational, and therapeutic) and cross-cultural service." Community Arts Program: in transitional homes, after-school and Saturday arts programs. Institute for the Church and Community Arts: training, education and research institute for those who want to integrate the arts in their community service and ministry. Educational Safaris: Overseas arts education and service program. BuildaBridge Consulting: Professional consulting for cross-cultural service, organizational development, community arts, curriculum writing and development, learning assessment and evaluation, arts management for conferences and overseas travel.

CREATE (Ireland)
Dublin-based organization that enables and seeds work "in context." Evolving from community art, "arts in context" encompasses a range of innovative practice and addresses specifics of place, histories and identities.

Cemeti Art Foundation
Organization producing information about dynamics and development of the visual arts field in Indonesia in relation to society, economics, politics, culture. Weekly radio broadcasts since 1999, research, publications, documentation, library, workshops, international networking. Based in Yogyakarta.

Center Borderland of Arts, Cultures, Nations
Border culture project in Poland.

Center for Children’s Theatre Development
Promotes modern theater for children emphasizing its educational and social role. Established December 2002 in Pristina, Kosova, by young Kosovar playwrights and actors. Workshops, productions. Projects: Theatre for Children – Art and Education and Children’s Mobile Theatre.

Center for Political Song
Online collection of political songs; based in Scotland.

Centre for Aboriginal Media
Canadian nonprofit organization training and supporting aboriginal media artists. Projects: annual imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, imagineNATIVE Film & Video Tour, CAM Online Media Database. Partnered with V-tape, Canadian independent video distribution center.

Centre for Children's Theatre Development (Kosova)
Children's theater program in arts and education, based in Prishtina.

Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan
Independent artistic and cultural center established in August 2004 by a number of young artists. Includes Female Artistic Center, established 2007 "to improve and support the artistic skills and talents of Afghan women."

Centre for Creative Communities (U.K.)
U.K.-based organization that links arts groups working in cultural development worldwide.

Centre for Landscape & Environmental Arts Research
CLEAR explores and promotes how the arts can contribute to our understanding of landscape and the environment. Cross-sector approach through arts, humanities, sciences. Seminars, publications (Unipress imprint), arts research projects. Based in Cumbria, England.

Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities
Cultural research and development center at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Brings together academia, policy and practice in: (1) The state of cultural infrastructure in Canadian cities and communities; (2) Culture as the fourth pillar of community sustainability; (3) Culture in communities: Cultural systems and local planning; and (4) The impacts of cultural infrastructure and activity in cities and communities. Roundtables, salons, conferences. Publications, bibliographies, research directories, listservs.

Children's Music Network
Membership organization for "teachers, performers, songwriters, radio hosts and parents who cared about the quality and content of children's music" in U.S. and Canada. Online music library, biannual publication "Pass It On!", toolkits, annual conferences, regional events, awards. Founded 1987. Based in Evanston, Ill.

Children's Peace Theatre
Helps youth explore notions of peace and conflict through the performing arts. Monthly Stone Soup Community Gatherings, conflict-evolution workshops, Sounds Like Peace (music), Art for Change (visual art), Performers for Peace. Directed by founder Robert Morgan in Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography
Annual exhibition in Dacca, Bangladesh, with wide public exposure, including open-air exhibitions, billboards on cycle rickshaws, videoconferences.

Christo & Jean-Claude
Temporary large-scale environmental works in urban and rural environments with elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning.

CityArts
Organization based in Dublin, Ireland. Focused on an "Away "model – a program of work created in collaboration with communities. Civic Framework (programing plan for youth work and arts initiatives, shared with City of Dublin), Cultural Contracts (long-term commitment to work with communities in developing a local model of participative and collaborative arts practices), Tower Songs (collaborative voice/sound/song project with regenerating tower-block communities in Dublin). Research supporting urban arts, art & regeneration, migrant communities. Forums, Learnings Labs, seminars. Archive program.

Clabber, Coal & Ceilidh
Project at Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange, May 2006; 170 primary-school children and support staff from four primary schools attended workshops looking at mining life through dance, poetry and drama, song and percussion. Site includes feedback from students, teachers.

Collage Network
Online cultural directory that promotes the work of Sudanese refugee artists living in Cairo, Egypt.

Coming Home
Canadian artist Devora Neumark's projects about interrelationships between creative energy and activism, human rights, environmental wellbeing and conflict resolution.

Common Weal Community Arts
Nonprofit organization based in Saskatchewan, Canada, that uses art as a tool for social development. Founded in early '90s by artist Rachael Van Fossen using the "community play" format to promote social and cultural understanding among diverse communities. Expanded mandate in 1998 to include other participatory art media and support other organizations through an advisory role.

Communication for Social Change Consortium
International nonprofit building local capacity of people living in poor and marginalized communities to use communication to improve their own lives. Huge library, publications, resources, dialogues, consulting. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Community-based public art resource of Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Community Arts Forum
Umbrella body for community arts in Northern Ireland.

Community Arts Northwest
Artist-led organization in Northern Quarter of Manchester, England. "Our main priority is to create access to cultural production for people that are excluded or on the fringe of mainstream cultural resources." Combined arts performance events, new and original theater, dance, music production (recording, choirs, music theater, bands, writing and major music narrative productions), video and digital arts, festivals, carnival, street theater, exhibitions, screenings, visual arts, environmental projects, installations, training events, refugee partnerships.

Community Arts Ontario
Arts-service organization established in 1991; represents network of over 88 arts agencies, institutions, and municipalities across Ontario, Canada.

Community Engaged Theatre in Canada & Beyond
Canada-based Web site exploring connections among theater, performance, community development and civic engagement. Ten downloadable articles.

Community Music
British site devoted to the precept "that everyone should have the chance to make music of one kind or another and that it should be done in an active not passive situation"; founded by Vicky White.

Community Performance Project
Online resources about community-based performance in Greater Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic region and around the world. Explores connections between theater and “staging areas”: education, community building, activism, environmental education, civic engagement, international contexts, artistic entrepreneurship, cultural work and other artistic disciplines.

Crear vale la pena
NGO developing programs on social inclusion in Argentina since 1993. Their Art + Social Organization program promotes social transformation and democratic participation devoted to education, artistic production, and promotion of Cultural Community Centers.

Create: Arts for Youth Work (Scotland)
Web site supporting development of high-quality youth arts projects in Scotland: searchable directory, case studies, advice on how to set up projects, information, links, news.

Creative Activity for Everyone
Resource organization for support, advice and information on community arts in Ireland. Grants, events, awards, directories, training, seminars, group finance schemes, public-art placement.

Creative City Network of Canada
Network of people employed by municipalities across Canada working on arts, culture and heritage policy, planning, development and support. Annual conference, Web resources, free e-newsletter, listservs, city profiles. In English and French.

Creative Clusters
Company based in Sheffield, England, set up in 2001 to help founders of creative industries showcase work, learn from each other, identify and articulate policy issues and connecto development resources. Consulting, regular convenings.

Creative Connections Project
Links K-12 classrooms with partner classes from the Amazon Rain Forest, Africa, the Galapagos Islands, the Arctic and China through e-mail, the Internet, art exchanges, music exchanges, online field trips and study partnerships. Sponsored by NYFA.

Creative Construct: Building for Culture and Creativity
Copoous transcripts, notes and power-points from an international symposium in Ottawa, Ont., Canada, April 28-May 1, 2008, intended to "help transform the way our community planners, educators and elected leaders think about our cultural future." Speakers included representatives of new cultural facilities around the worldinitiatives, including Dave Peebles of Birmingham’s Custard Factory, how a 19th-Century custard factory that became a micro-environment for creative entrepreneurs; Sir Ken Robinson, who contends that we are educating children out of their creativity; and representatives of the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, now becoming an international cultural destination. Sponsored by the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University and the City of Ottawa.

Creative Defiance
Web site of Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies in which he uses advertising startegies and techniques to take on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.

Creative Exchange
Alliance of organizations and individuals using culture and creativity in development and empowerment internationally; claims to be "the only NGO worldwide expressly dedicated to this field."

Creative Visions Foundation
Supports "creative activists -- social entrepreneurs working in media, the arts, and technology to inform, inspire and empower others to create positive action throughout the world." Mentoring, skill building, networking, seed funding, grants, fiscal sponsorship, outreach materials to raise social awareness and catalyze action of social, humantarian and environmental issues. Creative Activists Sponsorship Program, Creative Activists Network for Change, Creative Activists Network Education Program, Dan Eldon Traveling Exhibition "Images of War, Celebrations of Peace." Founded 1998 by Kathy and Amy Eldon in honor of late artist/activist Dan Eldon.

Creative Works Studio
Fully resourced art studio providing skill development, support and vocational opportunities for people living with a mental illness. Provides mentorship and work opportunities. Facilitated by the Inner City Health Program of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, in partnership with Good Shepard Non Profit Housing and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

CreativeChange WorldWide
Publication focusing on arts, culture and development issues. Defines "creative social entrepreneurs and enterprises"; touches on challenges, advancements and trends relating to creative-development sector. Reports outcomes of international online survey/study conducted by Art4Development.Net. Lists online and offline collaborative programs aligned with objectives of the CreativeChange project. Available for sale online as .pdf. Written, published by Art For Global Development, 2006.

Cross Cultural Collaborative
Educational nonprofit that invites people to Ghana to promote cultural exchange and understanding through the arts. Multigenerational and multicultural collaborations ranging from mosaic walls to documentary films. ABA House research center and meeting place for exhibits, community-based art workshops, performances, conferences, classes about cultural awareness and appreciation. Based in suburb of Accra.

CrossConnections
Project engaging the Iranian and Iranian-American Diasopra community in intergenerational, creative dialogue about cultural identity, preservation and representation. Led artist Taraneh Hemami and scholar Persis Karim; based at Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts (2005-6).

CubaNow.net
Cuban digital magazine of arts and culture.

Cultural Agents Initiative
Network of academics, artists and administrators promoting creativity as a foundation of democracy. Scholarly conferences, graduate student workshops, publications, antidiscrimination theater, courses, development of sites for cultural internships, and creation of a global network of practitioners. Based at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Cultural Information and Research Centers Liaison in Europe
CIRCLE: Network dedicated to developing cultural policy models for Europe. Includes RECAP (Resources for Cultural Policy in Europe, network of documentation centers) and CIPRO (Cultural Policy Research Online, database of studies.

Cultural Policy of Non-Western Countries
Series of profiles (by country) on increasing number of governments that recognize the importance of culture in itself and in connection to social and economic development. Profiles on Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Senegal, African Union, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Nigeria, more. By the Power of Culture, Netherlands.

Cultural Re-Use Research Collaborative
Organization doing practical interdisciplinary work on study and practice of "cultural re-use and re-generation." Based at Columbia College Chicago. Focused on ways objects, traditions, histories, neighborhoods and actions are creatively utilized in novel ways (recycled, reinterpreted, reincorporated, re-purposed, reinvented, repaired). Workshops, colloquia, curriculum development. Projects: Re-Cyclone (Columbia students with FreeStreet Programs) on recycling theater materials; CASCADE 2004/5 (English students with London East Research Institute and Lee Valley Authority) on environmental impact of a London 2012 Olympics.

Culture for Development (C4D)
Online information portal on the role of culture for development, both as a concept and development tool, with particular focus on museums, theater and cultural heritage in developing countries.

Culture pour tous
Culture for All, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to "contribute to the democratization of culture in Quebec," Canada. Projects: annual event, Journées de la culture; the Cultural Logbook, a learning tool for schools; Intercultural Encounters, an initiative to enhance the profile of professional artists from immigrant communities); conferences known as La Rencontre; and community art projects such as The Convertibles and Art at work.

Culture, Arts and Refugees
Web site hosting materials about the role of arts and culture in the inclusion and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. Executive Summary, Case Studies, Video Clips and contacts from "A Sense of Belonging," research project 2005. Project of U.K.-based Creative Exchange: Network for Culture and Development.

Culture.mondo
Informal network that encourages and facilitates communication among experts responsible for creating, developing and maintaining "cultural portals"{ worldwide. Gateway to cultural portals; repository of resources and research. Based in Canada.

Culture.mondo Surveys on Cultural Portals
Results from annual surveys elicting information on structure, management, geography, budget, demographics, audiences, services, content and performance measurements portals worldwide. Written by Decima Research,;published by Culture.mondo beginning 2005.

CultureLink Network
The Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development, established by UNESCO and the Council of Europe in 1989. Culturelink Database on cultural development institutions/networks worldwide: objectives, publications, activities, international cooperation. Also Cultural Policy Database.

DAH Theatre Research Center
Arts center in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. "A place that can empower people in facing the difficulties of society in transition." Home of DAH Teatar.

Dance4Life
International collaborative youth project against HIV/AIDS. Culminates in young people dancing nonstop for five hours worldwide on Saturday preceding World AIDS Day (December 1). Part of World AIDS Campaign supported by UNAIDS.

DanceArts Vancouver
Performing arts organization with projects for social change called Earth, Fire and Ice. Special focus on teens, environment. Directed by Judith Marcuse.

De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group
Professional, community based, theater in Northern Ontario, Canada, dedicated to the vitalization of the Anishnaabeg culture, language and heritage. National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program offers theater training, with special program to help those who wish to return to their own communities to work.

Democracy Onstage
Ford Foundation report on the work of Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed in Brazil. By NYTimes writer Christopher Reardon, 2001.

Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts Australia
National membership network for disability arts in Australia. Newsletter, publications, accessibility issues.

Dramatic Action: Community-Engaged Theatre in Canada & Beyond
Web site exploring connections between theater, performance, community development and civic engagement. Offers overview of the community-engaged theatre “movement” over the past 20 years. Articles by Esther Farmer, Dan Friedman, Dale Hamilton, Ted Little, et al.

Drik
Bangladesh-based organization supporting photographers, journalists and media artists "who challenge the hegemony of Western media."

E-race
Qualitative and quantitative examination of the goals and objectives of "e-race," a performance and dialigue project by MISCELLANEOUS Productions of Richmond, B.C., Canada. Charts the project's exploration of youth's obsession with "speed," investigating growth and integration of cast members and audiences' reaction to the live performance and attitudinal changes over time. Written by Tristin Wayte and George Tien; published by MISCELLANEOUS Productions, 2005.

East Cumbria Countryside Project
rural management agency in northwest England. Works to create a diverse and thriving rural area, high quality landscape and wildlife, recreational access, regeneration based on sustainable management of natural resources. Includes Andy Goldworthy's Sheepfolds Sculture Trail and a Poetry Path by local poet Meg Peacocke and stone lettering artist Pip Hall.

Ecoart Network
Listerv for network of professionals dedicated to the practices of ecological art. Founded 1998 by Lynne Hull, Don Krug, Baile Oaks, Aviva Rahmani, and Susan Steinman. Members in U.S., Canada, Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East. Resource list, news of member activities.

Empowered Women International
Nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Va., that uses the arts and world cultures to give voice to immigrant and refugee women and families living in America. Targets skilled and talented immigrant women who use the arts and creative processes to build careers and leadership skills. Founded 2002 by Romanian immigrant Marga C. Fripp. Entrepreneurial training, monthly presentations, galleries, store, newsletter.

Encounters
Participatory-arts organization based in Sheffield, England. Takes up residence in disused shops working with local people and visitors to create multi-authored artworks exploring the themes of people, place and community. Also delivers mobile shop projects that tour to different locations within a neighbourhood. Interactive performances, creative solutions to community engagement and involvement. Founded April 2003 by Ruth Ben-Tovim and Trish O’Shea, Sheffield-based interdisciplinary artists.

English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN)
Membership organization creating connections in the English youth arts sector at national, regional and grassroots levels. News and events information, job vacancies listings, blogs, youth arts campaigns, training courses & publication, e-bulletin, research, advice and guidance, publications.

Escape Artists
U.K. arts-and-education charity established 1996. Company works in prisons, young offender institutions, schools, hospices and mental-healthcare centers. Provides artist training in arts and social inclusion. Matches artists and their unique skills with the right client group, facilitates and supports continued work opportunities in the sector.

Euclid International
Research organization based in U.K.; numerous free tools for cultural research, including ACRONIM, a database of thousands of books, reports, journal, articles, conference papers, post-graduate theses.

Exiled Writers Ink
Based in London, England. Facilitates dissemination of work by writers in exile and refugees, and act as a pressure group against racism and the abuse of human rights worldwide. Monthly Poetry Café, readings, seminars, workshops, conferences, interactive performances, festivals, publications, translations, collaborations, school programs. Exiled Ink magazine.

FADO Performance
Canadian artist-run "centre without walls," producing public art and performances exploring regional geography and identity, like performances with community choirs in Toronto's subways, and in slum apartments in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Facing History and Ourselves
International educational and professional-development organization helping teachers lead students in a critical examination of history, with particular focus on genocide and mass violence. Founded 1976 by teacher Margot Stern Strom. Publications and Resources; Pedagogy Research and Development (new scholarship, partnerships and pilot projects); Community Engagement (opportunities for discussion/reflection on civic engagement, individual/collective responsibility and tolerance); Special Initiatives include the arts. Seminars, workshops, community events, lending library. Interactive student Web site :“Be the Change: Upstanders for Human Rights.” Organization has an online campus and a new public high school in NYC.

Feral Arts
Based in Brisbane, Australia, using new media for community cultural development. "Placeworks" project enables communities to share histories online. Online "globosaurus.net" project for community cultural workers responding to impacts of global development.

Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age
Downloadable publication with articles, audio and video documents by practitioners, decision makers and scholars on concrete examples of the role of community media in development. Published by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Division for Communication Development of UNESCO and Communication for Social Change Consortium, 2008.

Film Aid International
Nonprofit organization that screens films for inspiration and information to refugees and displaced people and their host communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Louisiana. Feature films and information on conflict prevention, human rights, HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. Screenings held in community centers, schools, hospitals and infant feeding centers on teenage pregnancy, reproductive health and education for girls. Participatory Video Project helps youth tell their own stories. Founded during 1999 Kosovar refugee crisis by filmmaker Caroline Baron after learning the most prevalent problem among refugees was psychological trauma and hopelessness.

Folk Alliance International
Membership organization that fosters and promotes traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music and dance and related performing arts. Education, networking, advocacy, professional and field development. Annual conference, listserv, business directory, newsletter. Based in Memphis, Tenn.; six regional affiliates.

Fountainhead: Black International Cinema
International, intercultural organization based in Berlin, Germany, producing annual film festival, weekly television program, publications, cinema distribution, dance theater.

Fête de la Musique
World Music Day, began in France, 1982. Takes place worldwide on June 21, usually the summer solstice. Amateur and professional musicians encouraged to perform in the streets. conceived by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang.

Galleries of Justice
Museum of the National Centre for Citizenship & the Law (private charity) in Nottingham, England. Key objective: to "Keep Kids Away from Crime and Out of Prison" through experiential leanring in history and citizenship. In historic Lace Market; in use as courts and prisons from 1780s-1980s; court on site since 1375, prison since 1449. Crime & Punishment Tour, HM Prison Service Collection, Narrow Marsh Familiy Activities, school programs.

Geese Theatre Company (U.K.)
Prestigious company working within Criminal Justice System. Performances, workshops, groupwork in prisons, special hospitals and probation encouraging self-awareness and exploring change. Founded 1987, based on Geese Theater U.S.A.

Global Action Project
Media-arts and leadership training for young people living in underserved communities to create media on local and international issues as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

Global Art Project
Biennial international exchange resulting in thousands of people sending messages of peace and unity around the globe at one time.

Global Cultural Initiative
U.S. State Department partnership program with public and private cultural entities "to coordinate, enhance and expand America’s cultural diplomacy efforts worldwide." Projects designed to: "connect foreign audiences with American artists and art forms; share American expertise in arts management and performance; and educate young people and adults in the United States and abroad about the arts and cultures of other countries." Partners: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (arts management training programs, collaborative children’s theater series, arts festivals); American Film Institute (film festivals, filmmaker dialogues); NEA (literary exchanges, translation projects, publications); NEH (Landmarks Summer Institutes for K-12 teachers. Launched 2006.

Global Lives Project
Collaborative online video encyclopedia of human life experiences. International collective of filmmakers, designers, architects, activists and institutions from around the globe, including U.S., Japan, Brazil and Malawi. Goal is to record 24 hours in the lives of 10 people that roughly represent the diversity of our planet's population, creating an innovative video installation with the materials.

Global Media Research Center
Research and creative exchange around global media and its links to global economy: foreign news reporting, television programs, recorded music, advertising and public relations industries, world cinema, business telecommunications, applications of the internet. Podcasts, international conferences. Projects: The Nollywood Project , Young People's Videogame Uses in East Asia, The Billboard and Skin Shade Project, The Alternative Media and Social Movements Encyclopedia Project, The OurMedia/NuestrosMedios Project, The TeleVisions Project: TV Entertainment and "Race." Based at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Global Mural Arts & Cultural Tourism Association
Mission: "To market and publicize the abundant wealth of artists, towns and cultural events around the Globe... making this world a better place for all to live in." founded in Chemainus, B.C., Canada by Karl Schutz, who helped that town become a major tourist attraction through its murals programs.

GloballyAware
HIV/AIDS education and advocacy initiative established in Bali in 1997 by Australian psychologist and visual artist Kim Davis. Has partnered with every HIV/AIDS Harm Reduction NGO in Bali, and others from Jakarta to Africa.

Glocal Forum
International nongovernmental organization devoted to "city-to-city diplomacy." Network of over 100 cities from five continents and public- and private-sector partners that gather annually to promote "glocalization." Art programs in youth-development centers(Ethiopia, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone). Art photo projects to raise awareness of urgent situations. Research on art in peacebuilding activities.

Graffitti Art Programming (GAP)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, community youth art center, using art as a tool for community, social, economic and individual growth. For artists 8-28.

Grassroots Theatre Company
Zimbabwe performing arts organization from Bulawayo, South West Zimbabwe, specializing in theater for development using dance, drama and music as a process for informing and empowering local communities in Zimbabwe and overseas.

GuluWalk
Project drawing attention to plight of children of rural northern Uganda, who, to avoid abduction by the rebel army, walk every night towards the safety of larger cities, like Gulu, from as far as 12km away. Involves PeaceVox and other artists.

Haja Center
A.k.a. the Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture; South Korean organization partnered with Yonsei University; five "factories" for youth work on film and video, the web, pop music, design in life and civil culture. Founded by Cho Haejoang.

Handshouse Studio
Educational organization based in Massachusetts that "initiates adventurous hands-on projects as a way to explore history, understand science and perpetuate the arts." Elaborate projects around re-creating historical objects. Ex.: Bushnell's 1776 submarine; Polish wooden synagogues; ancient Egyptian obelisk. Founded by Rick and Laura Brown.

Headlines Theatre Company
Canadian issue-oriented company whose Theatre for Living is based on August Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Boal-technique training programs. Directed by David Diamond.

Heads Together Productions
Organization based in Leeds, England, that designs projects and manages creative teams in neighborhoods, schools, colleges and youth projects; partners range from socially excluded young people to senior managers in business.

Health and Arts Research Centre
Multidisciplinary research center linking arts, culture and wellbeing. Based in Australia. Research, publications, training, employment creation for local artists and cultural workers. Links to Gunungan Asia Pacific Network for Culture and Wellbeing.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Consortium of institutions, artists, scholars and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and social and political life in the Americas and provide "a better understanding of the many shared histories and practices in the Americas that defy national borders." Hemispheric annual course, annual Encuentros/Seminars, digital archive, Web Cuadernos, forums and newletter. Based at New York University.

HomeBase
Annual site-specific project devoted to exploration of "Home," marking a temporary base, a raw urban architectural site in a neighborhood undergoing change, and inviting international artists to engage in a three-week workshop that includes study, dialogue and communal dinners, followed by a three-week happening and a publication. A project of LABA (National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th St. Y) and the Educational Alliance. Founded/directed by artist Anat Litwin.

How States Are Using Arts and Culture to Strengthen Their Global Trade Development
Study on cultural exchanges with foreign countries; "sister state" relationships; cultural leaders included on trade missions, etc. Case studies, examples of successful programs, research citations, useful quotes. Written, published by NASAA, National Governors Association and NEA, 2003.

Imagine/RENDER
Global/local projects based in Burnsville, N.C. Mission "based on the understanding that creativity involves both the imagination and the ability to make the imagined come to life." Projects: Empty Bowls (far-reaching hunger/pottery project); Garden Projects; seminars/workshops like "extended season gardening" and "social justice through the arts." Founded by Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom.

Impact database
Bibliographical resource relating to research on social and economic effects of arts, culture and major events. Research theme: arts and culture; arts, culture and education; arts, culture and inclusion; arts and health; arts, culture and audience development; arts, culture and the economy; cultural tourism; major cultural events; and major sporting events, with an emphasis on research published since 2000. Developed, maintained by Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland; commissioned by the Scottish Executive, 2008.

Independent Street Arts Network
Independent group of presenters and promoters of street arts throughout the U.K. Networking, information sharing, collaboration, lobbying, training and advocacy.

Institute for Sustainable Communities
Independent, nonprofit "sustainable development" organization that provides training, technical assistance and financial support to communities. Mission: "to help communities around the world address environmental, economic, and social challenges to build a better future shaped and shared by all." Works in partnerships. Assumed management of Leadership for a CHanging world program in 2006. Founded 1991 by former Vermont Governor Madeleine M. Kunin. A Cross-Sector Resource.

International Child Art Foundation
Foundation promoting children's creativity with exhibitions, awards and special programs.

International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
Global network of national arts funding bodies. Research links, arts-agency profiles, descriptions of cultural policies around the world. Headquartered in Australia.

International Journal of Community Music
Peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research articles, practical discussions, timely reviews, readers’ notes and special issues concerning all aspects of community music. Defines community music as "music teaching-learning interactions and transactions that occur ‘outside’ traditional music institutions (e.g., university music departments, public schools, conservatories) and/or music teaching-learning interactions and transactions that operate in relation to traditional institutions."

Ixia
Think tank for public art practice. Forum events, field report, publications, research, public art directory, case studies, e-mail network. Based in Birmingham, England.

Jana Sanskriti
Cultural organization based in Calcutta, India. Supports 32 community theater groups in West Bengal that are using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to write and present plays about alcoholism, dowry deaths and the accountability of panchayats, or village councils. Directed by Sanjoy Ganguly. Subject of a French TV documentary by Julian Boal.

Jumblies Theatre
Canadian theater company that sets up multi-year residencies in urban neighborhoods and creates art with and about that community. Includes workshops, performances, installations, festivals, more. Founded by Ruth Howard in 2001; based in the Community Play Movement introduced in Canada in 1980 by Dale Hamilton. Site has links to articles about community-engaged theater.

KHOJ
International Artists' Association is an artist led, alternative forum for experimentation and international exchange based in India. Includes community-based art pograms in and around Delhi's Khirkee village where the studios are situated and beyond.

Katha
Nonprofit media organization in India working� in story, storytelling and story in culturelinking and education. Started in 1988 by Geeta Dharmarajan. Includes the Center for Sustainable Learning and the Story Research and Resource Centre.

Katikati, Mural Town
A town full of art in New Zealand.

Keys To The Studio
Music program in Toronto, Ont., Canada, designed specifically for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Gives emerging musicians the opportunity to collaborate with professional musicians in one-to-one sessions, rehearsals with bands made up of peers, workshops, recordings, public jam sessions and concert performances.

Kids'own
Northern Ireland organization publishing works by children. Came out of Pathways to Peace and Reconciliation in South Tyrone. Children with different religious and social backgrounds are brought together to share stories, art, music and drama.

Kultivator
Experimental cooperative of organic farming (Dyestad Organic Farm) and visual art practice (Art Initiative 16:2) situated in rural village of Dyestad, Öland Island, southeast coast of Sweden. Agri-Culture Shop; Guest Atelier/Project Room; In/Site and Out/Site spaces for meetings, seminars, screenings, installations; Whie cube Made Out of Cow Dung for exhibitions, gatherings. Maria Lindmark, Henric Stigeborn, Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Mathieu Vrijman.

Kuona Trust
Public art program in Nairobi, Kenya, in banks, buses and billboards; workshops, residencies, community programs with artists from African and other countries. Part of Africa CAN (Culture Africa Network), a seven-country partnership amassing a database to preserve African cultural history.

Kuratorisk Aktion
Platform for curators engaged in a critical practice along the lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. Founded by Danish-born curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen in 2005. "Merging feminist, queer, and activist informed approaches, Kuratorisk Aktion pledges itself to raise consciousness on the politics of representation and translate this consciousness into practice. We attempt to achieve this through a 65/35 percent representation of minoritarian and majoritarian subjectivities respectively in all our productions, at the same time as we open this procedure up to critique as part of the curatorial methodology."

LaborFest
Annual labor cultural, film and arts festival established San Francisco, Calif., 1994, "to institutionalize the history and culture of working people." Begins every July 5, anniversary of 1934 “Bloody Thursday” attack on S.F. strikers and supporters, touching off general strike and shutdown of city. Led to hundreds of thousands of workers joining the trade-union movement. Site is excellent link to international labor sites on the Web.

Land
Education and arts project of the East Lancashire Regional Park regeneration initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England. Involves local people in making a positive difference to their own surroundings through creative activity led by professional artists. Woodland walks, landscape features, exhibitions, documentation, recordings, teacher training, parades, storytelling.

Leonardo On-Line: Art, Science and Technology
International nonprofit organization that promotes and documents work at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology, and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists. Part of the Leonardo Network. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Life Home Project
Program for HIV+/AIDS women and their children in Thailand, including Art Programme and Hands Project.

Littoral
U.K. nonprofit arts trust with projects in Art & Agriculture, Rural Arts & Culture, Craft & Environment, Ireland/Arts & Trade unions, Deep Practice/Art & Sustainability.

Locus+
Visual-arts organization in Newcastle, England, that presents challenging contemporary art in nontraditional community settings.

Lokkala's Sabrang
Folk-art music and dance group based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Lokkala's Sabrang ("wanderer") is "a musical caravan throughout the Thar Desert." Cultural events, seminars, workshops, conferences, cultural tourism. Directed by Karun Goyal.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Cultural organization in San Pablo, Calif. (San Francisco East Bay Area) training youth in traditional arts. School for the Arts, community events, cultural exchange, mentorship, touring group, community recording studio.

MERA
McDonalds Corners-Elphin Recreation & Arts: volunteer-run community arts organization in rural eastern Ontario, Canada. Library; programs in children's activities, fibre arts, labyrinth, exhibitions, music, pottery, Tai Chi/Qigong, weaving, writing. Located in historic one-room schoolhouse renovated by the community.

Macnas
Physical theater in Ireland doing community plays and parade work. Toured with U2.

Magic Me
Organization with 16 years experience running intergenerational arts projects that link older people 55+ with young people aged 9 to 25 years in the East End of London.

Mailout
National magazine for people developing participation in the arts in the British Isles. Rob Howell & Sue Robinson, editors.

Making The Journey: Arts and Disability in Australia
Case studies of arts access organizations, activities and resources in every state and territory in Australia over 25 years. Available online in .pdf, .html and hardcopy. Written by Mary Hutchison, published by Arts Access Australia, 2006.

Manosegawa River Art Project
"Water Ekiden," created by four communities along the Manosegawa River in Kyshu, Japan, directed by artist Ichi Ikeda. Four water stations constructed to represent the different water situations of each district: to transfer rain water to desert communities; to capture and store spring water; to irrigate rice field with river water; and a canal to carry purified water along a former river bed.

MarketPlace: Handwork of India
Nonprofit fair-trade organization based in India marketing handwork of local women artisans. Artisans control the design process, management practices, profit sharing and social programs created by the group. Part of Women Artisan Co-op Network.

Masks: The Journal of Law and Theatre
Multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal based at University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Focus is on intersections of law and theater: courtroom as theater; historical connections between theater and Inns of Court; lawyer playwrights; images of lawyers in popular culture; law in literature studies of plays; and legislative theater. Submissions accepted from scholars, students and practitioners.

Medina Collective
Hip-hop/urban culture/journalism/mentorship program for young women of colour ages 16-24. Magazine with contributions from program participants. Founded by Tonika Morgan, based in Tornto, Ont., Canada.

Mind the...gap
Innovative performance company based in Bradford, England. Includes work with people with physical, sensory or learning disabilites, low literacy and mental-health histories. Programs include Drama Club, Summer School, Musical Arc and Youth Theatre.

Mizna
Organization based in Minneapolis, Minn., offering "prose, poetry and art exploring Arab America." Journal, annual film festival, gallery, classes, store.

Mortal Coil Performance Society
All-female stilt company offering "larger than life images" for community celebrations, festivals and parades; based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Mosaic the City
Artist-led public art project to enhance Victoria, B.C., Canada, with community-created mosaics, starting with Market Square. By Fusion Foundation, Rock Solid Foundations and Out of Hand Gallery.

Moving Lives
Digital storytelling project with young separated refugees in East London by PhotoVoice. Workshops to help them settle in the U.K., prepare for school/college and explore ideas around integration. Mentoring project in photography

Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers."

Music for Change
British organization interested in the intrinsic value of music and how it can play a vital role in community development, social inclusion and antiracist work through education, cooperation and building self-esteem.

Myths and Mirrors Community Arts
Community arts organization in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, a northern mining town. Based in two of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, the Flour Mill and the Donovan. "Under the shadow of the world’s highest smoke stack, we are committed to planting seeds of creativity and hope in slagheaps of burnt rock, and to joining with others in the creation of our common future." Theater, performance art, murals, mosaics, music and drumming, gardens, celebrations, rituals, stilting, face painting, costuming, visual arts, installations, video, film, games and popular education. Founded by Laurie McGauley

National Association of Poetry Therapy
International membership organization of poets, writers, journalkeepers, helping professionals, health care professionals, and educators who work in mental health, medical, geriatric, therapeutic, educational and community settings. Encompasses bibliotherapy (interactive use of literature) and journal therapy (the use of life-based reflective writing) as well as therapeutic storytelling, the use of film in therapy, and other language-based healing modalities. Publications, annual conference, newsletter, events, info on training and certification. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Network for the Arts in Health
Membership organization with directories and information about arts in healthcare in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Online conferences, newsletter, bibliography, interactive games.

Natural World Museum
“Museum without walls” international organization presenting art through innovative programs to inspire and engage the public in environmental awareness and action. Partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme through the Art for the Environment initiative. Traveling exhibition series, site-specific programs, symposia, interactive multimedia experiences, workshops, cultural performances, programs for children and youth and special community events.

New England Biolabs Foundation
Private foundation started in 1982 by the founder of New England Biolabs,Inc. to support grassroots organizations working with the environment, social change, the arts, elementary education and science. International grant programs to NGOS to support creative ways to spread their work to more listeners and to make a lasting impact by incorporating the arts and local culture. Special project: Artcorps.

On the Edge
Team of artists and researchers conducting an inquiry into the value of art as action between individuals in the everyday" in rural Scotland. Affiliated with Gray's College of Art. Arts projects, publications.

PSE Consultancy
New Zealand community and cultural organization providing support to community organizations, local authorities and enterprise boards in the field of cultural wellbeing and community planning. Workshops, seminars, research, publications, feasibility studies, resource management, community resource auditing, cultural mapping, strategic planning, budgeting, development of creative clusters and precincts. Programs in New Zealand, england and South Africa. directed by Penny Eames, founder of Arts Access Aotearoa.

Pale Girl in the African Sun
Theater artist Maureen Towey's documentation of her year in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar researching how performance can help re-imagine community identity. Includes slide shows and journal.

Pangeiart
Transnational nonprofit association producing cultural-exchange projects focused on creative processes in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Panopticons
Arts and regeneration project of East Lancashire Regional Park initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England to erect 21st century landmarks (Panopticons) across East Lancashire 2003-2007, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

PapaInk
International archive of children�s visual art supported by volunteer network of academicians, artists, teachers, parents and children.

Paprika Theare Festival
Annual juried festival in Toronto, Ont., Canada, presenting new theater works written, directed, acted, designed and stage managed by young artists under the age of 21. Founded by Anthony Furey in 2002; runs for two weeks every March.

Paving the way
Study mapping the youth-and-participatory-theater sector with baseline assessment of activity across England. Summarizes findings of an extensive mapping study, regional mapping reports and case-study research. Commissioned to inform development of the Young People's Participatory Theatre project a three-year initiative (2005/06 - 20008/09), funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). By Arts Council England in partnership with National Association of Youth Theatres, 2007.

Peace Child Israel
Nonprofit group based in Tel Aviv that has used theater to teach tolerance and mutual respect to Arab and Jewish teenagers.

PeaceVox
The artist as a voice for peace: "Global meeting place for peacebuilders of all kinds to express themselves through the arts, outside of the boundaries and restrictions of their work." Based in Canada.

Peninsula Europe
Ecological project by artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrision. Study of the effects of restoring biodiversity of highlands of Europe so rivers can become primary European source of pure water.

People's Palace Projects
NGO with arts/human rights projects. In Brazil: "Changing the Scene" in/outside juvenile justice system in Rio and "Staging Human Rights" in prisons across five states. In U.K.: "Lives Online" year-long performance, visual-art and Web-design program with teenagers excluded from school.

Performing the World
International community of people who recognize performance as a powerful developmental activity for social-cultural transformation. International conferences.

Phakama
Southern Africa educational project using community arts projects to train young people about human rights issues through leadership and facilitation. Part of the Communication Initiative.

Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)
70+ artist-teachers dedicated to "artistically excellent theater aesthetics and pedagogy towards the empowerment of people and society." Includes Mekong Partnership Project, School of People's Theater, projects with women, children, teens.

Platform
British artist/activists Dan Gretton, James Marriot and Jane Trowell working to help achieve an ecological and democratic society, with a primary focus on London, the Tidal Thames Valley and the oil industry.

Prison Arts Network
Network of artists working to provide access to arts for all prisoners. Web site is excellent resource for news, articles, photos and links to the field of arts and corrections worldwide.

Project Hope
Community-based collective, set up in 2003, and made up of Palestinians and others who are teaching languages, drama, art and healthcare to the young people of Palestine.

Project for Public Spaces
Nonprofit focused on "Placemaking." Has helped over 1,000 communities in 44 states and 12 countries improve parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries, public spaces. Based in work of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Public Art Online
Public art resource with information on projects, organizations, good practice in private and public sectors: urban/rural regeneration, arts in healthcare environments, educational buildings, industrial, commercial and retail settings, housing developments, protected built and natural environments and the transport infrastructure. Site offers practical guidance, case studies from around the world, links, news, information/current research. Managed by Public Art South West in Exeter, England.

Public Art and the Planning System and Process
Report on public-art planning process in England. Includes guidance on the preparation of a supplementary planning document for public art. By public-art think tank, ixia

Public Dreams Society
Canadian organization creating celebrations with community participation, including Illuminares, the Circus of Dreams and the Parade of Lost Souls.

Publicartonline
Online resource for public art by England's Public Art South West. Practical information, legal and policy guidance, case studies and news. Some international content.

Queensland Community Arts Network
Statewide community-based service in Queensland, Australia, that supports and promotes community cultural development practice. Creates links between groups, supports skills development of members, provides access to ideas, resources and information. Training, blog, indigenous program, magazine, events, publications, forums.

Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions
(Book) Twenty writers and artists evaluate what works and what doesn't for artists working toward social change in Canada. Discusses concrete examples and theory.

Radius of Arab American Writers
RAWI, progressive membership organization of fiction and nonfiction writers, essayists, poets, journalists, photojournalists, artists who work with words and academics of Arab heritage from the Arab lands. Largely concerned with English-medium literary works and professionals working in English, and issues of social justice. Annual conference, newsletter, opportunities, members' writings and profiles.

Rafani
Artist group in Czech Republic, founded in Prague in 2000. Mostly gallery political work, but some activist public art and art in schools. See site by Kristofer Paetau for documentation in English.

Refugee Week
U.K.-wide program of arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the U.K., and encourages a better understanding between communities. (Refugee Week 200: June 18-24.)

Regent Park Focus Media Arts Centre
Youth program in Toronto's Regent Park, Canada’s largest public housing community, to develop prevention programs and activities exploring radio and print journalism, and audio, video, photography arts. Catch da Flava Newe, Catch da Flava Radio, E.Y.E. Video Library, Focus Music Studio, Zapparoli Photo Studio. Directed by Adonis Huggins.

Res Artis
International network of artist residencies. Many member organizations work in close contact with their surrounding communities.

Research in Art, Nature & Environment (RANE)
Research cluster University College Falmouth, Cornwall, England, examining the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking. Creative research projects, public lecture series, conferences.

Restorative Arts U.K.
U.K. arts company using drama, music and visual arts to encourage long- and short-term offenders and young people at risk of offending to engage with concepts of responsibility, empathy and tolerance.

Restorative Justice Online
Service of the Centre for Justice & Reconciliation at Prison Fellowship International, a prison ministry founded 1976 by Charles Colson. Nonpartisan source of information on restorative justice, "a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused or revealed by criminal behavior." Resources section devoted to program creation, operation and evaluation, public policy, theory. Searchable database of 5,000 articles. Calendar on RJ conferences worldwide. Newsletter, links. In English, Spanish. French. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation)
Develops innovative, arts-based approaches to working with prisoners and staff within U.K. prisons, mostly Midlands. Drama-based activities leading to performance; programs that explore impact of criminal behaviour on offenders, their families and others. Programs: The Dialogues Project, Restorative Justice Film, The Creative Prison, short courses for inmates on anger management and substance-related offending.

Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Downtown Vancouver, B.C., Canada, community arts center with a community cultural development mandate. Arts, sports and recreation programs: classes and workshops, artist residencies, partnerships and special events.

STAR Radio
Broadcasting event in Cardiff, Wales, 2005, initiated by artist Jennie Savage "to create an audio archive that represented a multiplicity of voices from this place." Based in a shop on Clifton Street for six months. The shop formed a hub for the project, people came in to make radio programs, drop off music and take part. Products: one-week eek radio broadcast, exhibition at National Museum and Galleries of Wales, and publication, "STAR a Psychotopography of Place," with audio as archive on DVD. Audio was also available online for two years after project’s conclusion.

Sachaqa Art Center
Arts center in Amazon jungle of Peru. Offers ecologically friendly, affordable art studios.

Sandblast
Network of artists and academics promoting the right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination through celebration of their culture. Based in U.K.

Sanfte Strukturen
Atelier of Swiss architect Marcel Kalberer. Creates structures of living willow-bundles, adapted from the sumerian reed-constructions in Mesopotamia. Fifty living willow structures, including houses, community gathering places and cathedrals, created by hundreds of community volunteers in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Austria and Switzerland.

Sarai
New Media Initiative, program of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India, "an alternative, nonprofit space for an imaginative reconstitution of urban public culture, new/old media practice and research and critical cultural intervention." Includes scholarly reflection and creative work on film & video, computers, telephony, print culture, radio, multimedia and the Internet.

Search for Common Ground
U.S. nongovernmental organization in partnership with the European Centre for Common Ground in Brussels, working to transform conflict into cooperative action. Arts and Culture Department undertakes community-based arts projects worldwide.

Second Wave Dance
Leader in new community dance movement in Cornwall, England. Proponent of Noze Looan, updated Cornish roots dance and music featuring mass community participation.

Sheepfolds
Artist Andy Goldsworthy's major countywide sculpture project in the Lakes District, Cumbria, England.

Slum-TV
Grassroots film project featuring newsreels made by/about people living in Mathare, the biggest slum in Kenya, with some 700,000 inhabitants and no electricity, running water or sewage system.

Smashing Times Theatre Company
Dublin theater company that provides expertise and training in community-based theater throughout Ireland. Prioritizes work with groups experiencing social and economic disadvantage, reflecting a belief that drama can be a catalyst for personal and community development.

Social Arts Network
SANe facilitates communication between people who are interested in development of socially inclusive arts practice and productions. Memberships, forums, groups, photos, videos. Managed by Escape Artists, based in U.K.

Some Australian Arts Statistics
Results of recent surveys by Australian government illustrating national arts climate, arts employment, arts participation, and distribution of resources. Written, published by Australia Council for the Arts, 2003.

Sound Sense
U.K. development agency for community music. It promotes significance and value of community music; assists the professional development of people practising and participating in it.

Southern African Theatre Initiative
"The Voice and Soul of Theatre in Southern Africa." Regional organization formed by theater practitioners for development of theater in Southern Africa. Network iscentral co-ordinating body for Theatre in 14 countries that make up the Southern African Development Community. Networking, workshops, research, festivals. Site has extensive database of theater organizations in region.

Spare Tyre Theatre Company
London-based company making musical theater from personal stories with women fleeing domestic violence, elders and young people with and without learning disabilities, experiencing homelessness and who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.

Stage Left
Grass-roots community-development and social-action performance company based in Calgary, Alb., Canada, "engaging in professional artist-community collaboration." Uses Popular Theater, Theatre of the Oppressed and interdisciplinary Performance Creation techniques. Works extensively with people with physical, sensory, learning and/or developmental disability, brain injury, chronic illness and/or mental illness; lesbigay youth; street-involved youth; politically motivated youth; culturally diverse youth; Ethno-cultural communities; First Nations; and other marginalized communities and their allies ". Recognized for advancing the global disability culture movement, developing Performance Creation Canada network, and conducting Theatre of the Oppressed-based social-justice work. Annually produces Balancing Acts: Calgary's Annual Disability Arts Festival.

Statistical Indicators for Arts Policy: Discussion Paper from IFACCA
Identifies current work and global resources on cultural indicators, explores analytical and coordination issues and makes suggestions for future. Summarizes IFACCA's work on the issue to date; provides brief overview of cultural-indicators literature. Written, published by International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), 2004.

Stitching Truth: Women’s Protest Art in Pinochet’s Chile
Study guide on the arpilleristas, women who used their art and tapestries to attract international attention to the human rights abuses occurring during Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, 1973-1990. Includes historical narrative, primary sources, poetry, discussion questions and images of the arpilleras (tapestries). Downloadable from the Web site of Facing History and Ourselves.

Stone & Water
A South Korean "supplement space ... extending from the realm of art to the scope of life" in An Yang. "Moves towards the new art movement based on social, regional networks, pushing ahead various artistic activities based on local and public interests." Projects: Education, public art, international artists' residencies. + Anyang-River Project, Seoksu-Market Project, Art Education Project. Directed by Chan Eung Park.

Stories from Egypt
Australian artist James Winter's community project in Cairo, Egypt.

Story Workshop (Malawi)
Artist-scholar team "creating entertainment for social change in Malawi" on behalf of human rights, democracy, AIDS education, literacy, etc. Using radio, TV, comics, village drama.

Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility
(Book) Contributors from South Africa, the Czech Republic, Iran, Poland, Mexico and the U.S. discuss the role of artists in their own societies and analyze their activist identities as a basis for their own work. Writers include Fusco, Ehrenberg, Ndebele, Dyson and Sadri.

Suitcases and Sanctuary
Exhibition by local London children with actors, poets and artists exploring history of waves of immigration that shaped Spitalfields neighborhood. Installed at 19 Princelet Street, home to waves of French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, Bengali and Somali newcomers. Exhibition and house preserved by The Spitalfields Centre charity.

Survivors Art Foundation
Nonprofit organization committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via Internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications and development of employment skills. Participants from 20 countries and 48 states. Based in Westhampton, N.Y.

TIGed
Virtual classroom resource for educators by TakingITGlobal, an international organization based in Toronto, Ont., Canada, "led by youth and empowered by technology." TIGed includes The Activities Database, a collection of global education-related activities, linked to curriculum, submitted by teachers and partners; Collaboration Tools: special features to help educators find partners for global collaborations; Video Chat to enable student dialogue across cultures and geographies in real time.

Teenage Life
Organization in Tanzania carrying out projects to educate young people about HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), media and culture. Workshops and presentations at Tanzanian universities, schools and communities and 30 cities worldwide. Uses information and communication technology, video, television, radio, music, intercultural exchange, publications, numerous partnerships. Co-founded Tanzanian Youth Network, co-operates an orphanage center for Tanzanian children. Founded in Dar es Salaam, 2000.

Terra Nova
Web site of eco-artist Hermann Prigann (Spain) working to restore lands in Eastern Europe that have been damaged by resource extraction.

The Art of the Animateur
Research report called "an investigation into the skills and insights required of artists to work effectively in schools and communities." Action research project on practices and environments necessary for high-quality work work of animateurs (teaching artists in England). First stage of longer-term inquiry. By George Odam, Anna Ledgard, Christopher Lucas, et al. (Animarts in partnership with The London International Festival of Theatre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2003).

The Bottom Line: Promoting safety awareness in fishing communities through community arts
Report presenting details of use of a range of arts-based activities including drama, music, writing and graphics designed to promote safety awareness in three fishing communities in Newfoundland. Written by Michael Murray and Neil Tilley, published by Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005.

The Communication Initiative
Extensive Web site related to international "communication for development." Methodologies, change theories, publications, forums, newsletters, calendar, jobs, more.

The Connies
Australian performance troupe of former tramway conductors. "Connies bring a yarning, poetic and singing trammie tradition, dress in uniforms that span the eras of tram fashion and swing beautifully crafted conductors leather bags. Connies produce tickets in the form of swap cards that track environmental, cultural, social, historical, and tramway themes. We educate and inform. Original artwork, performances and themes are created as required." Organized by Robert D'Andrea.

The Gathering Space
Community-based arts project in Junction neighborhood of Toronto, Ont., Canada, led by artist Loree Lawrence. Works with residents to gather stories, images, and text and leave traces of artwork throughout the neighborhood. Indoor and outdoor installations, ephemeral performances, public workspace and gallery at 2804 Dundas St. West, shared with Cool Hand of a Girl Coffee Shop.

The Long March - A Walking Visual Display
Project by Long March Foundation New York and 25000 Cultural Transmission Center Beijing, curated by Lu Jie. Uses Red Chinese Army's Long March (1934-1936) as framework to bring contemporary art to backwater Chinese towns along the Long March route.

The Mirror Art Group
Thai nonprofit NGO in Chiang Rai province working with hilltribe peoples to combat unemployment, poverty, drug addiction withtout losing cultural identity. Virtual Hilltribe Museum (with blogs), Bannock TV, Missing Persons Locator,more.

The PhotoBooth Project
Ongoing photographic project to document communities across the U.S. and create public installations of the collected portraits in those communities. Lightweight portable studio can be shipped to any community gathering place or cross roads. Irion creates installations of resulting portraits: images, each usually 16x24”, digitally printed on rolls of paper, hung like wallpaper as one contiguous surface.

The Power of Culture
Site reviewing art and cultural expressions in conjunction with human rights, education, the environment, emancipation and democratization around the world. By the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. E-mail newsletter, calendar, festivals, links.

The Regional Arts Lottery Programme: An Evaluation
Extensive evaluation of the U.K.'s Regional Arts Lottery Programme, which gave out more than 2000 awards 1999-2002 worth than 59 million pounds+ ($88 million+). Shows how they filled a gap between small project grants and large capital investments, making projects possible and developing organizations. Also makes recommendations for improving the program. By Annabel Jackson and Graham Devlin (The Arts Council of England, 2003).

The Schumacher Circle
A collective "family" of organizations in the U.K. inspired by E.F. Schumacher ("Small Is Beautiful") and his vision of the connections among things. Their mutual support represents the "joined up thinking" (hybridity) that promotes sustainable development in the ecology movement. Includes the Schumacher Society, Resurgence Magazine, Green Books, Intermediate Technology Development Group, New Ecnomics Foundation, the Soil Association, Centre for Alternative Technology and E.F. Schumacher Society (USA). A Cross-Sector Resource.

The Stone Library
Web site of British poet/public artist Alyson Hallett. Her ongoing project, "the migration habits of stones," involves carrying stones around the world with words carved into them. This site documents other public art projects by Hallett, including poetry in the pavement in Milsom Street, Bath; windows in Bradley Stoke Library, Bristol, with text written by young people who attended workshops run by Hallett in the local youth club; poetry sited on a garage in Hartland, Devon, during a residency at The Small School; poems and text on the windows of St. Matthias Library, Bristol; and more. "The Stone LIbrary" is also the title of a book of her poems, published by Peterloo poets in 2007.

Theatre Embassy
International theater organization with youth projects in Nicaragua, Namibia, Georgia, Egypt, Bolivia and more. "Theatrical expression is the opposite of oppression and the ultimate way of uniting people."

Theatre and Development in Canada
Searchable database/registry of Canadian projects, practitioners, researchers, teachers, and resources in field of theater and development. Includes popular and political theater; theatre for personal, social, and community development; participatory, celebratory, and intercultural theater and large-scale Collaborative Community Play. Anyone may register. By Edward Little and Michael Longford, Concordia University.

TheatreWorks Consulting
Company based in Victoria, B.C., Canada, that offers workshops using games and exercises of Theatre for Living to work for healthy change in schools, communities, organizations and workplaces.

Tostan
African grassroots organization using the arts in nonformal education in local languages (the Community Empowerment Program) to educate poor villagers in Senegal and neighboring countries about development and human rights. Uses modern and traditional African oral techniques, including theater, storytelling, dance, artwork, song, debate, and the sharing of personal experience. "Community-led successes" in six countries in West and East Africa: abandoning female genital cutting, ending child marriage, promoting grassroots democracy, improving maternal and child health, preventing and treating malaria and more. Microcredit program, prison project.

Tramtactic
Australian "organic non-organisation of people who come together with artist Mick Douglas to undertake art projects in the public domain departing from the potential of tramways." Temporary public art events, many aboard trams in both Australia and India; publication.

Transformative Learning Centre
Based at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Supports open, supportive collaboration in transformative learning with all OISE/UT departments and centers. Includes arts/cultural strategies. Five main programs of research, teaching and action: Peace and Human Rights Education, Environmental Education, Popular Education and Community Development, Spirituality and Education, Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy. Conferences, newsletter, summer institute, online photo galleries. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Trilby Multimedia
Based in Birmingham, England. Established1993 to use new media formats for social and cultural development. Peer group approach to production of educational CD-ROMs, Websites, databases, videos, exhibitions and printed material.

Trust for Mutual Understanding
Makes grants to U.S. nonprofits supporting cultural and environmental exchange between the U.S., Russia and Eastern and Central Europe.

UHC Collective
Political artists' collective in Manchester, England. Postcards, posters, T-shirts, 'zines, exhibitions, campaigns, education.

UNESCO: Issues on Culture & Development
Information from UNESCO about the movement linking international development with cultural issues. History of the movement, plus information on cultural policy, creativity and the arts, cultural tourism, intercultural dialogue, gender equity, much more.

Umbrage Editions' Traveling Exhibition Program
Museum-quality exhibitions of photographs complementing Umbrage Editions' publications on subjects including global human rights, AIDS, the Tibetan struggle, Cuba, innocent prisoners and more.

Under Pressure
International newsletter from Holland offering news from the "Theatre of the Oppressed community" utilizing methods of Augusto Boal.

Under the Volcano
annual arts and activism festival, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Undesirable Elements
Interactive Web site dedicated to Ping Chong’s "Undesirable Elements/Secret History" series, an ongoing community-specific oral-history theater project exploring issues of race, culture and identity in the lives of individuals living between cultures. Since 1992, Ping Chong has created over 30 works in this series in U.S. and abroad. Site contains background information, production history, photos, script and video samples, frequently asked questions, related links, resources for further research, interactive features.

Unit for the Arts and Offenders
U.K.-based umbrella organization that supports the development of the arts within criminal justice settings. Focus on prisoner literacy and hard evidence of educational value of prison arts programs. Publications.

Valley and Vale Community Arts
Organization in South Wales working with "isolated, excluded and vulnerable people and communities, offering Community Arts and Media as tools for individual and community development" since 1981.

Vancouver Park Board Arts and Culture
Sophisticated community cultural-development project operated by the Board of Parks and Recreation in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Programs: funding for Community Engaged Arts and Neighbourhood Projects; Artist In Residence Program; Neighbourhood Matching Fund; Public Art; Artist/Performers Guide; numerous special events; guide to arts courses in community centers, links to local community arts organizations. Initiatives: Arts, Health and Seniors Project; Stanley Park Environmental Art Project. Arts an Culture Coordinator: Artist Jil P. Weaving.

Veith Street Gallery Studio Association
Organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that supports artists with disabilities and related challenges. Programs: Creative Spirit East artist collective, exhibited through Veith Street Gallery and Pedway Picture Gallery in Dartmouth; Artist in Residence Program; The Visual Connections Project, educational programs for persons with disabilities and community-service providers.

Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods
Los Angeles, Calif.-based media arts organization working primarily with low-income children in photography, film and digital arts locally, regionally and internationally. Arts mentoring programs, ArtPartners, Institute for Photographic Empowerment (with USC Annenberg school for Communication), Social Art Initiative. Directed by Lynn Warshafsky and Jim Hubbard.

Videoletters
Project connecting friends, colleagues and neighbors separated by the war in the former Yugoslavia through videoletters. Web site, broadcast TV series, mobile recording studio, documentary film. By Dutch filmmakers Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek.

Virtual Museum of Holocaust and Genocide Art
Online annotated/illustrated directory of art materials related to the Nazi Holocaust and many other genocides: museum exhibitions & catalogues, artist responses, public Holocaust memorials, Web links, histories, narratives, photos, documents, educational resources, bibliography. Project of Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U. of Minnesota.

Walk the Plank
Nonprofit organization located in Salford, England, that creates elaborate outdoor theater and fireworks shows. Also works in partnership with local authorities and agencies to create participatory projects for children, young people and adults. Operates a theater ship.

We, The World
Global network of collaboration among those working for peace, sustainability and transformation. Programs: Public International Events, Interdependence Day, Art for Children's Sake, The International Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, World Communities Interchange, Ethical Impact Reports. A Cross-Sector Resource.

What If...
Collaboration between artists and community about public space in Cork, Ireland. Started by Cork Community Arts Link during 2005, Cork's year as European Capital of Culture. Projects in street art, parades, installations, collaborations with hospital patients, etc.

Witness
International human-rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in human-rights advocacy campaigns. Provides video cameras and editing equipment, exposure partners' issues on a global scale. Brokers relationships with international media outlets, government officials, policymakers, activists and general public. Partnerships, memberships. Founded 1992 by musician/activist Peter Gabriel and Reebok Human Rights Foundation. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Yara Arts Group
Collaborative group of artists from New York and Mongolia, preserving that region's vanishing Buryat culture through theater and poetry.

Yonke Public Art
Artists on the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales, Sonora, Mex. Site-specific community arts projects. Murals, lectures, conferences, workshops, courses. Founded 1995 by Guadalupe Serrano and Alberto Morackis.

Young Artist Explorers
Documentation of community-based project between California artist Jamie Treacy and 12 young artists in Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico, July-October 2006. Three-month free art curriculum and materials, inlcuding exhibition and Web site. With Oaxaca artist Gerardo de la Barerra, Casa de la Cultura of Tlacolula and a student grant from California College of Arts Center for Art and Public Life in Oakland.

Youtharts.ie
Youth arts portal by the National Youth Council of Ireland: key issues, youth work, overview of 49 organizations, links, resources, jobs.

ZOO
French site documenting artworks in and about nature, commissioned by communities.

art'ishake
Arts, culture, social change and development magazine by Arts For Global Development and ActALIVE.

ccd.net (Community Cultural Development in Australia)
Community Arts Network of South Australia Web project offering members self-publishing, forums, e-zine, resources and "CCD in Action" project register.

myvillages.org
Initiates discussion and practice-based projects addressing notion of the village within contemporary cultural discourse and development. By artists Kathrin Böhm (Germany, U.K.), Wapke Feenstra (Netherlands) and Antje Schiffers (Germany). Projects in artist's home villages: farmers' videos and artists' exhibited and bartered; with village women, establishment of line of goods for market stall at village fete. 2003 Village convention: contextual Art in Rural Environments (England).

ph15
Photography project by Martin Rosenthal with children in the shantytowns of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

unitednationsplaza
unitednationsplaza "is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year [2007]. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part. unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr." Events, seminars, reading room, architecture, broadcasts.