My first academic publication! :)

I recently published a paper about my research on a social justice theatre program called Theatre of Witness in Northern Ireland in the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. It's a special issue on community arts programs. The link for the journal and the abstract are below. The title of my article is: The Transformative and Healing Power of Theatre of Witness".

https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae/issue/view/360

Abstract

This article describes the healing and transformative effects of a social justice theatre program called Theatre of Witness on participants and community members in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It begins with a review of relevant literature, including sections about artistic ways of knowing, transformative learning through theatre and storytelling, and theatre for peacebuilding. The research is still in process; however, the findings have some similarities to research done on other social justice theatre programs used for peacebuilding. The key themes of this program are authentic, vulnerable storytelling through testimonial theatre, and a process of empathy development by humanizing the “other.”