Othering & Belonging Institute: 3-Part Series on Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Who tells your story? Who maps your community? Who owns the data? What knowledge is valid?
This 3-Part introductory series on Participatory Action Research hosted by the Highlander Research and Education Center, Southwest Folklife Alliance and the Othering & Belonging Institute focuses on how Participatory Action Research can be used by artists and organizers to advance racial justice.
Workshop 1 - Research for Radical Imagination: The Tools We Already Have with Allyn Maxfield-Steele of the Highlander Research & Education Center
Para acceder a este taller en español, favor de hacer clic en https://youtu.be/9IN07okGBs4
PAR Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1heEP_aq444S4SP1jzqc2HWJPObQs7KI25leI1AbkijU/edit
Research for Radical Imagination: The Tools We Already Have with Allyn Maxfield-Steele of the Highlander Research & Education Center
Workshop 2 - Research for Radical Imagination: Research for Radical Imagination: Listening for Transformative Questions with Evan Bissel of the Othering & Belonging Institute and Tamika Walker Torres of the Safe Return Project.
Worksheet for this session (ENGLISH): https://bit.ly/3kFKiI7
Worksheet for this session (español): https://bit.ly/33SNhWT
In this second workshop, Evan Bissell of the Othering & Belonging Institute and Tamisha Walker Torres of Safe Return Project will explore how they have worked to develop transformative research questions and how different kinds of questions can be used in different situations to cultivate radical imagination.
Workshop 3 - Documenting Ourselves: A Folklife How-To with Selina Morales of the Southwest Folklife Alliance and Jeanine Osyanade of Dunya Performing Arts Company and the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore PA
Para acceder a este taller en español, favor de hacer clic en https://youtu.be/9IN07okGBs4
In this third workshop, Selina Morales of the Southwest Folklife Alliance and Jeanine Osyanade of Dunya Performing Arts Company and the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore PA will discuss community news sources, identify modes of documentation for community events, and present a case study of a documentation project focused on the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore PA to illuminate impacts of producing community-centered documentation.