Deborah Barndt is Professor and Coordinator of the Community Arts Practice (CAP) Certificate Program and Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Second Edition and editor of Wild Fire: Art as Activism.

Preface. Who, Why and How VIVA?

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Rooted in Place, Politics, Passion, and Praxis: Decolonization, Popular Education, Community Arts and Participatory Action Research

PART I. RECOVERING CULTURAL HISTORIES: From Indigenous to Diasporic Contexts

Introduction

1. Planting Good Seeds: The Kuna Children's Art Workshops
Jesús Alemancia (CEASPA, Kuna Yala, Panama)

2. The Lost Body: Recovering Memory-A Personal Legacy
Diane Roberts (Personal Legacy Project, Vancouver, Canada)

PART II. TRANSFORMING URBAN SPACES: From PostColonial Neighborhoods to Public Squares

Introduction

3. Out of the Tunnel There Came Tea: Jumblies Theatre's Bridge of One Hair Project
Ruth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto, Canada)

4. Telling Our Stories: Training Artists to Engage with Communities
Christine McKenzie (Catalyst Center, Toronto, Canada)

5. A Melting Pot Where Lives Converge: Tianguis Cultural de Guadalajara
Leonardo David de Anda Gonzalez and Sergio Eduardo Martínez Mayoral (Tianguis Cultural and IMDEC, Guadalajara, Mexico)

6. Painting by Listening: Participatory Community Mural Production
Sergio G. Valdez Ruvalcaba (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico)

7. Connecting the Dots: Linking Schools and Universities Through the Arts
Amy Shimson-Santo (UCLArtsBridge, Los Angeles, USA)

8. With Our Images, Voices and Cultures Bilwivision: A Community Television Channel
Margarita Antonio and Reyna Armida Duarte (URACCAN, Bilwi, Nicaragua)

Epilogue. Critical Hope

Notes
Glossary
About the Editor, Contributors, and Videographers
VIVA! Project Partners' Contacts
Photo and Drawing Credits
VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas: Nine Videos (on accompanying DVD)
Index