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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"cultural arts"”.
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Promoting Cultural Arts Access through Sensory-Friendly Theatre
… environmental modification to increase community cultural arts participation for people with disabilities and their families.</p>
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Reviving the Cultural Arts of the Islamic Geometries into Contemporary Interior Design.
… research is an attempt to find a synthesis of cultural identity within contemporary design. The proposed framework explores key features of a cultural and a contemporary style design language, as well as their modifications, to where both styles can be integrated. The drive behind this study is …
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Art education for social justice: empowering marginalized Korean students through a community cultural arts program
… to understand how students responded to a multicultural art education curriculum designed and implemented to help multicultural students in Korea develop self-esteem and see themselves more positively, while also imparting to them a strong sense of their value as individuals. I had I hoped to …
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Providing Cultural Balance for Young Americans
… near ubiquitous presence in America compared to cultural arts. Its influence on the development of children is almost impossible to ignore. My thesis will study an approach to engaging young people by way of location-based projects that synthesize two or more art forms (e.g. theatre arts, …
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There is a Monster in my House, Cultura Cura Uncovering 11 Milliones de Sueños: Understanding the Emotional and Psychological Experiences of Undocumented and Mixed-Status Youth and Finding Healing Spaces
… and undocumented youth, and explores the Mexican cultural arts as a healing space for this community of children. This research expands our mental health understanding of undocumented and mixed status children, capturing the undocu-trauma these participants describe in narrating the chronic fear …
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The Formulation of an Adult Dramatic Program for the Division of Recreation and Parks in Henrico County, Virginia
… a course of action through which the dramatic arts program may move closer to the objectives established for it by the HDRP administration. The dramatic arts program for adults, as set forth in the thesis, should create specific goals so that the HDRP may provide a consistent direction for the …
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PORTLAND, MAINE: A CULTURAL GATEWAY CONNECTING WATERFRONT AND CITY
… thesis explores how a community oriented multi-cultural arts facility on the Portland, Maine waterfront can serve as a meaningful link between both the city and the waterfront, and city residents and an increasing flow of tourist traffic. Involving community members in its performances and …
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Symbolic meanings in the Ghanaian arts : a step towards developing cultural literacy
While the cultural policy adopted by Ghana on her attainment of political independence aims to offer the Ghanaian people opportunities to revive, preserve, and develop their indigenous culture, not much has been done in terms of documenting the Ghanaian cultural arts for both cultural record and …
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Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action in the Era of Colorblind Racism
… organizing, education, religious work and cultural arts. Research data was primarily generated/collected through qualitative interviews, and secondarily through an examination of participant artifacts and through participant observation. The findings revealed how participants engage (and …
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Carnivalizing the Nation: Reassessing the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival as an Inclusive Platform for Local and Diaspora Cultural Identity
<p>Trinidad and Tobago's 2020 National Cultural policy ostensibly seeks to build the twin islands’ cultural confidence through the development of a unifying and empowering national cultural identity. However, this research asserts that the current policy undermines these national goals by …
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Performers' Experiences of Participation in Sensory Friendly Performances
… that limit access to community participation in cultural arts, which negatively impacts quality of life. Existing literature on sensory friendly theatre focuses on parent and organizational stakeholders and supports the promise of sensory friendly programming designed with occupational therapy …
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Urban Brownfield Integration – Site Planning and Design Implementation of the Baltimore Community Center
… land use uses ranging from parks to centers for cultural arts. The basic premise of this thesis project is to investigate what can be done to reclaim the often-vast parcels of land that are considered Urban Brownfields – land that once held active industry, but now is left abandoned. The Allied …
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Black mothers and othermothers: Lived consequences and creative responses to the policing of space in Central City, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
… center privileges the dynamic construction of cultural memory shaped by state violence, vulnerability, and trauma; but, more importantly, it also emphasizes a culture of resilience, negotiation, and reimagining. The key theoretical intervention of my dissertation is an intersectional analytical …
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Cultural Aesthetic Experience: Perceptions of Learning Developed through Cultural Immersion
This study explored the role of cultural aesthetic expressions (often also referred to in this study as cultural arts) play in perceptions of learning while individuals are in the ongoing process of being immersed in a non-native culture. This inquiry focused specifically on the narratives of seven …
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From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
<p>This work examines the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles (PASLA), one of several cultural arts responses to the 1965 Watts Rebellion. Fundamentally, this work seeks to restore to memory and discourse the work of the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles, its founder Motojicho Vantile …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… animate community; sustain and convey cultural memory; reclaim lost spaces; incorporate marginalized stories; counter and resist master narratives; forge bridges of pre-and post disaster identities; and open an imaginative space to envision recovery. For this study I draw from the …