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Call for Submissions: Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities

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Scholar by Eeckhout Gerbrand Van Den

Scholar by Eeckhout Gerbrand Van Den

Stole this off the SEARCHgrads email, where it was posted by Judi Piggott, who used to head up SEARCH. Do note that this is an unpaid call for research contributions; normally I don’t post unpaid opportunities, but it’s an excellent cause, it’s academic publishing (which never pays anyway, except in tenure) and it serves to further the professionalism of the field because it is, after all, research.

Call for Abstracts A New Book in the CAIP (Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice) Research Series

Publisher:  Detselig Temeron Press

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP, http://www.ijcaip.com

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D., Fine Arts, University of Calgary

“Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities

The CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research text series was launched with the inaugural text  “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” published by Detselig Temeron Books, Editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor,  Robert Kelly, scheduled for release in April 2010. (http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” introduced the emerging field with illustrative examples, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the applications of the creative arts in research action and interdisciplinary practice for hope and change.

Hear what our CAIP, Inquiries for Hope and Change contributors (bk. l) have to say about creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice for  “hope and change” here

New Call for Abstracts for Book 2 in the CAIP research series:

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities

In our upcoming book, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice “Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities” there will be a particular focus on arts and community based research that transforms and empowers individuals and communities.  We are interested in arts and research within neighbourhoods and cities, across continents and beyond borders.  Currently we are seeking illustrative and accessible research accounts about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice, progressive research that offers hope for change across cultures and communities locally and globally.

These are a just a few of the themes and subjects areas that may be explored in text 2:

  • arts research and community based research CBR/ arts and participatory methods
  • arts in research and practice re-building or bridging communities in conflict (visual arts, dance, performance, narrative/poetry, installation etc.)
  • arts in research and interdisciplinary practice across cultures for global change
  • ethnographic/oral history field studies leading to arts  for social justice, anti-oppression work, empowerment
  • arts in research for improved health and quality of life, examples poverty, homelessness, environment, youth, crime, aging, urban studies
  • arts used in distinctive and innovative ways, transformative new methods that  explore and challenge..creative new ways to investigate, explore, articulate  and communicate research findings while working actively within communities to create change.

Submissions:

Send an abstract (max. l pg.)  with name, affiliation and a brief bio and  an indication of your references as an email  Word attachment to the editor, CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with “submission “Research for Change Across Cultures and Communities”  in the subject line.  English language submissions only.   Deadline extended:  March 20, 2010 for abstracts.  Selected candidates will be contacted with a request for a  full article  submission for the book and additional information will be provided at that time.  Due date for full articles will be e/o May 2010. Please be aware that we are seeking research related articles.

Cheryl McLean, Editor, Publisher, IJCAIP
The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
website:  http://www.ijcaip.com email:  CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

CAIP BOOK BLOG:  http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com

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Sociable! Book Launch Thursday

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Sociable Book Cover

Sociable Book Cover

Come out to the plus V Lounge in Yaletown to support local authors and social media phenomena Shane Gibson and Steve Jagger, who are launching their new book Sociable! Deets from the Facebook invitation:

5-8pm, Thursday, January 28th

V Lounge above Earl’s in Yaletown

1095 Mainland Street, Vancouver

This is the official launch party for the book Sociable! As many of you know Sociable! is about using social media to connect with people and develop meaningful business relationships. Come out, mingle and be Sociable!

Copies of Sociable! will be available for purchase and Stephen Jagger and Shane Gibson would be pleased to sign them for you.

* Those who plan on purchasing a book, please bring cash or a cheque as we won’t have credit card processing capabilities on site.

This year has seen an explosion of books on various aspects of social media, most particularly from local authors. Not only Shane and Steve but also Tris Hussey, Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo, and Rebecca Bollwitt have new books out this Spring. All are both local to Vangroover and world-class experts in social media, and all of them are friends of mine so I dare not play favorites here except that AHEM Shane, Steve, Julie and Darren are the only ones who’ve invited me to their book launch…yet…and somehow they’re also the only ones whose announcements made it onto my blog). All six were profiled recently in a Vancouver Sun article by Gillian Shaw, whom I also know, for lo, yo, I know everyone in this scene.

Vancouver is the most Facebooked city in the world per capita and, I believe, the second most Twittered. It’s a socially quite isolationist city, and cliques here can be very difficult to break into; it’s not that people are really heartless, but for whatever reason we’ve got these social silos side by side and there’s very little interaction between groups. That’s why Lori and I started the Shebeen Club almost five years ago: to provide a place where everyone involved in Vancouver literature, whether magazine publisher, book designer, journalist, screenwriter, poet, storyteller, or student could come together as equal participants and share ideas and a few drinks and a lot of fun. Getting back to digital social media (whisky is very social, duh!) I think that one of the key reasons Vancouverites are so interactive online is because we do sense the lack of connectedness in our culture, and are driven to address it in easily-accessible ways. Essentially, the social urge in Vancouver is diverted online, where it can find fulfillment almost instantly.

This year I’ve been to more events I found out about on Twitter and Facebook than any other method of communication. Sure, Tweetups were more fun before the recession when companies bought the drinks, but they’re still a fun, casual way to meet great people. The one key thing to remember about social media is that it’s SOCIAL, and people use it to socialize. Online engagement doesn’t replace life, it is life, just conducted on different platforms. The telephone is social media. The bus is social media. Airplanes and the post office and pony express: all social media.

So, even though you read this announcement on a blog, it means very little unless it inspires you to get off your chair and out to V Lounge on Thursday to meet the authors in meatspace! In the meantime, here’s a teaser: you can read the first chapter of their book on Scribd right here (first page is blank, just click onward):

And you can buy Sociable at Amazon if you like the chapter and cannot possibly make it to the book launch.

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Poetry Plaque, Keefer Street

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poetry plaque on Keefer street

poetry plaque on Keefer street

When she returned
from overseas, people
complained that she stood
too closely, sometimes they could
feel her breath, soured by late afternoon,
a moist jet of speech…
With time she retreated and people
began to feel better again.

Whoever wrote it, we know one thing about them: they’re Canadian!

This plaque is sitting about twelve feet up on a wall on the corner of an alley at Keefer Street just East of Main.

Nobody knows where it came from, nobody knows who wrote it. Or do they? Do you? If so, let us know in the comments, for yea verily we are way curious.

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A Wake for Duthie Books: our Shebeen Club Meeting for February

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Book Funeral

The Patient Succumbed to Amazonitis

Get your tickets now on Eventbrite!
http://www.eventbrite.com/registerbutton?eid=418674266

Online ticket sales are closed, but you can still reserve (and it’s strongly recommended that you do) by emailing Lorraine dot murphy at gmail dot com.

Help us wake the soon-to-be-late but always-great Duthie Books, one of the world’s great independent booksellers. Sadly, after more than a half a century of informed and impassioned involvement in the literary world, Duthie’s last location will be shutting its doors at the end of February.

We see no reason to wait till it’s dead to have a wake, so come out and reminisce and help us celebrate a great bookstore and an intellectual institution. This is a chain invitation, so pass it along to all who may be interested, either by copying it into an email, pointing out this blog post, or by inviting people by using the link in the sidebar on Facebook. Half of the Vancouver literati used to work there, buy there, or just try to chat up people in the Cellar (not as filthy as it sounds, outsiders!).

We will be accepting book donations for charity! All books and $5 from each ticket sold will go to the Stratcona One to One Literacy program. Keep books alive! And remember, Duthie Books IS having their regular sale starting at the end of January, so you can show your support for Duthie Books and contribute to charity at the same time if you buy the books to donate at Duthie.

We won’t have a presenter, but we MAY have a coffin. There will be many surprises there. Don’t forget to wear black! Full mourning dress preferred. Celia Duthie will be our guest of honour.

If you have a collection of old Duthie Bookmarks, please bring them in. They’ll be photographed for posterity and the best one will win a prize.

Ex-Duthieites are encouraged to attend, moderately encouraged to get maudlin, strongly encouraged to get into storytelling, and absolutely COMPELLED to get into the whiskey.

Come out and share your reminiscences of the deceased, and toast the memory of a fine, upstanding bookstore who never turned away an intellectual in need of brain food or met an esoteric literary magazine it didn’t like. God, I’m getting weepy just thinking about it!

Details: Since we expect this event to be packed, please reserve your ticket in advance on Eventbrite.

7pm till late

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather pub, 212 Carrall Street, Maple Tree Square, Gastown, Vancouver

$20 (proceeds to charity) includes a drink and dinner, with a choice of:

  • entree salad
  • vegetarian pasta
  • bangers and mash
  • fish and chips
  • sleeve of domestic draft or glass of white or red wine

Dress code: funereal. Black beret and tame yet ominous raven optional.

N is for Neville by Christine Mladic

N is for Neville, done in by ennui. Check out the Gashleycrumb Tinies series by photographer Christine Mladic

Related Wailings and the Rending of Garments from around the interwebs:

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin. Didn't we all?

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin. Looking forward to that myself

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We will be accepting book donations for charity! All books and $5 from each ticket sold will go to the Stratcona One to One Literacy program. Keep books alive! And remember, Duthie Books IS having their regular sale starting at the end of January, so you can show your support for Duthie Books and contribute to charity at the same time if you buy the books to donate at Duthie.

A Super Collection of Supernatural Collective Nouns

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Supernatural Collective Nouns

Supernatural Collective Nouns from Wondermark

If you have a quibble with any of these, please take it up with your local metaphysician. I’m still getting over the hangover from the Shebeen Club meeting on Monday!

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