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Using Arts in Trauma Healing
Imagine living in a society where you are considered garbage. Women in Sierra Leone already face challenges, but the women in a recent workshop have the added stigma of being blind, deaf, or disabled in other ways.
Integrating the Traditional Oral Arts
The drama ended with song and dance in celebration of God’s miracle. The first time we saw this story from 2 Kings performed among the Banjara tribe of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, we were delighted. This narrative had suddenly become unforgettable, f...
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Heart Music
Heart music is amazingly powerful and a core concept of multicultural worship. So what is it? The lights went out in the middle of the rehearsal. It was a power cut in Nepal and I was playing the Himalayan lute in a community song and dance troupe. As cand...
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Media Specialists
We are looking for qualified people to assist in original production, and localization of the Deditos video series. The needs include audio engineers, video editors, special effects artists (Adobe AE), a traffic manager and a digital asset manager. Personne...
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Orality Bible Project
No Place Left are designing a Bible storybook for making disciples of people who cannot read. Each master icon illustrates the Bible story’s main idea and fuels the imagination.
Arts – The Seven Disciplines of Orality
Erica Logan leads a session on the Arts & Orality - one of the Seven Disciplines
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A Participatory Approach to Song-crafting
In this case study from South Asia, the author emphasises the strengths of a participatory training approach as it relates to a workshop which sought to teach women how to craft songs and appreciate the cultural music expertise they already possessed.
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Scripture Relevance Dramas
This article looks at how to turn training into high impact engagement with scripture; full of hints and steps, she shows how high impact can take place through solid consideration of worldviews and orality principles.
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The Arts: Effectively Packaging the Gospel for Oral Audiences
Arts is vital to the communication process; the author offers examples and provides practical ways for communities to be involved.
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Arts & Culture
Pathways include: narrative; drama; poetry; music; visual; rituals; ceremonies; traditions; symbols… The Arts and Culture Gateway looks at oral communicators and how they communicate through local cultural elements, primarily through their art forms. ...
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