Featuring SPOTLIGHT on the Revitalising Tradition Webinar, the launching of our NEW Podcast series, MAP project updates, and upcoming events….
October 2023 Newsletter
The Indonesian National Children’s Consultation (facilitated by YAB Members)
On 27 October, Youth Advisory Board (YAB) members from Indonesia co-facilitated the Indonesian Children’s Consultation with MAP co-investigator Dr Harla Octarra as lead consultant. The meeting was organised by the Ministry of National Development Planning and supported by UNICEF, with the aim of preparing a 5-year national development plan for child protection. YAB members, including…
“Talk to me”: Interactive consultative meeting with decision-makers in Bishkek.
Dialogue through Art project in Kyrgyzstan organised a national stakeholder communication event “Talk to me” in the capital city of Bishkek….
Pilot podcast
‘Everyday Peacebuilding through the Arts’ is a series of podcasts that explore artworks created by young people and the many ways these artworks can travel across personal narratives, project activities, contexts, and geographies. In this first pilot episode, we found out how MAP advances dialogue for peacebuilding and encourages positive social change through use of…
MAP Webinar: Revitalising Tradition to Inform Curriculum
On Thursday, October 19, 2023, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) hosted a webinar entitled “Revitalising Tradition to Inform Curriculum”. Read this post to find out how was the webinar going!…
MAP Webinar: Revitalising Tradition to Inform Curriculum
On Thursday, 19 October, 2023, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) will be hosting a free webinar on Zoom with the theme “Revitalising Tradition to Inform Curriculum.” The webinar will feature speakers who will present their research projects and reflections from three different initiatives in Indonesia, Ukraine, and Nepal. In the first session, we will present…
Deuda Folklore & Social Transformation in Nepal
In September, the commissioned project team embarked on a productive follow-up visit to Kathmandu and Dhangadhi in Nepal. During this trip, they engaged in insightful interviews with a wide array of individuals, from scholars and artists to community influencers and Deuda folklore performers. These discussions delved into the intricate dynamics of gender, power, caste, and…
September 2023 Newsletter
Featuring SPOTLIGHT on the UNESCO-MAP Dialogue in Kathmandu, MAP project updates, and upcoming events….
Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) at the Yntymak Week Celebrating International Peace Day
On September 19, 2023, the Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) presented the MAP project at the Yntymak Week (Cohesion Week). For the first time, the event unified the voices of the Peacebuilding Hub of Kyrgyzstan and other actors, such as CSOs, formal and informal groups, INGOs, UN, IOs, government, media, grassroots activists, influencers, local leaders,…
Snippets from the UNESCO – MAP Roundtable in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 21 September 2023
Inspiring insights and collaborative conversations on culture and arts education in Nepal On 21 September, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) in Nepal, in collaboration with UNESCO Kathmandu, hosted a National Dialogue (Roundtable) on Culture and Arts Education. The UNESCO-MAP National Dialogue convened diverse voices and practices from across generations, bringing together young people and key…
Looking within: The power of reflexivity in our journeys
For the July 15th Youth Advisory Board meeting, we hosted a session on reflexivity. One of the original, and now deleted, slides was called ‘So… how do I think about thinking?” Although awkwardly written, the idea of the title was to encourage a conversation about what being reflexive was: is it simply remembering things that…
Laura’s story at the International Creative Research Methods Conference
MAP Large Grant PI, Laura Wright, had the joy of attending the inaugural International Creative Research Methods Conference #ICRMC on 11 and 12 September in Manchester, UK. The conference was relational, creative, and inclusive, bringing together academic and independent researchers and practitioners from around the world. The welcoming atmosphere inspired conversations, laughter, and new relationships. …
August 2023 Newsletter
Featuring overview of policy (art) briefs, MAP Impact Week 2023, and updates from the project….
Manuals and toolkits: Youth Participatory Mural Guidebook
The AHRC PhD student, Vina Puspita, explores youth participatory murals with Children’s Forums in Jakarta, Indonesia. Following a series of mural projects that took place from July to December 2022, young people, together with youth facilitators and Vina, co-created a guidebook with content drawn from the process and experience of creating murals in four locations…
MAP Impact Week 2023
MAP Impact Week, conducted online from July 17-20, 2023, featured 40 presenters from four MAP in-country teams sharing testimonies and art-based reflections on the impact of MAP at various levels….
The second Ingoma Nshya Festival, Rwanda – August 2023
The Gira Ingoma – One Drum Per Girl project held the second edition of the Ingoma Nshya Festival (INF 2) on 18 August 2023 at the University of Rwanda Huye Campus Stadium. After three months of weekly training in drumming, warrior dance, poetry, singing and juggling, 250 girls from 10 primary and secondary schools in…
Summer Theatre Performances in Kyrgyzstan
Over the summer the Magic of Theatre project led by Jash Kubat in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan held a series of four youth theatrical performances, watched and enjoyed by parents, officials, and their peers. One of the performances was of Stolyarov’s ‘A Little Match Girl’, based on H. C Andersen’s tale. It explored the social themes of…
Participatory Film making in action in Rwanda
In August 2023, the Visualising Peace team with Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (UNM), young people from MAP clubs, and film students from the Kwetu Film Institute produced a series of films exploring family conflict, and the lives of street-based children. They are currently crafting a documentary focusing on interviews with the Kwetu Film Institute students. In…
UNESCO – MAP National Dialogue on Culture & Arts Education
UNESCO – MAP National Dialogue on Culture & Arts Education, Kathmandu (Nepal) 21 September 2023 – Exploring inter-generational dialogue through the arts | 9am – 4pm This National Dialogue (Roundtable) aims to create a platform to further the findings from MAP and the UNESCO Kathmandu office’s ambitions towards generating national evidence and actions in promoting…
MAP Impact Week 2023: A moment of reflection and celebration
By Vina Puspita (MAP Project Research Officer) From 17-20 July 2023, MAP hosted an Impact Week online event, bringing together MAP young people and stakeholders (youth facilitators, educators, cultural artists, social workers and policymakers) to share how MAP has impacted them and their communities. The MAP Impact Week was funded by the University of Lincoln…
July 2023 Newsletter
Featuring an overview of MAP Phase 2: 2023 projects and a spotlight on Culture as change
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My Hetauda Experience
Anjana Nagarkoti Anjana Nagarkoti, a youth researcher, shares her experience on how art-based learning methods can be an effective way to create social awareness among young people who want to learn and contribute to bringing change in their community. Here, she shares her 4-day research experience where she observed the learning style of the young…
The role of arts-based experience and cultural vitality for social transformation: reflections on MAP work
My attendance at the online MAP Social Impact event on March 30, 2023, was a random encounter—a chance invite from a colleague who suggested I’d be interested in the project. I’m a lecturer at the UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), London, and I lead an MA in Digital Media: Education. My research…
Young women of Rwanda and Nepal, cycling in safe spaces, discussing, and challenging gender-based discriminatory proverbs
Principal Investigator – Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda This blog provides a brief discussion on how young women in Rwanda and Nepal have taken part in cycling journeys to safe spaces (Gayle et al. 2013) for their reflection and conversations…
Re-spinning cultural art forms: reflections from the Culture as Change webinar
Central to the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) research project, is the exploration of how cultural art forms can catalyse, re-frame and generate alternative ways of knowing. This post explores some of the ways in which this is occurring in the MAP project….