Latest updates
- Register now: MAP International Online Conference 2025 1 June 2025
- Policy brief: Gira Ingoma book and policy brief: “The Culture We Want, for the Woman We Want” 28 November 2024
- Manuals and toolkits: GENPEACE Children’s Participation Module in the Development Process 13 November 2024
- Journal article: [Working Paper] Gira Ingoma – One Drum per Girl: The culture we want for the woman we want 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Beyond Tradition: Psychosocial Model 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Beyond Tradition Module: Revitalizing Lenong as a Model for Teaching Betawi Arts 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Beyond Tradition: Lenong Revitalisation as a Model for Teaching Betawi Cultural Arts 30 October 2024
- Beyond Tradition Lenong Performance “RAWR…! Kite Kagak Takut” 30 October 2024
- Journal article: [Working Paper] Facing Heaven – Déuda Folklore & Social Transformation in Nepal 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Building Community Curriculums 24 October 2024
- The Magic of Theatre Project Documentary 24 October 2024
- The Magic of Theatre Performances in 2024 24 October 2024
Events
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The second Ingoma Nshya Festival, Rwanda – August 2023
EVENT DATE: 18/08/2023The 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...
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UNESCO – MAP National Dialogue on Culture & Arts Education
EVENT DATE: 21/09/2023UNESCO – 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...
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MAP Impact Week 2023: A moment of reflection and celebration
EVENT DATE: 17/07/2023By 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...
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The role of arts-based experience and cultural vitality for social transformation: reflections on MAP work
EVENT DATE: 30/03/2023My 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...
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Re-spinning cultural art forms: reflections from the Culture as Change webinar
EVENT DATE: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....
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Reflect on your experiences in the MAP project so far…
EVENT DATE:Find out how to contribute to the MAP Impact week 17-20 July!...
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Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Culture as Change Webinar
EVENT DATE: 15/06/2023Can Cultural Art forms contribute towards social change? Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:00 – 14:00 BST Sign up now This webinar will introduce three projects engaging directly with how cultural art forms can affect social change in young people and their wider communities. It will start by introducing the project led by Dr Simon Dancey...
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National communications event in Kyrgyzstan
EVENT DATE: 11/05/2023The Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) held a National communications event in Bishkek on 11 May to celebrate the use of Forum Theatre by young people from across the country, engaging over 90 participants in finding solutions to bullying within secondary schools. Representatives of the Ministry of internal Affairs, the Bishkek Mayors Office, independent experts,...
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Reflections: Musical Dialogue during the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) conference 2022
EVENT DATE:By Juhi Adhikari (19) Undergraduate Student at Tribhuvan University & MAP Nepal Youth Researcher Caption: MAP Nepal young researchers using participatory approaches (2022) Last year I was selected to join the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE 2022) in Mexico. I was the youngest participant among 50, all working on peace education, either as an...
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Vice Chancellor Prof. Neal Juster delivers Welcome Speech at MAP ‘Gathering’ Conference
EVENT DATE:Vice Chancellor Prof. Neal Juster gave a welcome speech to over 40 delegates from Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal alongside University of Lincoln colleagues amidst an exhibition of artworks from Phase One activities at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) as part of the MAP 'Gathering' Conference conducted at the University of Lincoln from 8-11 November 2022....