Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice
Community-based arts practice is programming that informs and fosters essential components of well-being and belonging, including resilience, community attachment via interpersonal connection and exchange as preventive to mental health stressors. Our Art Hive is in a centre-city high school with im...
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Community-based arts practice is programming that informs and fosters essential components of well-being and belonging, including resilience, community attachment via interpersonal connection and exchange as preventive to mental health stressors. Our Art Hive is in a centre-city high school with immigrant and refugee youth in St. John’s Newfoundland, where newcomers often face an insider/outsider dynamic of disconnection. The pop-up Art Hive is a publicly accessible and community-located art-making space grounded in Adlerian theory, collaborative community development, feminist thought, and social justice. Through a community-situated arts-based participatory process, we sought emergent themes. An earlier phase of our collaborative project involved visual art-making and exploring experiences of inclusion and belonging. A second phase of the project included some of the same youth and new members, adding local students invited by the immigrant and refugee youth. This phase explored resilience and hope as a feature of well-being and functioning and as having a relationship with immigrant and refugee youth experiences in smaller Canadian centres. The Art Hive, a form of community art therapy practice, is structured along seven social parameters: focus on intentional art-making, no critical commentary (positive or negative), non-evaluative in nature, no forced participation, witnessing, sharing, and participatory involvement of facilitators. The participant-planned and hosted final exhibit contributed to learning, sharing, and group cohesiveness. A focus group generated data on how the Art Hive informs cultural experiences and feelings of hope.
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| spelling | doaj.art-bd8102175cbb4518bbe18a81a0acd82b2023-09-26T23:07:29ZengUniversity of SaskatchewanEngaged Scholar Journal2369-11902368-416X2021-04-016210.15402/esj.v6i2.70765Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts PracticeHeather McLeod0Leah B. LewisXuemei Li1Memorial University of NewfoundlandMemorial University of Newfoundland Community-based arts practice is programming that informs and fosters essential components of well-being and belonging, including resilience, community attachment via interpersonal connection and exchange as preventive to mental health stressors. Our Art Hive is in a centre-city high school with immigrant and refugee youth in St. John’s Newfoundland, where newcomers often face an insider/outsider dynamic of disconnection. The pop-up Art Hive is a publicly accessible and community-located art-making space grounded in Adlerian theory, collaborative community development, feminist thought, and social justice. Through a community-situated arts-based participatory process, we sought emergent themes. An earlier phase of our collaborative project involved visual art-making and exploring experiences of inclusion and belonging. A second phase of the project included some of the same youth and new members, adding local students invited by the immigrant and refugee youth. This phase explored resilience and hope as a feature of well-being and functioning and as having a relationship with immigrant and refugee youth experiences in smaller Canadian centres. The Art Hive, a form of community art therapy practice, is structured along seven social parameters: focus on intentional art-making, no critical commentary (positive or negative), non-evaluative in nature, no forced participation, witnessing, sharing, and participatory involvement of facilitators. The participant-planned and hosted final exhibit contributed to learning, sharing, and group cohesiveness. A focus group generated data on how the Art Hive informs cultural experiences and feelings of hope. https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70765Indigenous PeoplesCovid-19Indigenous knowledgesIndigenous educationknowledge holdersElders |
| spellingShingle | Heather McLeod Leah B. Lewis Xuemei Li Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice Engaged Scholar Journal Indigenous Peoples Covid-19 Indigenous knowledges Indigenous education knowledge holders Elders |
| title | Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice |
| title_full | Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice |
| title_fullStr | Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice |
| title_short | Resilience and Hope: Exploring Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences through Community-based Arts Practice |
| title_sort | resilience and hope exploring immigrant and refugee youth experiences through community based arts practice |
| topic | Indigenous Peoples Covid-19 Indigenous knowledges Indigenous education knowledge holders Elders |
| url | https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70765 |
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