Socially Engaged Creative Practice

List of figures  Abstracts  Introduction Kate Aughterson and Jess Moriarty   SECTION ONE: CHANGING THEATRES  1. In Our Sites: A Personal View of the Writer’s Role in Place-Making Theatre with, by, and for Communities Sara Clifford  2. Dramatizing Recent History: The Bombing of the Grand Hotel Julie Everton 3. Thoughts on Appropriation – Collaboration for Silkmoth Eleanor Knight 4. Disremembered Cabaret Histories Al Meggs  5. Representation and Collective Creation: The Work of Middle East/North Africa (MENA) Arts UK Laura Hanna   SECTION TWO: TAKING TO THE STREETS  6. Disorientation, Creativity, and Performance in Liminal Spaces: A Case Study of a Writer in Residence at Heathrow Airport and Oval Underground Station Dawn Hart 7. Conversations between Borders: Cyclical Thinking and Alternative Worlds Emily Orley 8. Extinction Rebellion and Performance Activism on the Streets of London Marisa Carnesky 9. Making Community from Mess: Mapping the Santiago de Cuba Carnival and the Carnivalesque of My Research Journey Through Poetry Yvonne Canham-Spence   SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMING SPACES AND STORIES  10. Holding Queer Space/Holding Space Queerly: Lockdown Reflections on Queer Performance and Community Ess Grange and Mal Parry 11. You’ll Never Forget, I’ll Never Remember. You’ll Never Remember, I’ll Never Forget Rachel Dean, Marie Hallager Andersen, and Daliah Touré 12. Preserving Fruit: Using Oral History to Preserve Stories of Black British History and the Transatlantic Journeys from Which Our Traditions Have Emerged Veneta Roberts   SECTION FOUR: OPENING UP INSTITUTIONS  13. Beyond The Room Marina Castledine 14. Monsters and Campfires: Using Storytelling to Humanize Institutional Spaces Finlay McInally and Jess Moriarty 15. The Clothes on Our Backs: Diversifying the Curriculum Tony Kalume and Jess Moriarty   Notes on Contributors