Executive Summary.

1. More carrots than sticks: Antanas Mockus’s civic culture policy in Bogotá (Felipe Cala Buendía)
In 1995, Bogotá was one of the most violent and dangerous cities in the world. That was when Mayor Antanas Mockus decided to use creativity and

the arts to transform the city and reinforce civic culture.

2. Voicing differences: Indigenous and urban radio in Argentina, Chile, and Nigeria (Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Nicole Delia Legnani)
As a response to the risks of assimilation and social dispersion, indigenous cultures use radio as a way to maintain their languages, educate and unite

their people, and re-create traditional culture.

3. Silent gains: Instituto Buena Bista and art as catalyst among Curaçaoan youth (Iberia Pérez González)
The author presents a successful case of how art education in places with precarious cultural investment can create a space to experience freedom, improve social ties and self-assurance, and strengthen civic and democratic values among youth.

4. The Beat of Boyle Street: Empowering Aboriginal youth through music making (Elaine L. Wang)
This article explores how a hip-hop music-making program in Edmonton, Canada, reengages at-risk Aboriginal youth in school, helping them to establish a healthy sense of self and a space to express their identities and emotions.

5. Thinking creatively is thinking critically (Elizabeth Gruenfeld)
Through an arts-based approach, children play, rediscover literature, and develop critical higher-order thinking. An exploration of The Paper Picker Press (PPP) program in Boston helps students at a time of significant shortfalls in the U.S. education system.

6. Aula Verde: Art as experience in community-based environmental education (Marco A. Abarca)
A Puerto Rican community of parolees and probationers, led by the lawyer Marco A. Abarca, transformed a mosquito-infested area into a "classroom" where children have workshops on urban ecology.

7. Fill in the blank: Culture jamming and the advertising of agency (Carrie Lambert-Beatty)
This review examines billboard liberation and some other artistic projects that develop the idea of talking back to or over advertising in a playful and youthful way.

8. Technepolitics: Who has a stake in the making of an American identity? (Christina Suszynski Green)
Following the example of Taller Alacrán, a workshop from the Puerto Rican maestro Antonio Martorell, the author explores the studio workshop model as a supplement or alternative to public school arts education models.

9. Music as social medicine: Two perspectives on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (David M. Washington, Devin G. Beecher)
A medical student and a musician provide their reflections about the role of music as social therapy and space for cultural communication after their one-week involvement with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at its summer institute.

10. Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed and how to derail real-life tragedies with imagination (Maria Tereza Schaedler)
During dictatorship in Brazil, Augusto Boal created a process whereby audience members could stop a performance and suggest different actions for the actors. Maria Tereza Schaedler studied with him. In this article, she shares her experience as a practicing artist and educator of youth and adult immigrants, using Boal’s methods.

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