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Ethics in community-based participatory research (CBPR)

28/11/2018

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​​Participatory ethics through participatory theatre
Performing ethics: Using participatory theatre to explore ethical issues in CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research)
24 page booklet that outlines the nature of Forum Theatre and exercises and games for use in a workshop on ethics in community-based participatory research​
Using participatory theatre to explore ethical issues in community-based participatory research.
The project was initiated and coordinated by Sarah Banks, Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, Durham University, working with Frances Rifkin, Utopia Arts, a long-established theatre practitioner in the Boal tradition.

The exercises written up here draw on Frances’s work with Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, and her many years of work in Theatre of the Oppressed.
Forum Theatre: Participatory ethics through participatory theatre (July 2014)
An 8-minute film produced by the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, Durham University, UK and LGBT Youth NW, Manchester, about communities and universities working together to develop ethical research to accompany the booklet, Performing ethics.
​These materials were developed from a series of workshops involving community and university-based researchers, young people and a theatre practitioner during 2013-14.
They form part of a set of materials developed as a result of two projects on ethics in community-based participatory research (CBPR) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK through the Connected Communities research programme.
Other materials include 
  • ethical guidelines
  • case studies
  • films
  • podcasts
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Social Justice Ethics Consultation
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Public Engagement About Ethics

Resource Acknowledgements

The key community partner in this project was LGBT Youth North West, based in Manchester, with Claire Holmes and Heather Davidson taking a lead as co-facilitators. Niamh Moore, Manchester University supported the group and contributed to workshops.
We are very grateful to the participants at workshops held in Edinburgh (July 2013), Durham (November 2013), Manchester (December 2013) and Chicago (April 2014), who gave us valuable feedback. We are particularly grateful to the young people from LGBT Youth North West, who not only participated in a workshop, but agreed to be filmed: Sam Cairns, Cliodhna Devlin, Harriet Gibson, Hebe Phillips and Rachel Roantree.

We also owe a huge debt of gratitude to Lois Perry, Manchester-based documentary film-maker, who filmed one of our workshops and made a short film to accompany these materials.

​Performing Ethics 101

​What is Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre?

Theatre of the Oppressed focuses on using theatre in social and political contexts as a tool for promoting education and social change, drawing on both personal and group perspectives. For Boal, the term “oppressed” embodied the notion of resistance, rather than passivity or victimhood.

Forum Theatre involves performance of a scenario showing “an oppression” - a problematic or unjust use of power that is experienced as a difficulty or obstruction. The scenario focuses on a particular situation relevant to the group that allows the possibility to deal with, and reflect on, difficult problems. The actors may be professionals or, as is described here, participants in a workshop: people who are themselves familiar with the kinds of events and relationships depicted in the scene. Theatre makes “an image of reality”, in what Boal designates “the aesthetic space”. This allows groups to work freely and safely with “the reality of the image” and to extrapolate their learning back into reality.
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