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Week 8: Art Based Health Promotion - Coggle Diagram
Week 8: Art Based Health Promotion
Participatory and Arts based approaches have been cited to have transformative potential to catalyse social change
Art is a highly engaging tool that promotes positive well-being and increases community engagement and participation
A study engaging groups in theatre, murals and song found that participants believed participation supported unity, empowerment and action for social change.
Youth participation can sometimes be considered a precondition for successful HIV programming
The arts is an excellent way to add cultural context and acceptability into a health promotion strategy
Health is political & health promotion strategies need to adapt to the cultural & political climates of the comunitity
Arts based approaches can foster community resilience and increase the ability of communities to positively respond to traumatic events
Health promotion needs to adopt a decolonizing approach and move away from centring western ways of knowing.
ie. focusing on relationship building
One needs to know the community before you can design an effective health promoting intervention.
A few arts-based strategies were common amongst this week's 4 readings that support the inclusion of the "critical role of voice"
Photovoice (or videovoice) is a common strategy for community participation.
Allows for a more inclusive method of communication (photos & images > academic text)
Community members take photos or videos of community evidece and spaces that pertain to the issue at hand.
Allows a health promotion practitioner to gain cultural and community context, seeing an issue through the eyes of a community member.
Theatre
Example of theatre being used as a tool for resistance
Murals
BLM Murals in Washington, DC
Music
ie. Billie holiday song about lynchings in the US
Urban Art
The built environment provides an accessible tool for public expression.
Art- based approaches can support community organizing in a number of ways:
to get people involved
to find out about a community
to increase awareness and relay health education messages (visual and oral representation are easy to grasp - ie. song "put on your hat" to ecourage condom use"
to bring attention to an issue (ie. t-shirts with messaging about intimate partner violence)
to promote community building (digital storytellng training, engaging in meaningful convos, engaging children)
to promote healing from intergenerational and collective trauma (coloured to black movie exposes origins, mechanisms and health impacts of systemic racism)
to promote a culture of health
to empower
"Art" is a broad term in arts-based approaches. The field is more widespread and creative than I as a reader had initially assumed.
Arts based processes can improve communication and increase inclusivity & reach of a message.
There are many examples of arts-based health promotion that I can identify in Vancouver (Vancouver mural fest, humans of Vancouver photo projects, choral performances highlighting social justice topics, orange shirt day art & t-shirt designs, etc)