Resources - Community theatre (Mesh-project)

Project Report: World Mosquito Day Community Festival to raise awareness of mosquito vectors in local communities

Project Report: Actors & Doctors: Staging Public Health Matters

Project Report: Hip Hop Health: Research, Rhyme, and Rhythm for Healthy Communities

Project Report UPDATE: Science, Art, Community: Building Interactive Understanding of Albinism in Tanzania

Standing Voice is an organisation that works to support people with albinism in Tanzania. This article explores how one of their projects, which communicates facts about albinism through interactive performances, navigates the cultural complexity surrounding albinism in Tanzania.

Project Report: Acting for Health: Using the ‘The Science of Acting’ approach to work with marginalised groups

This project report wriiten by the Mesh Editorial team outlines some of the premises of an approach called 'The Science of Acting' and its ability to help foster empathy and understanding through immersive drama exercises. This report is from a project, which took place within a prison setting in the United Kingdom although the method may be of interest to people working to build empathy and understanding within other sectors including the health sector. 

Participatory Theatre and Health Behaviours in Informal Settlements, Gujurat, India

An overview of a project which used participatory theatre methods to disseminate messages about health promoting behaviours within informal settlements in Gujurat, India. The project was evaluated using 'quasi-experimental' quantitative methods.

Acting Healthy Project (2007 – 2008)