Volume 3.2 (Summer 2004)
Cover Photo: Joshua Barnes

4 - Report from RITI
Editorial by Edward Little

4 - Imagination and Art in Community Arts
In a talk given at the Ontario Arts Council’s 2003 Community Arts Conference, “Kicking it up a Notch, Animating Communities,” Julie Salverson advocated the essential role of art and artists in making sense of the present and imagining the future.

7 - Repetition, Reverence, and Ritual: Kabuki’s Three R’s
James Forsythe examines his encounter with the paradox of Kabuki at the University of Hawaii, where students find a freedom to take risks within the security of a four-hundred-year-old methodology.

10 - The “Super-Arab” Is out of the Cave
Rawi Hage writes about a new generation of Arab artists who are creating and reconstructing their own image in the Western world.

12 - Ali and Ali: A few Reflections after the Fact
Guillermo Verdecchia writes about his and co-authors Camyar Chai and Marcus Youseff’s drive to challenge the obscenity of the worlds of George Bush and Tony Blair with the obscene humour of Ali and Ali.

14 - Rumsfeld, Sharon, Bin Laden: Friends in Enmity
Jayanta Guha’s poem calls for an end to competing fundamentalisms in all guises.

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