Centre for Arts-Informed Research (CAIR)

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The Centre for Arts-informed Research was established in April 2000 in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. The Centre's mission is to articulate, explore, and support alternative forms of qualitative research and representation which infuse elements, processes, and forms of the arts into scholarly work. The Centre's goals are: to contribute to the advancement of the genre of arts-informed research; to create a context for emerging and established researchers to explore methodological issues associated with arts-informed research; to work toward the development of a local, national and international community of arts-informed researchers; to promote open dialogue and collaboration among researchers, professional artists, communities, and schools; to provide opportunities and spaces for public access to alternative forms of research. http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~aresearch/airchome3.html

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    Music at a Time Like This
    (2006-06-13T20:09:49Z) Rykov, Mary H.
    Ten individuals, recruited from hospital and community cancer facilities, participated in eight weekly music therapy support group sessions from May to June, 2004. Participants talked about feeling lonely and isolated as cancer patients. They experienced the music therapy support group as profound, nonverbal connection to themselves, to each other, and connection to something larger—the music—that was beyond themselves. The experience of improvised music-making in music therapy support groups was particularly empowering and provided feelings of control during a time of loss-of-control inflicted by the disease and its experience as illness.