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• Dr Peter Mbago Wakholi is a High School Teacher working with the Education Department of Western Australia. Peter is an artist (musician) who is actively involved in community arts both as a practitioner and researcher. Peter’s recent community bas...More

  Dr Peter Mbago Wakholi is a High School Teacher working with the Education Department of Western Australia. Peter is an artist (musician) who is actively involved in community arts both as a practitioner and researcher. Peter’s recent community based research project involved organising a festival with young people of African descent in Western Australia. The festival “Negotiating Cultural Identity through the Arts: The African Cultural Memory Youth arts Festival (ACMYAF)” examined ways in which African cultural memory, and the extent to which the arts based approaches benefited the cultural identity socialisation experiences of young people of African migrant descent. Peter has presented and facilitated at conferences, seminars and workshops including a 2-day seminar conference, to academics, teachers and social workers, at Victoria University School of Education, Melbourne. Peter has written (co-written) and published several articles in academic journals and book chapters. Peter’s research interests include: Arts-Based Educational Research Practices in the context of Festivals, Citizenship, Cultural policy and transnational belonging. Less

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