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The project “Old Stories in New Ways” involves multiple partners including Luo-Kenyan performing artists, a Canadian popular theatre director, plus Canadian and Kenyan academics from several disciplines. The chapter’s authors, Jan Selman and John Battye, both affiliated with the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta, co-direct and organize the project.
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Selman, J., Battye, J. (2016). Telling Old Stories in New Ways. In: Butterwick, S., Roy, C. (eds) Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-483-1_13
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