Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the University of Regina’s Open Education and Publishing Program for partially funding this project and to express our appreciation to the program’s manager, Shuana Niessen. We wish to thank the peer-reviewers for their feedback and recommendations.

We appreciate the various communities we have worked with over the years, which have provided space to experiment, explore, and learn about this project. Thanks to Theatre Emissary International, its social enterprise, Mobile Research Lab, Festival of Art and Discourse (FOAD), and its partners for giving us access to some information relevant to this handbook. We also acknowledge the various resources we used in compiling this handbook, which are referenced throughout.

Finally, thanks to the Canadian government for funding Dr. Taiwo Afolabi’s Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre, and the Canadian Foundation Innovation for supporting the creation of the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET).