ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a detailed account and analysis of a participatory artsbased research project with the British Pakistani Muslim community living in Birmingham. Developing a play provided the women with an opportunity to tell their own stories, create their own representations of British Pakistani Muslim life and to share their vision of the future. One of the achievements of the research project is that British Pakistani Muslim women wrote and enacted in a participatory theatre based play. The use of arts-based activities provided a platform for unpicking and uncovering deeply embedded and enshrined behaviours in the communities and understanding the complexity of factors that can contribute to the development and enshrinement of these behaviours and the resulting health inequalities. Documenting the ways in which British Pakistani Muslim women are living in constructive and helpful familial environments that allow for physical and sport participation.
