ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an Australian arts-based, community-focused project, which aimed to address attitudes to domestic and family violence within a low socioeconomic community with a high rate of domestic and family violence. The researchers conducted the project in partnership with a local anti-violence network keen to try an innovative arts-based approach to address the issue. The network participated in and supported the arts-based interventions. The theory that most approximated the method, focus, and aim of the project was process-oriented community development in that it worked through small community groups focused around arts-based interventions that aimed directly to address issues of domestic violence and safety at home. Thus, it involved children and adults and multiple arts-based interventions across a three-year period with varying degrees of community and partner participation. The project generated positive community engagement and the interventions achieved variable outcomes.
