Offering a wealth of art-based practices, this volume invites readers to reimagine the joyful possibility and power of language and culture in language and literacy learning.

Opening Call: Indigenous creation-Literature as Historical/Cultural Recovery Introduction: Language Reawakening as Pilgrimage-Stepping Back and Stitching Hope Part I: Roots They ARE listening 1 A Colorful Language: Playback Theater as a Way of Listening with Youth in Palestine 2 Education Beyond Walls: Using the Arts to Awaken an Endangered Language 3 Enacting Language Reclamation through Performance as Embodied Praxis 4 The Kuleana of Ulana Lauhala: Reflecting on Our Weaving 5 Zapotec Youth Visualizing their Language: Using Cellphilm and Visual Methods to Support Language Revitalization 6 Digital Language Kinscapes: Twitter-based Pedagogical Possibilities for Indigenous Youth Language Learning in Canada Our languages hold the Pulsing Hearts of Our Cultures: Questions for Reflection and Further Applications for Practice Part II: Routes Step Back, Leap Forward 7 Reimagining Language Curriculum: Black Language and Literacy Education Through Hip Hop and Rap Inclusion 8 The Complexities of Chinese Children's Meaning-Making Revealed Through Artistic Practices, Talk, and Social Interaction 9 My Storytelling Journey: From Rural Settings in Haiti to Urban Settings in New England 10 Identity, Voices, and Agency of Asian Female Graduate Students Through Visual Self-Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Study of Art, Literacy, and Language 11 ITS: Identity, Technology and Storytelling 12 Making Meaning Hear Me, Tell My Story: Questions for Reflection and Further Applications for Practice Afterword: The Kwakwaka'wakw art of Kota - Rooted in Cultural Traditions, Re-Routed to Language Reawakening