This book explores the connections made in and through arts-based educational research through four themes: socially engaged connections, cultural connections, personal and pedagogical connections, and making connections during the COVID-19 pandemic. It emerges from the 3rd bi-annual 2020 Artful Inquiry Research Group symposium on the theme of "connections". The symposium brought together artists, community members, teachers, students, and researchers through a virtual platform to examine the way(s) in which the arts can help connect people, ideas, and spaces/places in a pandemic reality.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Re-storying Immigrant Seniors During COVID Through a Lens of Narrative Inquiry.- Chapter 3: Shifting Work and Home Spatialities: Connecting in and through Arts-Based Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 4: Connected Across Distance: Creating and Sustaining Collegial Collaboration Through Arts-Based Educational Research .- Chapter 5: On recruiting Aesthetic Experience: A Trio-Ethnography of the Affordances and Limitations of Teaching (with) the Arts and Literature in a Pandemic year.- Chapter 6: [Performing] Connection in the Classroom during COVID-19: An Ethnodrama on Virtual Synchronous Education.- Chapter 7: Connecting Community: Rural Girls Using an Arts-Based Digital Dialogue Tool toAddress Gender-Based Violence.- Chapter 8: Hope Stories of the Arts and School-wide Change.- Chapter 9: The #StopAsianHate Movement: Deconstructing Asian Hate through Digital-Visual Approach and Letter Writing.- Chapter 10: Re-imagine Connections with Natural Environment Through Socially Engaged Art.- Chapter 11: Feminist Aesthetics, Intertwined Indigenous and Immigrant Life Narratives and Teaching Practises.- Chapter 12: Storytelling through Textiles: The Re-birth of a Phoenix Called Damascus.- Chapter 13: Inhabiting/Living Practice: An Emergent Collaborative Arts-Based Exhibition.- Chapter 14: Inclusion as Folded Choreo-Writing.- Chapter 15: Hold onto your hat! All aboard for the train called fiction no fiction!.- Chapter 16: A/r/tographic Inquiry: When Art Meets Text.- Chapter 17: Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-Study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice.- Chapter 18: Using Arts-Based Educational Research to Interrogate Learning in Cohorts: Shifting Dynamics and Repairing Disrupted Relationships.- Chapter 19: Synchronicities and Tensions In and Outsideof Elementary Classrooms: Perspectives on Building Collaborative, Artful Experiences.- Chapter 20: The Power of Photo-Elicitation in Promoting Conversations About Unfamiliar Topics.