We’re pleased to announce a call for applications to a School for Creative Activism training session taking place this March, in South Africa. “In an open society sex workers should have the same rights to safe working environments as all other workers.” (Open Society Foundation) We’re inviting grantees of the Open Society Public Health Program …
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Actipedia Revisited: #occupysmallstreet
This week we’re giving a shout out to small-scale activism with the #occupysmallstreet movement. First inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, this example has been created by Arts X Activism from Melbourne, Australia. Signs are made collectively, by regular Occupy Small Street-ers and members of the public (adults and children) who stop by and have …
Letters of Note: Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope.
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” –E.B. White Letters of Note provides a snapshot into the faxes, memos, letters, telegrams, and any other fascinating tidbits of correspondence that Shaun Usher can get his hands on. Originally a blog-based archive, it has grown …
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Actipedia revisited: Public Movement – ‘Re-Branding European Muslims’ (2012)
Each week we’ll be calling back to an example of creative activism from our website Actipedia – an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism. This week we’d like to highlight this really powerful piece of arts activism by Public Movement, a Tel Aviv based ‘performative research body’. In 2012 they created Re-Branding European Muslims to investigate conflict …
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An African’s Message for America
A volunteer trip abroad has become almost a rite of passage for a certain set of Americans, particularly students. Head over to NYtimes.com for an Op-Doc video profiling a Kenyan activist who has one simple question for them: “Why?” “Nearly one million people from America volunteer abroad each year. They are mostly young, mostly affluent and overwhelmingly …
A message from EverdayRebellion.net….
A message from EverdayRebellion.net…. Help us change the world through spreading creative non-violent protest methods on our cross-media platform everydayrebellion.net and support our Kickstarter Crowdfunding campaign to keep Everyday Rebellion alive! Click here to see our Kickstarter campaign and help us with a donation: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/145429668/everyday-rebellion-the-art-of-change WE NEED YOUR HELP! Over the course of the last …
“Embodied Place: Ovservations and Notations” OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Sierra Nevada College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts “Embodied Place: Observations and Notations” Juried exhibition January 16 – February 27, 2015 Garage Door Gallery: Holman Arts & Media Center 1008 Tahoe Blvd. Incline Village, NV 89451 Open Call for Submissions Deadline: Monday, December 15, 2014 5PM PST Contact Sarah Lillegard, Gallery Coordinator slillegard@sierranevada.edu This …
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CAA Advisor Keri Smith has a new book!
A conceptual artist and author is luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it At 42, Keri Smith still writes to a pen pal. She deeply appreciates secret passageways. And she sometimes rolls dice to determine which way she walks down the street. That won’t surprise her readers …
SCA Participant: Artivism and the “Aha” Moment
Think back to the exact moment when you decided to become an activist. Go ahead. We’ll wait. Was it… Because someone sent you a petition? Or because a friend forwarded you an advocacy alert? Or, I know: was it because you read a really great white paper? Chances are, none of these inspired you …
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Call for Applications School for Creative Activism: Advocacy Campaigns to Challenge High Medicines Prices
We’re pleased to announce a call for applications to a School for Creative Activism training session taking place this December, in Spain. We’re inviting grantees of the Open Society Public Health Program and their allies working on access to medicines to apply to participate in a 4-day School for Creative Activism (SCA) to be held …
When NOT to march (or rally)
More than 400,000 people took part in the People’s Climate March last month in New York City. (Survival Media Agency / Robert van Waarden) When NOT to march (or rally) by Andrew Willis Garces On an ordinary Tuesday evening in April 2007, dozens of union janitors gathered outside a downtown office building in Sydney, Australia, …
The Ark: Faith Leaders at Climate Change
CAA had the privilege of working with faith leaders, activists, and community organizers last spring for a collaboration through the Auburn Seminary. This fall, they turned their dreams into ideas and their ideas into action at NYC’s Climate March on September 21, 2014, building their very own Ark to sail down the streets of New York …
NYPD ♥s CLIMATE JUSTICE
Steve Lambert and Victoria Estok approached NYPD officers along the People’s Climate March, showed them their sign, and asked if they could take a photo together. See them all Often in political marches, the police and those marching are painted in opposition, but one of the purposes of the People’s Climate March was showing that …
Open Engagement 2015: Call for Submissions
A Blade of Grass is pleased to announce Open Engagement 2015 From April 17–19, 2015, Open Engagement will coalesce in Pittsburgh. Established in 2007 by artist Jen Delos Reyes, Open Engagement is an international conference and platform that explores various perspectives on art and social practice and aims to expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. …
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Sporatorium—THIS SUNDAY
Makers and re-makers, thinkers and rethinkers, composers and decomposers: It’s time to wrestle with climate change. This September, world leaders are coming to NYC for an unprecedented one-day summit on climate change at the UN. We know this is a crucial moment. Across the city, country and world, people are making plans to gather in …
Media Impact Workshop participants announced!
We are excited to announce the next round of participants in our workshop in St. Petersburg – a coalition of artists, activists and engaged citizens from Media Impact, Open Urban Lab, and School of Engaged Art. Media Impact Matvei Krilov (Skif) (Gay – Moscow) activist, artist, poet Matvei is an actionist artist and political activist, …
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In-Depth Interview with CAA Directors
Get inside the heads of CAA’s co-directors Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert through their interview with we “We Make Money Not Art” where they tackled the following questions: Is there any way an artist or curator can engage with meaningful artistic activism inside an art gallery or a museum? Could you tell us about the training …
Lecture on Creative Activism from Co-Founder Stephen Duncombe
CAA Co-Founder Stephen Duncombe’s lecture on Creative Activism from an event in Copenhagen, Denmark has been immortalized on Youtube; check it out below!
Next Weekend–Creative Activist Training in NYC
ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Beautiful Trouble, The Yes Lab (via The Yes Men), and Center For Artistic Activism are coming together for a one of a kind melding of the minds to provide an epic weekend of trainings in creative activism! If you’re part of an activist group looking to up your game, this is your …
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Help our friends The YES MEN double their Funds for an AMAZING Project
The Yes Men have ONE MORE WEEK to reach their $75,000 fundraising goal so that The Kindle Project will match it DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. They are raising money for their new project, the Action Switchboard. Click here to Donate and receive exclusive perks or continue below to read more.