The Lost Episode! We recorded this episode over 2 years ago and dug it out of the vaults for you! We left off at episode 12 – The Chevy Suburban. Superstores, supercenters, megastores! These aren’t big boxes, they are GIANT boxes and inside are not only swaths products, but on-brand restaurants or services like opticians …
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“First Female President” says farewell
Margaret McCarthy has acted as the “First Female President” for the last four years. Hear what was achieved in this parallel universe in her closing address, and let’s get started making some of those dreams a reality.
EVENT: The Power of Pie
Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with Peace Through Pie & Stir The Pot. Learn about the Civil Rights history of pie, participate in interactive pie demos & be inspired by the words of MLK to activate your own action! Join Chef Nadine Nelson of Global Local Gourmet hosting: Tanya FieldsExecutive Director of the Black Feminist …
Alumni “Valu” Obiajulu on BBC World
Everyone deserves a safe and healthy place to call home. In Lagos, Nigeria corruption brings crime to every level of a society and causes infrastructure to languish. Dance can be attention grabbing, visceral, and powerful way to communicate ideas and emotions when political and legislative avenues are fruitless. This is why BBC World talked to …
Call for Interns
The Center for Artistic Activism is accepting a Creative Activism Toolkit Intern who will assist with updating our training materials and sharing them with participants in West Africa and the Western Balkans through our Regional Creative Hubs program. The Center for Artistic Activism offers this internship for curious, hardworking people eager to learn about the …
Artistic Activism guide to the Georgia Run-off Election
Looking to help in the Georgia run-offs? This guide can help. We asked our Unstoppable Voters grantee, Georgia artist Gabrielle Mertz, to draft a guide to the Georgia run-offs for people who want to help. You can read her guide here. We’ve highlighted excerpts below, with our extra special input on the creative activism part …
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The Future is Georgia with Gabrielle Mertz
Gabrielle Mertz from Drawing out the Vote is hosting this conversation with PS122 The Future is Georgia How The Cultural Community Is Changing Voting & Elections Monday, December 21st6:00 PM EST (online event)—REGISTER HERE— A discussion with Gabrielle Mertz about the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia, the creative community’s engagement on voter turnout, and implications …
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Online Panel: Journal Rappé and The Peace Poets
We’re so excited about this. Keyti is based in Senegal, one of our Artistic Activism trainers for the Regional Creative Hubs, and a co-founder of Journal Rappé. The project takes current affairs and in-depth reporting, puts it to a beat, and edits together a 10+ minute report published on YouTube. This year, their work was …
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Giving Tuesday 2020
On this Giving Tuesday (December 1) you have a great opportunity to make your donation – even a small one! – go far in helping to support the amazing students, artists, grandmothers, and others around the world who are fighting for affordable medicines for COVID-19. With our partners at Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and …
Ishtar Lakhani on BBC 100 Women List
Congratulations to the Center for Artistic Activism’s Ishtar Lakhani, she is included on the BBC’s 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020! Ishtar is an alumni of Center for Artistic Activism programs, and became a collaborator on programs we ran in South Africa like the 2016 AIDS Conference and trainings for …
Unstoppable Voters Panel – Behind the Scenes
What worked? What were some of the strategies used in the projects? What wasn’t captured in the photos and video? You can watch a recording of this panel below. Highest voter turn out, ever. You can’t win elections without turning out voters. While there’s work ahead and complex problems to solve, we’re allowing ourselves a …
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CBS This Morning on Unstoppable Voters
Although there are still three days until Election Day, some cities this year have seen a surge in early voting. Helping those voters get motivated and to the polls is a team of unconventional people that describes themselves as “artistic activists.” They are part of the “Unstoppable Voters Project,” a series spread across the nation …
Enter our #ProtestPies contest
We all need to blow off some steam. You’ve been in your house since March, baking, and baking, and baking, and baking. But you’ve also been paying attention. And you’re mad. Bake a pie with a protest message on it and enter our contest! Post it on Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #protestpies. Winners …
Are Harsher Vote-By-Mail Laws Really Just Voter Suppression?
We’re fans of Roy Wood Jr. here at the Center for Artistic Activism and his video on Voter Suppression in the United States is a fun watch The Daily Show: Are Harsher Vote-By-Mail Laws Really Just Voter Suppression?
Vote Early Day
Vote Early Day is a movement of nonprofits, businesses, election administrators, and creatives working to ensure all Americans know their options to vote early. (Note: this page is from earlier – Vote Early Day has passed). The Center for Artistic Activism has joined Vote Early Day as a premier partner and encourage you to create …
How to talk about voter suppression
How do you talk about voter suppression and election issues without amplifying the doubts and fears seeded by those who benefit from voter suppression? This resource we’ve been sharing with our Unstoppable Voters Project participants. It’s an interview with Anat Shenker-Osorio in Rolling Stone: “There’s a Right and a Wrong Way to Talk About Trump’s …
Living the City Exhibition – Berlin
Documentation of The Center for Artistic Activism’s workshop projects in cities like Macedonia and South Africa are part of an exhibition at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. The exhibition is open through December 20th of this year. Cities are full of stories—simultaneous, contradictory, overlapping, and inextricably connected. Living the City tells over fifty stories from …
Alumni, Ishtar Lakhani, profiled in Maverick Citizen
Center for Artistic Activism alumni and workshop instructor, Ishtar Lakhani, was profiled in the Maverick Citizen. Ishtar is based in South Africa and after participating in our 2015 training, has worked alongside the Center for Artistic Activism on several actions and trainings in the country. We love working together and are happy to see her …
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We’re Funding Creative U.S. Election Projects
We are excited to announce the Center for Artistic Activism is supporting projects that uniquely address urgent and specific voter suppression problems in the United States. Creative, ambitious, strategic, risk-taking projects will be funded up to $10,000 each. Initial short proposals are due Sept 2nd at 11:59pm EDT. The Unstoppable Voters Project The Center for …
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We’re hiring a Campaign Manager
Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 is hiring a Campaign Manager for Fall/Winter 2020 . A detailed description and application are on the freethevaccine.org site. We’re looking for the right candidate and you can help. If you know someone who would be a good match, please pass the application along! The Campaign Manager will work closely …