Use the resource below and then submit your idea to get support! “This sh*t is ridiculous!” We’re guessing that’s a sentence you’ve yelled (out loud or just in your head) many times, in response to the many &#$!% things happening in our government and in our country. But now, with the November elections nearly upon, …
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Submit by midnight on Sunday, September 13 We’re helping you realize bold, strategic, and spectacular pro-voting election projects for the midterms. Fill out the brief application below by midnight ET on Sunday, September 13. We’ll be selecting up to 10 projects to receive: This support is perfect for voting champions who are: Looking for project …
Learn about our Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator cohort Our Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator fills a gap in voter engagement work. Traditional tactics are struggling to move the people who’ve disengaged or been shut out of civic processes. This program is here to change that, providing expert guidance, tools, and funding to help leaders bring more …
Get Trained in Tactical Frivolity | Sept 8 | 7-8pm We’re teaming up with some of the best artistic activists we know to offer a free training in tactical frivolity and how to deploy it for the U.S. midterm elections this fall. On September 8 from 7-8pm ET: Watch the Recording This training has passed. …
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Get Training and Support for Tactically Frivolous Election Actions this Fall Register for the Kickoff “This sh*t is ridiculous!” We’re guessing that’s a sentence you’ve yelled (out loud or just in your head) many times, in response to the many &#$!% things happening in our government and in our country. But now, with the November elections …
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A recap of our June 15 workshop with narrative strategist Janelle Treibitz and the 10 Steps Campaign’s Robert Sills — on the narrative formula behind authoritarianism, and the creative actions that break it. Recording inside.
A free participatory online workshop with Stacey Abrams, Steve Lambert, and Janelle Treibitz on disrupting the logic of authoritarianism and building a better way forward. June 15, 2026 at 4 PM ET.
What We Heard, What We Learned, and What’s Next Creativity makes leadership work. When leaders and their teams have space to imagine new approaches, they build better campaigns, stronger coalitions, and the stamina to keep going. But under the pressures most leaders face right now, creativity is often the first thing that gets squeezed out. …
All about our political imagination workshops with Mushon Zer-Aviv “If there’s one thing to remember: the future does not exist. There are always futures.” That was Mushon Zer-Aviv’s central message in Forging Anti-Fascist Futures, a political imagination workshop series we hosted with him in January and April. When we asked participants why they wanted to …
Real stories and practical insights from leaders putting creative strategy into practice Get the Recap Good leadership depends on creativity. When leaders have room for themselves and their teams to imagine new approaches, they create better tactics, build stronger collaborations, and stay in the work. Yet most leaders are working under constraints that can make …
A Political Imagination Workshop applying Future Screenshots to strategic action After two inspiring offerings of Future Screenshots, Part 1 of Forging Anti-Fascist Futures, we’re excited to move into Part 2: What For? with Mushon Zer-Aviv. What For? will take place Monday, April 20, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET. Learn more below and …
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Applications open for this career-advancing, campaign-winning opportunity Voter engagement work is some of the most important in civic life — and some of the most challenging. Often it’s trying to reach people who’ve tuned out, burned out, or been terribly marginalized and disenfranchised. Plus, the typical methods and tools are old, stale, and broken, and …
A two-part political imagination workshop series At the start of the year, we offered Forging Anti-Fascist Futures: A Political Imagination Workshop to dream up a way forward. The workshop filled up almost immediately. Now we’re offering it again — and going deeper with a two-part series: Developed by Mushon Zer-Aviv, Future Screenshots is a method …
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Ok fine. Let’s talk about AI. BUT FIRST, we have a free online workshop you can join where participants will get to use a new AI-based tool we’ve developed. Make the Dream Real with a Strong ObjectiveIn unstable times, clear goals and specific, detailed outcomes give us a sense of direction and purpose where creativity can take …
Recapping our “Finding Creativity When the Work Feels Heavy” Event On February 25, we dove into one of the most valuable but overlooked tools in social justice work: creativity. Alexia Kemerling of the American Association of People with Disabilities and Alexandra Leal Silva of Maremoto joined us to talk about imagination as a strategic resource …
It was a typical Council meeting until Batman showed up. Have you seen this Batman City Council video? It’s great. Recently Batman stood up at a Santa Clara City Council meeting and demanded action. The Super Bowl was being held in Santa Clara and Batman was obviously concerned about the other masked vigilantes in town: …
An Event on How Imagination Can Help us Keep Going Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 3-4pm ET on Zoom | Free The work of organizing and advocacy is heavy, especially when progress is slow, the stakes are high, and the horrors keep coming. This public, participatory event is for people doing the work of change …
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | 12pm ESTon Zoom | FREE | Workshop FULL No Longer Accepting Applications What if we could design “screenshots” from futures that don’t exist yet? What if we used imagined futures like these to stretch our political imagination, clarify what’s possible, and build stronger solidarity in the present? Imagining the future …
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A meaningful gift for someone you love. If you’re still searching for a last-minute gift or if you’re resisting the push to buy more things we don’t really need, I want to offer another possibility. Give the gift of creativity, courage, and change. Make a donation to the Center for Artistic Activism in honor of …
All we learned during our 2025 Field Tests Event What really works in advocacy right now? This year, we partnered with four of our favorite organizations to find out. Earlier today, we shared all we learned. Relive our dynamic hour with our partners American Association of People with Disabilities Be The Ones, Fair Count, and QLatinx …
