Larry Bogad is an author, artist, and professor of political performance at U.C. Davis. In this talk he discusses why good theater makes good protest, and why being right is not enough. He is a cofounder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and founding Director of the Center for Artistic Activism/West Coast. Bogad has …
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I and We: Collective Movement for Beginners, Workshop presented by Robby Herbst
From some friends of the Center for Artistic Activism: What is Collective Identity? Sociologist Alberto Melucci suggests that in today’s alienated culture people find deep meaning and power through group identities that emerge through political social movements.With I and We, Collective Movement Workshop For Beginners individuals will explore their anxieties and their pleasures in becoming …
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Photos from School for Creative Activism, New York 2013
2013 SCA New York Participants Announced!
Linda Sarsour Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American community activist, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working as the Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator for the National Network for Arab American Communities and ACCESS and locally serving as the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, a social service agency …
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Event: Paul Engler @ Creative Activism Thursdays
Thursday, May 2nd; 7 PM NYU Tisch, Performance Studies Dept.721 Broadway, 6th FloorFREEPhoto ID required Paul Engler, Director of the Center for the Working Poor, will speak about his experience in the anti-globalization movement after Seattle, immigrant rights marches, Occupy, how the Serbian nonviolent revolutionaries changed his life, a concrete plan to get high numbers of …
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Not An Alternative: Internship Opportunity
Not An Alternative is a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. They curate and produce interventions on immaterial and material space, leveraging the tools of architecture, exhibit design, branding, and public relations. And they are great friends of the Center for Artistic Activism! See …
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Event: Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education
Apr 11, 2013, 6:30pm | Room 9206 Center for the Humanities The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education What are the theoretical and political repercussions of education outside of a traditional classroom? Whether spurred on by a tidal wave of student debt, changes in technology, …
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Hands-on Workshop TOMORROW!
Attention New Yorkers! This event is FREE and open to the public. Please join us as we meet and collaborate with aspiring and seasoned creative activists. Why is it that artists’ collectives typically focused on political activism have emerged in such numbers over the past few years? What are the specific advantages to working in …
Tonight! Leonidas Martin at Harvard School of Design
Monday, April 1 12:00 – 2:00 PM Stubbins (Room 112), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A visual tour of some of the most creative art/activist interventions performed in the context of the counter-globalization movement, and in contemporary urban struggles in Spain, including Las Agencias, Yomango, Pret a Revolter, and New Kids on the …
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SCA Application Deadline EXTENDED
We’ve received a lot of pleas for extensions, and we get it. You’re really, really busy. We’re extending the deadline for applications to our School For Creative Activism until March 14. Go home, have some fun and get some rest, and make sure to get it into us in the next two weeks. Download 2013 …
SCA Kenya Participants Announced
Mohamed Awadh Aboud Mohamed is the proud father of two daughters. He is an outreach worker with the Omari Project, which advocates for the rights of drug users and works to slow the spread of HIV and reduce harm related to drug use. Mohamed is a hard worker, eager to learn new things and make …
School for Creative Activism Applications Now Being Accepted
For Immediate Release Contact: manager at artisticactivism-dot-org APPLICATIONS FOR 2013 SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE ACTIVISM NOW BEING ACCEPTED Download 2013 SCA application here. The Center for Artistic Activism is pleased to announce the beginning of the application cycle for our third year of School for Creative Activism Workshops, to be held in the Spring and Summer …
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School for Creative Activism Awarded Third Year of Funding
For Immediate Release Contact: directors at artisticactivism-dot-org OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION FUNDS THIRD YEAR OF THE SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE ACTIVISM The Democracy and Power Fund, an initiative of the Open Society Foundations, has announced a third year of funding for CAA’s successful School for Creative Activism workshops.
The Aesthetics of Doing: Ethics
Join us as we attend… The Aesthetics of Doing: Ethics A Panel Discussion from A Blade of Grass With Artists Wafaa Bilal, Andrea Geyer, Dread Scott. Moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art Thursday, January 31st at 6:00 p.m. Do ethics equal aesthetics? This panel discussion brings together three artists who challenge …
Join us for a New York City premier!
Join us for the premier of ‘Let the Fury Have the Hour’ A documentary film by Antonino D’Ambrosio and featuring CAA Director Stephen Duncombe Friday, December 14th Quad Cinemas 7:25 PM with Q&A to follow From CAVU pictures, “Let Fury Have the Hour” attempts to examine the counter-culture of 2012, through the artists, actors, musicians …
Event: War, Trauma, and Public Art
Tuesday, December 4 (NEW DATE) 6:00pm (NEW TIME) Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor) 60 Washington Square South, NYC This panel discussion commemorates Veterans Day and celebrates Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection (in Union Square Park, November 8th through December 9th). The Lincoln installation features the images and voices of veterans projected onto the statue …
L.M. Bogad to Perform Economusic at NYU
Larry Bogad’s ECONOMUSICWednesday, November 28, 2012 | 7-9pm Presented by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Larry Bogad is an author, performer, and the founding Director of the Center for Artistic Activism/West Coast. He writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln …
L.M. Bogad: Paperwork and Economusic in Helsinki
CAA West Coast Director Larry Bogad Performs and Lectures at International Theater Festival From November 7-11, CAA West Coast Director Larry Bogad performed and lectured at Baltic Circle, an international theater festival held annually in Helsinki, Finland. Check out fantastic photos of his performances here. From Antii Yrjonen Photography: In the performance PAPERWORK, L. …
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New Yorkers: Help us support WBAI!
WBAI Silent Benefit Art Auction – RESCHEDULED: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 7:30pmWBAI ART AUCTION Online Bidding until Dec. 4 midnight EST Steven Kasher Gallery 521 W23rd St NYCContact: Andrea Katz 212.209.2828, Jim Wintner 646.242.7909 auction@wbai.iorg The WBAI Benefit Art Show and Auction has been rescheduled due to Hurricane Sandy. Online bidding continues at wbaiauction.org and will …