Revolutionizing Activism is back with a new lineup of conversations featuring activists, advocates, and artists challenging traditional approaches to advocacy! WE’RE BACK!!!!! You asked for it, and we brought it back! We launched our new discussion series Revolutionizing Activism late last year for artists, activists, and advocates to come together and dig into tried and …
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I PARTIED TILL THE WORLD CHANGED JOIN US ON AUGUST 25th | 12 PM EST | Riverside.fm London. Tbilisi. San Juan. Berlin. These are just a few places around the world where organizers have used parties as their main site of protest. In movements for reproductive rights, the decriminalization of drugs, and human rights–parties have …
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We are THRILLED to be supporting 5 leading artistic activists and their exceptional 2022 midterm election work Read on to get to know Steve, Andrew, Céshia, Aileen, and Alannah Hailing from Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and DC, our 5 Unstoppable Voters Fellows are bringing big, bold ideas to help their communities around the country vote this …
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Learn about the outstanding voting organizations joining our 2022 Midterm Action Accelerator We’ll be working with them through Election Day to develop and implement innovative, ambitious, strategic creative campaigns, supporting voters and voting all across the United States We’ve selected 9 of the most impactful individuals and groups committed to serving voters and making sure …
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Moving voters Forward with more creativity, innovation, and impact Learn more and apply to join our creative activism voting workshop this September. Wisconsin has very important elections this year, at the federal, state, and local levels. But in the face of polarization, trust in elections is at a low ebb. With government systems that feel …
Last week we held a second meeting to give shape to what we are calling an international research collaboratory (co-lab) on artistic activism. This is an initiative bringing together researchers from the Aoteroa/New Zealand, China, Denmark, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Our collective objective is to generate a …
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PREAMBLE On Friday June 24, 2022 the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Along with the shock, grief, dread, and anger we’re feeling, many people are wondering what they can do in this moment. We don’t have a silver bullet that can solve this. If we did, we’d all be doing it. However, …
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Fighting for Abortion with Creativity and Impact On Monday, June 27, we held a special event to talk about how to help support abortion rights. We were joined by Julia Kaye of the ACLU and Rija Nazir of the pro-abortion Vote Neigh campaign in Kansas. Read on for ways to help, what to do now, …
Fighting for Abortion Rights with Creativity and Impact Join us for Ways to Show Up this Monday, June 27th at 4pm ET. Let’s talk about how to help support abortion rights. Whether you’re a long time activist or new to this, we’ll discuss how to support other groups and people with your passion and creativity. …
Watch our info session about Unstoppable Voters Take on the Midterms, and apply by July 7 Learn all about Unstoppable Voters Take on the Midterms In our Info and Q&A session, we got into the details about the Unstoppable Voters Fellowship and Action Accelerator, the funding, training, mentorship, and community involved, and how to apply …
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Got questions about our Unstoppable Voters Fellowship and Action Accelerator? We’ve got answers! Read on and reach out if you have any others. Apply to both opportunities by July 7th. Should I apply for the Fellowship or the Action Accelerator? What’s the difference? There are a lot of similarities between the programs—we know! They both …
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Asking if you can have impact using digital advocacy is like asking if you can have impact using the telephone. Digital advocacy is a tool – it’s not a strategy in itself. Liba Beyer We have big dreams and ideas, and we go after them. We want to know that what we’re doing is making …
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We’re launching two of our biggest programs ever — because activists, artists, and everyone in between need more support to protect voters and voting during this crucial election season DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply by July 7 for our new Fellowship and Action Accelerator joyful vibrant safe powerful accessible inspiring irresistible Not the words people often associate …
Have you heard about the Center for Artistic Activism Secret Sauce? Well, if you’re wondering whether creative activism works, or challenged by what it even means for creative activism to work then you’re in luck – at the next edition of Revolutionizing Activism on May 26th at 12pm EST we’re sharing the secret sauce behind …
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* * DEADLINE EXTENDED to Monday, June 6th at 11:59 pm * * We’re hiring! — We’re looking for an intern to help with creative activism research and outreach this summer. The intern will help our teams tell the stories of incredible creative advocacy projects from around the world. They’ll dig in our archives, research …
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* * DEADLINE EXTENDED to Monday, June 6th at 11:59 pm * * We’re hiring! — We’re looking for a talented, experienced, fun and experimental graphic designer to work with us on an ongoing and flexible basis as a contractor. We have various design projects that we’d love some design help with, based on our …
Redistricting Lotería is an Unstoppable Voters project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that protect the freedom to vote with creativity and innovation. Redistricting Lotería No matter what we look like or where we come from, when it comes to having a say over who represents us, most of us want …
Activism, amongst other things, involves being willing to bring ideas to people on an unsolicited basis when they’re not necessarily asking for it? So, what happens when you bring the future to them? Stuart Candy At the latest edition of Revolutionizing Activism: The Power of Utopia, Stuart Candy (Berggruen Fellow at the University of Southern …
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Be our guest at our creative activism cocktail hour! On Thursday, May 26, from 7-9pm, we’ll be at Grape & the Grain in Orlando to share how we’ve been using creativity to protect the freedom to vote, in Florida and beyond. We want to hear what you’ve been up to and if there are ways …
Bring more creativity, innovation, and impact to protecting the freedom to vote in The Freedom State Apply to join our dynamic workshop We all know that Kansas has very important elections this year — and that we need to turn out voters in record numbers for them. But we also know that with local, state, …
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