Creative Organizing

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Workshop Information
Event Date: 
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Event Location: 
Cobo Hall: DO-03D
Full Description: 

For activists, artists, and artist-activists! Art can contribute to changing people's perceptions, hearts and understandings of what has been, what is and what's possible. But art can't do it alone; people getting together and acting together is the real source of social change. The dignity and possibility in all people is the underlying message of this workshop, which will include "medicinal art" – meaning when we work with any community, start with a diagnosis. What keeps a group of people from knowing their power and acting on it? What stories then might be offered, to free up trapped energy, which can help reveal the possible avenues for collective action?

Facilitated by Ricardo Levins Morales (RLM Arts Studio), a founding member of the Northland Poster Collective who has participated in the trenches of the labor movement and offered his art as a tool to assist in organizing numerous drives and educational efforts.

Organizer Name: 
Javiera Benavente
Organizer Email: 
javiera@artsanddemocracy.org
First Sponsoring Organization Name: 
Arts & Democracy Project
Language(s): 
English
Language(s): 
Spanish (possibly)
Tracks: 
Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: crisis and opportunities
Media Justice, Communications, & Culture
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