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The Center for Artistic Activism helps activists use creativity to win. We train and support people to make advocacy more effective, imaginative, and impactful because imagination powers change, and changes power.
“…all parts of campaigning involve performance. Whether you’re registering people to vote in front of a supermarket, phone banking, or doing something absolutely innovative, you’re doing it for an audience, so thinking about it as a performance will help.”
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2 spots left for tomorrow's Office Hours with Steve Lambert. Bring your half-baked idea, your stuck campaign, your big question. No polish required.
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Event: Finding Creativity
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“If we really want to bring about revolutions in thinking and being, we need to disrupt the stories people already have, and help to write new ones.”
—“The Art of Activism” by Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert
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“The future isn't a single timeline we're heading toward—it's a wide-open landscape of possibility. And right now, in this moment of crisis, the question isn't whether the future will change. It's whose vision of the future will win.”
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“If facts are to be heard and heeded, they need to be made into engaging stories and compelling images that capture people’s attention and resonate with the ways they make sense of their world.”
—The Art of Activism by Steve Lambert & Stephen Duncombe
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A big thanks to @thec4aa.bsky.social for hosting an Alaska focused event. These guys do great work! FREE registration sponsored by @alaskarobotics.com, @tongassdemocrats.bsky.social, @tombegichforalaska.bsky.social (the human, not the campaign) and Nadine Lefebvre.
Event: Finding Creativity
Work is relentless. Imagination isn't. Join organizers, artists, and advocacy leaders Feb 25, 3–4pm ET (online) to learn practical creative strategies that build momentum, clarity, and impact. Learn more and register: https://hubs.li/Q043lQwC0
Want to tap the brain of C4AA Co-Founder + Artistic Director? 🧠🔍
Office Hours are open: bring your campaign questions, creative dilemmas, and strategy knots. Leave with sharper aims and smarter moves.
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The work is relentless. Good thing imagination is, too.
Join us on 2/25 3-4pm ET to reconnect with creative thinking as a practical tool for momentum, clarity, and impact. Featuring creative leaders at @aapd.com and Maremoto.
Register: hubs.li/Q0422wB_0
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(1/6) The Civil Rights Movement didn’t win by repeating the same protest—it won by adapting creatively under repression.
What tactic do you already use that could be reimagined to be safer, more joyful, or harder to shut down?
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When the work feels heavy, creativity can feel like a luxury. But what if it’s the way through?
Join our event for activists, artists, & social justice champions looking for new tools to keep going. Come (re)find your spark.
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This one filled up fast ✨ Forging Anti-Fascist Futures is now FULL.
For those attending: please plan to join live on Wed Jan 21, 12–2pm ET. Unlike past events, this workshop will not be recorded—it relies on participation.
See you soon. #FuturesThinking #ArtisticActivism
Imagine this: a nationwide Amazon worker strike stretching from data centers to distribution hubs. That’s a Future Screenshot—an artifact from a possible future.
Free C4AA workshop Wed Jan 21, 12–2pm ET. Limited seats. Apps close Jan 19.
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Join us to practice imagining the future we deserve. a free event FORGING ANTI-FASCIST FUTURES A Political Imagination Workshop with Mushon Zer-Aviv Wednesday, January 21 at 12pm to 2pm ET on Zoom Limited Seats Apply today
10/10 Join us to practice imagining the future we deserve: hubs.li/Q03-5JmC0
Fascism narrows what we can imagine. Anti-fascist creativity expands it. If we can’t picture a future beyond repression, we can’t organize toward one.
9/10 Fascism narrows what we can imagine. Anti-fascist creativity expands it.
That’s what Forging Anti-Fascist Futures is about. Using imagination as a political tool. Creating “screenshots” from futures that don’t yet exist — to loosen the grip of the present.
8/10 That’s what Forging Anti-Fascist Futures is about.
Utopian thinking doesn't say: Here is the answer. It asks: what if things were different? why aren't they? what would we need to change?
7/10 Utopian thinking doesn't say: Here is the answer.
It asks:
what if things were different?
why aren't they?
what would we need to change?
Artistic activism doesn’t just criticize what’s wrong. It lets us experience what could be right. It makes alternatives feel real, before they’re possible.
6/10 Artistic activism doesn’t just criticize what’s wrong.
It lets us experience what could be right.
It makes alternatives feel real,
before they’re possible.
More wanted us to feel that another world was possible. Once we allow ourselves, even briefly, to imagine a different world, we can no longer believe the present is the only possibility, and that crack in reality? That’s where resistance begins.
5/10 Once we allow ourselves, even briefly, to imagine a different world, we can no longer believe the present is the only possibility, and that crack in reality?
and yet Utopia is a place that doesn’t exist. The word “utopia” was invented five hundred years ago by the English writer and statesman Thomas More. Created from the Greek words ou, meaning “not,” and topos, meaning “place.” Utopia is a place which is, literally, no-place. But why create “no place”?
4/10 and yet... Utopia is a place that doesn't exist.
Utopia is a world far better than the one we live in now: "it's a place far better than the world we live in now" "where everyone has enough to eat" "where care replaces fear" "all people are valued"
3/10 Utopia is a world far better than the one we live in now
Fascism thrives on one idea: "This is the only world possible." no alternatives. no imagination. no future.
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There's no place like Utopia, but imagining the world we want is the first act of changing it.
1/10 Fascism tells us there is no alternative.
Artistic activism proves that wrong.
Join us for Forging Anti-Fascist Futures, and use imagination as a tool for resistance.
Jan 21
12pm-2pm
Free
Online
Limited Seats
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