Center for Artistic Activism

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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.

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Got a campaign idea stuck? Curious how art and activism actually work together? Join us for free Office Hours Friday, June 26th, 12-1pm ET with co-founder Stephen Duncombe. Bring your questions, no prep needed. Let's figure this out together.
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Golden Day activation by Caroline Scown on the Chinese-American Planning Council and Jacqueline von Edelberg of Arts4Impact.
Event: Finding Creativity
Event: Finding Creativity
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”?
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"
Fascism thrives on one idea: "This is the only world possible." no alternatives. no imagination. no future.
There's no place like Utopia, but imagining the world we want is the first act of changing it.