33 Entries
Artistic Advocacy
Prince Andrew Ardayfio | 90 minutes
Artistic advocacy is the use of art to raise awareness about social and political issues. It can be used to educate people, inspire them to take action, or simply make them think about these issues in a new way.
There are many different … Read More
Keywords – Advocacy, Strategy, Tactics, Effect, Affect, Ideas, Plan
Examples of Actions in Bitola
Goran Kostovski | 10 minutes
3 artistic activism examples from Bitola, North Macedonia demonstrating creative petitioning for civic change. Included projects were launched in response to environmental inequality and city design that is not pedestrian-friendly.
Keywords – organizing, environment, intervention, infrastructure, corruption
Can Artistic Activism Function in the Western Balkans
Nikola Pisarev | 20 minutes
An introductory review of artistic activism’s impact in the Western Balkans. This presentation provides a glimpse at common problems experienced by countries in the region and ways that artistic activism can be deployed to solve national … Read More
Keywords – corruption, politics, art intervention, Balkans, grassroots
Birth of Artistic Activism
Andrej Mitevski | 20 minutes
This presentation explains the important first steps of planning an artistic activism project or campaign. Learn more about when to start an artistic activation, how to leverage public pressure, sample ideas of how best to connect with an … Read More
Keywords – research, audience, campaigns, public initiative
Art Activism in the Balkans
Adrijana Lavchiska | 30 minutes
An introduction to artistic activism as it is employed in Balkan states. Various examples of public artistic interventions in the region that demonstrate the methods, issues, and influences of art activism in the region.
Keywords – organizing, intervention, corruption, public art
Creating a social media campaign – small steps, but a significant reach
Ana Aćimov | 120 minutes
The task is to tell several stories about problems in the community, optimally up to 10. Participants should create short scripts for each story, take photos or videos and post it on social media, according to the dynamics they determined. … Read More
Keywords – campaign social media rehearsal small action provocative group work visibility include
Culture as our Clay
Akosua Hanson | 60 minutes
This lesson introduces artistic activists to the idea of culture and its stories as the creative activists’ clay. Through African creation mythology to Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality & emotional fulfillment in life, this lesson … Read More
Keywords – Culture-stories
The Subtle Art of Persuasion
Akosua Hanson | 20 minutes
Through pop culture mediums such as advertising & film, this curriculum draws lessons from marketing in the art of persuasion in storytelling – an important tool for artistic activists to learn in developing their projects and … Read More
Keywords – Persuasion, Subverts, Storytelling
Ethics in Community Action & Activists’ Self-care
Akosua Hanson | 20 minutes
This lesson takes participants through the ethics that must be employed in creating actions within the community, from checking one’s own prejudices, protecting life at all costs to conducting adequate research. It also includes tips on … Read More
Keywords – Ethics, Community, Self-care
What is the strength of the group? What are the weaknesses?
Ana Aćimov | 40 minutes
A SWOT analysis is a simple and effective framework for identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that our group could face during the project and later in the future.
Also, we talked about our strategic goals and we … Read More
Keywords – SWOT analysis Problem tree Strategic Goals
Short presentation of the project
Edisa Demic | 120 minutes
Edisa Demic and Zoran Hreceg, trainer/artist.
(60 minutes) The comics story artist explains the history of comics books, the production of story, their importance in modern urban artistic expression, and varieties. The participants will … Read More
Keywords – stope corruption
DOCUMENTING CHANGE
Prince Andrew Ardayfio | 60 minutes
We live in a social media age where 85% of users interact with videos. This curriculum delves into ways of documenting activities such as protests and how to do so ethically
Keywords – DOCUMENT, PROTEST, ETHICS, VIDEO
CREATIVE STRATEGY
Prince Andrew Ardayfio | 120 minutes
What is your strategy for your campaign? In this curriculum, you will think about your demands and how you’re going to get them met. You will go through processes of identifying key players in your campaign; internally and externally and … Read More
Keywords – STRATEGY, POWER, MAPPING, ANALYSIS, TARGET
BEYOND RAISING AWARENESS
Prince Andrew Ardayfio | 120 minutes
‘Raising Awareness’ isn’t enough. The problem still exists and the quota lies on us to move people to act, to cognitively motivate them to do something. This curriculum delves into ways to cause people to act for change with practical and … Read More
Keywords – AWARENESS, BEHAVIOUR, THINK, ACT
ARTISTIC ACTIVISM
Prince Andrew Ardayfio | 80 minutes
What is art and what is activism? Is there a link with all forms of art and activism? This module delves deep into the meeting point of art and activism and how they can be harnessed to speak on socio-political and cultural issues.
Keywords – ART, ACTIVISM, ACTION
Edisa Demic
Edisa Demic | 120 minutes
Project Rationale:
In completing this project, participants will create a series of files in response to a stimulus provided by their instructors. The students will explore creative and artistic solutions related to their own vision of how … Read More
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Stages of Change
Steve Lambert | 70 minutes
What happens between exposure and action? Why is raising awareness about an issue a first step in many steps to behavior change?
Keywords – behavior, action, psychology, persuasion
Engagement and Experience Design
Rebecca Bray | 70 minutes
This lesson is designed to get people thinking about how they can make their actions more participatory and engaging, with examples like potholes in Macedonia, and an action in Johannesburg. Steve L also goes into detail on engaging … Read More
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Feminism and empathy
Dragana S. Gunin | 120 minutes
Actually these are two lessons (workshops), one with the feminist NGO Lastrada in which we mostly talked about sexual harassment and the other is artistic workshop in which we talked about empathy and how to listen to people how have been … Read More
Keywords – Feminism, empathy, women, ngo, actors, victims
A place for support
Dragana S. Gunin | 120 minutes
This was our main action. It is called “A place for support” and it was planned at the beginning as the main artistic action. Together with three actresses we made a performances based on experiences with sextortion women had on their … Read More
Keywords – Support, action, sextortion, women, workplaces
Audio Stories – Stories you should hear
Dragana S. Gunin | 30 minutes
This is one of the actions/steps that I mentioned in my curriculum, The audio stories are based on the research about sextortion and the experiences women have had on their workplaces.
Keywords – Stories, victims, experiences, sextortion, workplaces
Research
Keyti Melakh | 30 minutes
Strong and reliable research is a vital component of advocating effectively and making informed programming. Whether you are making the case to your audiences, to your staff, to elected officials and other business and community leaders, – … Read More
Keywords – Research, Campaign, Audience
Culture
Keyti Melakh | 60 minutes
The evolution of the human being is intimately linked to that of culture. Access to culture guarantees human beings access to a vast reservoir of information, technology, practices and knowledge from the first moments of their life to the … Read More
Keywords – Culture, Planning, Society
Deciding on your Action
Rebecca Bray | 50 minutes
Use this slideshow to help you organize this team meeting.
Write your answers into the template slides provided for this purpose.
Keywords – Group, Campaign, Strategy
Working With Groups
Steve Lambert | 50 minutes
Working creatively with groups can be tricky. While you understand the value of exploring utopias and the impossible, or trying to come up with the wildest ideas you can think of, not everyone has had this experience and when you go back to … Read More
Keywords – Groups, Goals, Campaigns
Utopia
Stephen Duncombe | 50 minutes
We discuss the importance of Utopian goals in giving us political direction, and how, in our campaigns, we need to begin with these – inspiring, motivating, common — dreams and work backwards to the particular objectives. While technical, … Read More
Keywords – Goals, Campaigns, Motivation
Motivation
Steve Lambert | 90 minutes
We begin by overcoming the resistance of many activists to anything with “marketing” in its name, explaining that we can learn from unlikely sources and we must be able to think systematically and instrumentally about creativity if we are … Read More
Keywords – Marketing, Persuasion, Strategy
Culture
Stephen Duncombe | 50 minutes
If Creativity is our Method, then Culture is the resource that Creative Activism works with.
Culture is the foundation of creative activism. It is what we draw from, it is what we produce, and it is what we hope to change. Participants … Read More
Keywords – Culture, Methods, Politics
Cognition and Morality
Stephen Duncombe Steve Lambert | 60 minutes
Beginning with a group memory exercise, basic principles of cognition are laid out: pattern recognition, associative strings, neural pathways, snap judgments, and bias confirmation; as well as activist strategies to work with and around … Read More
Keywords – Psychology, Methods, Creativity
History
Stephen Duncombe | 60 minutes
A slide show and discussion of creative tactics used effectively in social movements throughout history, focusing on the United States. Case studies may include: Moses, Jesus of Nazareth, Prophet Muhammad, American Revolution, Native … Read More
Keywords – Research, Culture, Planning