Join Arts + Literature Laboratory for Arts + Abolition: Building Our Future! a mixed-ages series highlighting the personal reflection, peer education, and action needed for effective mutual aid work. From writing letters to incarcerated members of our community to creating collaborative cookbooks focused on food justice, participants will both critique the prison-industrial-complex while practicing the mutual aid activities that reflect the kind of world we'd like to live in.
REGISTRATION: Sign up for each workshop individually. We hope you'll join them all! See schedule below for the whole Art + Abolition calendar, which connects participants to a number of local projects before ending on an invitation to find each of our sustainable roles in the work. Participant contributions allow us pay teaching artists for their labor, and allow our education department to continue to develop community-responsive programs. These programs are only possible thanks to your support. Certain workshops will have an optional materials fee that will set participants up with relevant supplies; materials kits are not necessary for participation.
MIXED AGES, WHOLE FAMILY: Program enrollment is open to teens and adults, with younger children encouraged to participate with the support of their enrolled adult. Adults with younger children are encouraged to enlist their whole family to participate, contextualizing course content as is developmentally appropriate for their child. (Please drop us a note in the form if you plan to pull your younger children into this programming, so that we can best shape activity prompts.) Note that activities involving writing letters to incarcerated community members will be closely monitored by our partnering agencies, and that all letter recipients have been approved to receive letters from minors. Contact [email protected] with further questions.
Finding Your Role: Combining Your Creativity with Community Organizing (Session #8)
Using Mapping Our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems by Deepa Iyer, SolidarityIs and Building Movement Project, we will spend this session thinking and journaling about our strengths and role in social change. Along with the reflection guide, we will be doing free-form drawings and thought-mapping exercises to visualize and create around our community organizing roles. Where do we fit in? We’ll close this series by looking at local organizations and efforts combining creativity with mutual aid, community building, and other forms of organizing. We’ll consider and reach out (for those ready to take that step) about how we can get involved with these efforts.
Art + Abolition Workshop Calendar:
Thurs Mar 4 - Black and Pink Letter Writing
Thurs Mar 11 - Organizing Thought through Mutual Aid
Thurs Mar 18 - Black and Pink Art Activity Zine
Thurs Apr 22 - Organizing Thought through Emergent Strategy
Thurs Apr 29 - Tackling Food Insecurity w/ Cook it Forward
Thurs May 6 - Group Zine Making Session: Imagining a Police-Free Future
Thurs May 13 - Food Justice and Mutual Aid w/ Madison Community Fridges
Thurs May 20 - Finding Your Role: Combining Your Creativity with Community Organizing
05/20/2021
Participants must be 13 years to 120 years old when the program starts.
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 30
Registration starts on 02/09/2021.
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Please contact Arts + Literature Laboratory if you have any questions.