Tar Sands Songbook
By Tanya Kalmanovitch, Tishman Environment and Design Center
The Tar Sands Songbook asks us to reconsider our unseen relationships with oil.
Tag: art as social change
Research and Creativity: Making a Play about Food Poverty in the UK
By Jasber Singh, People's Knowledge
But what is the human story behind these injustices? How can we raise consciousness and create change? In other words, how does one communicate this information in a meaningful and impactful way?
Seven Reasons Why I Make Art (And Why You Should, Too)
By Caitlin Johnstone, Medium
With art you can get underneath the narrative matrix and speak to an unguarded part of an audience that hasn’t been armored up by layers of establishment narrative.
Imagination is the Most Important Thing in the Whole Wide World
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
We have this remarkable ability as human beings to conjure things in our imaginations, and design them, when they’re not in evidence in front of us, but we can do that.
In Search of a Lexicon for the Deep Core
By Charlotte Du Cann, Charlotte Du Cann blog
The three R's of Deep Adaptation are tasks, they demand we leave a lot of our identity and cleverness behind, our comfort zones, our egoic insults, the traumas we cling to like antiquated gas masks, long after the war is over.
HowlRound — Enacting Theater as a Commons
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
The beauty of the commons paradigm is that it can emerge and flourish in areas of life that no one suspects could possibly host it…..such as live theater.
Alexandra Rowland on Hopepunk, Grimdark, Story and Imagination
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
Hopepunk is about fighting for a better future and taking action and doing radical kindness. A lot of times people want to soften it, and think that it is about fluffy self-care, and that’s certainly a part of it, but I want to emphasise that ‘punk’ is the operative half of the word hopepunk. It’s about actively taking action...
James McKay, the Man who Draws the Future.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
As soon as you have even just a rough sketch of something that’s optimistic, you then have something that people can react to, the visions can be tremendously powerful in terms of motivating people to make some real changes ...
Once You Know
By Rachel Holman, Resilience.org
The documentary explores the devastating effect of climate change on our world, and our collective resilience in the face of its collapse. A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to complete the film, which is in the final stages of production.
When Crafts Become Activism: A More Beautiful Movement
By Tracy L. Barnett, YES! magazine
What Corbett discovered for herself on her train trip is known as “craftivism,” a term popularized by North Carolina activist Betsy Greer. With Greer’s blessing, Corbett spun it into her unique “gentle protest” approach, and a decade later has turned that epiphany into a high-impact career, the international Craftivist Collective and a whole lot of creative social change.