Let's step it up!

Workshop Handout: A Strengthening Tonic for Stronger, Leaner, More Æffective Creative Actions

It includes questions to help get us thinking differently, like:

• Have you wandered through your imagined utopia lately?
• Who is the audience?
• What do you want them to Think, Feel and Do?
• Which path will get you to your objective the fastest?

We offer this to you and hope it helps when planning your next action.

Tools like this are free because of supporters like you.

Did you know 80% of charitable giving happens in the last five days of the year?

Don't forget the C4AA when you are supporting your favorite orgs.

It's been a good/wild year.

Here our top 13 favorite 2019 moments that your donations support:

1. Training and collaborating with over 60 incredible people including activists, artists, funders, non-profit leaders and change-makers. 
2. Creating two new Art Action Academies to address corruption in the Western Balkans and West Africa, a vast project that will train a slew of new artistic activism trainers and result in a rigorous analysis of how creative activism can work for regional social and political change.
3. Learning about intergalactic travel while collaborating with the amazing folks at Guerrilla Science to figure out how to best teach about using creativity, carnival and spectacle in science communication.
4. Seeing our giant flower-filled numbers in front of Seattle City Hall
5. Publishing our report on The Copenhagen Experiment: Testing the impact of creative activism in the real world.  This is an evidence-based, empirical comparative study of the variable impact of creative versus more conventional forms of activism! Woo-hoo!
6. Going to Moldova for the first time for CampCamp and training incredible creative activists from post-soviet countries and talking about challenging problems like how to use creativity to address torture in countries where its not okay to talk about it.
7. Working with Atlantic Fellows, who are some of the most accomplished activists, researchers and policy-makers in the world working on issues from dementia and brain health to racial justice in public health. 
8. Witnessing the amazingly effective DIY creative tactics of our trainees in Macedonia at work, who are creating actions for pennies that are resulting in real and immediate change in their communities.
9. Working with the A Blade of Grass criminal justice fellows to execute a plan for assessing the impact of their socially engaged artistic criminal justice projects.
10. Collaborating with the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics to evaluate a project by Mexican cartoonists on drug use.
11. Working with our Artist in Residence, Zihan LI Iris, who has been making an easy-to-use creative activism tool that we’ll share for actions everywhere! (Hint: it involves sensors and large digital numbers).
12. Testing and refining our open source, web-based  Æffect Mobile App, which helps artistic activists clarify, strengthen, and assess the impact of their socially engaged work.
13. Hosting events online and offline like our first Streaming Soiree and our New York C4AA Hang Out, plus changing things up in our newsletter and alumni forums, all designed to spark in-depth and useful conversations about what it takes to make truly great and effective artistic activism. 

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Thank you for supporting artists and activists in whatever way you can,

All of us at the Center for Artistic Activism

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