Center for Artistic Activism

Event: Finding Creativity

Work is relentless. Imagination isn't. Join organizers, artists, and advocacy leaders Feb 25, 3–4pm ET (online) to learn practical creative strategies that build momentum, clarity, and impact. Learn more and register: https://hubs.li/Q043lQwC0

Want to tap the brain of C4AA Co-Founder + Artistic Director? 🧠🔍
Office Hours are open: bring your campaign questions, creative dilemmas, and strategy knots. Leave with sharper aims and smarter moves.
Sign up → c4aa.org/office-hours
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The work is relentless. Good thing imagination is, too.

Join us on 2/25 3-4pm ET to reconnect with creative thinking as a practical tool for momentum, clarity, and impact. Featuring creative leaders at @aapd.com and Maremoto.

Register: hubs.li/Q0422wB_0

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(1/6) The Civil Rights Movement didn’t win by repeating the same protest—it won by adapting creatively under repression.
What tactic do you already use that could be reimagined to be safer, more joyful, or harder to shut down?
#CreativeResistance #ArtisticActivism #MovementStrategy

When the work feels heavy, creativity can feel like a luxury. But what if it’s the way through?

Join our event for activists, artists, & social justice champions looking for new tools to keep going. Come (re)find your spark.

hubs.li/Q0422wB_0 2/25 3-4pm ET

#ArtisticActivism #CreativeResistance

This one filled up fast ✨ Forging Anti-Fascist Futures is now FULL.

For those attending: please plan to join live on Wed Jan 21, 12–2pm ET. Unlike past events, this workshop will not be recorded—it relies on participation.

See you soon. #FuturesThinking #ArtisticActivism

Imagine this: a nationwide Amazon worker strike stretching from data centers to distribution hubs. That’s a Future Screenshot—an artifact from a possible future.

Free C4AA workshop Wed Jan 21, 12–2pm ET. Limited seats. Apps close Jan 19.
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#FuturesThinking #ArtisticActivism

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

10/10 Join us to practice imagining the future we deserve: hubs.li/Q03-5JmC0

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.

9/10 Fascism narrows what we can imagine. Anti-fascist creativity expands it.

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.

8/10 That’s what Forging Anti-Fascist Futures is about.

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?

7/10 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.

6/10 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.

5/10 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?

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”?

4/10 and yet... Utopia is a place that doesn't exist.

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"

3/10 Utopia is a world far better than the one we live in now

Fascism thrives on one idea: "This is the only world possible." no alternatives. no imagination. no future.

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There's no place like Utopia, but imagining the world we want is the first act of changing it.

1/10 Fascism tells us there is no alternative.
Artistic activism proves that wrong.

Join us for Forging Anti-Fascist Futures, and use imagination as a tool for resistance.

Jan 21
12pm-2pm
Free
Online
Limited Seats
hubs.li/Q03-5JmC0

#AntiFascistFutures #ArtisticActivism #PoliticalImagination

Why activists need art to create social change The authors of a new book on artistic activism discuss the importance of fighting on the terrain of popular culture to reach a mass audience.

Read my 2021 interview with Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert after the release of their book “The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible.”

@thec4aa.bsky.social‬ @wagingnonviolence.org‬
wagingnonviolence.org/2021/12/why-activists-need-art-to-create-social-change/

Picture this (fictional): an Amazon worker strike from data centers to distribution hubs. That’s a Future Screenshot—an artifact from a possible future.

Free C4AA workshop Wed Jan 21, 12pm ET. Limited seats + short app: hubs.li/Q03-5JmC0

#FuturesThinking #ArtisticActivism

Final hours of 2025.

Creativity makes the impossible possible — and we’ll need all of it aimed at truth and justice in 2026. Every dollar is doubled until midnight.

Support artistic activism: c4aa.org/donate

#ArtisticActivism #TruthAndJustice #YearEndGiving

We’re almost at our year-end goal — and every dollar is doubled through 12/31.

Creative activism reaches people when traditional tactics can’t. Help us bring that power to more communities in 2026.

Donate now: c4aa.org/donate

#CreativeActivism #DefendDemocracy #EndOfYearGiving

What does Jaws teach us about advocacy?
How urgency builds. How emotion moves people. How stories drive action.
Every donation to C4AA is doubled right now—fuel creative strategies that help movements win.
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Our Field Tests recap is live 🎉
Get the recording, slides, + our new Field Tests Guide—a hands-on resource for testing creative advocacy ideas that actually work.
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“There is always a way to win.” ✨
Belief is part of the strategy—and yes, sometimes Yoda says it best.

💬 Reply with a movie quote that inspires your advocacy or keeps you going.

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Last chance to join The 2025 Field Tests! TOMORROW Dec 11, 1–2pm ET — hear what worked in real advocacy experiments from AAPD, Be The Ones, Fair Count & QLatinx.
Don’t miss it. Register: hubs.li/Q03V2htX0

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