What can activists do to reduce feelings of worry and anxiety? 3 art therapy exercises for mindfulness, relaxation and anxiety management.
Topic: Arts & Creativity
Arts & Creativity
Creativity is an abundant resource! People have the ability to come up with imaginative means to challenge and solve the many problems in our society. Creative approaches can be fun and attention grabbing, engaging new audiences and supporters and catching opponents off-guard. Here are many examples along with practical tips.
A Collection of Zines: Powerhouses for Social Change
Browse this Commons Library collection to discover zines that inspire, educate, and empower activism and social change.
The Proper Form of Politeness: Quotes from the Pen of T-Bone Slim
Quotes from T-Bone Slim, “the laureate of the logging camps” who wrote more than 1000 humorous and polemical columns, songs and poems from 1920 to 1942.
How to do a Successful and Safe Banner Drop
Here are tips for hanging a large protest banner or a flag from a bridge or monument. It is an effective tactic to draw attention to a cause.
Where to Fight Back: Lessons from US Anti-Coup Actions
The most effective places to fight back, protest, and resist the Trump administration and other authoritarian regimes.
Finding Joy in Resistance: 12 Inspiring Podcasts
In these hard times find your joy! Here is a collection of podcasts to listen to about finding joy in activism, resistance, and movements.
The Visibility Brigade: A Template For Activism
Want to make a sign that gets noticed? Here is a template and tips shared by the Visibility Brigade, who make different signs each week.
AEffect Planning and Assessment Toolset
Artistic Activists – The Aeffect Planning and Assessment Toolset helps you plan, strengthen, and evaluate your creative activist projects.
Menstrual Pies! Creative Activism Against Far-Right Bigotry During the 1970s
An interview about the pieing of far-right campaigner Mary Whitehouse by Australian creative activists in 1978.
Emergent Strategy
An overview of Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, outlining its core principles and offering key resources for exploring and applying the approach.
Art, Anxiety and Activism
What can activists do to reduce feelings of worry and anxiety? 3 art therapy exercises for mindfulness, relaxation and anxiety management.
A Collection of Zines: Powerhouses for Social Change
Browse this Commons Library collection to discover zines that inspire, educate, and empower activism and social change.
The Proper Form of Politeness: Quotes from the Pen of T-Bone Slim
Quotes from T-Bone Slim, “the laureate of the logging camps” who wrote more than 1000 humorous and polemical columns, songs and poems from 1920 to 1942.
How to do a Successful and Safe Banner Drop
Here are tips for hanging a large protest banner or a flag from a bridge or monument. It is an effective tactic to draw attention to a cause.
Where to Fight Back: Lessons from US Anti-Coup Actions
The most effective places to fight back, protest, and resist the Trump administration and other authoritarian regimes.
Finding Joy in Resistance: 12 Inspiring Podcasts
In these hard times find your joy! Here is a collection of podcasts to listen to about finding joy in activism, resistance, and movements.
The Visibility Brigade: A Template For Activism
Want to make a sign that gets noticed? Here is a template and tips shared by the Visibility Brigade, who make different signs each week.
AEffect Planning and Assessment Toolset
Artistic Activists – The Aeffect Planning and Assessment Toolset helps you plan, strengthen, and evaluate your creative activist projects.
Menstrual Pies! Creative Activism Against Far-Right Bigotry During the 1970s
An interview about the pieing of far-right campaigner Mary Whitehouse by Australian creative activists in 1978.
Emergent Strategy
An overview of Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, outlining its core principles and offering key resources for exploring and applying the approach.