CULTURAL ORGANIZING
These writings, workshops, courses, and other resources represent our framework for building a robust practice where culture is fully integrated into organizing.
Cultural Organizing Working Definition and Framework
Cultural Organizing for Community Change, Frankfort, KY
Cultural Organizing for Community Change (Frankfort, KY) provided a space where artists, activists, cultural workers, organizers and educators from across Kentucky came together to strengthen their relationships, and deepen their capacity to use the tools of creativity, imagination, and culture for social justice organizing. This participatory workshop featured case studies, tools, strategies, networking and relationship building.
Culture, Planning, and Community Engagement Course
This experiential mini-course for Pratt Institute's Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development investigated arts and culture, broadly defined, as a critical part of envisioning and building an equitable and sustainable Chicago. Through site visits, tours, and conversations with practitioners and policymakers we explored the intersection between arts, culture, media and participatory planning.
Cultural Organizing Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana
Cultural Organizing for Community Change, Brooklyn, NY
Cultural Organizing for Community Change provided a space where artists, media makers, organizers and policy makers could learn effective ways to deepen their work and strengthen their capacity to use the tools of creativity, imagination and organizing for community change. The workshop included cultural organizing framework, skill building workshops, networking opportunities, and an intergenerational conversation with cultural organizers.
Participatory Budgeting NYC Creative Resources
SEIU artist residencies
Culture, Planning, and Community Engagement
Cultural Organizing for Community Recovery
Cultural Organizing: Experiences at the Intersection of Art & Activism
This paper explores the power of cultural organizing with examples of groups and individuals placing art and culture at the center of organizing strategies: organizing from a particular cultural identity, community of place, or worldview. It highlights the work of Third World Majority, Raices, M.U.G.A.B.E.E. and Ricardo Levins Morales.
Civil rights , Community / Regional Development , Economic Justice / Labor , Environment , Human Rights / Social Justice , Immigration , Film / Video / Audio / Digital , Traditional Cultural and Spiritual , Visual Art , Multi / Inter-disciplinary , Education / Awareness Raising , Alliance / Movement / Field Building , Political Engagement
Program
Quilt at Hopscotch House
Kentucky Foundation for Women Workshop
BCC: Building Collaborative Capacity - NYC
NOCD-NY (The Naturally Occurring Cultural District Working Group)
- Play the NOCD audio postcard
- Visit the NOCD-NY website
Cultural Organizing Workshop at ROOTS Fest
Artists who are dedicated to social justice often find themselves organizing their communities, their audiences, or even other artists. But what does it mean to be an 'organizer'? This workshop took place during ROOTS Fest's National Learning Exchange and explored the intersection between culture and organizing. (June, 2011)
Cultural Organizing for Community Recovery, New Orleans
Detroit U.S. Social Forum Workshops and Creativity Lab
Creative Recovery: Culture, Planning, and Community Engagement course
Atlanta United States Social Forum
The Arts & Democracy Project’s session on cultural organizing at the first-ever USSF in Atlanta had a standing room only crowd of 60 people. (June 2007)
Rural Cultural Organizer Gathering
This was a small 1.5 day-long strategic national gathering of cultural organizers cosponsored by the Main Street Project /Raices, Center for Rural Strategies, and the Humboldt Area Foundation in Klamath, CA, April 2007. Also participating were Alternate Roots, Appalshop, Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship, Llano Grande Center, Feral Arts, United Indian Health Services, and Northland Poster Collective.