Creative Activist
This training skill will help you to bring your wildest fantasies of change into reality. Get theoretical argumentation and historical examples of why creativity is important to create social change. Explore the concepts of civil disobedience, social imagination and creativity and get inspiration for how you can free the power of your own creativity. Gain a number of different practical creative tools ranging from how to design events, make flash mobs, use theatre and create stencils. If you can dream it, you can do it!
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Inspiration
Making a Hoax
Get inspiration from contemporary and historical examples of hoaxes, and learn why it sometimes takes a lie to tell the tr...
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Prefigurative interventions
You want to make the world a better place, right? But how should this better place look, feel or taste like?
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Background
Civil Disobedience Part I
When can we justify to break the law? Our moms would probably say "never" - but taking this bit you will get three differe...
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Inspiration
Making a Hoax
Get inspiration from contemporary and historical examples of hoaxes, and learn why it sometimes takes a lie to tell the tr...
364.0
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Prefigurative interventions
You want to make the world a better place, right? But how should this better place look, feel or taste like?
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Background
Civil Disobedience Part I
When can we justify to break the law? Our moms would probably say "never" - but taking this bit you will get three differe...
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Inspiration
Civil Disobedience Part II
As long as laws which deny justice are in place, people will be there to break them and push for change. Discover importan...
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Situationist International: Society of the Spectacle
How much of what you use in your everyday life is actually something you need? Add up money and desire and you have a dang...
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Inspiration
Urban Interventions and Psychogeography
The public urban spaces we inhabit have a big effect on our behavior, what we do and how we think. We too have the ability...
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How to come up with ideas fast
Being creative in your campaigning can be tricky and ideas not always come to you when you need it. You can get stuck or j...
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Inspiration
Anarcho-Punk Movement
The Anarcho-Punk movement began in the 1970s. Many Creative Activist tools are found in this movement, such as DIY, direct...
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DIY Ethic
We’re not talking about home improvement…It is about taking actions into your hands. The bottom line? For YOU to be a Crea...
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Zines
Have the freedom to say whatever you want in the form of a zine. Use this cheap and easily reproducible medium to talk abo...
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Background
Graffiti History
Did you know that cavemen were graffiti artists too? Explore the evolution from prehistoric ages to the modern guerrilla a...
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Stencils
In this training bit you will learn how to make your art and message accessible to the public. Learn how to quickly and ea...
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Wheat Pasting Tool Kit for Activist
Activist use wheat pasting to express their messages. In this training bit you can learn how to use your cooking ingre...
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Music and Politics
Music is a powerful media through which we can advocate for human rights and express our disagreements with how the world ...
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Inspiration
Write songs for change
Write a song that people can hear all over the world. Music activates mind, body and brain at the same time. Songs ha...
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Audio Editing
Have you ever wanted to make your own podcast or learn how to record a song? In this training bit you can learn to do just...
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How to create poetry
This bit shows the different features of poetry, its history and a 12 step guide to create your own poem You need to ha...
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Event Ambushing
Are you finding it difficult to get your message across? Here's a trick you can use to get your foot in the door.
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How to make them take your flyer
We often distribute flyers in our campaigns - but often, people don't actually read them! Take this bit and be inspired to...
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Humor and Satire
If you can make the enemy look ridiculous, you are already partly successful. Be inspired by the serious side of humor.
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Memes
What does a white dove make you think of? Peace? That could be because someone managed to create a strong meme! Take this ...
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Tool
FlashMob
Here is a tool that you can use for mobilizing and awareness creation for your campaign
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Inspiration
How to turn your photography into social action
We had a one on one with Boniface Mwangi and we bring you his recommendations on what he does that has turned his photogra...
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How to make a viral video
Did you know that 87 percent of online marketers now use video content?Whether you’ve been creating video content for year...
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Lessons from Kony2012 campaign
Could an online video make an obscure war criminal famous? And if he was famous, would the world work together to stop him...
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Invisible Theatre
Theatre is not only performed on a stage with styled actors and actresses. It can happen just next to you on the sidewalk,...
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Background
Improvisational Theater: A Tool for Social Change
Theater has always captured people's attention for centuries. Whether it is for entertainment or education, theater has be...
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