Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change
Fri, Nov 18
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The third in the online series, "Animating Democracy: Reflecting Forward," this session explores the relationship between artistic imagination and civic/social/political action, and how artistic/emergent strategies can make change. Featuring adrienne maree brown, Jawole Zollar, and Sage Crump.
Time & Location
Nov 18, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
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About the Event
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Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change
November 18, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. ET
In October 2003, Detroit-based activist, cultural worker, and then octogenarian Grace Lee Boggs energized and inspired a national gathering of artists, arts organization and community leaders, and activists with her speech at Animating Democracy's National Exchange on Art & Civic Dialogue. Enumerating conditions perpetuating inequities and injustices in America, she implored, "Can we create a new paradigm of our selfhood and our nationhood?" In Boggs' subsequent essay, "," (commissioned by Animating Democracy), she stressed the need for tremendous philosophical and spiritual transformation to effect social justice and change. She advocated a shift from politics as usual and protest alone to positive and holistic change making that also "grows…