Join us for the final event in the series

Animating Democracy: REFLECTING FORWARD

Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change

November 18, 4:00 – 5:30 ET

Co-presented with Art2Action Livestreamed on HowlRound

The late Detroit-based activist and cultural worker Grace Lee Boggs inspired a national gathering of artists, arts organization and community leaders, and activists with her speech at Animating Democracy's 2003 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?" This session takes her inspiration to explore artists’ imaginative power to grow the personal and collective soul and how artistic strategies and emergent strategies can bolster movements and make progress toward change.

Featuring: adrienne maree brown, author of multiple books including Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism; Jawole Zollar, founder/visioning partner, Urban Bush Women; Sage Crump, culture strategist, artist, director of Racial Justice & Movement Building, National Performance Network; Roberta Uno, theater director; founding director, Arts in a Changing America; former Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation; founder/artistic Director, New WORLD Theater

Watch recordings of past events

Art, Race & Dialogue

animating democracy: Voter Mobilization & the Arts

Pam Korza (she/her)
Co-director, Animating Democracy
Americans for the Arts
1275 K Street, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
413-256-1260
www.AnimatingDemocracy.org www.AmericansForTheArts.org

Animating Democracy is a program of Americans for the Arts that works to inspire, inform, promote and connect arts as a contributor to community, civic, and social change.