Dedicated to clever and innovative trends of art and design in activism.

we make money not art has a short review of Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal’s book Shoot An Iraqi, Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun. Based on his experience staging Domestic Tension (explained further in the video below) the book winds through “refugee camps and experiments in interactive art . . . the political, the art, the activist fields. It is not a novel but it reads like one.”

Also be sure to check out the WMMNA interview with Waffa.

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Rhizome.org’s Ceci Moss recently spoke with Marisa Olson, co-curator of “OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding” about the fundamental questions asked by the exhibition, and the impact of the recent American election cycle on activist art.

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Cardboard Citizens is the UK’s only homeless people’s professional theatre company that works exclusively with people who have experience of, or who are at risk of, becoming homeless.

The company is widely celebrated for their acumen in practicing Forum Theatre.  This year, Cardboard Citizens programme of work includes:

• Professional Theatre productions, employing Cardboard Citizens’ homeless actors / actresses in high-quality theatre
• Hostel Tour production touring to 60 hostels and day centres throughout London, using Forum Theatre to engage homeless Londoners
• Forum for Change projects by, with and for a particular ‘community’ that addresses issues that its members face
• The UK’s largest Performing Arts Workshops Programme in the UK for people who have experience of homelessness
• Unique Company Membership Scheme to provide members with high-quality learning and employment support, and meaningful opportunities for progression and artistic expression
• Professional Theatre of the Oppressed Training for theatre practitioners

Via Cultural Identities and Social Movements.

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Brown University plays host to the Bread and Puppet theatre company this week for several shows, including two performances each of Storm Office: A Storm Poem with Implementation Machine and The Sourdough Philosophy Circus.

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Every Friday before this year’s HONK! Festival (October 10-12) we’re giving you a preview of a few of the bands who will be attending. This week, The Bread & Puppet Circus Band, Leftist Marching Band, MarchFourth Marching Band, and the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable.

O! and don’t forget to print out your HONK! posters and spread the word!

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