This is a two-day workshop series led by the Artivist Network and hosted by Indigenous Climate Action’s Youth Leadership Program.
This workshop is designed for Indigenous youth age 18-29.
Day 1
Change the Story to Change the World: Building Narratives
“The world is not made of atoms but of stories” - Muriel Rukeyeser
Join the Artivist Network and ICA for a 2-hour artivism session that looks at how stories - traditional, modern, living, or imagined - can play a role in shaping the world and transforming how we understand activism. By sharing examples of creative indigenous activism from around the world, we will focus on themes of healing, cultural justice, climate justice and cultural justice to explore how words - through poetry, song, storytelling, and other forms - can become and powerful tools to challenge power, inspire others to action.offer inspiring visions of the future and offer new ways of looking at - and speaking about - the world.
Day 2
Change the Story to Change the World: Creating Visual Tactics
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it” - Bertolt Brecht
Join the Artivist Network and ICA for a 2-hour artivism training that explores the role visual communication can play in changing how we understand - and seek to change - the world around us. Building off the stories and concepts harvested in the previous session - and digging into key themes of just transition, divestment, Indigenous rights and false solutions - we will explore different mediums, tools and artforms that can change how our audiences understand these concepts and the role of indigenous youth in creating change.
Meet the Facilitators
Amalen S. (he/him) is a climate justice artivist and urban farmer based in Malaysia. His work with the Artivist Network is focused mainly on supporting campaigns, communities and people via politically relevant artistic interventions. He has a background in climate and policy negotiations and has followed the global and local conversations around the Conference Of Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change(UNFCCC).
Daniel Rupaszov (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Budapest, Hungary. His work partially experiments with using art as a tool for public intervention, while focusing on the aspect of involving communities. Using techniques borrowed from the street art movement, he is currently holding various art spaces, workshops, and training for people of civil society and several grassroots organizations. Being one of the co-directors of the Artivist Network, his main work revolves around supporting activist groups with these tools, organizing artist residencies, and trying to integrate the Central Eastern European art activist scene with the global climate movement.
Melike Futtu (she/they) grew up in Turkey, is a former human rights journalist and researcher. Her activist journey began during the Gezi resistance in 2013. Her work focuses on the creative climate communications. Melike is also working as a freelancer to support grassroots groups and campaigns by providing social media & communications support. She believes in the power of creative communications and social media to decolonize the dominant narratives and discourses for the social and climate justice. As an artivist, she also works on the guerrilla theatre, particularly the theatre of the oppressed as a tool for interventionism.
Kevin Buckland (he/they) is an artivist who has spent the past 15 years working with the international climate justice movement to lift up the role of art, creativity, and artists in creating change. He engages a wide diversity of creative tactics to harness the power of culture to open new space for climate politics and to better assist activists and artists in leveraging transformative creativity. He has trained hundreds of activists on 5 continents, and collaborated on projects, from local grassroots initiatives to international NGOs. He is a painter, poet, novelist, performer, and puppet-maker.