What are the aims of the course?

• Explore our own creativity through all sorts of arts based activities
• Learn practices and develop tools to bring fresh ideas into fruition
• Use participatory and peer to peer learning while collaborating on projects during the week
• Share resources and methodologies from the growing movement of artists & artivists working as drivers of change
• Work with our quality of awareness through mindfulness practices, to realise our creative potential, stretch our comfort zones and remain emotionally resilient for the long run
• Share and celebrate our stories of courage and disobedience
• Design the beginnings of creative projects to take back to our communities / organisations / movements
• Identify and moving through our creative limitations.

Who is it aimed at?

Anyone involved in socially engaged action on environmental, political and social justice issues. We embrace a broad definition of activism, including: Resistance – action preventing further damage to ecosystems and social justice; Renewal – action focused on developing and creating alternatives for healthier societies and communities; and Building Resilience – action supporting increased resilience in communities to weather the uncertain times ahead.
The main spoken language on the course will be English.