[van-announce] TONIGHT: CULTURE JAMMING 101 with Andrew Boyd

[Promenada S. Burinkou]

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CULTURE JAMMING 101 with Andrew Boyd
Tue, October 1
7:30 PM
Havana Gallery (1212 Commercial Drive)
Cost = $5 - 15 (sliding scale)
Tickets at Door

http://culturejamming101.com

A slide-show presentation and hands-on workshop in the tactics & 
techniques
of creative media actions.

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"This workshop opened up a whole new set of creative action approaches. 
Not
only did I discover it was something I personally could do but I saw how 
it
could be a potent political tool in our organizing work."
?Martin Hanratty, Organizing & Education Director, Canadian Labour 
Congress

"Boyd is a master satirist...One of the most worthwhile and committed
humorists working in America today."
?John Nichols, The Nation
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Nuclear Saints of America. Free Trade Cell Phone Drill Team. Corporate 
Soup
Kitchen. Sweat Gear. Boston Tea Party Redux. 100 Musical Chairs.
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore). Enron Democracy Shredder. These are not
punk bands you haven't heard of. These are artistic/organizing projects 
that
the presenter, Andrew Boyd, has helped to carry out over a 15 year career.
Workshop participants will analyze these efforts, learning how to adapt
artistic strategies to support political action and education.

Together, we will tease out the principles of effective creative action
design, then apply them to the actions and campaigns that participants are
currently engaged in.

The workshop will explore:
? How to get high-concept, high production values on a low budget.
? New approaches including: culture jamming, guerrilla theater, media
interventions, and newspaper wraps.
? How to invite open-ended grass-roots participation into actions and yet
maintain artistic cohesion and a focused message.
? The web as a tool for disseminating not just information, but ready-made
organizing and message-making tools.
? How ingenious "meme warfare" can inject a message into corporate media 
in
spite of editorial frames designed to filter it out.

Excellent, funny and state-of-the-art audio-visual supporting materials 
will
be used. Those who don't laugh on cue will be force fed dimpled chads.

ANDREW BOYD is an author, organizer, and grass-roots publicist.
As Phil T. Rich, he was one of the driving forces behind Billionaires for
Bush (or Gore) and the Million Billionaire March. He founded, and for
several years directed, the arts and action program at United for a Fair
Economy, which uses guerrilla theater, media stunts, and creative direct
action to fight growing economic inequality. He is also the author of The
Activist Cookbook, a source-book for creative direct action, and a
contributor to several anthologies on recent social movements.

This event is presented by the Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Renewal
Partners, and Communicopia.Net.

Tickets $5 - 15 (sliding scale) at the door of Havana.

http://culturejamming101.com

Please forward this to all your culture jamming comrades, and come for 
some
inspiration and good times! Also consider sending someone from your org if
you can't make it yourself. Group sessions with Andrew are available to
select organizations, please contact the undersigned if you would like to
set a set a special workshop / creative session at your org.

Jason Mogus
jason at communicopia.net


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