Past events
September 17, 2011
UNconference
Usually conferences bring together pre-selected speakers and an audience of listeners who want to learn about a specified topic. At the UNconference, the community of participants set the agenda, discussing a broad range of topics. It was an experimental model of learning, sharing, and building community.
May 6, 2011
Arts in Action: A Radically Artistic Teach-In
RISE invited activists and organizers to the Nuyorican Poets Café to hear how they utilize the arts and media, in a multitude of forms, to do social justice work.
Presentations included:
Radical Hip-Hop Dialogue Using Hip-Hop songs, Ruben Mina engages participants in a dialogue about their community experiences. The songs and discussion will help frame radical ways to look at community from the perspectives of the self, family, identity groups, and community.
Alliance of Conscious Documentarians Learn from a group of media artists who work to bring the voices of disenfranchised people and forgotten social issues to the forefront of the people’s struggle. The work will be showcasing utilizing media – videos, photos – to share stories and tell them in compelling ways.
Stop Motion Commotion MISS 163 demonstrates how to use collage images to create complex animations using simple GIFF animation techniques. It is a powerful tool simply conveying complicated concepts and includes animations from a series called “Crooked Images”
Theater of the Oppressed Kayhan Irani & Ellen Baxt introduce a participatory form of theater for social change and as an effective tool for building and organizing communities. Facilitated activities will explore the ways this technique can be a vehicle for personal and social transformation.
Social Justice Open Mic Aidge Patterson shares how a social justice open mic night in LA was used to explore the power of the word as a gathering tool and space for political education. Aidge hails from Los Angeles where he has done police brutality and restorative justice work with young people in a variety of settings.
January 29, 2011
Racial Microaggressions: Real Pain, Invisible Scars
After the success of the Racial Microaggressions workshop at the 2010 RISE conference, we came back with an extended version! This day-long workshop aimed to:
* Explore how people of color experience and white people perpetuate racial microaggressions in personal and professional settings
* Address how people and communities of color have been conditioned to engage in racial microaggressions toward one another * Examine the role of media, language, and societal/institutional norms in encouraging racial microaggressions * Practice tools for interrupting racial microaggressions when they happen
November 13, 2010
Change from the Inside: Incorporating Social Justice into Your Education
A panel of students and professionals joined in a discussion of how to radicalize your education and field placement. The panel was followed by a strategizing session designed to help you identify concrete ways to implement what you have learned.
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