MUSEUM OF IMPACT
Upstander Love Letters is an artful intervention shining a light on the bravery and brilliance of social movements and changemakers. Make art and build power, articulating hopes and dreams for the future and the role you play in ‘being the change!’
READING & WRITING FROM THE ARCHIVE
Group Writing Exercise
FREEDOM ZINES
Individual Art Making
UPSTANDER PLEDGE
Facilitated Group Dialogue
During this interactive workshop, write letters of support to a combination of Upstanders you admire:
a. local leader, family member or friend,
b. public figures or celebrity champions
b. Your future selves as movement builders and advocates
Write, draw, decorate and express your creativity, as we build a ‘community time capsule to document social justice here and now!
We will facilitate envisioning sessions and lightening discussions to help transforming participants mindset from apathy to action or from a bystander to Upstander. Afterwards we will let our creativity flow, drawing, sketching and collaging freedom zines, from images at protests, boycotts and marches.
The freedom zine is a personal keepsake that visitors can take, to help instigate changemaking themes explored that day day.
Using our Upstanders feedback posters and question prompts, we have participants discuss and form debate teams. After watching a TedX talk 'How to be an Upstander', the group will illustrate shared agreements that everyone votes on, outlining how they can be Upstanders. They will revisit these agreements as the pledge and its specific strategies are displayed prominently in your space.
BOOK UPSTANDER LOVE LETTERS
COLLAGE SCULPTURE
Group Writing Exercise
PERFORMANCE
Performative Public Showcase
Participants will use 3 dimensional art materials, letters they have written and other found up cycled objects, to create a collage sculpture of their Upstander Love Letters.
The collage mural is a crowd sourced art project, constructing a public monument full of manifestos, intention, affirmations, language, quotes, found objects and more to witness the power of Upstanders!
The collage sculpture transform as each participant leaves their mark, outlining the physical space we hold, and difference we all make. This experience will channel feelings hopes and dreams participants have for themselves and their futures into an embodied structure, that can become a point of pride and a memento of solidarity.
The archive of Upstander Love Letters will be set to music, and performed with interpretive dance, as excerpts of the Love letters are read aloud for all to enjoy.
Our #Artivists, dance and poetry performance artists, will commence with movement reactions for a public or live studio audience.
With a goal of sharing nuggets of wisdom, challenge and triumph spoken aloud, the Upstander Love Letters performance is a captivating way to embody the sentiments and high spirits of letter writers and their good intentions.
