Monthly Archives: July 2024

How do we slow writing down? 

The Slow Playwriting Project by Mariló Núñez is out now!

This course invites students to challenge their own biases about what it means to write a play. It is an invitation to think about writing as a collaborative act, as a strategy for dreaming, and to work together across differences. 

The objective of the course will be to create a future of playwriting that doesn’t include an Aristotelian lens. It will be one that decentres a capitalist way of thinking about writing, about art, and pushes us to examine productivity in a different way.

A new course is out!

Introducing: Telling the Story of the End of the World by UKAI Projects

This course is designed to help you make sense of issues like climate change, AI, and authoritarianism from the perspective of the artist.

We need to find new ways to engage with and understand complex issues because the tools and the ideologies we rely upon are less and less up to the job.

UKAI Projects invite participants to explore new forms of justice and freedom that are rooted in creativity and personal insight.

Through a series of guided workshops, collaborative projects, and recommended readings, we will learn to reconceptualize daunting global issues as accessible and manageable through the lens of personal and community artmaking.

Explore our latest course offering!

Introducing: Critical Cat Studies by Nazli Akhtari

Critical Cat Studies offers guidance on how to learn with cats in ways that blur Euro-American centric ways of knowing and help us attune to more joyful, sustainable, and equitable ways of living and making worlds.

Who better than unruly cats can complicate for us the artificial borders we constantly construct?

Throughout history witches, women, lesbians, queers, Marxists, and modernity’s outcasts have made kin with cats. What if we consider the lineage of feline kinship as a praxis of disorderly living against the violence of capitalism that thrives on racism, sexism, queer and transphobia and environmental destruction?

For more information, contact Kimberly Skye Richards, librarian for the Department of Utopian Arts and Letters, at kim@sustainablepractice.org

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Arts, Health, and Climate: Call for Resources

The Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, is working on a policy brief to explore how the arts can help mitigate, communicate and adapt to the health effects of climate change.

This open call is an invitation for artists, practitioners, healthcare, and cultural workers to contribute by sharing relevant resources and examples of artistic projects to be included in this research.

The research team welcomes examples of artistic projects, reports, case studies, dissertations, news articles, blogs, government documents, digital materials, and any other resource that you feel would be relevant.

Please use this form to describe and upload related materials. 

The submission deadline is July 31.

We’re helping to get the word out. If you have relevant materials, or know someone who could contribute, please share!