InterOccupy Arts Call [#A18]

Beautiful Trouble: tools for innovative creative direct action

The just released book, Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, pulls together the deepest learnings and most innovative creative direct action tactics from Occupy and allied movements. Come hear Matt Smucker, Mark Read and Samantha Corbin -- three of the book's key authors as well as core members of Occupy -- along with co-editor Andrew Boyd -- unpack the insights of the book.

There will be breakouts sessions where *everyone* will have a chance to explore the tools offered in the book and apply them to the challenges YOU are currently facing in your organizing efforts.

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InterOccupy Arts Call [#3/21]

Spring Resurgence: A Season of Resistance!

InterOccupy Arts Call | Wed March 21 | 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific 

As Occupy and 'The 99%' movement comes through its first winter, a historic amount of beautiful resistance and transformation is ready to burst onto the scene! Join this call to connect with artists and organizers from a range of actions and projects about to bloom. Come ready to hear and share exciting projects to cultivate and multiply your own! 

Register for the call

Presentations:

• National Trainings and Direct Actions | 99% Spring; Joy Cushman - New Organizing Institute
•  Strategic Arts Organizing|  modules from a new guidebook; Dave Mitchell - "Beautiful Trouble" co-editor
•  Occupy Their Homes | Shareholder Spring; Ben Master - United NY
•  The Commons are Everywhere | Occupy Town Square; Lucky - OWS Town Squares affinity group
• ...and more to be announced soon!

There will be breakouts sessions where we will all have a chance to discuss and share plans to make our spring stronger, and continue to build the occupy movement. 

If you have never registered for one of these calls, register here (we recommend doing it now, as last minute registrations don't always work). 

• http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/IVA91224TZC71GD2
• http://interoccupy.org/natartscall/
• Find us on Facebook!

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• NOTES from the last "Open Dialogue" Interoccupy Arts Call: http://interoccupy.org/minutes-national-arts-call-2812/
• JOIN the National InterOccupy Art Google Group: https://groups.google.com/group/national-occupy-art?hl=en



InterOccupy Arts Call |#F22 |: 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific

InterOccupy Arts Call | Wed Feb 22 | 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific 

Artists as Bridges: How are artists connecting Occupy and other movements for economic and social justice?

As Occupy and 'The 99%' movement expands, it continues to deepen its connections with communities and issues of all kinds. On this call, we will hear from artists who are doing powerful, innovative work of 'bridging', using the unique power of art, music, performance and spectacle, to connect Occupy to new issues and communities, and vice versa.   

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Tonight's Interoccupy Call & Online Survey!

 If you had all the Occupy artists in one room - and you could ask them one question - what would it be?

Tonight, we are going to do something a little different. We are changing up our format for this InterOccupy Arts Call to focus on open dialogue around the questions that interest you the most. It's a chance to spark a nationwide discussion on the questions you've been keeping to yourself, or saying in smaller circles. It's an opportunity to involve everyone, and get feedback from people across the world. 

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NATIONAL OCCUPY ARTS CALL -- Occupy 2.0: The Next Phase

NATIONAL OCCUPY ARTS CALL -- Occupy 2.0: The Next Phase

Wed, Jan 25th at 10pm EST/7pm PST

To register for the call, go to: http://bit.ly/x7WM1S

(You only have to register once, so if you registered for the first call, that call-in information is all you need)

The Occupy movement started with encampments in public and private space, but Occupy communities across the country have been exploring what the next direction of the movement will look like. Art and culture has taken a lead role in many of the varied and innovative answers to the "next phase" question. How art is supporting or leading these efforts will be the topic of this next national Occupy arts conference call. Please join us!

We are looking for presenters for this call. If you are doing art and culture work that supports moving the Occupy movement in new directions, please let us know if you would like to present on the call. Just send a short description of your project with the project's contact info and web presence to: InterOccupyArt@gmail.com  If you know of artists whose Occupy work fits this theme, please forward this to them.

And everyone should feel free to post ANY Occupy art projects they are working on to our new InterOccupy Art Facebook page! (And "Like" the page while you're at it!): http://www.facebook.com/InterOccupyArt

Moving forward,

InterOccupy Arts Call Planning Committee



DIY Sky-cam at UC Davis GA [11.21.2011] + News on the 1st InterOccupy National A&C Conference Call

Learn more at publiclaboratory.org
The plastic bottle that is visible in the video is the second camera, which is taking still images. The video was captured with a mobile phone camera.

The above video was posted on a great visionary cartographic/mapping site called Archive of Desire. AoD presented on last night on the first InterOccupy national conference call for Occupy arts and culture. It was a great exchange, with many remarkable projects and people sharing their visions of Occupy from points across the US (and beyond).

Occupy with Art also participated as a featured presenter on local Occupy art projects. Co-organizer Paul McLean spoke briefly about the Yoko Ono/OWS project, Wall Street to Main Street, and Low Lives: Occupy! In the subsequent breakout group, McLean discussed Occupational education and Occupy artist collaborations.

The minutes from the conference call are HERE.

Download the MP3 of the call here.

ARTISTS & OCCUPY - NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE CALL

Calling all occupy artists, musicians, performers, cultural workers, printmakers and pranksters!

We invite you to join the first of a series of nationwide conference calls focusing specifically on the Arts & Culture of our movement. This will be a chance for us all to share who we are, find collaborators, announce projects, learn about resources, and push our movement forward in Spring, Summer and Fall.

Date: Wed, Jan 11 2012 7:00pm PT / 10:00 ET
To Register for the call, visit: http://interoccupy.org/national-arts-call-11112-10pm-est-7pm-pst/

From Day One arts and culture have been central to occupy, from the very first Adbusters ‘ballerina’ poster to the Anonymous videos, protest puppets, posters and ‘bat signals’ that followed. In a few short months, occupy has birthed an explosive new political arts movement that encompasses almost every artform, as well as a number of new promotional platforms like Occuprint, to Occupennial, and Occupy Design. Now, a new phase is beginning as support projects are emerging, like ArtIsMyOccupation, to provide funding and other support for occupy-related arts projects.

Now that we’re all here, it’s time we all got to know each other.

This first call will be about just getting to know WHO and WHAT is out there, so that we can brainstorm together and join forces on plans and projects for Spring, Summer and Fall. If you have an existing arts/culture project or arts resource you would like to present on the call, please send a description of that project/resource to Ken Srdjak at akeneka@gmail.com beforehand to be put on the list.

This is planned to be the first in a series of regular, bi-weekly nationwide calls on the arts & occupy. Planning calls happen between the national calls, and are open to everyone. Future call themes will be decided at these meetings. To join the planning committee, contact janellet@occupydc.org

Remember, to get on the call you must register here: http://interoccupy.org/national-arts-call-11112-10pm-est-7pm-pst/

Questions? Contact janellet@occupydc.org

In solidarity,
InterOccupy Arts Call Planning Committee

Mark Read [N17] + Low Lives: Occupy!

^ Watch a video of the amazing power and effect of the “Bat Signal:”

LL:O UPDATE:

Mark Read ["Bat Signal"] will be partnering with "Low Lives: Occupy!"

[More details coming soon.]

CHECK THIS: InterOccupy is hosting the "Bat Signal" source files HERE.

...Including: Tips and Instructions for guerilla projections. [PDF]