Programme

Creative (disobedient) actions can seem complex and overwhelming. Sometimes they expose us to repression and feel almost impossible to do. At the same time, many people experience a feeling of effectiveness and empowerment within a community of solidarity in the fight for a better world. In this workshop we will playfully go through the complete life cycle of a successful and appreciative campaign and delve into all the important aspects. Within several small group phases, participants can decide during the process in which areas they would like to deepen their knowledge.

Thereby we will touch following aspects:
What should our action/campaign picture look like? What story do we want to tell? Which actors are important to us? Which structural mechanisms of oppression do we reproduce within our group? Would you rather have a clandestine small group, a public mass action or something in between? What should we pay attention to when scouting out the action location? How does an action consensus look like? How do we manage to design actions so sustainably that we all do well in the long term?

Flinta* only Beginner/Intermediate Level workshop: we will get some inspiration from currently feminst artists working with the technique , talk about the possibilities and reasons for chosing Paste-ups as your Street Art Medium of Choice and how to claim Spaces with them fast, cheap, big and with less risk of repression then other street Art methodes. It will be a hands on Workshop; we will make glue, paint/ Write or Print our Motives and Paste it up to the Streets together!

In this workshop, we will first provide an overview of the essential building blocks that can help to build and sustain a movement: Organising, mobilising, on boarding, relationship building, story telling, group care, connecting with others, campaigning, escalation, etc.
We will then focus on 2 – 3 of these elements in more depth. Depending on interest, small groups can focus e.g. on story telling, mobilisation strategies or on boarding and work on practical examples.

We want to create a space in which we can look at how we can transfer what we have learnt into our practice. The transfer lab is ideal for anyone who is active in a political group or organisation and would like to apply the content of the previous workshops there. In the transfer space, there is the opportunity to forge individual plans, to advise each other and to work together.

In the workshop you will get an overview of various moderation techniques, learn about the advantages and disadvantages of methods and how to avoid group dynamic traps. You also get the tools to plan and design your own lectures and seminars. Regardless of whether it is a simple problem-solving discussion in a small group or an open space with many participants; We give you the tools so that you can promote and guide the participation of everyone using sociocratic methods.