I received this notice from a project today (thoroughly paraphrased to protect the innocent):

You might have seen some unusual things on our account recently. We’d like to clarify what happened. Earlier this week we received a $3,200 contribution that brought us past our $10,000 goal. We still had a week to go, so announced a new $15,000 goal to take this project even further. Less than a day after, that donor pulled back their contribution (the Kickstarter people we spoke with said this person has dropped in on projects and pulled out of them before). It left us a few thousand short of our original goal.

Fortunately, this project had no trouble rebounding. But I could see this becoming a tactic of disruption when more politically charged projects are building momentum.

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We designed & built the website for this festival and developed a variety of print materials to go with it.

Witness, Third Wave Foundation, CodePink, Teachers for Justice, Make the Road, Common Ground, NYU, PODER, the Street Vendors Project, Fresh, Benetech, The Nation, Streets Films, and Human Rights First were just a few of the organizations and campaigns creating this stellar event at the Brooklyn Creative League.

Arwen Lowbridge had a few words about her experience at the event:

I found myself at a wonderful event last night amidst social and political activists working in the fields of human rights, education reform, climate change – just about any cause you could name. It was held at my office-away-from-home, Brooklyn Creative League, and presented by theCoup and Witness.

After a screening of the film, we broke up into groups based on topic of interest (stories, visual representation, mobile & tech, community & networks) and briefly discussed the film in relation to our topic, our work and our experiences. I was in the community and networking group and was somewhat relieved to learn that every cause seems to be having trouble turning virtual networks into physical action. How to get people (besides the Mad Tea Partiers) off their butts and out of their seats and into the world to do something in real-time seems to be the $64,000 question.

10 tactics is a great resource for those of us looking to connect with people in meaningful, authentic ways and Tactical Technology Collective provides free tool kits and informational resources as part of the project. It was fascinating to reflect on how these tactics have been used (or misused) in advocacy/awareness campaigns in the arts. More on that in another post…

Congratulations and thank you to everyone who made this an inspiring, informative and engaging event.

Photos by Kavita Kulkarni

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Art by Marc Johns.

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