Creative Resilience Lab

MYArts | 1055 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703
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We invite Expressions of Interest from people living and/or working in Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin who have practice, skills, knowledge and/or networks in the fields and/or intersections of emergency management, culture & the arts, …

Seduction and Sedition: Using Socially-engaged Art to Build Power Across Difference

A talk by Dawn Weleski with introduction by Dr. Jen Rae
L160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
@ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Dawn Weleski co-founded Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant serving cuisine from countries in conflict with the U.S. Their art practice tests cultural norms, transforming protests and public offices into social stages. Notable projects include City …

Thread: Artists, Activists and Educators Working with Fiber

Fort Atkinson Club Community Center, Fort Atkinson, WI
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

RSVP Featuring creative practices, stories, and activism from immigrant, refugee, and indigenous community leaders and allies, and curated by Laura Anderson Barbata. Our Presenters:  Ceci Tejeda is a Cartoneria (papier mache) artist. Born in Mexico …

Creating Change: Practicing the Future Together

Syrus Marcus Ware & Jen Rae
6321 Mosse Humanities
@ 12:00 pm
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Join us for an interactive workshop using movement, textiles and creative methods to explore our ideal and just futures. Drawing on Adrienne Maree Brown’s suggestion that speculative practice allowed us the opportunity to “practice the …

Seeing you – Seeing me

Sri Vamsi Matta and Yashica Dutt
Madison Public Library, 201 W. Mifflin St.
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Please RSVP An audio-visual art presentation by Sri Vamsi Matta on the reversal of gaze in Indian Mainstream, how Dalit-Bahujan artists across time and space have flipped the gaze, and challenging the existing oppressive and …

Keyon Harrold

Cafe Coda, 1224 Williamson St, Madison, WI 53703
@ 8:00 pm

Join Grammy-Award winning jazz trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, and producer Keyon Harrold at Cafe Coda where he will play music from his newest album.

Slow Food UW ft. Sri Vamsi Matta

The Crossing, 1127 University Ave.
@ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
https://slowfood-uw.org/

Join Slow Food UW and Sri Vamsi Matta for a cafe meal service at The Crossing on Wednesday, April 17th at 12:00 p.m. The menu includes: Mains: Godavari Style Coconut Rice (vegan, GF) Sides: Potato …

Can a Song Be a Revolution?

Sri Vamsi Matta
Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53703
@ 7:30 pm

Can a song be a revolution? Gaddar is a poet, singer, performer, intellectual, a creative mind associated with people’s resistance movements in India and most importantly he is a revolutionary! But to many peoples movement …