Training for Strategic, Creative Action: A Weekend with Beautiful Trouble
HAMMER | Jan. 11—13, Hammer Museum
Led by world-class trainers and troublemakers Nadine Bloch and Juman Abujbara, this workshop digs into what makes people-power effective, including core principles, tools, and theories that every activist needs. The training features a mix of hands-on group exercises, presentations, strategic brainstorming, and skill-building activities designed to empower and engage organizers.
This training will take place over two and a half days, as we dig into the history, art and science of designing effective actions and what makes people power work. This is a training for trainers, specially developed to support organizers who will take these skills back to their organizations. We’ll put the “creative” in creative action by examining a host of outside-the-box tactics from projections to prefigurative interventions. Includes our signature Beautiful Trouble presentation; time to apply a strategic methodology for creative action planning to your own current campaigns; Action Planning & Logistics tools + tricks, and the innovative “Beautiful Trouble: Card Game!”
What to Expect
Beautiful Trouble trainings are a dynamic mix of hands-on group exercises, powerful presentations, strategic brainstorms, and other skill-building activities designed to empower and engage folks to be smarter, more creative, more resourced organizers. All this based in Popular Education principles and experiential interactive exercises. Come open to working across issue areas to build the LA network of activists and broader movement.
Who Can Apply?
Beautiful Trouble welcomes anyone actively seeking artistic, daring, imaginative, and creative ways to change the world for the better. Beautiful Trouble honors collective organizing and encourages individuals to attend with others from their community or project if appropriate.
This event is presented by the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
Event Dates: Jan. 11—13
Venue: Hammer Museum
Price: Varies*
*This three-day workshop is limited to 50 participants. Find more inforation and apply to join
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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