While our Offerings are recurring community cohorts, Events are one-off community gatherings.
Culture In Resistance: Mette Loulou von Kohl
Culture In Resistance is a new series of talks with artists and creative people who choose—emphatically and without hesitation—to embrace the calling, responsibility, and opportunity of being a cultural worker: one who works through creative and cultural means for the liberation of the people.
Solidarity Artmaking for Palestine (Virtual)
We're continuing our series of Solidarity Artmaking for Palestine events with a virtual co-working session on December 17th at 9am PT / 12pm ET. Join us on Zoom to discuss the importance of cultural work to liberation struggles and to create agitprop in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. This event will include a political poster design skillshare. Artists of all disciplines are welcome!
Solidarity Artmaking for Palestine (2-Part Event)
Solidarity Artmaking for Palestine is back! After a successful event last month, Anticapitalism for Artists and All Power Books are collaborating on a two-part artmaking + postering event series in Los Angeles, CA on November 30th and December 7th.
Artmaking in Solidarity (Los Angeles In-Person)
Join us at an in-person co-working session where we’ll create agitprop in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Bring your art-making tools and supplies as we co-create in community, demanding a Free Palestine. All disciplines welcome! Virtual version available as well.
Artmaking in Solidarity (Virtual Session)
Virtual version of co-working session where we’ll create agitprop in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Bring your art-making tools and supplies as we co-create in community, demanding a Free Palestine. All disciplines welcome!
Radical Hours: Contextualizing 'Free Palestine'
A conversation with Layan Fuleihan (The People’s Forum) covering critical history, contemporary analysis, and art & propaganda as it relates to the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Practices After Capitalism (Conversation 01: Rad Pereira with Daniel Sharp)
Practices After Capitalism is a series of conversations with artists, cultural workers, worldbuilders, and creative practitioners working past, against, and through capitalism. The series unpacks their work to understand their structural components and offer lessons, decisions, tools, and methods for others to incorporate into their own work.
A4A at Printed Matter East Village Zine Fair
Anticapitalism for Artists will be participating in this year's Printed Matter / St Marks & 8-Ball Community East Village Zine Fair!
Visit us on June 24 from 11am - 7pm, outdoors at St Marks Place & 2nd Avenue, where we'll have a table with original zines, editioned risograph + block prints, and new merch by A4A team and community members.
Community Day: Capitalism’s Effect on the Artist’s Body
How do our bodies figure into our labor as artists? How does capitalism’s repression of the body function as a tool of alienation and disempowerment? How do we honor our bodies learning and organizing together? How can we relate to ourselves when embodiment does not feel possible? Through a combination of somatic practices, embodied dialogue, and creative exercises, we move from theory towards praxis by engaging both text and body as archives and technologies of liberation.
A4A Art Show
Our first ever Intro to Anticapitalism Art Show! Join us for a virtual sharing from our Fall 2022 cohort.
Radical Discourse: Freedom 101
An outdoor gathering prefect for those new to class politics. Through guided dialog, participants will build critical consciousness around the fundamentals of how capitalism functions to our detriment. Open to artists of all disciplines, practices, and abilities.
Offers & Needs Circle: Weaving a Creative Support Network
Are you struggling to meet your needs as an artist in a way that aligns with your values? Do you have creative gifts to offer or need support? In this virtual gathering artists are invited to share passions, knowledge, skills, resources, opportunities, and needs with each other.
Radical Hours: Demystifying NFTs for the Anticapitalist Artist
Our first event in our Radical Hours series will be on NFT's: what they are, why they are, and how artists with anticapitalist politics can react to their increasing ubiquity. We’re going to cut through the hype to suss out the economic reality and dream up some more radical responses together.
Movie Night: "Who Needs Sleep?"
Join our screening of “Who Needs Sleep?”, a documentary about sleep deprivation and long hours in the film industry, followed by a community discussion around labor movements in the entertainment industry.
Moderated by A4A members and filmmakers Maria Judice (she/her) and Naiyah Ambros (she/her).
*Our screening does not include captions or ASL interpretation. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Happy Hour: If art is not competitive, then what is it? (Community Discussion)
This casual cocktail hour will be a space to meet some of the other attendees from the weekend in a more informal setting, reflect on learnings from the weekend, and return to the central theme of “how to get capitalism out of art.” Open discussion event with facilitation; drinks encouraged.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Worker Co-operatives, What are they and how could they work in art? (Teach-In)
A worker co-operative is a workplace that is owned and self-managed by the workers themselves. In this short teach-in, we’ll speak with existing co-operative and an expert discussing what worker co-operatives are, how they work, and why there aren't more in America, followed by discussion on how such structures could exist amongst artists and why art is or is not a suitable world to build these sorts of institutions.
This event features special guest Leah "Lei" Angela Sahagun (L.A. Co-op Lab)
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Organizing Artists Today (Teach-In)
What does it tangibly mean to be organized as an artist and why is it essential? What history can we draw on in order to build power and sustain pressure toward the promise of emancipation? In order to meet the responsibilities of making a better world, we must move beyond mobilization against issues-of-the-day into sustained organization against their systemic origins. This teach-in event will leave attendees with a number of ways to get started on the practical side of change.
This event features special guests from the Workers Arts Project, Hollywood Labor, as well as Clara Takarabe (Shred Magazine).
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
A conversation with Boots Riley
Join us for a panel with writer, director, musician and organizer Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You"/The Coup).
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
What is the role of the artist in revolution? (Panel)
This panel centers on the persistent question for artists who seek to transform the world: What is the relationship of artwork about social change to actual change itself? In conflating these two processes, what are the traps we fall into? In understanding their differences, what are the areas of possibility and opportunity? And where do arts institutions fit into all of this? Guest artists who work at the center of art and transformative change offer up responses.
This event features guest panelists Symone Baptiste, Hannah Black, and Samora Pinderhuges, along with guest moderator Yasmina Price.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
How to Get Capitalism out of Art (Plenary; Community Workshop)
In this welcome event, we will introduce our theme for the weekend Getting Capitalism Out of Art. As artists, we believe that capitalism has no place in our world yet we find ourselves constrained by capitalism and all its byproducts at every turn. In this community discussion and workshop, we’ll discuss the challenges facing artists within capitalism and workshop original ideas for what we as artists can do to free art from capitalism.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).