Flash Collectives: Creating Agile Strategies for Social Change

Visual AIDS hosted an event inspired by recent organizing that asked: How can we assemble around the work of social change rather than institutions? How do we create opportunities for people to gather and act swiftly rather than be distracted by the work of creating a group? What are different ways we can imagine organizing?

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Learn more about Flash Collectives, and the event, from Jenny Doubt's piece: Collective Strategies for Visual Production on the Issue of HIV Criminalization.

Flash Collectives: Creating Agile Strategies for Social Change
6:30-8:30pm, Friday, February 28th, 2013
Brooklyn Community Pride Center
4 Metrotech Center, New York, NY 11201

Moving away from existing models of activism, Flash Collectives can be an agile strategy for creating social change bringing people together for a short amount of time, with a focus in mind. Join participants from fucklaws, a flash collective that came together last month in Montreal who in one day targeted their rage,and ideas to create direct action interventions around HIV/AIDS, criminalization and stigma. Members, including Avram Finkelstein, Ian Bradley Perrin and others, will discuss the planning that went into the creation of the flash collective, the process of the work, and the outcomes so far.