Teacher Zen! Ways to Prepare Yourself for Your Best Year Yet
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& Social Change
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& Social Change
Move the wheel of change aheadFrom stasis to action
Artists= Educators:
• Build core knowledge• Teach• Have a vision about change• Incorporate visions into their art (LPs)• Build emotional and rational attachment with
“A CAUSE”
Information + Emotional attachment to a
cause + Sense of Direction + Activism +
Ideological line +…
>> ACTION
No Cause > No action
Too Much emotion might lead to
fanatism, fundamentalism, Obscura
ntism…
Artist direct social action towards a reasonable space…
Committed artistsLes artistes engagés (FR)
“Artist create a world that is more real than reality.”
Howard Zinn, 2003
Al-Salam Alikom!My name is Hanzalah. In case you are
wondering what Salam Alikom is; it is the Islamic way of saying halloo and it means "Peace be upon you!”. Well, as I told you my name is Hanzalah, which stands for a small bitter desert bush. I bet you are saying; what was my father thinking when he named me?My father is Naji Al-Ali. I was born ages ago, to be exact since the beginning of strong and weak, rich and poor, and justice and injustice. Which is strange in a way since my father was born in 1937.
Naji Salim al-Ali(1938-1987)
najialali.com
Naji Salim al-Ali
The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector.With this fact taken into account art becomes:“political whether you like it or not…”Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the appreciation of artistic creation by making it available to a wider audience and inspire anyone to revel in an art making process that is not subject to academic approval or curatorial acceptance.Why? “Because art is food…”, reads the Why Cheap Art manifesto. Cheap Art ranges in price from 5 cents to 50 dollars. Anyone can participate!
Cheap Art Philosophy
breadandpuppet.org
