Sketchnoting Dreaming Abolition: Session 1 of 2
Cost: Pay-what-you-can (Pay more, if you can)
Calling ALL who love ???? to doodle!
San Francisco artist Todd Berman has developed a practice of Sketchnoting that helps anyone keep engaged with didactic (and yet crucial) meetings, events, and workshops. It’s an excellent tool for any activist, organizer, or community group to use to observe critical public meetings (like Police Commision, Land Use, Board of Education, etc.) or to help your constituents make meaning of and find stories to share from the policies being discussed. For Sketchnoting Dreaming Abolition (a two-part workshop), we will use a portion of a recording from an intergenerational conversation co-created by Keyssh, Jason Wyman, Crystal Mason, Kapi’olani Lee, and the Alliance Youth Media Network that brings together youth media artists and abolition organizers to dream abolition and discover possible collective actions to help move us towards our liberation (from capitalism & White Supremacy & patriarchy & ableism & colonialism & all oppression & tyranny.)
In the first workshop — Loosening Up: Exercises to Get Ready to Sketchnote on Monday, November 15, 2021 from 2pm to 4pm PT / 5pm to 7pm ET, Todd will introduce fun exercises & share simple considerations that will help anyone of any skill become looser & more fluid with their mark making. You’ll leave with prompts to help you practice your doodling over the next week.
In the second workshop — Sketchnoting Dreaming Abolition on Monday, November 22, 2021 from 2pm to 4pm PT / 5pm to 7pm ET, Todd will help you use your mark making / doodling as a way to “listen” to any presentation or talk, deeply look at what you’ve created, and then create something that interprets all you’re witnessing. By the end, you’ll have a visual record of collective Dreams of / for / about Abolition you can share (or not.)
This workshop qualifies as professional development. Depending on your locality, organization, or business, there may be professional development funds available. We are happy to provide a Letter of Support or other documentation necessary to more easily access any of those funds.