The Dissent Dispatches

Pablo Kala investigates the Gaza Solidarity encampment at the University of Leeds.

Ally Walsh artist, activist and scholar from the University of Leeds shares stories about her work and the Arts & Activism Toolkit.

More about Ally Walsh here: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/staff/504/prof-aylwyn-walsh

Background on the music heard in the show:

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/for-winnie-anti-apartheid-songs-of-protest/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_the_movement_against_apartheid

Arts and Activism Toolkits from project with Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education and Bottomup School Development:

ImaginingOtherwise Video 1: digital storytelling for social change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8y0LiJVLAk&list=PLXY3CcKz-1k-uiNPRaxUnjDB4HWt6UKdQ&index=6

ImaginingOtherwise Video 2 toolkit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SxfdU-xbGw&list=PLXY3CcKz-1k-uiNPRaxUnjDB4HWt6UKdQ&index=4

Walsh & Sutherland (2021) Youth art toolkit, Available for free download:

https://www.tshisimani.org.za/wp-content/uploads/IMAGININGOTHERWISE_WEB-toolkit-final.pdf

Host Pablo Kala is joined by activist/artists Bambi van Balen and David Solnit to discuss strategies for creative activism around the globe in these perilous times.

More information on Bambi van Balen's Tools of Action project can be found here: https://toolsforaction.org/collaborators/

Information on David Solnit's activism work can be found on Instagram at: @davidsolnit

Information on host Pablo Kala can be found here: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/staff/1098/professor-paul-routledge

Contact Pablo about The Art of Protest at [email protected]