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Newsletter, August 2021

Art Lab

In collaboration with Art Forum of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cultural Agents invites artists to explore relational work at the edge of contemporary creativity and social intervention. Painters, poets, filmmakers, bookmakers, architects and photographers find a forum to present experimental work and to engage with theoretical reflection.

Cambridge Community TV

Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas and the rest of the world develop radio programming to maintain home languages, gain access to health, education and employment information, greet friends and relatives, and re-create traditional culture under circumstances of modern pressures and opportunities. Our conferences and internships develop technical capacity and awareness of these contributions.

Exponential Art Series

The Exponential Arts Workshops multiply the benefits of socially productive creative practices by inspiring their replication in underserved communities. Built on a "train the trainers" model, these workshops offer students, educators, and community leaders the opportunity to learn from exemplary artist-activists who have developed effective methods of conflict resolution, education, and personal development through art.

Pre-Emptive Acts

Pre-Emptive Acts are training sessions in the techniques of "forum theater" developed by Augusto Boal. Rather than discuss a play after the fact, in a forum, this approach of Theater of the Oppressed gets members of the audience to step up to the stage, replace a character in crisis and improvise with a variation that can derail a tragedy. Participants learn to count on their creativity and to admire others' inspirations.

Culture for Change

Cultural Agents is part of the training team of Culture for Change (CfC). Doris Sommer uses the methods of the the Paper Picker Press to train Out-of-School-time (OST) practitioners such as youth workers, artists, and staff with specialized training in order to design residencies in different art disciplines. The project was built upon the idea that for youth, the arts promote engagement, offering educational opportunities that in turn set the stage for social change and development.