Module 5: Dare to Invent the Future
Class: Art and National Liberation
Date & Time: Weds, April 17, 6:30-8:30PM
Description: “A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom” – Claudia Jones
From agitating to raising the consciousness of the people, art has played a key role in advancing revolutionary struggle. Across the world, revolutionary movements stood firm that there was no such thing as ‘art for art’s sake’ and rejected the notion that art was separated from politics. Instead, these movements believed that art and culture are central to class struggle, and that artists and cultural workers played a key role in not only exposing and criticizing the enemy, but in learning and teaching others, drawing the masses to the righteousness of the struggle for liberation. Ultimately, art must be a weapon for struggle!
Instructor: Tings Chak is the art director of and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, where her work focuses on socialist and national liberation struggles, and contributes to the political education and cultural work of the International Peoples’ Assembly.
