Restricting women's reproductive rights in any context is ridiculous, but lately American politicians have been putting forth legislation so outrageous it's hard to react. With absurd propositions to repeal abortion rights for women coming being considered across the globe, pro-choice activists have decided to fight bizarre legislation with artistic and ironic protests. An effective ironic pro-choice protest has several different aspects. This guide covers how to:

Generate ideas
Attract attention
Make it work

Generate ideas

Where: Ben Franklin Place (The Chamber), behind Baseline Station (beside Centrepointe library) 101 Centrepointe dr.

Description:

Project Reclamation is an all female dynamic collective consisting of Asha Kayd, Azenith Barbosa, Afuwa Renner, Amatullah Yousif, Jesslyn Colley, Khadija Ahmed, Marwa Talal, F(a)rah Ali Aman (Frah4life), Sharrae Lyon (Aisha Rae), and Sarah Musa. We are a fusion of artists, thinkers, and activists. One of the main goals of this collective is to help inspire and fuel one another, by encouraging and collaborating with each other to create limitless art.

Craftivism is using your creativity to further a social justice cause. It started taking root in 2003 as a way to merge crafting with activist work and contribute very tangibly to a movement. Originally as simple as knitting hats for shelters or sewing blankets for humane societies, craftivism has evolved into something much more complex.

Since handicafts were historically feminine pursuits, they were often devalued and treated as leisure activities rather than creative skills. With industrialization and the rise of consumerism, hand made crafts were pushed aside in favour of store bought goods. Craftivism is an environmentalist and feminist reclamation of crafts and an assertion of their place within the activist realm.

Don Garb takes you on a wild trip into evolutionary biology, synesthesia, gestalt psychology, the nature of truth, finally ending up at the peak of Metaphor Mountain where logic meets irrationality. You will never change the world the same way again!

All of us have the mental machinery to create new ideas. In some the parts work correctly and they're very good at inventing. Other people haven't got a clue. In this lecture we explain how it's done, from cramming with data, to meditating, and finally conjuring forth the burst of inspiration. No matter what level of creative expertise you are at you will benefit from learning these techniques.

Journey to Ourselves: An Intentional Space for Writing Life Stories
A Five-week Writing Course facilitated by Dianah Smith

Writing about our lives is a journey of healing and reclamation. Through honest exploration, we will find many stories worth telling and in the telling, we will begin to heal old wounds, recognize our resiliency, and celebrate our survival.
This course will consist of in-class writing activities and weekly homework assignments.

Participants will:
•    Learn how to give and receive constructive feedback
•    Explore their authentic voice
•    Learn how to write through trauma

Neil Gershenfeld has been known to make some bold predictions about the future. But even by his standards, this one was a doozy.

"Twenty years from now," he told a 2006 conference in Berkeley, "we'll have Star Trek replicators that can make anything."

You remember the replicator -- the one that provided Captain Picard with his "cup of Earl Grey tea, hot," with a simple verbal prompt? It might sound like jet-age fantasy, but Gershenfeld was absolutely serious with his reference.