We are excited to announce that C21 has received a Major Grant from Wisconsin Humanities for our project, “Attention Activism in Milwaukee.” This funding will help us conduct our Attention Activism event in May, as well as further develop the Story Cart.
Learn more about Wisconsin Humanities: https://wisconsinhumanities.org
“Attention Activism in Milwaukee” calls attention to the slow, embodied processes of community-building that resist our fast-paced contemporary culture. Our May “Attention Activism” event with the Strother School of Radical Attention offers a community-driven, participatory workshop and sidewalk study with a group of scholars, students, and activists working to cultivate attention as the basis for human connection. These attention exercises will then be incorporated into the next phase of our Story Cart, a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. We believe that the change in pace that this project encourages has the community-building capacity necessary for a more care-filled, civically engaged culture.
The overarching goal of this project is to foster in-depth, face-to-face conversations with a wide range of Milwaukeeans, increase participation in real-life activities occurring in particular sites around our city, and deepen community engagement through sustained attention and reflection—all stemming from the diverse participation in our programming that we can now develop with the support we have received from Wisconsin Humanities.
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