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Art+Activism Briefs
On Saturday, April 19, 2025, millions of Americans—again—expressed their opposition to the actions of our current administration.
Abbetuck imagined the idea of Create to Liberate to infuse resistance with positive creative acts and clever support for the arts.
You did so, in countless ways and locations.
Thank you.
We also thank our promotional partners, Liberal Resistance (on Bluesky) and Lincoln Off Center (on Bluesky and Threads).
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Finally, when autocrats begin to suppress empathetic artists and other creatives, remember…
Pull up a chair.
Or a torch.
Visual, performing, literary and other artists have long been powerful voices for social change, political commentary and dissent.
Our world is facing a rise of sociopolitical challenges not witnessed since the 1930s. Fortunately, the arts provide a powerful platform for resistance.
Abbetuck encourages artists to create works that inspire compassion and promote freedom.
We will showcase creatives in all disciplines who have used‒and are using‒their art forms to:
Greed, narcissism and fear are threatening free expression and the world’s creative communities.
Abbetuck invites visual, performing and literary artists to unite and raise their voice.
Let’s build a community of creatives who are connected by their ability to be visionary.
It is time for the world to hear and see us.
Considered a masterpiece of international cinema, “Battleship Potemkin” is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It dramatizes a 1905 mutiny that occurred on the Russian battleship Potemkin. The film’s most famous sequence depicts a massacre where Cossack soldiers gun down civilians on the steps leading down to the port. Officials banned “Battleship Potemkin” in Britain, France and other countries for its incendiary anti-authoritarian message.
“Night” is a memoir by Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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