Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

GAMING 4 JUSTICE

Our social justice gaming stream project is designed as a weekly digital space for personal connections and further consciousness raising with fun entertainment thrown in! Every week we stream videogames and discuss a different topic and engage with people in the chat. We’ve discussed Harm vs Intent, Copaganda and State Violence, as well as premiering original concepts such as The Woke Clock. After these conversations we enjoy a game as both a palate cleanser and a way to look at the ways BIPOC, LGTBQ+, and Disability Justice intersect in entertainment and society. We also build original videogames and use those to fuel conversations. Watch Gaming4Justice on twitch.tv/callingupjustice

DAY TWO: 30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice

DAY 2 INTERSECTIONALITY “Intersectionality is a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other” Source:

DAY ONE: 30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice

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Unsettling Dramaturgy Digital Communications Lead – Job Posting

The Unsettling Dramaturgy Colloquium (unsettlingdramaturgy.com) is an ongoing project bringing together Crip and Indigenous dramaturgs from across so-called Canada and the United States who work

Digital Equity

Digital Equity panel featuring Claudia Alick. Almost overnight, the pandemic accelerated a shift to creating, collaborating, and presenting online. Given the ongoing issues of the pandemic and climate change, this trend is not going away. The barriers of white supremacy culture, inaccessibility, and exclusionary policies are as insidious in the digital space as they are in our towns and cities. As the performing arts explore this new form, how do we build digital equity? What do we as artists, agents, producers, and presenters need to know as we plan our own excursions into digital spaces? Are there works, models, or strategies from the last 18 months that suggest a way forward?

NPN 2021 Conference Consultation

Calling Up Justice was hired to provide Disability Justice Consultation for NPN’s 2021 Annual Conference. Below is a rough description of our initial scope of work. NPN is a national arts service organization, grantmaker, and movement-builder working to create a more just and equitable world — one that champions freedom of expression, liberation and anti-oppression, and building and claiming collective power for radical systems change. Through national programs, investments in our communities in the South, and engagement in global movements, we seek to build artists’ power, advance racial and cultural justice in the arts, and foster relationship-building and reciprocity between individuals, institutions, and communities.

WCGTV 2021

Calling up Justice started We Charge Genocide TV and with it produced a news website, 2 Live-streamed variety style presentations and 2 music playlists in 2020. In 2021 we presented short form content on tiktok and Instagram.

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Watch Night

In 2021 the Calling Up Justice practice collaborated with Ayodele Nzinga to produce “The Call”. This livestreamed ritual began the digital Watch Night that we have now expanded to be a durational performance. Our Perpetual Watch Night lives in a digital space where we can all leave messages and wishes for Black lives throughout the year.

Gaming4Justice August 4

On Gaming4Justice today we discussed Critical Race Theory, and “Critical Race Theory”what it is and why the conspiracy about it is false. We watched a

The CALL

Our Black community has gathered annually on New Year’s Eve to observe “WATCH NIGHT” since, “Freedom’s Eve”, December 31, 1862, when free Blacks and Black slaves came together all across the nation to await news that the Emancipation Proclamation had become law on New Year’s Day, 1863. Join us now July 31, 2021 for THE CALL where we will gather in song, music, prayer, and art to set the intention for the next Watch Night to see us safely through another year.

Author: Claudia Alick