BECOME AN ARTS ACTIVIST CHANGE AGENT

ASI utilizes YPAR methodology. Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a community-based social justice research framework that inclusively supports the leadership and knowledge of youth most impacted by disparities to develop solutions for social, cultural, and political transformation.

GROUNDING

• Identify who are you are
• Choose what you want to change 
• List strengths and skills 
• List other resources in your community

PROBLEM

• Find problems in your neighborhood 
• Observe, interview, and record
• Re-order problem list

RESEARCH

• Be an investigator
• How to research issues 
• How to research solutions 

DATA COLLECTION

• Compile stories and anecdotes
• Graph facts and numbers
• Corroborate your findings 

DESIGN

• Art activist strategies
• Create a leaflet
• Create a volunteer event 
• Write a press release
• Write a news article
• Create a Facebook page
• Social media engagement 
• Interview someone for publication/airing 
• Write a social change song or poem 
• Write and perform a play/skit
• Make and display social change artwork
• Create a social change mural
• Make social change arts and crafts
• Write a social change short story or novel
• Create Asset Maps
• Create a podcast or video
• Thinking outside the box: use your interests and talents
• Create a T-shirt
• Create a hashtag
• Design a poster

ENACT

• Establish a timeline 
• Write a survey
• Roles of partners
• Collecting Data on the impact of work
• Plan and write an agreement letter
• Using Microsoft Excel

REFLECT

• Survey partners
• Survey participants
• Review data
• Review process
• Self-assess your project 
• Share your success 
• Project reflection: new goals, approaches, and objectives

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