The People's Voice Cafe: Combining Horizontal Leadership and Artistic Expression to Combat Social Injustice
Proposal
This poster explores a passionate social activist group known as The People’s Voice Cafe who dedicate their time to creating artistic performances highlighting social injustices in today’s world and how people can fight to change these poor circumstances. Every Saturday night, September through May, The People’s Voice Cafe puts on live and online performances consisting of song, dance, and poetry in a local New York church basement for any individual to watch. They have a strict inclusivity policy that states no person will be turned away. The People’s Voice Cafe stands out not only for their artistic topics, but for their method of horizontal leadership. They have mastered the ability to share the group’s leadership load and balance the work as an equal team. The ideas shared by The People’s Voice Cafe through this poster relate especially to Sustainable Development Goal 16 which aims to combat social injustices such as violence, abuse, systemic corruption, and discriminatory laws, to name a few. Recognizing the struggles of the world and using the beauty of art to bring them to people’s attention is an important and creative way to begin positive change.
The People's Voice Cafe: Combining Horizontal Leadership and Artistic Expression to Combat Social Injustice
This poster explores a passionate social activist group known as The People’s Voice Cafe who dedicate their time to creating artistic performances highlighting social injustices in today’s world and how people can fight to change these poor circumstances. Every Saturday night, September through May, The People’s Voice Cafe puts on live and online performances consisting of song, dance, and poetry in a local New York church basement for any individual to watch. They have a strict inclusivity policy that states no person will be turned away. The People’s Voice Cafe stands out not only for their artistic topics, but for their method of horizontal leadership. They have mastered the ability to share the group’s leadership load and balance the work as an equal team. The ideas shared by The People’s Voice Cafe through this poster relate especially to Sustainable Development Goal 16 which aims to combat social injustices such as violence, abuse, systemic corruption, and discriminatory laws, to name a few. Recognizing the struggles of the world and using the beauty of art to bring them to people’s attention is an important and creative way to begin positive change.