An Amateur Cartography (learning from strategic failures)

12+

with Isaiah Ritzmann

Just as in our personal life, our failures in activism have a lot to teach us. At this workshop we will have opportunities to share and discuss our strategic failures as activists (when we tried to make the world better by doing a thing, but it didn’t work), and what we individually and as group can learn from them. The workshop’s title comes from a Weakerthans lyric “armed with every precious failure – an amateur cartography.”

about the facilitator

Isaiah Ritzmann (he/him) has been part of the Cahoots “extended family” since the inception of the festival in ———–. A facilitator of community-based learning on sustainability, democracy, & degrowth in Kitchener, Ontario (Haldimand Tract), he also helped co-found a home-based hospitality network called Open Homes that serves newly arrived refugee claimants. A deep believer that God’s pedagogy includes our strategic failures, he’s excited to explore these in conversation with others.

A Musical Journey Through Homelessness, Precarity and Mental Health Crisis

12+

with Chris Clarke

Come to sit and listen to stories and songs that will thematically march around experiences with homelessness, precarity, and mental health crises. Chris will weave together moments of reflection, dialogue and prayer throughout. This is likely to be a heavy session that will discuss severe mental health struggled so bring an open heart and only attend if you have the emotional capacity.

about the facilitator

Chris is a singer-songwriter from Toronto, ON trying to figure life out. An original and long-running part of the Cahoots organizing team he is enjoying seeing Cahoots from a slightly different perspective. Chris is extremely eclectic with a broad range of interests and has worked lots with children and folks experiencing homelessness.

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