An Amateur Cartography: Learning From Strategic Failures

12+
With Isaiah Ritzmann
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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.