Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands
Sat, Oct 05
|2024 Elm Street Arts Activism Area
At the Elm Street Art Activist station, Alex Makes Art will be creating a patchwork of carpet samples onto a second-hand vinyl.
Time & Location
Oct 05, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
2024 Elm Street Arts Activism Area, Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USA
About the event
Elm Street Arts Activism Profiles
The 2024 Elm Street Arts Activism Area includes installations and hands-on activities for all those passing by. It is a chance for local artists and activist and community groups to share with the general public their ideas, concerns, images, words, creations, and strategies for a better world. This year Elm Street artists will offer opportunities to engage in projects about equity and voting rights, climate change and ecological crisis, and the war on Gaza, by making banners, flags, cardboard parading costumes, and chalk art, or participating in an installation about Palestinian identity.
At the Elm Street Art Activist station, Alex Makes Art will be creating a patchwork of carpet samples onto a second-hand vinyl. We will invite participants to visually mend this piece together using handspun wool thread, highlighting the tremendous gathering of people who unify for this unique experience in Somerville. In addition, we’ll…