Keep the soft space for hard questions alive, and making trouble!
At CAMP, we believe art is a weapon and the medicine our divided world needs. We work alongside frontline communities, using public art, media intervention, and collective care to metabolise struggle into action. But we can’t do it alone. Without support, our cultural worker labs pause, and communities lose a space to tell their own stories.
How you can help:
- One-off gifts of any size close the gap.
- R100/month keeps our lights on.
- R500/month keeps a lab running.
Crowdfund us: https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/supporting-camp
What you get: An invitation. Come to a lab. Follow the work. Be part of the change.
📸 See our work: camp.org.za
📱 Follow: @_campza
🌱: tr.ee/narrativerepair use the free resources developed in our community labs
You, and your support makes the Community Arts Mobilisation Project more possible, freeing us to deliver meaningful change where it is most needed – mobilising art in communities.
The context
The conditions for dreaming are set and achieved collectively, but not effortlessly. As authoritarianism mounts around the globe and division threatens us all, it is more important than ever that dreamers are resourced. The Community Art Mobilisation Project (CAMP) is this place for gathering: a “soft space for hard questions” where artists, activists, and frontline communities come into relationship, to tell their own stories, and make art that shifts us into action.
We're asking for your contribution to sustain this labour. Without wider support, our cultural worker labs and solidarity actions pause. Support our crowdfunder here: https://tr.ee/supportcamp
We are caretakers and troublemakers, problem-solvers working within a lineage of cultural workers who understood art as a weapon of struggle, and as medicine. Our desire is to help give that idea a home using collective making, public art, media intervention, and the everyday infrastructure of care that lets communities in struggle metabolise their complicated socio-political experiences through communal creative practices.
Over the past years, we have worked alongside communities across South Africa and the world in solidarity actions for some of the most urgent struggles. Through a strategic combination of high visibility art action, and sustained community mobilisation, we have tangibly impacted a wide variety of critical social movements. We invite you to explore our narratives of repair in the video work presented and follow us on social media to understand our impact.
We are grateful for any support—and we hope this is the start of a relationship, not a one-off transaction. If you are able to, please consider becoming a monthly backer, this goes a long way toward keeping our lights on and our labs running. If a monthly commitment is not for you, a once-off contribution of any size helps us get through this gap.
In return, we offer an invitation: come see what you are helping to sustain. Join us at a cultural worker lab, follow the work as it happens, and be part of the community that makes change possible. Follow us on Instagram at @_campza, see our full body of work at camp.org.za, or browse our materials at tr.ee/narrativerepair.
If you would like to talk to us directly about supporting CAMP, write to camp@camp.org.za