Environmental Justice
Arts & Culture
Multicultural Community Education
38552 Pitkin Road Paonia, Colorado 81428
Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff / yoga@carajudea.com / 970 433 1904 / www.RadicalArtInAction.Space
a 501(c) (3) charitable, educational nonprofit
EIN: 33-216152
All contributions are tax deductible.
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Mission Statement
Radical Art in Action provides educational opportunities and active participation in art, social justice, and climate justice.
Mapping our interconnectedness, we aim to move beyond polarizing political positions and find common ground through building trust and collective creative risk-taking.
1. S.O.U.L. (Shared Opportunity Used Local) Commons: supporting mutual aid economies and gift economies through our local free store. We help to interrupt the waste stream and shift consumer-convenience culture, provide upcycling education through Skills Share (see below) and create networks of care for disaster relief (fires, hurricanes, floods). We need funding to maintain the infrastructure (upgrade the physical structure, $500 lumber for shelving and signage), reimburse volunteers, $500 a year—$10 a week), build a national directory/ database of alternative economies, $1500 (research time and travel, website), educate about consumerism/offer free monthly workshops to the public, $100 per workshop.
Skills Shares in combination with Paonia Makers have included fabric mending, sock darning, electronic repairs, energy kinesiology, violin restoration, spinning, felting, psychedelic harm-reduction, pine hydrosol using a copper still, soap making, weaving, rag-rug crocheting, woodworking using local orchard trees, Sashiko (traditional Japanese clothing repair), cordage making (rope from plant fiber and animal sinew), chair massage, and acroyoga, puppet-making, trash tours, Freeganism 101, and mosaics workshops, and life-skills workshops by visiting Ute elders.
2. Paonia Makers and Somatic Seeds (see flyer below): establishing a free-of-cost craft apprenticeship for underserved community members and accessibility for those coming from long distances, $4500. This will help support our community, intersectional artist workspace including woodworking, tiny home building, natural dye garden, Fibershed education/ collective action, stone carving, ethically harvested natural medicine, land skills & ecology education, radical eco-politics and arts library and action-based book club, body-politics & sexuality counseling, Iyengar yoga privates.
3. Environmental and Multicultural Education: Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era book and animation film adaptation explore cross-cultural principles that reflect an imperative for a pluralistic equitable ecojustice, a reconsideration of the ecological and social justice consequences of one’s daily choices. Visual storytelling that connects our extraordinarily diverse cultural pasts and present helps build a strong sense of interconnectedness. This kind of connective storytelling leads to individual and group empowerment. Asking funders to contribute to the animation adaptation.
Budget Total (in USD): $ 150,000
Total Funds Secured (in USD): $ 25,000
Total Funds Left to Raise (in USD): $ 125,000
Funding to Date: Sacred Heart Charitable Fund 2024, $10,000 grant and $15,000 Grant
Pending Funds: $50,000 grant from Sacred Heart Charitable Fund and $75,000 grant from Jewish Story Partners
Fundraising Strategy: Film grants and competitions, 80%, Crowdfunding, 15% In 2017 Alhadeff began a Zazu Dreams Indiegogo crowdfunding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwLhUBEgrA&t=5s
Since then, she has homed in on the target audience.
Now, Alhadeff will initiate an updated crowdfunding campaign and apply to grants and competitions involving the dozens of collaborating organizations (list available upon request).
Join Us in Creating a Visionary Tale of Cultural Harmony and Environmental Stewardship:
Asking funders to contribute $10,000 to Help Bring Zazu Dreams to Life: A Feature-Length Animated Film
4. Creative affordable housing: My family’s eco-art converted school bus tiny home which we have lived in for seven years and performed dozens of times supports both climate-chaos prevention efforts (subsistence living & community building) and emergency-skills capacity building (reclaiming & repurposing resources). The Love Bus offers a fertile opportunity for education about how to live non-normative, compassion-oriented lifestyles. Asking funders to contribute $2,000 to “Living Our Ecological Ethics” education efforts (workshops open to the public).
5.“Edible Education/ Local Food Now/ Food Equity Project:” farm-to-school food equity education/advocacy through community-based performances. Future projects TBD
Every gift counts! As a 501(c) 3 charitable, educational nonprofit,
- We are raising $20,000.
- Consider making your donation a recurring monthly gift.
- You can give via check or cash. Donor Box will soon be available.
With your support, we’ll keep building our alternative economies movement—economies of care and solidarity, a nationwide re-use, repurpose, and gifting movement, and Freegan collective action (Organizations and Communities – freegan.info)—including Freegan NYC, Upcycling Center at Ohio Wesleyan University, SCRAP SF and San Francisco’s Recology Artist in Residence (AIR) Program, Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse/ Sustainable Arts.
Please give to Our Movement by sending a check to Radical Art in Action, 38552 Pitkin Road, Paonia, Colorado 81428 or through Venmo: @Cara-Alhadeff (confirmation #4547). For questions, please contact Cara @ 970 433 1904
Paonia Makers Opening Flyer. Zazu Dreams book title. Zazu, Wild, and I building the first iteration of S.O.U.L. Commons with found and repurposed materials. Townspeople finding what they want/ need.