The Creative Change-Makers November 6 Zoom:

“Fall of Freedom”

A Brainstorming Session

Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 9am Pacific, 10am Mountain, 11am Central, Noon Eastern.

Join me for a fun and inspiring brainstorming zoom call to explore ways to participate in the upcoming nation-wide wave of creative resistance called “Fall of Freedom” which is starting on November 21-22.

In this call, we’ll explore:

  • What local resources already exist for you in your area, (galleries, libraries, shared public spaces) and how you can tap into them

  • What you think you’d like your role or activity to be

  • What does local leadership look like for an event like this

  • And a brainstorming session where we can prompt and inspire each other with potential ideas and ways to participate or activate events near you.  

This get-together is relevant for anyone who is concerned about rising fascism, wonders how they, as one individual, can make any difference in the world; and is intrigued or excited by the arts/creativity focus of this nationwide event.

By attending this brainstorming event, you are not committing to create an event in your area, you are exploring what’s possible with kindred spirits in a supportive shared space. We’ll work to move from ambiguity to concrete action steps, but there is no pressure. It’s all getting clear about what works best for you in your community.

The call will last about 60-75 minutes, but feel free to leave early or come late if you have to.

I think it will be empowering, interesting and fun.

It’s okay to come even if you’re just curious.

This workshop is FREE for subscribers of The Pink Teacup.

I’d love for you to join us.

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Once you sign up, the welcome email will have a link for you to register for the zoom call.

I look forward to seeing you!

Questions? Email Sarah at bush.sarahATgmail.com

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Here’s a list of other potential ideas for creative change-making to spark your imagination:

  • Print, paint, or sew a flag of resistance or solidarity that hangs outside your house or apartment window.

  • Write a zine about vote suppression that you casually leave on coffee shops tables.

  • Bake blue and yellow iced Ukrainian flag cookies that you bring to work for your right-wing coworkers to enjoy unbeknownst.

  • Make “did you know” single-fact flyers that you stick on car windshields in a grocery store parking lot.

  • Design a saucy bumper sticker, a righteous pin, or an audacious t-shirt that you share with like-minded souls.

  • Weave nature crowns or construct witches hats to wear with friends at your next protest—or plan a crown-making party where you’ll invite your local friends to come to your place to create them with you.

  • Paint handmade signs that are funny or wacky or graphic or gorgeous to bring to protests and share with folks who showed up without one.

  • Write a checklist of immigrant rights and legal aid numbers to leave at your library or local bodega and then make it fun and funky with weird fonts or pretty graphics or calligraphy. Or draw little hearts all over it.

  • Order custom “democracy” M&Ms or “Rule of Law” conversation heart candies and put them out at your PTA meeting or church coffee hour.

  • Choreograph a public dance project that celebrates reproductive rights.

  • Stitch a quilt to auction at a fundraiser for the displaced.

  • Make tiny protest messages that show up in unexpected places in your community—perhaps left in a grocery store shopping basket or taped to a bathroom stall at a rest stop or the gas station mini mart.

There is no wrong, no too small, no too wacky no too mundane. If it excites you, or feels fun, or, if you’re like me, it makes you involuntarily raise your eyebrows while you smile mysteriously and twirl your invisible mustache, that’s all that matters.