Livingston Library teams w/NYC museum to launch Upstanders Fest!

Event Dates + Location
Friday, April 27 2018. 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Teens + Tweens Artmaking drop-in workshop
Saturday, April 28, 2018. 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Family-friendly daylong Upstanders Fest
Both days, Livingston Public Library: 10 Robert H Harp Dr, Livingston, NJ 07039
Website: www.upstandersfest.com/upstanders-fest

Livingston, New Jersey: Museum of Impact, the first mobile social justice museum, is teaming up with local community hub Livingston Public Library, to host a family friendly ‘Upstanders Festival’ a two day interactive event, featuring art, games and fun activities that encourages children and teens to Stand Up. Speak Up. Act Up.

Upstanders Fest is a traveling social justice extravaganza, existing to amplify voices and activate caring to make our community a better place. Enjoy a fun filled day designed with kids in mind of gaming, discussions, crafting, music and championing your inner changemaker alongside neighbors and future friends. Saturday features a ‘Know Your Rights’ obstacle course, where kids enact the movements of famous Upstanders. In addition Friday features a ‘Fierce Flags, Fly’ interactive workshop of art making of flags and protest posters, to support causes teens care about.

Museum of Impact Director, Monica O. Montgomery says, “I am excited to partner with the Livingston Library and host a special Upstanders Festival for kids, our first ever in a library. We have popped up in schools, churches, parks, community centers and museums, but libraries hold a special place in my heart, because my first job was in a library. The power of working with kids is that their boundless creativity allows them a freedom to envision a better future where people from all walks of life can come together and be treated well and thrive. This festival is a fun forum that hopes to inspire youth and caregivers to take action, imagine universal liberation and transform from bystanders to Upstanders.”

As museums and libraries become more socially responsive, the mandate to create programming responding to current events and injustice has become more urgent. This shift in our society organically birthed the Upstanders Festival (produced by Museum of Impact); as a space to shine a light on the bravery and brilliance of changemakers in our midst and activate caring community to make our city a better place. Upstanders Fest is hands on, engaging visitors to make art, build power, tell stories and channel their inner Upstander to Stand Up. Speak Up and Act Up for what they believe in.

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About Museum of Impact
Museum of Impact (MOI) is the first mobile social justice museum, inspiring action around art, activism, self and society. MOI travels the country creatively activating spaces, fusing conscious content, art and history to inspire action and build power. Having reached over 10,000 people in 35 pop up exhibits and #Upstanders festivals, we seeks to transform people through our actions, deeds and outreach. www.museumofimpact.org / @museumofimpact (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)

About Livingston Listens @ the Livingston Public Library
Livingston Listens is a series of programs on Inclusion, Representation and Social Justice at the Livingston Public Library. In an increasingly disruptive political and cultural environment, Livingston is a community that is becoming increasingly diverse. This represents a challenge as new communities grow alongside established ones and also an opportunity for our community, as a whole, to come together and talk about how issues that are impacting our country on a large scale are impacting our community and our lives as individual citizens. www.livingstonlibrary.org