Creative Expression for Social Justice

The Arts and Humanities provide many meaningful ways to draw attention and contribute to discourse, advocacy, and positive action related to poverty and inequality. This Big Ideas category invites proposals related to creating art, music, photography, written and spoken word, film, dance, new media, other forms of expression, OR activities to facilitate such expression to address issues of poverty alleviation and social justice.

Background

The Creative Expression for Social Justice Category is funded, in part, by the Incremental Student Services Fee with the purpose of expanding Big Ideas @Berkeley to support and cultivate the use of the creative arts in the pursuit of social justice. Enabling students to develop a creative voice in service to building community and justice is congruent with the values of our campus community and an important to developing the change makers and social entrepreneurs of the next generation.

Competition Rules

The Creative Expression for Social Justice Competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. Multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged.

For additional information about general contest rules, timing and how to apply, please refer to the Contest Application Guidelines

Prizes will be awarded only if there are high-quality submissions and are expected to be used to support the proposed activities (e.g., research, travel, workshops, project expenses). Decisions of the judges are final and not subject to appeal.