SPF- ArtVocacy: Articulate Rant for Nig. “ARTvocacy: An ARTiculate Rant For A New Nigeria” is a concept brought by old grantee of Voice- Street Project Foundation. Current project aims at supporting young people to become social change influencers and content creators advocating for progressivesocietal change.  This concept -Artistic activism is activism that doesn’t look like activism and art that doesn’t look like art. The abilityof artistic activism to surprise us – to show up in unlikely places (e.g., not a gallery) or take on unfamiliar forms (e.g., not a protest march) provides an opportunity to disrupt people’s preconceived notions of art and protest, and their predetermined ideas about the messages we are trying to communicate. Whereas traditional forms of protest, like marches, need to constantly increase in size or scope, or descend into violence, to become noticed (and newsworthy), the creative innovation at the heart of artistic activismprovides something uncommon, or out of place, that can attract attention and become memorable.The boundary slippage of artistic activism works equally well in repressive regimes where overt political protest is prohibited, yet artistic practices are tolerated. Slipping under the radar, artistic activism is not identified as “politics” to authorities while still being able to communicate a social message to the public.

With the support of VOICE, rightsholders will be able to grow the New Nigeria Movement to become more robust enough to influence people using various artistic forms and channels.
1. Online Community Engagement
2. Tactical Community Engagement
3. Direct Engagement with Public Servants

ONLINE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
We will produce two short films and a 26-episode podcast serial that will be viewed on YouTube and aired on Soundcloud respectively. The essence of producing this social media content isto galvanize an online community of youths and activate them for political participation in a compelling fashion.

TACTICAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
In the bid to build the New Nigeriamovement at grassroots level, Community Theatre and Community Visual Art Creations on Billboards will be used to express the desires of the youth. It will become an avenue to rant and voice out their frustrations about their social welfare. It will also become an avenue to propose solutions to raging problems in the community.

TACTICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH PUBLIC SERVANTS
As a strategy to get the message of the youth in the faces and tables of public servants so they can engage positively with the demandsof the youth, a coffee table book will be produced. The content of this book will be a compilation of Street photography and digital storytelling. This socially conscious product will give stakeholders the opportunity to feel the pulse of young people’s state of mind and influence their policies as regards youth political participation in Nigeria.

In order to get this movement going, a Strategic Youth Community Convening will be organised to herald these activities where 50 selected youths includingthose living with disabilities across project locations (Abuja and Enugu) will co-create and produce these contents that speak to their quest for a New Nigeria. Street Project Foundation will provide a safe space for movement building, creative thinking andproblem solving through the lens of artistic activism.