Save Your Spaces- Rise Up! 2025

Info: John Lewis Freedom Park – come bring blankets, food, and games. We will parlay in the field for playful delights. We are launching a series of gatherings focused on a community of practice centering community-led preservation. All are welcome.


Location: Enter from Memorial Drive, the meadow behind the hills, inside the path loop.

Info: The festival day hosts presenters sharing their skill-set in support of the everyday person to foster their project.


Schedule:


9 am Morning Wellness – Yoga


10 am Community Preservation Meet-up


11 am Workshop


12 pm Presenter


1 pm Workshop


2 pm Presenter


3 pm Presenter


4 pm Film Q/ A


Location: Create ATL, 900 Murphy Ave SW, Atlanta, GA30010


Interested in being a presenter, leading a workshop, hosting a table, or joining in another way? sign up here! https://form.jotform.com/250156338896164

Info: Community partners will host preservation events at their locations. These are either projects preserving places, spaces, and narratives or using skills like documentation, oral history, and the arts. Other partner sites will feature resources useful in preservation practices such as archives, libraries, and a gallery.


We are scheduling activations 12- 5 pm.


Partners include:


West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA)


The Square Room Studio (private gallery)


Art Submission

Art Submissions are being accepted for Save Your Spaces Gallery!


Our festival theme is: Rise Up! Preserving the Future


Save Your Spaces is a skillshare to equip, inspire, and activate the everyday person to preserve culture, history, and narratives- grounding in a place, embodied experiences and practices, and extending care towards our kinfolk.


We will accept up to 10-15 pieces. Any medium. The exhibit will at least partially be installed outdoors. If electricity

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