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Advocacy Media Production (AMP) Studio



Overview

In 2007, the Curriculum Development Project and the One in Nine Campaign conceived a project to use art to make feminist advocacy media that confronts and challenges patriarchy, homophobia, racism and other interlocking forms of oppression. This resulted in the ART as ADVOCACY course, and the first course was run in 2008. One of the outcomes of the ART as ADVOCACY project was the establishment of the One in Nine Campaign Advocacy Media Production (AMP) Studio in November 2011. Four women made up the core members of AMP Studio when it started. The Studio conceptualizes and produces a wide range of printed advocacy materials and has recently branched out into audio-visual advocacy material production. In 2012, the Studio started offering ART as ADVOCACY training (called Wildfire training) to partner organizations and Campaign project beneficiaries. The funds generated by the Studio contributed to funding Campaign work not donor-funded and survivor support costs. AMP Studio produces t-shirts, posters, banners, placards, exhibitions, installations, murals, films and multimedia that challenge dominant discourses on human rights, violence, justice and inequality and can respond quickly to emerging crises. The media serves to raise public consciousness and mobilise towards action on specific issues and events. AMP Studio has worked on commissioned projects like the Autonomy Project by the Coalition of African Lesbians, facilitating media development workshops for a regional audience. We have also worked with organisations like Justice and Women (JAW), working with its staff, youth and community workers in developing media for their advocacy projects. We were commisioned by Genderlinks in 2022 to develop an art installation on Climate change, where we also worked with our participants from Serapeng Sa Basadi.