The Creative Change-Makers October 9 Zoom:

“How Our Imaginations Can Help Save the World”

A Workshop

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 9am Pacific, 10am Mountain, 11am Central, Noon Eastern.

On Thursday, October 9, at 9am Pacific, 10am Mountain, 11am Central and Noon Eastern, I’m teaching a workshop called “How Our Imaginations Can Help Save the World.”

We’ll explore:

  • The three most important ways the human imagination works;

  • How to protect your imagination from getting hijacked by fearmongers;

  • Why understanding and developing your imagination is crucial to helping create the positive change you’d like to see in the world. 

This workshop is relevant for anyone who is concerned about rising fascism, wonders how they, as one individual, can make any difference in the world; or who is just curious to learn more about why the imagination even matters in our lives in general.

This workshop requires no experience—whether you feel very creative and deeply connected to your imagination or are not sure you even have one, I think you’ll find our collective exploration both accessible and expansive.

The workshop will consist of a short talk, concrete exercises, a Q & A/discussion session where we can share our questions, experiences, hopes and doubts.

It will last about 75-90 minutes, but feel free to leave early or come late if you have to.

I think it will be empowering, interesting and fun.

Take whatever works for you and leave the rest. It’s okay to come even if you’re just curious.

This workshop is FREE for subscribers of The Pink Teacup.

I’d love for you to join us.

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Once you sign up, the welcome email will have a link for you to register for the zoom call.

I look forward to seeing you!

Questions? Email Sarah at bush.sarahATgmail.com

—————————IN THE MEANTIME —————————

Here’s a list of other potential ideas for creative change-making to spark your imagination:

  • Print, paint, or sew a flag of resistance or solidarity that hangs outside your house or apartment window.

  • Write a zine about vote suppression that you casually leave on coffee shops tables.

  • Bake blue and yellow iced Ukrainian flag cookies that you bring to work for your right-wing coworkers to enjoy unbeknownst.

  • Make “did you know” single-fact flyers that you stick on car windshields in a grocery store parking lot.

  • Design a saucy bumper sticker, a righteous pin, or an audacious t-shirt that you share with like-minded souls.

  • Weave nature crowns or construct witches hats to wear with friends at your next protest—or plan a crown-making party where you’ll invite your local friends to come to your place to create them with you.

  • Paint handmade signs that are funny or wacky or graphic or gorgeous to bring to protests and share with folks who showed up without one.

  • Write a checklist of immigrant rights and legal aid numbers to leave at your library or local bodega and then make it fun and funky with weird fonts or pretty graphics or calligraphy. Or draw little hearts all over it.

  • Order custom “democracy” M&Ms or “Rule of Law” conversation heart candies and put them out at your PTA meeting or church coffee hour.

  • Choreograph a public dance project that celebrates reproductive rights.

  • Stitch a quilt to auction at a fundraiser for the displaced.

  • Make tiny protest messages that show up in unexpected places in your community—perhaps left in a grocery store shopping basket or taped to a bathroom stall at a rest stop or the gas station mini mart.

There is no wrong, no too small, no too wacky no too mundane. If it excites you, or feels fun, or, if you’re like me, it makes you involuntarily raise your eyebrows while you smile mysteriously and twirl your invisible mustache, that’s all that matters.