Activate Labs

Activate Labs Training, meaningful participation & co-design for nonviolent collective action social movements.

Activate Labs facilitates collaboration, strategy and creative problem solving. Working with organizations and communities impacted by the issue/problem, Activate Labs seeks to build empathy and community as we find creative solutions to our most challenging issues. Workshops and user centered design sessions led by Activate Labs uses a participatory and experiential design process we have created

called “The Frame Design Process,” which facilitates change through the analysis, design, prototyping (pilot testing) and launching of campaigns and interventions.

Let our voices be heard. Let Iran Live! Today Saturday Feb 28th 2 pm Whitehouse
02/28/2026

Let our voices be heard. Let Iran Live! Today Saturday Feb 28th 2 pm Whitehouse

Cosechando Dignidad� Vida en el desierto de comida frescaUn taller participativo de teatro social en Playas de Tijuana q...
02/16/2026

Cosechando Dignidad� Vida en el desierto de comida fresca
Un taller participativo de teatro social en Playas de Tijuana que explora el acceso desigual a alimentos frescos entre quienes viven en los márgenes. A través del teatro foro y la cocreación de máscaras heroicas, examinamos los sistemas que generan nuevos desiertos alimentarios y ensayamos alternativas comunitarias hacia la justicia alimentaria.
• No se requiere experiencia teatral.
• La experiencia vivida es liderazgo.
• Juntas y juntos cultivamos la dignidad y diseñamos nuevas posibilidades.
La escasez de comida fresca es un producto del diseño.
Podemos codiseñar dignidad colectiva y seguridad alimentaria para todes
Cultivating Dignity�Reclaiming Life in the Fresh Food Desert
A participatory social theatre workshop in Playas de Tijuana exploring the inequitable access to fresh food for those on the margins. Through forum theatre and the co-creation of hero masks, we examine the systems that create new food deserts and rehearse community-based alternatives for food justice.
• No theatre experience required.
• Lived experience is leadership.
• Together, we cultivate dignity and design new possibilities.
Fresh food scarcity is by design.
We can co-design collective dignity and fresh food security for all.
MonstersOfCollapse

01/17/2026

Please join us for Between Brilliance and Brokenness — a gentle collage & journaling workshop to reflect, create, and enter 2026 together.

We’ll use guided journaling and collage to explore what we’re carrying, what’s breaking open, and where the light is coming in. No art experience needed. All materials are provided, including a journal to take home.

🗓 January 24, 2026 | 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍 Nabiha’s Café, Washington, DC
🎟 Register: https://rb.gy/3nd4ap

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Por favor, acompáñanos en Entre el Brillo y la Ruptura — un taller de collage y escritura para reflexionar, crear y entrar juntxs en 2026.

Usaremos escritura guiada y collage para explorar lo que llevamos, lo que se está abriendo y por dónde entra la luz. No se necesita experiencia artística. Todos los materiales están incluidos, entre ellos un diario para llevar a casa.

🗓 24 de enero de 2026 | 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
📍 Nabiha’s Café, Washington, DC
🎟 Inscripción: https://rb.gy/3nd4ap

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Washington, DC—Organizations in the US capital denounce the violent murder committed ICE in Minneapolis. We share our co...
01/07/2026

Washington, DC—

Organizations in the US capital denounce the violent murder committed ICE in Minneapolis. We share our condolences and are in full solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota.

Organizaciones en la capital de Estado Unidos denuncian el violento as*****to cometido por ICE en Minneapolis. Compartimos nuestras condolencias y nos solidarizamos plenamente con nuestros hermanos de Minnesota.

We out here at till 2 pm - support families impacted by ice
12/20/2025

We out here at till 2 pm - support families impacted by ice

Yesterday for International Migrants Day, organizations led by and for Immigrants and children of immigrants came togeth...
12/19/2025

Yesterday for International Migrants Day, organizations led by and for Immigrants and children of immigrants came together to march and demand justice, dignity and freedom. Stopping at the Embassy’s of El Salvador, Philippines and Peru (with highlighted speeches from the struggles in Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago and finally ending at DuPont Circle to turn grief and anger into culture, art, and collective joy.
From many homelands and many struggles, we gathered as one—refusing silence, refusing fear.

At the final rally, Activate Labs brought the Monsters of Collapse out of hiding, facilitating social theatre that named the forces harming our communities: war, detention, militarization, and the systems that profit from our pain. When we name the monsters, they lose their power.

Families and communities are being detained, disappeared, traumatized, and killed—both abroad and here at home. We know these harms are connected. The violence faced by migrants is tied to war, policing, and U.S. militarism across the world.

And still—we rise.
Through art. Through story. Through joy.
Because our cultures carry memory, resistance, and the power to imagine something better—together. 📸 Rachel, Adrian and

12/19/2025

La cultura nos transforma. Y nosotros luchamos para la transformación- beautiful day demanding justice and dignity for migrants and for those suffering under the same systems back at home.

12/17/2025

Don’t miss this! Last Chance to join. Register https://2cm.es/1kXbk. Link in bio. Getting ready for creative collage making and yummy Palestinian appetizers and manaeesh *vegan. #

The movement of displaced peoples stands in solidarity with all migrants and colonized peoples and denounces the intensi...
12/14/2025

The movement of displaced peoples stands in solidarity with all migrants and colonized peoples and denounces the intensifying violence against Black, Brown, and Indigenous people in the DMV and across Our Americas.

Join us for a collective mobilization on International Migrants Day as we highlight our interconnected struggles and reclaim the UN-initiated day in the name of People(s)-Centered Human Rights. The speak outs will counter the comprador political leadership of the Philippines, Peru, El Salvador, and Trinidad and Tobago at their U.S. embassies and end at DuPont Circle to address the same violence of U.S. militarization that is deployed domestically and abroad.

Continue the fight for the genuine freedom of our people, from the U.S. to our homelands!

The movement of displaced peoples stands in solidarity with all migrants and colonized peoples and denounces the intensi...
12/14/2025

The movement of displaced peoples stands in solidarity with all migrants and colonized peoples and denounces the intensifying violence against Black, Brown, and Indigenous people in the DMV and across Our Americas.

Join us for a collective mobilization on International Migrants Day as we highlight our interconnected struggles and reclaim the UN-initiated day in the name of People(s)-Centered Human Rights. The speak outs will counter the comprador political leadership of the Philippines, Peru, El Salvador, and Trinidad and Tabago at their U.S. embassies and end at DuPont Circle to address the same violence of U.S. militarization that is deployed domestically and abroad.

Continue the fight for the genuine freedom of our people, from the U.S. to our homelands!

What a deep healing experience to bring the forum theatre process to the land and people of Misak. We traced history a...
06/22/2025

What a deep healing experience to bring the forum theatre process to the land and people of Misak. We traced history and the present using the monster masks as guides to how the systems of violence and oppression work together through supremacy, domination, extraction-exploitation and destruction. We look forward to sharing more.

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