SoapBox Productions and Organizing is a film and social activism 501(c)3 that specializes in multimedia curation of creative projects centered around education, entertainment, and structural social change. We coalesce cinematic excellence with grassroots organizing efforts by developing, documenting, and promoting racial, economic, and social justice initiatives with community collaborators. Through art and action, SoapBox utilizes media to power and sustain social movements for a more equitable and creative world.
Fitness Against Fascism 3 (FAF3)
Sunday, September 15, 2019 | 12:30-3:30pm | Studio Three - River North (Chicago)
Fitness Against Fascism 3 (FAF3) features a bodyweight HIIT workout led by Coss Marte of Conbody, yoga flow by Mel Phillips, and a panel-led conversation with activists and community organizers on the effect of the prison industrial complex on healthy communities.
Fitness Against Fascism (FAF) is an event series and fundraiser presented by and benefiting SoapBox Productions and Organizing that decolonizes the notion that fitness is apolitical as the event curates a space for sweat and solidarity in order to breakdown systems and institutions of oppression that effect every industry, including (and especially) the allied healthcare continuum. FAF3 will focus on the prison-industrial complex and mainstream views on police/prison reform. With fitness experts, activists, and academics, including those formerly incarcerated, we’ll discuss the pros/cons of the current narrative-shift, important personal experiences, and the physical/mental health effects mass racialized incarceration has at the individual, familial, and community level through an abolitionist framework.
Vendors/Sponsors include aSweatLife, Decolonizing Fitness, Ambitious Kitchen, Graze, Clifbar, and more!
Fitness Against Fascism (FAF) is an event series and fundraiser presented by and benefiting SoapBox Productions and Organizing that decolonizes the notion that fitness is apolitical as the event curates a space for sweat and solidarity in order to breakdown systems and institutions of oppression that effect every industry, including (and especially) the allied healthcare continuum. FAF3 will focus on the prison-industrial complex and mainstream views on police/prison reform. With fitness experts, activists, and academics, including those formerly incarcerated, we’ll discuss the pros/cons of the current narrative-shift, important personal experiences, and the physical/mental health effects mass racialized incarceration has at the individual, familial, and community level through an abolitionist framework.
Vendors/Sponsors include aSweatLife, Decolonizing Fitness, Ambitious Kitchen, Graze, Clifbar, and more!
W H A T ' S G O O D ?
As technology and entertainment push the digital age forward, the need for inclusive communities of compassion, humanity, and justice continues to build. Our destinies are connected to each other. With that, we must remember that creative integrity and radical change are essential to our progress as a society. Check out some of our recent projects, events, and endeavors below.
Featured: Chicago Drill and Activism
What started as a DePaul University graduate-level sociology thesis is now a SoapBox's feature documentary and multi-media, cross-platform project. The original study seeks to understand the creation, meaning, perspectives and potential connections between drill rap music and the resurgence of grassroots activism since the early 2010s. "Chi DNA" features in-depth interviews with drill rappers, other independent artists, and organizers/activists. It situates its findings into a broader theoretical framework and empirical history of systemic inequality and resistance.
