Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity

Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity:

Selected Essays, Talks and Articles by Lois Holzman

Edited by Carrie Lobman and Tony Perone

Lois Holzman is an international activist who has combined rigorous scholarship with grassroots community organizing. Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity: Selected Essays, Talks and Articles by Lois Holzman is a curated selection of Holzman’s writings that offers a taste of the range of her work in terms of subject matter, style and audience. Selected writings discuss radical approaches to community building, education, human development, learning, performance activism, play and therapy via academic articles and chapters, invited talks and blog posts.

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Grassroots community organizing
Radical approaches to community building
Radical approaches to education
Radical approaches to human development & learning
Radical approaches to performance activism, play and therapy.
A new methodology for teaching/creating/building with others

A book cover titled "Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity: Selected Essays, Talks, and Articles by Lois Holzman." The cover features colorful geometric shapes on an orange background. Highlighting a social therapeutic approach, the book is edited by Carrie Lobman and Tony Perone.

A woman with a short brown bob hairstyle is smiling in an outdoor setting. She is wearing a black top and a silver necklace. The background features a cityscape with numerous buildings under a partly cloudy sky, providing the perfect backdrop for her social therapeutic improv session.

currated works of

Lois Holzman

A beautifully curated collection of Lois Holzman's academic articles and chapters, invited talks, and blog posts.

ideas, tools, & inspirations

Take Action

Readers across contexts and backgrounds will find new ideas, practical tools and inspiration from these writings to serve their community organizing, learning, scholarship, and teaching activities.

a new methodology

Teach/Create/Build

This book is a call to action to teach/create/build with others with/in a new methodology that develops big ideas and revolutionary activity with/in their lives and their communities.

What People Say About "Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity"

“This incredible collection of essays, articles, and talks by Lois Holzman is an excellent introduction and/or continuation for anyone interested in performance activism and social therapeutics. Luke Perone and Carrie Lobman bring Lois’s works together in a brilliant way and I highly recommend reading it!”

Rachael W.

“An insightful book on what it means to become who you are. It really makes the reader wonder about the power behind play, and how it can be utilized in development across the lifespan, building inclusive communities, and becoming a revolutionary. “

Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity