Community Initiatives
We believe it's important to offer accessible public events for our community members to learn about social impact topics that matter to them. From public panels and Q&A sessions to Storyslams and 1:1 interviews, we create spaces where subject matter experts are able to share their work and engage in meaningful discourse with our audience.
We always provide free tickets for anyone who needs financial support, no questions asked. Please just email us at hello@studioatao.org to redeem.
If you would like to sponsor an event or partner with us on a branded event series, please reach out!
Featured Upcoming Event
November 6 - 12pm PT | 3pm ET
Our November book club is on Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade.
From the publisher: This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.
Book Club
Our book clubs are regular a small group discussion series where we collectively examine the new ideas and real-world applications of our nonfiction read. It is open for anyone to join, for as many or as few sessions as desired. These are 1.5-2 hour moderated conversations with a maximum of 10 participants per session.
Movie Club
Our movie club takes the form of a series of narrative arcs that last four months, with anywhere from six to twelve total films (a mix of shorts, documentaries, and fictional movies).
Small-group discussions for the movie club happen every month. These are 1.5-2 hour moderated conversations with a maximum of 10 participants per session.
Movie Club
Our movie club takes the form of a series of narrative arcs that last four months, with anywhere from six to twelve total films (a mix of shorts, documentaries, and fictional movies).
Small-group discussions for the movie club happen every month. These are 1.5-2 hour moderated conversations with a maximum of 10 participants per session.
Disrupting Dinner
Disrupting Dinner is a cookbook discussion community that embraces the political nature of food, history, and culture. We read one BIPOC-authored cookbook for three months at a time, and convene for monthly, two-hour cook-together and discussion sessions for a maximum of 20 people each. Between sessions, our community shares dishes, stories, and articles in our private FB group.
Social Impact Professionals
Social Impact Professionals is a private, discussion-based community for those interested in social justice across the spectrum. This is for community members across all industries who seek an intimate forum to discuss social justice topics relevant to their lives, talk through pressing problems pertinent to their work, and derive cross-functional insight from like-minded professionals to work together to find solutions both big and small.
Past Events Archive
Group Huddle
Complemented by Under the Magnifying Glass Issue 1
Panel
In partnership with General Assembly
Workshop
A presentation by the Instagram partnerships team
Town Hall
A recap of key takeaways
Disrupting Dinner
Available to view for our Patreon members
Book Club
Available to view for our Patreon members
Book Club
Available to view for our Patreon members
Movie Club
Available to view for our Patreon members
Panel
In partnership with General Assembly
Storyslam
In partnership with Slant'd Magazine
Panel
In partnership with General Assembly
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