Marching for days to make salt. Speaking of a dream in Washington DC. The prisoner and his oppressor sharing a Nobel Peace Prize. A courageous protestor standing before a tank. Painting Black Lives Matter down the middle of a street. The ideas and the practices of nonviolence are often highly imaginative and remind us how powerful creativity can be - not only in the arts but anywhere that change finds some wiggle room to blossom. Nonviolence also calls for the kind of deliberate practice that makes an artist into a virtuoso. In this course we will look at nonviolence and its uses, but with an emphasis on the similarities between nonviolence and other creative activities.

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