conferences
conferences
CREA believes that successful social movements and change only occur through authentic collaborations and connections. Sometimes those can only be made when hundreds of people concerned about an issue come together in a physical space over the course of days.
CREA conferences, however, look nothing like the conventional norm of a meeting with speakers talking at attendees. They are always ambitious, adventurous gatherings that move from evocative installations to panel discussions to radical fault-line dialogues, from film screenings to experiential spaces to creative performances. One’s experience at a CREA conference becomes an essential part of the change and a method in and of itself to make change happen.
In 2011, more than 300 feminists, artists, activists, allies and policy makers came together at CREA’s landmark Count Me In! conference to address violence against structurally excluded communities.
Held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2019, reconference brought together over 700 activists, artists and allies from 63 countries to spend three days recharging movements to meet a diverse set of emerging and unprecedented challenges.
Sex worker movements in South Asia have led transformative processes of mobilization to demand rights, freedoms, justice and recognition. Believing that it was crucial to once again train allies’ attention to this important work, CREA convened renew: South Asia Sex Workers’ Summit in May 2024 in Kathmandu, Nepal, which was attended by over 200 sex workers and allies.
