Warm Cookies of the Revolution

Making Civic Engagement Fun!

Warm Cookies of the Revolution engages community members in crucial civic issues by creating innovative and fun arts and cultural programs. We are a Civic Health Club, making the questions “What do we want?” and “How do we get there?” necessary, participatory, just, and fun.

Executive Director and founder Evan Weissman, created Warm Cookies of the Revolution, the world’s first Civic Health Club in 2012 after more than a decade of making theater at Buntport Theater Company and even longer as an activist for community change.

If asked about the state of your physical, emotional, or spiritual health you’d have an answer, places to work on them (a gym, therapist, religious institution) and the expectation that when you left these places, you’d feel better than when you entered. But what about your civic health? Warm Cookies of the Revolution provides a local space to exercise civic health by combining necessary community issues with inventive programs, engaging participants where they already are.

Barton Institute Invests in the Fun!

Barton Institute is proud to be supporting Warm Cookies of the Revolution as they begin outreach in the suburb of Aurora to continue building civic engagement and connection. Warm Cookies is in the midst of a listening tour and looking at creative approaches to community engagement through poetry at bus stops, sending young people to HOA meetings, and continuing to find creative places to strengthen the civic fabric across suburbs of Aurora.