The Creative Europe Cooperation Project Creative Climate Leadership drew to a close in March 2019. Since 2016, when CCL was first initiated, the programme has encouraged and strengthened the knowledge, leadership and communities of people working across the cultural and climate sectors. It has connected a global community to make local impact, provoked myriad creative … Read more Creative Climate Leadership: Final Report
Jessica Sim can’t pinpoint the exact moment that she became concerned about the global environmental challenges we face today; to her, it feels like a concern that has been part of her world since she was young. She recalls how her high school art teacher, who ran a high school ‘green team’, was the first … Read more CCL Alumni in Focus: Jessica Sim, CCL in Action: Yeşillendirelim, and NADAS Istanbul
Bridget McKenzie is a UK based consultant for the arts and museums with decades of experience developing and evaluation cultural learning programmes, founding director of Flow Associates, and founder of Climate Museum UK . — Growing up in the countryside with environmentally minded parents, Bridget feels she has long been a ‘defender of nature’. Alongside … Read more CCL Alumni in Focus: Bridget McKenzie, Climate Museum UK and Big Green Day, Telegraph Hill
Supported by a CCL in Action local development grant, CCL alumni Marta García Haro and Elisa Hernández de Pablo collaborated to guest edit a Special Edition of the Conectando Audiencias Magazine, a publication aimed at Spanish speaking creative professionals and cultural managers, on the theme of arts and sustainability – the first monograph of its … Read more CCL in Action: Conectando Audiencias Especial Arte Y Sostenibilidad – Marta García Haro and Elisa Hernández de Pablo, Spain
April 22 in 1970 marked the first Earth Day, which saw millions of people (mainly in America) pouring into the streets to bring environmental crises into the national dialogue. Over the past 50 years, Earth Day has grown into an international movement, engaging millions of individuals, organisations and spaces across the globe – including historical … Read more CCL Alumni in Focus: Karishma Rafferty and Earth Day at Somerset House
Elizabeth Valenzuela works at Colombian NGO Fondo Acción, and was part of the second cohort of Creative Climate Leaders in October 2017. —— To preserve nature and life in all its forms, including ours, leads us to think of concrete actions to give each element the best possible use. It puts us, in many cases, … Read more Guest Blog: Art and nature: An approach to imitate, create and preserve
Art and Nature: an approach to imitate, create, and preserve – Elizabeth Valenzuela, Fondo Acción, Colombia Elizabeth Valenzuela, Fondo Acción (CO) worked as a biologist for many years, and helped to establish a specific fund for arts and cultural approaches to environmental stewardship and climate action during her time as Climate Change Coordinator at non-profit … Read more CCL in Action: Elizabeth Valenzuela
Toby Peach is a UK-based theatre maker and artist who has received high critical acclaim for his previous shows such as The Eulogy of Toby Peach. He received a CCL in Action local development grant to support a research and development phase for a Sustainability Adventure in Learning immersive theatre project in partnership with KIT … Read more CCL in Action: Toby Peach, Sustainability Adventure in Learning UK
Budi Agung Kuswara’s world is intimately connected to the rhythms of nature. “I can feel the changes of the environment from the temperature, from the air, from the environment. I come from the fishermen community, and we use old technology like viewing the stars and counting the moon cycle – and I experience this is … Read more CCL in Action: Budi Agung Kuswara, Ketemu Projects: Kekasih Hati Sang Bumi
Phillip Kusasa has been actively work to preserve his N’dau cultural heritage, which is indigenous to Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, for many years. In 2013 he set up the Paiyapo Arts Development and Heritage Centre in Bangira, Chipinge. Through his interest in protecting N’dau cultural heritage, Phillip has long had an interest in environmental protection. … Read more CCL in Action: Phillip Kusasa, N’dau Festival of The Arts
When Gavin Porter attended the CCL course, one of the key topics he wanted to address was regarding the lack of diverse voices within the environmental movement, especially from the working class. He feels that, with some key exceptions, diverse voices are not amplified or given platforms to be heard. During CCL he decided that … Read more CCL in Action: Gavin Porter, ‘Who Gives a F About Polar Bears?’
During the Creative Climate Leadership residential it became increasingly evident to Mish that the circus can play a role in confronting climate change. She speaks of how she attempted to make a show about climate change in 1998, but after seeing very little similar work, considered her environmental cares and profession to be relatively separate … Read more CCL in Action: Mish Weaver, Can of Worms