Creative Carbon Scotland is working with Connecting Threads and CABN – Creative Arts Business Network, and other organisations across Scotland to deliver a series of local assemblies for creative climate action. SPRINGBOARD brings together artists, cultural and sustainability organisations, climate workers, activists, local businesses, third-sector organisations and anyone interested in collaborating to form powerful local networks for creative climate action. Local assemblies are an opportunity to connect with other practitioners in your region to address climate change collectively.
DETAILS
Date: 19 October
Time: 12:00pm – 5:00pm BST
Event Category: SPRINGBOARD
At the Borders assembly, Creative Carbon Scotland and Abundant Borders will lead practical workshops, ending the afternoon with a discussion about where we take the network next to deliver creative climate action. Everyone can sign up for two workshops. These local assemblies are for anyone working or volunteering in the climate or environmental sector, the arts, screen, creative industries, museums, heritage, and libraries. Other local assemblies have taken place or are planned.
Programme:
12.00: Join us for lunch. Soup and a roll from Cafe Recharge and good pre-workshop chat will be provided.
12.30: Introduction on influencing and collaboration.The session will start with a shared introduction to how the creative sector can influence society on climate change, and share key-concepts for good collaboration practice and climate justice.
2.00: session 1
Option 1: Climate justice and arts & culture
Climate justice and arts & culture – with focus on land ownership in the Borders. Climate justice is a way of understanding how climate change results from and exacerbates existing inequalities and injustices as well as how climate action can help create a fairer world. Creative Carbon Scotland will be sharing our own research into how climate justice thinking is relevant to the arts and culture sector in Scotland. The workshop will focus on questions around community ownership, and the role of culture in supporting powerful forces of change.
Option 2: Land(ings)
With Claire Pencak / Abundant Borders
Community food gardens are sites for growing and nourishing community cohesion, multi-species collaboration and regenerative cultural practices. In working with plants, we are given access to their roots and to the community of soil. They take us down with them into the earth, opening up ways for us to become more earthly in our bodies, lives and communities.
Drawing on her experience as the Abundant Borders’ project worker for Duns Community Food Garden and her somatic movement practice, Claire Pençak will invite us to reflect together, through sensory and embodied activities, on how food growing offers regenerative processes and metaphors that can transform our relationship to land and to ourselves. What new provocations and languaging might emerge as we spend time together in the company of plants making comfrey fertilisers (dynamic accumulators) and tasting fresh herbal teas? How might ‘composting the ego’ nourish ecological relationships and support us to dwell more sensitively with the earth?
3.00: Break and mapping activity
3.20: Session 2
Option1: Arts and environmental collaboration on climate change
Collaboration between the arts and environmental sectors can create diverse opportunities for more effective action on climate change. This session will explore the ways that these fields can benefit from collaboration, offer examples of what has been achieved in the past and explore the practical steps needed to make collaborative projects a success. The session will end with an opportunity to consider what a collaborative climate change project would look like for you.
Option 2: Land(ings)
With Claire Pençak / Abundant Borders
Community food gardens are sites for growing and nourishing community cohesion, multi-species collaboration and regenerative cultural practices. In working with plants, we are given access to their roots and to the community of soil. They take us down with them into the earth, opening up ways for us to become more earthly in our bodies, lives and communities.
Options throughout the day
Swap Shop
CABN will be running a swap shop at this event. It is a free and local exchange where creatives can pass on things (e.g. materials, sheet music, paint, fabric) they no longer want, in exchange for something they need – a cashless bring-and-buy sale! For more details, check our website: https://www.cabn.info/2022/12/cabn-swap-shop-manifest-2022/
Project sharing table
If you have a project you want to share please bring materials for it to put on the project-sharing table. I.e. publication, flyers, art objects.
Mapping of creative climate action in the Borders
We will bring a big map of the Borders and ask you to pin down any relevant creative climate projects you know!
Travel bursaries
CABN have an access fund to support travel expenses to the event if you’re a creative based in the Scottish Borders. Email Julia & Jessie – hello@cabn.info for more info.
Accessibility
Everyone is welcome at our events.
We know that it’s sometimes difficult for everyone to attend because of unintended barriers. We want to make any necessary adjustments to our events so that no one is excluded. St Boswells Village Hall is fully accessible, with disabled toilets and wheelchair access. Please inform us of accessibility requirements during the registration process or get in touch by email if you would like to provide more information or ask any questions. Please contact maja.rimer@creativecarbonscotland.com at least one week before the event if you would like to provide more information or ask any questions.
Please see our Safe Working Spaces Statement for more information.
Getting there
Bus times for the venue: Get the number 68 from Galashiels Transport Interchange at 11.30, arriving at St Boswells Bus Stand @ 12.17 or coming from Jedburgh Bus Station at 11.49 & arriving at St Boswells Bus Stand @ 12.17.
You will be asked some questions as you sign up. We are collecting this data so we can understand the needs of those attending the event, share follow-up information and plan future SPRINGBOARD collaborations. We ask for travel information so we can assess the carbon impact of our events.
(Top image: Alt text: Black background with SPRINGBOARD logo. Text above reads ‘Creative Carbon Scotland in partnership with CABN and Connecting Threads while text below the logo reads ‘Climate needs arts and culture now’ ‘Join our local assemblies’.)