Join Artichoke Dance Company and Global Water Dances to learn “The Story of Water”
Saturday, June 3, 2023 – 5:00 PM Thursday, June 8, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Locomotive Lawn Riverside ParkHudson River Greenway &, W 62nd StNew York, NY 10069United States (map)
“THE STORY OF WATER” IS A DANCE BEING PERFORMED AROUND THE GLOBE ON JUNE 10.
Join us June 3rd and/or June 8th from 5 – 7 PM on the Locomotive Lawn in Riverside Park. These workshops are free and open to movers of all backgrounds.
Have you ever thought about how to bring an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral practice to your work? Have you ever been interested in engaging meaningfully with professionals from another sector to learn from each other and address global challenges?
The Global Cultural Relations Programme (GCRP), the Cultural Relations Platform’s flagship training programme, is a unique opportunity that brings together practitioners from around the world to create meaningful connections and discuss cross-cultural collaborations. We’re announcing a shift in focus for the upcoming edition of GCRP. The past editions were tailored for cultural and creative professionals. For the 2023 edition of GCRP, the Cultural Relations Platform opens the programme also to participants working in the field of climate change and environmental issues.
Apply now for the opportunity to develop lifelong skills, increase your knowledge, build your international network, and engage in interdisciplinary cross-cultural collaboration.
This year the GCRP will take place in Madrid, Spain from 10 – 13 October 2023. The programme will be conducted in English.
Who can take part in the GCRP?
Cultural and creative sector professionals * This includes but is not limited to:
Architecture
Audiovisual & Cinema
Books & Publishing
Cultural heritage
Cultural management
Design
Media
Music
Performing arts
Visual arts
Professionals working in the field of climate change and environmental issues * This includes but is not limited to:
Circular economy
Climate & health
Climate adaptation
Climate charities, campaigns & activist groups
Climate finance
Climate heritage
Climate justice
Climate law & policy
Climate mitigation
Environmental engineering
Geography (physical, human, environmental)
Indigenous groups & stewards of community-owned heritage
Loss and damage
Sustainable food systems
Why take part in the GCRP?
Build your skills in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations through a carefully designed, innovative, and interactive learning programme
Network and collaborate with professionals from around the world, facing similar challenges and opportunities
Connect with young practitioners and change-makers working in the field of culture or in climate change to engage in peer-to-peer learning
Engage in in-depth discussions on the intersectionality of culture and climate change and environmental issues to identify strengths in bringing together the two sectors for potential future collaborations
Join the Cultural Relations Platform’s community of 220 GCRP alumni on a long-term basis.
Who are we looking for?
The Cultural Relations Platform is looking for 40 professionals and entrepreneurs working in the cultural and creative sectors OR in climate change and environmental issues. We give high priority to participants working in either of these two sectors.
You should be aged 25-39, with at least three years’ experience in international/cross-cultural collaboration.
You could work for a public, private or civil society organisation, or be a freelancer.
You will need to be able to commit to the programme throughout its duration from 10-13 October 2023 and allow time for travel to and from Madrid.
Find out more
Watch former participants talk about their experience in this video
Early to mid-July: Selected participants are informed via email
September: Selected participants are announced online
Monday 9 October: Participants arrive in Madrid
Tuesday 10 October – Friday 13 October: Four full days of programming
Saturday 14 October: Participants departure from Madrid
How to apply
Find out more and apply HERE by midnight Central European Summer Time (CEST), Sunday 28 May 2023.
The read-only application form is also available to download in PDF here. Applications will only be accepted if submitted via the link above.
The application form must be completed in English. Applications submitted in another language will not be considered. Applications from those not working in the cultural and creative sectors or in climate change and environmental issues will not be considered.
The Cultural Relations Platform remains committed to providing accessible services and support to people with disabilities and reduced mobility (including accessible venue and accommodation selection, travel-related requirements) as well as for access requirements for programme participation (such as hearing or visual support and adaptations for neurodiversity).
A program for artists to become creatively active in countering climate change.
This week long intensive immerses you in art making, activism strategies, environmental justice principles, place based approaches, partnership and community building.
The Artichoke Ambassadors program symbiotically aligns environmentally conscious art making with climate and environmental justice action at collective and individual levels. This educational and mentorship program guides people to become creatively active in climate change, merging arts and activism practices. All artistic mediums are welcome.
Program aims:
To cultivate and stimulate thinking, development and action at the intersection of art and climate, and to aid people in their desire to merge the two
To encourage and enable young artists to use both their artmaking and their connections to audiences to influence cultural shifts combating climate change.
To inspire motivation to create and share compelling works of art addressing climate change and provide tools to do so.
To address the largest challenge of our time with creativity, innovation, and involvement.
To encourage and enable people to take action with confidence.
To foster creative capacities, artistic skill and communication clarity.
To build future leaders in arts activism.
To build a network of sustainability and strength for this work.
SUMMER 2023 IN PERSON INTENSIVE:
JUNE 12-17, 2023 | 10AM-6PM DAILY
AT MERCURY STORE IN GOWANUS, BROOKLYN (131 EIGHTH STREET)
To claim your spot in the program, please register by completing the google form linked below. Your registration will not be confirmed until you have sent payment of $650. Payment details are listed in the registration form.
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The Carnival of Algorithmic Culture will bring together researchers, artists, activists, technologists, and community members for two days of workshops, talks, exhibitions, and interactive activities in Toronto to explore the impacts of artificial intelligence on the culture we create and the cultural products to which we have access.
Featuring performances, installations, talks, and workshops to soon be announced.
WHEN: June 23rd and 24th at both Artscape Launchpad and body shop studio on Geary
As part of Alberta Ecotrust Foundation’s work in the area of energy poverty, we are working with our Artist in Residence, Shumaila Hemani, to explore energy poverty through artistic practice. We are so excited to invite you to Shumaila Hemani’s workshop series: Energy Matters. These series of three workshops aim to create a dialogue about energy accessibility.
As a person who cares deeply about energy affordability and is eager to find more creative ways to make a change in your community, we invite you to become part of a collaborative process that harnesses the power of art to move others to action toward energy justice. In these fun and engaging workshops, you will have an opportunity to step back and explore how energy relates to you, your community, and your vision for the future.
If you are interested in attending, please email Shumaila Hemani (cc-ed here: shumaila.hemani@gmail.com) with your expression of interest, including the following information:
i) Name
ii) Position within the Organization
iii) Your Role in Addressing Energy Poverty
iv) A sentence or two about your interest in the workshop
Organizations are welcome to send more than one participant, so please feel free to share this opportunity with your colleagues. Exact workshop schedule will be determined by a Doodle Poll sent to interested participants.
The present series that will be held in May is supported by the Trico Changemakers residency and ICASC residency. Energy Matters Creative Workshops would not be possible without the generous support of these organizations.
If your organization are interested in supporting future Energy Matters workshops, please reach out to Shumaila (shumaila.hemani@gmail.com).
Climate change poses challenges that are more severe and complex than anticipated, and existing systems and ways of thinking are poorly equipped to manage them. Finding new ways to collaborate, experiment, plan and shift the paradigm of climate emergency engagement and disaster resilience is an urgent matter. At the same time, the climate emergency presents the greatest threat to the arts and culture ecosystem. As practitioners, we are in a critical time that calls for us to reconsider how we might reorient our practices, bolster our capacities and voices to adapt to the challenges ahead, and how to untether from conventional ways of working within and across institutional structures.
Join us on June 1st for an inspiring talk with Dr Jen Rae, where she will share experiences and lessons learned through Art House’s REFUGE – a multi-year transdisciplinary project exploring the role of artists and cultural institutions in times of climate catastrophe through multifaceted, context-specific disaster exercises.
This event will be held in English.
About the speaker
Dr Jen Rae is an award-winning artist-researcher of Métis and Scottish descent living on unceded Djaara Country, north of Melbourne, Australia. Her research-creation expertise is in the discursive field of contemporary environmental art and arts-based environmental communication. It is centered around cultural responses to climate change/emergency (a.k.a. ‘everything change’*), specifically the role of artists. Her work is engaged in discourses around food justice, disaster resilience and speculative futures predominantly articulated through transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies and community alliances. Jen creates and contributes to experimental multi-platform collaborative projects, including being a core artist of Arts House’s multi-year REFUGE project (2016-2022) – where artists, emergency service providers and communities work together to rehearse climate related emergencies and explore the impact of creativity in disaster preparedness. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Reworlding (C∞R), a collective of Indigenous, people of colour, settler and LGBTIQA2S+ artists, scientists, thinkers and change-makers with a track record of collaboratively working at the intersections of art, the climate emergency leadership, speculative futures and disaster resilience.
Through their Creative Resilience Lab, events, workshops and projects the C∞R aims to bolster inclusive collaboration and creative leadership in climate emergency response and action. Jen is also a board member of the International Environmental Communication Association and the Creative Recovery Network (AUS).
Le changement climatique pose des défis plus graves et plus complexes que prévu, et les systèmes et modes de pensée existants sont mal équipés pour les gérer. Il est urgent de trouver de nouveaux moyens de collaborer, d’expérimenter, de planifier et de modifier le paradigme de l’engagement dans les situations d’urgence climatique et de la résilience aux catastrophes. Dans le même temps, l’urgence climatique représente la plus grande menace pour l’écosystème des arts et de la culture. En tant que praticiens, nous vivons une période critique qui nous appelle à reconsidérer la manière dont nous pouvons réorienter nos pratiques, renforcer nos capacités et nos voix pour nous adapter aux défis à venir, et comment nous détacher des méthodes conventionnelles de travail au sein et à travers les structures institutionnelles.
Rejoignez-nous le 1er juin pour une conférence inspirante de Dr. Jen Rae, au cours de laquelle elle partagera les expériences et les leçons tirées d’Art House’s REFUGE – un projet transdisciplinaire pluriannuel explorant le rôle des artistes et des institutions culturelles en période de catastrophe climatique par le biais d’exercices de désastre à multiples facettes et spécifiques au contexte.
Cet événement se déroulera en anglais.
À propos de l’orateur
Dr. Jen Rae est une artiste-chercheuse primée, d’origine métisse et écossaise, qui vit dans la région non cédée de Djaara, au nord de Melbourne, en Australie. Son expertise en matière de recherche-création se situe dans le domaine discursif de l’art environnemental contemporain et de la communication environnementale basée sur l’art. Elle se concentre sur les réponses culturelles au changement climatique/à l’urgence (alias “tout changement “*), et plus particulièrement sur le rôle des artistes. Son travail est engagé dans des discours sur la justice alimentaire, la résilience aux catastrophes et les futurs spéculatifs, principalement articulés à travers des méthodologies collaboratives transdisciplinaires et des alliances communautaires. Jen crée et contribue à des projets expérimentaux de collaboration multiplateforme, notamment en tant qu’artiste principale du projet pluriannuel REFUGE d’Arts House (2016-2022) – où les artistes, les fournisseurs de services d’urgence et les communautés travaillent ensemble pour répéter les urgences liées au climat et explorer l’impact de la créativité dans la préparation aux catastrophes. Elle est cofondatrice du Centre for Reworlding (C∞R), un collectif d’artistes autochtones, de personnes de couleur, de colons et de LGBTIQA2S+, de scientifiques, de penseurs et d’acteurs du changement ayant une expérience de travail collaboratif aux intersections de l’art, du leadership en matière d’urgence climatique, des futurs spéculatifs et de la résilience aux catastrophes.
Grâce à son laboratoire de résilience créative, ses événements, ses ateliers et ses projets, le C∞R vise à renforcer la collaboration inclusive et le leadership créatif dans la réponse et l’action en matière d’urgence climatique. Jen est également membre du conseil d’administration de l’International Environmental Communication Association et du Creative Recovery Network (AUS).
This initiative is the first phase of the Indigenous Water Allyship, a meaningful partnership between the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), the One Drop Foundation and partners from the private sector to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities in Canada by helping to improve living conditions and health through water and art.
The Indigenous Water Allyship is co-designed and implemented with, by and for First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth and their communities from 2023 to 2030.
Its first phase, led by CIER, empowers Indigenous youth to express their voice and vision around water-related challenges through art and community-based approaches. The second phase is to develop a long-term program to improve living conditions and health in First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities in Canada through increased knowledge, leadership, and equitable access to safe water.
Are you interested in collaborating with Indigenous Youth to co-create impactful social art that promotes the significance of water? Are you open to exploring innovative collaborative efforts to challenge the current state of water issues in Canada, particularly those that disproportionately affect Indigenous communities?
The Indigenous Youth, Art and Water Initiative offers technical assistance and financial support of up to $50,000 for organizations interested or actively engaged in social art projects addressing water issues by Indigenous communities and collaborators.
For more information on this opportunity please contact:
Are you considering organizing an event for Climate Change Theatre Action 2023? Whether you have participated in CCTA before or are planning your first event, join us for the CCTA 2023 Virtual Meet-Up! Hear about the project, learn from previous participants, and get a chance to ask questions.
The Meet-Up will be hosted by Chantal Bilodeau and Julia Levine from the Arts & Climate Initiative, and Ian Garrett from the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts. Three previous organizers – Nassim Balestrini (Austria), Shana Bestock (U.S.), and Clare Preuss (Canada) – will present about their 2021 event, and discuss what worked and what didn’t.
Saturday, May 20 9:00 am Pacific / 12:00 pm Eastern Online
“What happens when you’re told there’s only 12 years and it’s the 11th hour?”
12: an urgent love story between generations – and towards the planet we share.
12 is not blame, nor is it despair. A unique collision of numbers & truth, outrage & humor, and resilience & frailty, 12 is a theatrical invitation led by youth to stop, listen, and question what it means to take action together at the 11th hour.
WHEN | Thursday May 4 @ 7pm, Friday, May 5th @ 12pm (school matinee) and 7pm, Saturday May 6 @ 2pm and 7pm
WHO | Recommended for Ages 8+: all generations in one space, one time
WHERE | Irving Greenberg Theatre at GCTC (1233 Wellington Street, Ottawa)
TICKETS | Pick Your Price tickets: $8, $15, $20 | Proceeds support future professional theatre in collaboration with youth!
There will be a Visual Art Exhibit, Footsteps through 12, in the GCTC’s Fitzi Gallery that showcases the art of youth in response to climate change and the building 12 since 2018.
MORE!12 includes a digital “Toolbox” for the general public and for educators/students to reflect on 12, dig deeper into its content and creators, and make real world connections to both lives and school curriculum.
ACCESSIBILITY | ASL interpretation will be provided for the 12pm Friday and 2pm Saturday matinees.
We are thrilled to share our theme for Climate Change Theatre Action 2023, “All Good Things Must Begin,” inspired by the journal entry of American science fiction writer Octavia Butler. Butler was incredibly prescient, writing about extremism, racial justice, and climate change some 30 years ago. By setting intentions and visualizing a positive outcome, she defied the odds and became the author of many celebrated novels, winning each of science fiction’s highest honors.
While the worlds of her novels depict the violent challenges of today’s interlocking crises, her protagonists remain devoted to thriving, to achieving survival beyond the destructive and oppressive societies they come from. The climate crisis demands the same kind of imaginative leap: we will create a just and regenerative world only if we dare to imagine it first, and use that vision to guide us through the difficulties.
We hope you will get involved by organizing an event in your community using one or several plays from our collection of 50 plays.
Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide festival of short plays about the climate crisis presented in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts. CCTA 2023 runs from September 17 to December 23, 2023.
