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MAIA

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An artist-led social justice organisation using culture and Black thought as catalysts to develop regenerative, community-centred cultural spaces.

PTown Bay MMXXX

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An interactive game from artist Hwa Young Jung, co-produced with young people at risk of entering and experiencing the criminal justice system. A Season for Change commission.

Future scenarios

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A multi-platform project by Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping documenting climate change vulnerability, and imagining solutions and future scenarios.

Displacement journeys

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A collaborative art project supporting the Platform on Disaster Displacement, cultivating artistic responses to climate and disaster displacement.

Loss and Damage Collaboration

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An interdisciplinary group of practitioners, researchers, activists, and decision makers working to ensure that vulnerable countries have the support they need to address climate change related loss and damage.

The Callan Energy Store

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A playful, interactive space looking at the possibilities of community owned energy production.

Neighbourhood Doughnut

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An experimental project from Civic Square and DEAL, using 'Doughnut economics' principles to support an equitable transition to more regenerative neighbourhoods.

Barranquilla +20

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A Colombian youth-led NGO focused on climate policy through advocacy, music and culture, mobilisations, and education. They feature in the JB Creative Climate Film series.

Wang Chau Village: (Non) Indigenous wisdom amidst eviction

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An online paper and zine from artist Michael Leung detailing land injustice and dispossession in the Hong Kong village of Wang Chau.

Fog Everywhere

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A Camden People’s Theatre production exploring air pollution in London, made by and with local young people

Black2Nature

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Black2Nature, created by teen birder Mya-Rose Craig seeks to close the access gap for people of colour in the UK with the countryside, providing support and educational resources about nature.

Timespan

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Timespan, a gallery in Helmsdale, Scotland uses digital technology to track the history of the village and landscape surrounding the gallery, connecting those histories to Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade and environmental destruction in the Highlands.

D6: Culture in Transit

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In 2017, D6: Culture in Transit commissioned artist Henna Asikainen to work with migrant communities in the North East of England on a series called Forage, helping displaced people to connect with the new ecologies and landscapes they are in, beyond the urban centres they are asked to inhabit.

Common Ground

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A round up from our event Common Ground: Culture, Climate and Social Justice.

Diversity and Climate Art: (New) Narratives on the Climate Story

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A series of interviews with artists and climate activists, from Creative Climate Leadership participant Harpreet Kaur.

Counterpoints Arts

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Helping to profile, support and produce art work of all types by and about refugees and migrants, advocating for social change. Dijana Rakovic is a project manager on the team and an alumni of Creative Climate Leadership.

The Ella Roberta Family Foundation

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A foundation raising awareness of the dangers of air pollution and campaigning for better air quality in cities. In memory of Ella Kissi-Debrah, a child who died from asthma exacerbated by pollution in London.

Drill Minister - Ecocide

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An activist, wordsmith and artist, Drill Minister speaks out about environmental issues and realities of London life. His Season for Change commission Eco-Cide explores the British public's perception of the climate crisis.

May Project Gardens

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May Project Gardens is a grassroots, social change organisation which uses nature, food and the creative arts to empower marginalised groups to address poverty, disempowerment, access to resources and influence.

Worm: Art + Ecology

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Worm: Art + Ecology is a growing online global community and curatorial project by Angela YT Chan, communicating intersectional climate change issues through creative practices.

Season for Change

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Check out the nation wide commissions from Season for Change, with a particular focus on participatory works and underserved communities

The Principles of Environmental Justice

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The Principles of Environmental Justice were developed by delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held in Washington DC, in 1991. They are a defining set of guidelines for the environmental justice movement.

No Environmentalism in a Silo: What it Means to Talk About Race in our Climate Crisis

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Yingbi Lee, one of the producers of The Colour Green podcast shares her reflections on why talking about race is crucial when considering social and climate justice.

Intersectional Environmentalist

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A platform for resources and information to support an intersectional approach to environmentalism.

Global Witness

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An organisation campaigning to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

Stop Ecocide

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This campaign aims to make Ecocide - the mass damage or destruction of ecosystems - a crime under international law.

Fashion Revolution

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Fashion is one of the most polluting industries globally. Fashion Revolution, founded in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, campaigns for a clean, safe, fair, transparent and accountable fashion industry. Environmental protection and circularity are key principles in their organisational manifesto.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Ken Saro-Wiwa was a writer, television presenter and environmental activist. He was killed, along with 8 others for protesting Royal Dutch Shell's oil extraction in his native Ogoniland. The activists are collectively known as the Ogoni 9.

Trash Academy

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Trash Academy is a project from Creative Climate Leadership participant Ron Whyte, working with young people to reclaim public and private spaces from effects of trash and pollution in Philadelphia. Find out more in his Creative Climate Chat with Julie's Bicycle.

N'dau Festival of the Arts

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Creative Climate Leadership participant Phillip Kusasa, founder of the N'dau Festival of the Arts celebrates his Indigenous culture through dance and performance, documenting environmental knowledge held in N'dau stories. This was developed into workshops and policy recommendations.

Ketemu Projects

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Ketemu Projects is an artist collective based in Indonesia and Singapore, led by Creative Climate Leadership alumn Budi Agung Kuswara. Their 'Kekasih Hati Sang Bumi' project connected young people with traditional local knowledges and expressions of gratitude with nature.

The Green Belt Movement

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Founded by Professor Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement empowers communities, particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods in Kenya.

Pacific Climate Warriors

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A youth-led direct action group taking on Australia's fossil fuel industry

Hip Hop Caucus

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Hip Hop Caucus tackles environmental injustice by empowering Black communities in the USA to engage in the democratic process

Cecilia Vicuña

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A Chilean poet, artist, filmmaker and activist whose work explores climate change, decolonisation, and the relationship between humans and the environment

Artivism Hour

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An advocacy campaign from Surge Africa bringing together six artists from across Nigeria to explore climate change impacts

Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness

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Indian artist led organisation Khoj staged Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness, a hearing before a Commission of Inquiry using art to consider how to measure ecological loss, premising art as valid evidence.

Land In Our Names

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LION is a Black-led, grassroots collective committed to reparative justice in Britain by securing land for BPOC (Black people and People of Colour). They use events, video, photography and podcasts to build an ecosystem of BPOC stewards committed to the land.

adrienne maree brown

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A writer who explores Pleasure Activism, radical acts of love, science fiction and transformative justice. Adrienne is also a writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute and co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.

Apocalypse Reading Room

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A library curated by The Colour Green podcast guest Ama Josephine Budge. Part of Season For Change, selected guests are invited to read a section of their "apocalypse survival guide" from their favourite reading rooms, and then share a provocation for the audience. Listen to her episode on The Colour Green podcast.

Squirrel Nation

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Installations and live events in public spaces which create memorable experiences and concepts that consider co-existence as an ethic.

Jackson Cooperative

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Jackson Cooperative aim to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.

Union of Justice

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A European, independent, people of colour (POC) led organisation dedicated to racial justice and climate justice, founded by former MEP Magid Magid.

The International Rights of Nature Tribunal

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Created by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, it aims to create a forum for people from all around the world to speak on behalf of nature, to protest the destruction of the Earth and to make recommendations about Earth’s protection and restoration.

Fridays For Future

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An international campaign started by Greta Thunberg, fighting to create a future for all by overcoming the climate and ecological crisis.

Sustained Ability

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A network of disability climate activists whose goal is for disabled people to be heard in climate negotiations and in social climate movements.

Refuge: Art Meets Emergency

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Since 2016 Refuge has brought together people who might not normally collaborate in a crisis – local residents, artists, scientists, Elders and experts from the world of emergency services to explore new ways of shaping responses to climate impacts.

Can I Live?

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Why don't we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun asks this urgent question and offers an invitation in Can I Live?, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times.

Immersion

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Selina Thompson and an intergenerational group of women of colour from Tower Hamlets explore democratic participation and the effects of climate change locally.

CeCe's Speakeasy

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CeCe's Speakeasy is an immersive music and poetry experience exploring how climate injustice manifests through coffee and chocolate production.

The Space Between

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A series of interactive and participatory commissions imagining climate, community, and collaboration in Leeds.

Climate Exploration Cookbook - Ling Tan

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Ling Tan works with Chinese Londoners to explore the climate crisis through food culture, cooking and eating habits.

Airs Of The South Circular

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A recorded EP, visual trailer, pamphlet and comic from Love Ssega about the tragic effects of air pollution in the South Circular and London boroughs of Lewisham and Southwark.

Roma: Recycle - Reuse - Reimagine

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Season commission Recycle-Reuse-Reimagine from Rosa Cisneros inspired young people and their families through a series of educational activities and art workshops in South Yorkshire on the importance of both Roma history and recycling.

The Dream(ing) Field Lab

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Season for Change commission, The Dream(ing) Field Lab weaves together acts of rest, ritual, care, creation and celebration offering a space for women and femmes of the African diaspora to re-vision their relationship with land in the context of climate breakdown.

-image credit: Flannery Miller