Under 35s, apply now for the EIB Artists Development Programme 2021

The European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute is looking for emerging European artists and collectives to join the 2020 edition of its Artists Development Programme (ADP),a six to eight week residency programme in Luxembourg, under the mentorship of renowned Finnish photographer, Jorma Puranen.

The EIB launched two calls for applicationstargeting visual artists (EU nationals, under 35 years of age) with a thematic focus on:

• Disruption: The Imprint of Man
• Climate Action in the Wake of COVID-19: Build Back Better

APPLY HERE

The deadline for applying is 10 January 2021 at midnight (GMT+1). For more information about the programme visit the EIB website.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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22nd September 2020: This Green Tease event focused on the roles that mapping can have in empowering communities to act on climate change and other environmental issues. The event featured talks from Hannah Clinch (GreenMap) and Danny McKendry (Architecture and Design Scotland) as well as discussion time. 

Attendees of the event included representatives from community groups, environmentally engaged artists and sustainability practitioners, all with a shared interest in making use of mapping to further environmental and social aims.

Presentations

Hannah Clinch’s presentation started with some general issues in mapping:

• How we present maps affects our understanding: where the centre is, what is included, what is excluded
• Maps can be a tool of power or control: whoever makes them determines the content, there may be unequal access to the information contained in them
• Participatory mapping can be a means of reclaiming control or presenting a new way of understanding a place

She then went on to discuss the GreenMap system, an online platform that allows communities to create and share maps of their local area for various purposes, using a wide range of icons. She offered a few examples of how the system had been used, including  a ‘Dear Green Place’ map that collected together information on re-use shops in Glasgow following extensive research by residents.

Hannah recorded her presentation, which is now available to watch here:

Hannah’s presentation was followed by some workshop time explaining how to make use of the open GreenMap system for mapping projects.

Danny McKendry’s presentation focused on a project mapping Edinburgh’s shoreline and the broader issues that this project raised about mapping. The project was organised in connection to the ‘Granton Vision’ for a major new waterfront development. Mapping provided an inviting and unintimidating medium for residents to share their feelings about the local area and engage with plans for its development. Methods included:

• Asking people to pin labels to a map, showing which buildings and places mattered to them and why
• Getting people to write on cards the three things that make their area special to them
• Having people show the ways they usually use to travel around the area, showing the most frequently used routes and the links between places

Danny suggested that in order to build an understanding of a place, good mapping should address three key areas in particular:

• Mapping the things that people really care about, not just what you expect them to care about
• Showing a ‘day in the life of local personas’ to gain an understanding of how people move around and inhabit the place
• Showing a ‘year in the life of the place’ to gain an understanding of how it changes through the seasons

Danny demonstrated this with the example of how a resident’s quality of life had been worsened by the building of a state-of-the-art new school to replace the old one. There was no problem with the building itself, but they were now forced to change from a simple commute to a complex and stressful one; something that had not been foreseen by planners.

You can see the slides from Daniel McKendry’s presentation here

Discussion

These presentations were followed by discussions in small groups, responding to the points raised by the presenters and seeing how they connected to the individual aims of attendees. Some of the main points raised included:

• Less physical forms of mapping focusing on relationships or power can also be useful for developing understanding and presenting information.
• The process of mapping is as important as the result, it provides an opportunity for people to interact and share.
• The ownership and stewardship of maps is important: where they are housed, either online or physically, will affect who is most likely to access and make use of them.
• During coronavirus online mapping could provide a means of retaining a connection with your local area, providing a means of sharing information with others.
• Conversely, online mapping can allow us to be ‘digitally close’ to people in parts of the world that are physically distant from us, allowing the development of understanding and empathy.
• Maps make involvement in decisions accessible to more people through clarity of presentation. One participant talked about how using mapping had allowed young children she worked with to have a voice in the development of their school.
• Digital and physical mapping processes can be combined. We don’t need to choose one or the other.

(Top photo: Layered images of maps and leaves. Text reads: Community Mapping for Environmental Empowerment: Tools, tips, and tricks.)

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Funding opportunities for visual artists and craft makers based in Edinburgh.

The City of Edinburgh Council, in partnership with Creative Scotland, offer funding opportunities to visual artists /craft makers who can demonstrate a commitment to developing their creative practice and are living or working or maintaining a studio space within Edinburgh.

In place of the usual VACMA awards, this year fixed bursaries are available in recognition of the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on individual artists and makers. The scheme acknowledges the limitations placed on individual practices and the opportunities that are currently available. The VACMA scheme offers two levels of bursaries and you should apply for the one that best suits your situation.

• Bursaries of £750

• Bursaries of £500 for new graduates / emerging artists. Applicants must have less than five years’ experience outside of education or training or to have graduated in 2015 or later.

Further information including guidance and equalities monitoring can be found on the Culture Edinburgh website.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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On 27th August we held a Green Arts Online Meetup on the topic “How can the culture sector contribute to a just and green recovery from coronavirus?” 

Almost 30 Green Arts members signed up, demonstrating considerable interest in this subject. Two staff members from Creative Scotland, as well as the Director of Creative Carbon Scotland, attended and contributed ideas.

We started with the fact that the Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Economic Recovery wrote that the culture sector should play a key role in “a recovery that will increase wellbeing, fairness and inclusivity, and make the most of opportunities towards a greener, net-zero society” (p. 2 and p. 52 of their report).

In breakout rooms, attendees considered three questions:

• How can the culture sector help bring about a just and green recovery? (To increase wellbeing and equality, and cut carbon)
• Why should we be involved in the recovery? (Examining potential motivations)
• What are the barriers to the culture sector playing its part? (What do we need?)

Participants’ ideas have been collated on this Miro board. (For those not familiar with Miro, you can zoom in with your trackpad or by scrolling with your mouse, and you can click and drag the screen around to see different areas.)

Two Green Arts members were invited to speak about what their organisations are thinking and doing in this area:

• Tamara van Strijthem of Take One Action Film Festivals suggested we think about how to contribute to a ‘transformation’, rather than a ‘recovery’, as the old normal was not sustainable or socially just. Take One Action have been looking at all the ways they can exert influence to promote sustainability and justice, e.g. through ethical banking and using a website hosting company which is powered by green energy. However, Tamara spoke of her concern that the emotional impact and ability to motivate behaviour change, which is normally inherent in art, is diminished when we can only experience art online, and not as part of a collective experience, at this time.
• Emma Hay of the Edinburgh International Festival spoke about the Edinburgh Festivals’ collective ambition to become net zero by 2030. As part of this, the International Festival are creating an ambitious carbon reduction plan, targeting travel and freight emissions as well as exploring how to adapt to both the climate emergency and the pandemic creatively, through increased offers of online content and local community engagement.

At the end we considered next steps. Several attendees were interested in forming a working group to build on the ideas and shape a collective effort to â€˜build back better’within the culture sector. Many were keen on the idea of a member-developed pledge, which would include a number of actions and principles that Green Arts organisations could sign up to, or could work towards. By agreeing to take action collectively across the culture sector, and by being vocal about it, we could bring about more change than if we all work quietly and individually. This is still in the ideas stage, but Creative Carbon Scotland is consulting with members of the Green Arts Initiative to identify how we can best support the sector in this area, and will soon follow up with attendees who expressed interest. If you are interested in joining a working group on shaping a green recovery – or transformation – within the culture sector, please email: amanda.grimm@creativecarbonscotland.com.

In the meantime, Green Arts members can sign up as supporting organisations to this external Just & Green Recovery Scotland campaign (led by Friends of the Earth Scotland). It is not arts-focused, but they have specifically welcomed support from cultural organisations.

About Green Arts Meetups

Green Arts Meetups are informal online gatherings for staff of Scotland’s arts and culture organisations, each focusing on different aspects of the intersection between culture and environment. Started at the beginning of lockdown, they are a chance for members of the Green Arts Initiative to keep in touch with each other and continue to share green arts skills and knowledge. Please contact amanda.grimm@creativecarbonscotland.com if you have a suggestion for a future meetup topic, or would like to host or co-host a meetup!

The next meetup will be more of an open forum for members to discuss the issues (loosely related to culture and climate) that are most important to them at this time, over a morning coffee or tea. You can register now for the Green Arts Meetup on 22^nd October.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Calling Scotland’s youth workers: sign up for free film-making training so you can support young people to create climate emergency films.

Keep Scotland Beautiful have partnered with Screen Scotland through the Youth Climate Film Project to offer free film-making training for youth workers, so they can support young people to create short films that explore the climate emergency from a young person’s perspective.

Young people in Scotland and across the world have played a significant role in highlighting the climate emergency and in pushing for action.

But not all young people understand the way that climate change will shape their future and many of Scotland’s young people have no voice to share their perspective. Two experienced film educators will provide online film-making training using simple and accessible smartphone and tablet technology.

Following the training, youth workers will support young people in their youth work setting to create and show one or more 90 second films exploring the issue of climate change.

To take part in the film-making training, youth workers must have prior knowledge or awareness of climate change. This could include undertaking relevant training; experience gathered via education, volunteering or work; being aware of climate change impacts; or simply following climate change news.

Film-making training dates for October and November are available to book now. Find out more at www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/youthclimatefilmproject

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Climate Art and Bridgepoint Rye, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust, are delighted to announce a call for applications from artists, creative practitioners, and environmental researchers to work on a site-responsive project during a three-month residency at Bridgepoint Creative Centre in Rye, East Sussex.

Participants are invited to respond to the residency’s theme of transience, outlined below. Each applicant should clearly indicate how, during the three months of the programme, they will engage with the local community and connect with the ecological landscape of Rye.

The opportunity is open to 3 UK-based practitioners, with one space reserved for a Sussex-based participant. The residents will be provided with subsidised accommodation and studio space for the duration of the residency. Each participant will receive a monthly stipend of £500 and a production budget of £2,000.

The residency will take place in January – March 2021. The deadline for applications is 8 November 2020 at 23:59.

The programme – A Vanished Sea (Without a Trace) – has been generously supported by Bridgepoint Rye and the Kowitz Family Foundation.

COVID-19

We are committed to ensuring the safety of all residents, especially during the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. We shall therefore be keeping the programme dates and format under constant review, in line with the latest governmental guidance. At the same time, we believe that now, as never before, the need for the exchange of ideas and community-focused projects is of paramount importance.

ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

The picturesque ruin of Camber Castle lies peacefully amid stretches of marshland over 1.5 km from the coast. It seems hard to believe that the splashing of the sea was once a constant sound here, rather than the bleating of sheep. Built on a shingle spit during Henry VIII’s rule, Camber Castle used to be an elaborate artillery fortification designed to defend the harbour and the towns of Rye and Winchelsea. Less than a hundred years after its completion, however, it was decommissioned – the receding sea left the castle inland, stranded and useless.

During the residency, participants are invited to explore the broad themes of transience, ephemerality and perishability. From species extinction and habitat destruction to the impermanence of our familiar way of life, the discussion of these subjects has already become a part of our everyday conversations as we reflect on the changes forced upon us by the Covid-19 pandemic. Is a more nuanced understanding of transience a cause for resignation or an invitation to transform the relationship between human beings and other species?

The programme – A Vanished Sea (Without a Trace) – will see 3 UK-based practitioners (with one place reserved for a Sussex-based participant) develop their site-responsive projects during a three-month residency at Bridgepoint Creative Centre located in Rye, East Sussex. Residents will also have access to Sussex Wildlife Trust’s sites located in Rye and an opportunity to work with the organisation’s staff and volunteers. Climate Art is a space for resident groups, artists and scientists to come together. Our practice stems from the understanding of public art as a form of meaningful engagement with diverse publics. That is why, at the application stage, all entrants are required to demonstrate a commitment to engagement with the local community, the ecological landscape of the town and its harbour.

Applications are invited from practitioners working in any creative discipline (including, but not limited to, visual arts, architecture, design, performance art, film, dance, music, creative writing and others), as well as environmental-change researchers. Proposals may vary from detailed projects to preliminary ideas. Successful applicants will be expected to demonstrate clearly how they intend to develop their creative or academic work in response to the residency’s theme. While hoping that the three residents will find it inspiring to work alongside each other, Climate Art does not require a collaborative project to be the outcome of the residency.

The residency will run from mid-January to mid-March 2021 (exact dates TBC). Residents will benefit from subsidised accommodation and individual studio space for the duration of the residency. Each artist will receive a monthly stipend of £500 and a production budget of £2,000. We want the participants to make the most of the residency opportunity. It is understood that they may need to continue with some work or study commitments during the programme. We are happy to consider flexible arrangements, hoping that the residents will be in Rye for much of the working week and will take part in open studios and other events as part of the programme.

TO APPLY

To apply for this opportunity, please submit the following:

• A completed application form. This includes a proposal of how you will develop a response to the residency’s theme, taking into consideration the local context and including ways to involve the community (max. 500 words), in Word or PDF format
• A CV of no more than two pages’ length, in Word or PDF format
• (For artists) a portfolio of no more than five pages, including examples of recent work, in Word or PDF format

The closing deadline for applications is 8 November 2020 at 23:59.
Please submit applications by email to info@climateart.org.uk
Interviews will take place in the weeks commencing 16 & 23 November 2020.

SELECTION PANEL

Dzmitry Suslau, Founding Director & Curator, Climate Art
Jevgenija Ravcova, Managing Director, Climate Art
David Kowitz, Founder, Bridgepoint Rye
Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Curator, Architecture Programme, The Royal Academy
Tim Redfern, Artist and Community Activist

KEY DATES

Deadline for applications 8 November 2020 at 23:59.
Interviews w/c 16 & 23 November 2020

ABOUT BRIDGEPOINT RYE

Bridgepoint is a new arts complex located in Rye. It is set in the context of a regeneration project, being undertaken by Martello Developments, which aims to convert a disused industrial part of the historic town into a vibrant campus, including an arts complex as well as housing and commercial activity.

It is intended that the 20,000-square-foot Bridgepoint arts building will encompass artists’ studios, a large performance and rehearsal space, a commercial gallery, as well as other internal and external exhibition spaces.

The primary mission of the project is to provide a well-equipped and safe space for artists in an array of disciplines to contemplate and create, hopefully drawing inspiration from the area’s exceptional history and natural beauty.

Find out more about Bridgepoint Rye.

ABOUT SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST

Sussex Wildlife Trust is a conservation charity for everyone who cares about nature in Sussex. We focus on protecting the wonderfully rich natural life that is found across our towns, countryside and coast.

By working alongside local people, we create opportunities for us all to connect with nature, and for nature to thrive in even the most unlikely places. Together we can make sure that future generations living in Sussex will be able to enjoy the sense of wonder and well-being that nature offers. Sussex Wildlife Trust manages 465-hectare Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, which includes Camber Castle and Castle Water.

Find out more about Sussex Wildlife Trust.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Creative Green Awards for Campaigns and Creative Programming in 2019/2020 are open for applications.

Julie’s Bicycle is a London-based charity that supports environmental action in the creative community. We’re excited to announce the Creative Green Awards 2020, which will be presented during a virtual ceremony on November 13th.

We inaugurated the first Creative Green Awards in 2017 to recognise and honour the achievements of the creative community taking action on climate change. Four years later, still the only environmental awards designed specifically for the creative and cultural sector, we are excited to launch two new awards that will be open for public nominations – Best Campaign and Best Creative Programming.

The two new categories are open to international applicants or programmes, and free to enter. Winners of the two public awards will receive the value of a day’s personalised programme of support, negotiated according to needs, and delivered from across JB’s expert team of consultants.

Best Creative Programming Award
This award recognises the Best Creative Programming that has inspired people to think about climate and environmental issues in a new and creative way.

Best Campaign Award
This award recognises the Best Campaign that successfully inspired and galvanised people to take creative climate action.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 9th October, 2020 at 5pm BST

Visit the submission page on the Julie’s Bicycle website for more information, eligibility criteria and FAQ.

At Julie’s Bicycle we recognise that the imbalances existing within the climate movement mirror environmental inequalities overall. Therefore, we particularly welcome submissions from individuals or organisations from one or more of the following groups: Black, Asian or minority ethnic, refugee, D/deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, working class and LGBTQI+. If you have any questions regarding access requirements, please contact info@juliesbicycle.com or 0208 746 0400.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Tuesday 8th September 2020. This event, organised in collaboration with Climate Art and game designer Matteo Menapace, brought together participants to play an online game, designed to provoke considerations around how to effectively engage with COP26 coming to Glasgow in November 2021.

How the Game Works

The game was played using a set of Google Slides that remain accessible online. To play the game, participants work in groups of 4, coming up with ideas to respond to Challenges submitted in advance of the event. These challenges were concerned with the different goals people might have for COP26 and included:

• How might we inspire and bring about real changes which reduce Scotland’s emissions and have a lasting impact?
• How might we engage local communities in COP?
• How might we develop approaches to collaboration between the arts and civil society that can be replicated in the future?

Each member of the group produces an idea and pitches it to the rest of the group. These ideas aim to fulfil the overall success criteria that determine whether they are ‘winning’ the game:

• Policy Influence: Our ability to affect decisions made as part of the COP negotiations or leverage the presence of COP to affect UK, Scottish, local government or sector policy.
• Public engagement: Our ability to reach and involve members of the public to consider climate change, adopt behavioural shifts, and take steps to change broader society.
• Capacity: Our ability to keep our work around COP26 going, including time, resources, money, and avoiding burnout or negative environmental consequences through our actions.
• Community Building: Our ability to create effective connections and collaborations across a broad array of demographics, sectors and geographies that will yield long-term benefits.

The team votes for their favourite idea and submits it to a ‘Fortune Teller’, which predicts whether the idea is likely to succeed. They then update their ‘success trackers’ to see where they are making progress and where they are struggling. You can watch Matteo’s video about how to play the game below.

What were the outcomes?

Some of the favourite ideas presented were:

• How might we challenge the transport industries to go greener via the arts? Installations in heavily congested areas of detectors that would emit sounds of various kinds in response to high pollution levels.
• How might we make sure that different practitioners and organisations are aware of each other’s plans? Collaborate with a web designer and SEO experts to create a catalogue of activity which is easy to navigate and has clear and distinct criteria. People can also post things they need, resources/expertise etc and people can nominate themselves to contribute.
• How might we learn about nature based solutions from skilled practitioners of contemporary arts and crafts around the globe? Set up pairings bringing together Scottish based craftspeople with craftspeople based in areas on the frontlines of climate change. These pairings communicate via online platforms and produce work in dialogue, responding to sustainable making advice that they offer each other. These will be exhibited in the lead-up to COP26 in Glasgow.
• How might we challenge the transport industries to go greener via the arts?Workshops and events with artists addressing green issues held on board public transport (such as train carriages) travelling to Glasgow that is ‘commissioned’. Report the impact to transport companies.

Each team played a few rounds of the game, coming up with new ideas to tackle new challenges and continually updating their progress on the ‘success trackers’. We then came back together to discuss our experiences and share our favourite ideas. Some thoughts that emerged from the discussion were:

• Capacity was the criterion that all teams struggled with the most as actions that advanced the other aims tended to reduce our capacity. Teams found that in later rounds they had to focus more on developing ideas that would regenerate or sustain their capacity.
• People from differing backgrounds had highly contrasting ideas of what constituted effective ‘policy influence’ or ‘public engagement’. It was commented that this discussion alone could form a whole day event.
• A number of participants said that they would like for there to be more spaces to discuss and develop the ideas that they came up with as part of the game and that there should be more opportunities for this kind of discussion.

The workshop was run on a participatory document/slideshow that remains accessible online. You can explore the slides to see more ideas and feedback that came up during the event.

Next Steps

You can find out more about our co-organisers at:

• https://climateart.org.uk/
• https://ma.tteo.me/

Further resources for planning for COP26:

• Creative Carbon Scotland’s Guide to COP26and History of Arts and Culture at COPs
• The UK COP26 website provides official information and is where their call for proposals for the ‘Green Space’ at COP26 will likely be published.
• The Climate Fringe website is a space to share civil society action of all kinds leading up to COP26.
• The COP26 Coalition website is the public face of the coalition of civil society organisation planning ‘unofficial’ responses to COP. They also have a ‘Culture’ working group who hold regular meetings and communicate via a Slack workspace.
• Get Ready Glasgow website provides information and opportunities specific to the city from Glasgow Council

If you are reading this before the 12^th of October 2020, you can come along for some more discussion about COP26 at the October Green Tease Online Meetup.

For more information or guidance on COP26, please get in touch with lewis.coenen-rowe@creativecarbonscotland.com.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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18th August 2020. This Green Tease event took place online as part of Just Festival’s digital programme and was created by Jo Hodges, Robbie Coleman, and Dr Michael Bonaventura with the support of Creative Carbon Scotland. 

It sought to provide a space for participants to consider issues of environmental justice and collectively imagine what Scotland could look like over the coming decades. This was an online version of the ongoing Museums of the FutureNow project.

Ahead of the event, selected participants were sent ‘exhibits’, including a vial of liquid, a fragment of computer hardware and a piece of rusted wire. These arrived in sealed bags, accompanied by gloves for handling the object and information about the future year they came from and the policy area they related to.

At the event itself, participants split into groups, each of which discussed one exhibit and developed a story to explain its significance and why it had been included in the museum. These stories were then shared back with everyone else. The stories participants came up with included:

• The grassroots move in the 2040s to democratise energy from nuclear fusion and make it equally accessible to all
• How migrants were forced northwards due to climate change, leading to protests over the unequal distribution of land in Scotland
• The 2030 ‘year without midges’ and the guerrilla campaign to prevent Scotland’s midges from going extinct and save the food chain

The telling of these stories led into further discussion about issues of environmental justice including:

• When we speak of justice, do we use this to refer to humans or should it be expanded to include other animals and issues of ‘ecocide’?
• Many of our stories placed the agency for change in the hands of communities and grassroots campaigns rather than policy makers. Did we think that this is the way that change is most likely to happen?
• It was commented that the stories told were generally more optimistic in character than those told at previous ‘Climate Futures’ events held as part of The Museums of the FutureNow. Was this related to the emphasis on justice?

The event concluded with some questions and reflections on the Museums of the FutureNow format and how it had been developed. Many participants expressed interest in keeping in touch with each other for future conversations.

Green Tease

Green Tease is a network and ongoing informal events programme, connecting creative practices and environmental sustainability across Scotland.  Creative Carbon Scotland runs the Green Tease Open Call, which is a funded opportunity supporting sustainability practitioners and artists to exchange ideas, knowledge and practices with the aim of building connections and widening understanding of the role of arts in influencing a more sustainable society.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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One Planet Forth Valley is a Scottish Government, Climate Challenge Fund project led by the Central Scotland Regional Equality Council based in Falkirk. 

We would like to invite you to come along to our free online discussion next week the 17th of September between 3pm and 4pm to discuss the topic, â€˜Net Zero’ and how Scotland can get there!

We hope to see you there and hear your views on this. Please let us know if you would like to be sent the zoom link to access the workshop!

For more information, please contact Christine, project officer, One Planet Forth Valley

You can find out more on the following websites and social media:

• csrec.org.uk
• Facebook.com/OnePlanetForthValley
• Twitter.com/OnePlanetFV
• oneplanetforthvalley.org.uk

The post Opportunity: One Planet Forth Valley online discussion appeared first on Creative Carbon Scotland.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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