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Update your organization’s profile!

Help us out! We’ve made some updates to the CG Tools platform to offer you better support based on your region, and we need to know which province or territory you’re in!

Please take a moment to update your province in your organization’s profile.

Just sign in to your account, and you’ll see a banner on the home page guiding you to update your profile. Alternatively, you can go directly to your organization’s profile to make the update.

Sign in here: https://lnkd.in/eSKnGi3j

As a thank you, you’ll be entered into a raffle to win a collection of short climate plays from Climate Change Theatre Action, donated by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.

After updating your profile, please email Adriana Gonzalez at adriana@sustainablepractice.org to confirm your entry in the raffle.

Your support is greatly appreciated!

Deadline to participate: September 4th
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Aidez-nous! Nous avons apporté des mises à jour à la plateforme des outils CG afin de vous offrir un meilleur soutien en fonction de votre région. Nous avons donc besoin de connaître votre province ou territoire!

Veuillez prendre un moment pour mettre à jour votre province dans le profil de votre organisation.

Connectez-vous simplement à votre compte, et vous verrez une bannière sur la page d’accueil qui vous guidera pour mettre à jour votre profil. Vous pouvez également accéder directement à votre profil pour effectuer la mise à jour.

En guise de remerciement, vous serez inscrit au tirage au sort pour gagner une collection de pièces courtes sur le climat de Climate Change Theatre Action, offertes par le Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.

Après avoir mis à jour votre profil, veuillez envoyer un courriel à Adriana Gonzalez à adriana@sustainablepractice.org pour confirmer votre participation au tirage au sort.

Votre soutien est grandement apprécié!

Connection to Protection by Sandra Lamouche is out!


The course explores Indigenous land-based wisdom especially in reference to the body and Indigenous rights.

You will consider, how have the stories I have been told about the land influenced me? What kind of stories do I need less/more of?

Upon deepening our connection with the land, we will develop a passion for caring for and protecting the land. This connection becomes our reason why we do this work, it comes from a place of love and care.

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Randy Morin: Indigenous today, sustainable tomorrow

How can knowledge within nêhiyawêwin (the Cree language) guide us toward a more sustainable future?

Join our next Fireside Chat with Randy Morin, esteemed nehiyaw educator, author, and storyteller, as we delve into the profound wisdom embedded within nêhiyawêwin (the Cree language) and its potential to guide us toward a more sustainable future.

Randy Morin is a nehiyaw (or Cree) educator, author, and storyteller from the Big River First Nation in central Saskatchewan. Currently living in Saskatoon, Randy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous Studies, a Bachelor of Education, and a Master’s degree in Language Revitalization – and is passionate about preserving and sharing nêhiyawêwin (the Cree language), and nehiyaw culture & stories. Through his work as an academic, children’s book author, and speaker, Randy is dedicated to empowering Indigenous youth and promoting the importance of Indigenous knowledge and worldviews.

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Require any accessibility accommodations? Email gift@sustainablepractice.org before August 22nd, 2024 and we will be happy to accommodate you!

Cet événement se déroule en anglais. Un enregistrement sera publié sur le CSPA Mighty Networks. Si vous avez besoin d’une interprétation en direct en français pour participer, veuillez envoyer un courriel à flo@sustainablepractice.org une semaine à l’avance, et nous serons heureux de vous assistez

How do we slow writing down? 

The Slow Playwriting Project by Mariló Núñez is out now!

This course invites students to challenge their own biases about what it means to write a play. It is an invitation to think about writing as a collaborative act, as a strategy for dreaming, and to work together across differences. 

The objective of the course will be to create a future of playwriting that doesn’t include an Aristotelian lens. It will be one that decentres a capitalist way of thinking about writing, about art, and pushes us to examine productivity in a different way.

A new course is out!

Introducing: Telling the Story of the End of the World by UKAI Projects

This course is designed to help you make sense of issues like climate change, AI, and authoritarianism from the perspective of the artist.

We need to find new ways to engage with and understand complex issues because the tools and the ideologies we rely upon are less and less up to the job.

UKAI Projects invite participants to explore new forms of justice and freedom that are rooted in creativity and personal insight.

Through a series of guided workshops, collaborative projects, and recommended readings, we will learn to reconceptualize daunting global issues as accessible and manageable through the lens of personal and community artmaking.

Explore our latest course offering!

Introducing: Critical Cat Studies by Nazli Akhtari

Critical Cat Studies offers guidance on how to learn with cats in ways that blur Euro-American centric ways of knowing and help us attune to more joyful, sustainable, and equitable ways of living and making worlds.

Who better than unruly cats can complicate for us the artificial borders we constantly construct?

Throughout history witches, women, lesbians, queers, Marxists, and modernity’s outcasts have made kin with cats. What if we consider the lineage of feline kinship as a praxis of disorderly living against the violence of capitalism that thrives on racism, sexism, queer and transphobia and environmental destruction?

For more information, contact Kimberly Skye Richards, librarian for the Department of Utopian Arts and Letters, at kim@sustainablepractice.org

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Arts, Health, and Climate: Call for Resources

The Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, is working on a policy brief to explore how the arts can help mitigate, communicate and adapt to the health effects of climate change.

This open call is an invitation for artists, practitioners, healthcare, and cultural workers to contribute by sharing relevant resources and examples of artistic projects to be included in this research.

The research team welcomes examples of artistic projects, reports, case studies, dissertations, news articles, blogs, government documents, digital materials, and any other resource that you feel would be relevant.

Please use this form to describe and upload related materials. 

The submission deadline is July 31.

We’re helping to get the word out. If you have relevant materials, or know someone who could contribute, please share!

Year 2 done!


As we mark the two-year milestone since the launch of the Creative Green Tools Canada program, we are happy to share that nearly 900 users have embraced the Tools platform across Canada. These diverse entities, spanning organizations of all sizes, as well as individual artists, have embarked on a crucial journey towards quantifying their emissions and taking climate action.

The CG Tools have been widely adopted by organizations across provinces and territories within Canada.

It is amazing to observe the diverse array of individuals and organizations within the arts and culture sector using the Tools. Among the Footprints documented thus far we have:

Thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, this year we’re diving into research aimed at enhancing user experience and inclusivity, including:

  • Tailored tools for the publishing industry.
  • Expanded functionality for rural and remote users.
  • Enhanced transportation options for traveling artists & cultural workers.
  • Integration of Indigenous knowledge through language.

By adding your data, you contribute to the cultural community’s collective action on climate change.


Have a question? Send us a message at contact@sustainablepractice.org

Fourth course out!

Introducing: At Least This Will Make a Funny Show by Kristina Wong

At Least This Will Make a Funny Show guides you through attempting to make dramatic social change in the world without giving into existing systems of charity, failing, and then making an original (maybe award winning) solo performance piece about how you tried.

This course is not to diminish the seriousness of the problems that overwhelm our world, but recognizes that the ability to persevere in this fight will require creativity and a lot of coping strategies, which include humor.

Includes a bonus module on how to deal with being cancelled, trolled, or blacklisted because your best attempt at making social change will always piss off someone.

How are you attempting to make social change?

Ready to start?


For more information, contact Kimberly Skye Richards, librarian for the Department of Utopian Arts and Letters, at kim@sustainablepractice.org

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