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 →
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 →
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 →
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. →
Third free course is out!
Introducing: Unsustainable Utopias by Meghan Moe Beitiks Unsustainable Utopias is an exploration of the false promise of utopias and the human tendency to seek them out, build them up, and destroy them. We will review failed utopias across time and cultures and examine the events that led to their various transitions into cults, militias, closed →
Second course out!
Introducing Crip Glam: Spells for Everyday Disability Activism by Julia Havard Crip Glam highlights the aesthetic interventions that queer and trans disabled people use to undo ableism, cissexism and heterosexism, and casts spells for crip femme futures, a distinctly femme and disabled approach to aesthetics and activism. Beyond survival, what are the practices and tools →
Our first course is out!
Introducing: Peasant futurisms by Sanita Fejzić Peasant futurisms is a call to transform capitalist cities into edible and wilder ecocities, with protected greenbelts and foodbelts, rooted in circular economies with the goal of growing more liveable and delicious futures for all. This course invites learning from peasant knowledges and practices of cooperative labour, mutual aid, →
Q42: A Myriad of Homes
What constitutes a house? It is an assemblage of a multitude; of social connections, of environments, of feelings, not limited to property and privacy. In fact, most homes, also more than human ones, are ecosystems themselves. The diversity of their nature becomes more and more apparent as we try to extend our understanding of what →
Callout: Sanquhar Arts Festival to repurpose derelict buildings
Sanquhar Arts Festival 24-27 May in Sanquhar Scotland to repurpose derelict buildings and brownfield sites. For centuries homes around the world have been built from local materials, recycling to build the new from the old. Where transport remains difficult, buildings continue to prioritise local materials. As we become more aware of the carbon footprint of →
Fifteen European cultural networks SHIFT Culture eco-certificate
A year out from beginning the pilot SHIFT Culture eco-certificate with European cultural networks, our friends at Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS) together with their auditing partners, Netherlands-based, Green Leisure Group (GLG), are delighted to announce that 15 networks have achieved certification with a further network working towards it. From CCS: Participating networks have worked to →
Q41: Beyond Death
How do you imagine existence after you have taken your last breath? World cultures have speculated about the afterlife since humans first conceived of death. However, what comes after was, and remains unfathomable, inscrutable, and unknowable. Despite the proliferation of technologies capable of disclosing the secrets of the universe, death still lies beyond the grasp →
Registration is now open for the 2024 ARTS & CLIMATE INCUBATOR
Registration is now open for the 2024 ARTS & CLIMATE INCUBATOR, taking place June 10-14 in New York City! The Incubator is a 5-day intensive for artists, activists, scientists, students, and educators who want to engage or further their engagement with climate change through artistic practices. Part think tank, part workshop, it brings together 15 →
International Seminar Modes of Production: Performing Arts and the Ecological Transition
Modes of Production – Performing Arts in Transition is a Research & Development platform that intercrosses the field of artistic studies with the hybrid field of arts management and creative production.Based at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20-UC), it is the result of a partnership with the Artistic Studies Programme at →
Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods
The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects →
Reflecting on: Radical landownership, community and creativity
10 November 2023: We held a Green Tease at The Stove Network in Dumfries exploring landownership, land justice and the role of culture. The evening started with a shared community meal, giving attendees space to talk and get to know each other. Maja Rimer, our culture/SHIFT officer, introduced Creative Carbon Scotland’s work and highlighted that the climate crisis →
New Climate Beacons projects for 2024
We are pleased to announce that we are funding three new projects run by Climate Beacons partnership in the first half of 2024, taking place in Argyll, Caithness and Fife. These projects continue to build on the previous work done by the Climate Beacons, which were originally established in the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow. →
Reflecting on: Intergenerational climate justice and culture
11 October 2023: Experts in climate justice and creative climate education gathered at Leith Community Croft to explore what intergenerational climate justice is, why it matters and how culture can be a way of giving a voice to future generations. Children and future generations are at the forefront of bearing the burdens of the climate →
Open call and commission: Kelburn Garden Party
Glen Arts are excited to announce the call for proposals for one commissioned artwork to feature at the Waterfall site on the Kelburn Estate. The artworks which fit the setting best are those that subvert audience expectations and respond to the natural setting playfully. The space that creates this magical alcove is vast and we →
Open call: Burnieshed residency
A funded pilot residency for artists with a focus on ecology in Perthshire, Scotland. Burnieshed residency is a project in the making located in the heart of Bamff Wildland, a family-run rewilding project in North East Perthshire. Twenty years since beavers began unravelling and reimagining its waterways, the farmland has been turned over to nature. This →
Open Call: Human-Nature Delegation to Malaysia/Borneo
The British Council Malaysia are calling for seven UK artists, arts organisation representatives, arts tech creatives, producers or curators to be part of a delegation visiting Kuala Lumpur, Sabah and Sarawak (Borneo States) over a 10 day period in March 2024. About this opportunity: The British Council has launched the new global programme Culture Responds to →