untune residency
untune is accepting applications for its Fall Residency (November 1-27, 2024). Applicants from all disciplines and modes of expression are welcomed to apply! This season untune welcomes creatives exploring issues concerning FOOD-insecurity, sovereignty, and its impacts on our modern food systems. Residents are offered guidance, a dedicated working space, and time to work on individual →
Support Creative Green Tools Canada!
Sign our petition! Every signature counts! We’re gathering support for the Creative Green Tools Canada – Outils Creative Green Canada. If you find value in the Tools and recognize their potential to drive bold climate action within the arts and culture sector, we’d be grateful if you could sign our petition and share it with →
Residencies in Mustarinda, Spring 2025
Open Call for residencies in Mustarinda, Spring 2025 Artists, writers, curators, thinkers, and researchers—whether working alone or in groups—are invited to apply! Available residency periods: SPRING: 2 weeks from 16th January – 31st January 2025 1 month periods February – April Application deadline: 30th September 2024 The Open Call welcomes all manner of practices, mediums, →
Hyperutopia Design Fundamentals
Introducing Hyperutopia Design Fundamentals by Meagan Byrne Utopia user experience design (UUXD) is the theory and practice of designing an emergent utopia by carefully selecting and synchronizing the intersecting points between living experiencers and systems. This course is designed to give anyone who wishes to engage in utopia or futurism development, a introduction to the →
Call for Scripts! DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Earth Matters on Stage Playwright Festival and Symposium 2025 Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University Submission Deadline September 18, 2024. Submissions must be entered before the deadline in order to be considered for the competition. Please see the submission guidelines below for additional information. First Place Award: $1250 →
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 →
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 →
Sign up for our next Fireside Chat!
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 →
Join Geon Nativa!
Introducing Geon Nativa: Cookery and Intergenerational Codes of Memory by Aisha Lesley Bentham According to Geon Nativa, Conjuring is about the process of alignment between you, the earth and the spirit. We explore Conjuring through practice, method and review. Conjure also demonstrates, in small & large ways, how life and the world around you is →
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 →
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 →
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 →