Becoming Climate Artivists

If you are between 18 and 30 years old, we are thrilled to invite you to join a creative learning journey in response to the climate emergency. We want to give you the knowledge and the tools to mobilize the arts and creativity so that you can deepen your climate activism and/or transform the way we work on climate change. Let’s make climate action both more impacful and joyful!

This learning journey will also involve co-creating a global community of young people who will support each other in growing connection, creativity and resilience for system-wide transformation.

Who is the Learning Journey for?

The Learning Journey is open to all young people of 18-30 years old who are curious about climate change. We welcome (aspiring) climate activitists, young sustainability professionals, artists, creatives… as well as youth who have not been involved in climate action in the past.

This Learning Journey will particularly speak to you if:

o You are curious about climate change, have been campaigning against climate change, studying climate change or have been working on climate change for a while

o You wish to address the root causes of the deeper ecological crisis we are entangled in

o You feel the need to address climate injustice, environmental racism, colonial continuities, and flawed developmental paradigms

o You understand that self-care is community care, and vice versa, and value all living beings or ‘the more-than-human world’

o You wish to work with the arts as a channel for transformation, and are willing to explore your own creativity through various artistic expressions

o You need community, either locally or transnationally, and are wiling to engage with respect for all, and humility

o You are ready to play, be vulnerable, un-learn, re-learn, share, and support others to grow

Photograph of Ellen Mulcrone working on a pod – Check out her interview in Tero Magazine.

What is the Learning Journey about?

If this resonates with you, we look forward to meeting with you during the following series of online workshops, from mid-January 2024 to end of April 2024:

Tuesday 16 January, 5-7 pm CET

Opening meeting & introduction to climate artivism and transformative work

Tuesday 30 January, 5-7pm CET

The art of good climate storytelling

Tuesday 13 February, 5-7 pm CET

Learning from and working with climate emotions

Tuesday 27 February, 5-7 pm CET

Addressing both the roots causes and the unvoidable impacts of climate change

Tuesday 12 March, 5-7 pm CET

Powerful art in activism

Tuesday 26 March, 5-7 pm CET

Art and creativity in the workplace

Tuesday 9 April, 5-7 pm CET

All the obstacles you’ll meet (and what to do about them)

Tuesday 23 April, 5-7 pm CET

Closing meeting & celebration of new connections and collaborations

You can register to attend the whole learning journey or separate workshops. A ticket for the learning journey gives you access to all workshops.

How will the Learning Journey take place?

The workshops will feature a variety of practitioners, scientists, artists, and storytellers, who will share their lived experience as well as a simple methods and tools to mobilize the arts and creativity to rethink activism and/or engage in transformative work in the sustainability sector.

The wonderful humans who will be sharing their life work and life stories during the workshops will are being chosen during the co-design process with Europe-based young people, in the course October-November. Hence, this page will be regularly updated. For now, we can confirm the participation of Tori Tsui (Author, Climate Justice & (Environ)mental Health), Joshua Konkankoh (Indigenous Elder and Permaculture Practitioner) and Sarah Queblatin (Designer for Resilience and Regeneration), Iselin Shumba (Actress and Climate Activist) and Amy Franceschini (Artist, Designer and Founder of Futurefarmers).

Workshops will include participatory exercises carried out in break out group sessions, as well as physical exercises, creative exercises, and introspective explorations. Workshops will also feature multimedia artworks, as well as possible performances and dance.

Between each workshop, participants will be encouraged to look for ways of connecting with nature, and engaging with their community, including to restore the health of local ecosystems.

An online community platform, which will be given access to as part of this course, will enable participants to deepen their understanding of certain themes, questions or tools through curated material. The community platform will offer participants the opportunity to get to know each other, share their own resources, meet virtually or in person, and discuss ways to collaborate across borders.

Each workshop will be recorded and shared with the participants via the community platform after the session.

A certificate of completion, stamped by One Resilient Earth, and Climate Creativity, among other supporting patners, will be delivered at the end of the Learning Journey to the participants who will engage in an assessment of the personal and collective impacts of the journey.

Photograph by Sarah Walker for the Kill Climate Deniers play by David Finnigan. Read the full interview in Tero Magazine

How is the Learning Journey designed and funded?

This learning journey is co-designed by the Climate Creativity and One Resilient Earth teams, in close collaboration with 8 youth co-designers.

The Learning Journey is being offered thanks to the generous support of European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme. Although the Learning Journey is open to all and can be accessed free of charge, this support also implies that the learning journey primarily addresses the climate change knowledge and support needs of young people based in Europe.

Following the principle of ‘paying it forward,’ we encourage all participants who can contribute to expand the reach of this learning offer, so that we can support other cohorts of young people, and cater to the climate-change knowledge and support needs of young people in other geographies, including through collaborations. Every small amount helps One Resilient Earth and its partners in pursuing their mission.

If you have questions, please reach out: contact@oneresilientearth.org

The total number of participants is limited. Register now to save your spot. You can register to attend the whole learning journey or separate workshops. A ticket for the learning journey gives you access to all workshops.

Image Credits

Banner Image: Carolina Altavilla