Climate Exchange Platform is an international group of artist-educators and cultural practitioners affiliated with academic institutions (UC Santa Cruz, Goldsmiths, Sandberg, etc.) working at the intersection of art and climate change. The program was initiated by artist Dorine van Meel with the aim of connecting arts-based educators working within different programs and centers whose artistic practices focus on the unfolding ecological catastrophe and its roots in economies based on extraction and exhaustion. 

Upcoming sessions:

Bringing Theories of Change into Practice

22 April 11 am PST / 8 pm CET

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Join Azul Duque and Dani d’Emilia of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures and Jay Jordan and Isa Fremeaux of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination for a participatory workshop that looks at how to bring theories of change into practice. Members of the two groups will each give a 40-minute presentation and/or workshop, followed by 30 minutes of discussion between the two groups, facilitated by session organizers.

Art and Collective Action

6 May 11 am PST / 8 pm CET

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Join members of Decolonize This Place (Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon), 4BID Gallery (Tiana Hemlock-Yensen), and Extinction Rebellion Arts Circle Amsterdam (Freija and Esther) for a conversation on art and collective action. In this session, contributors will share experiences from their work, and discuss topics including solidarity-building, bringing art into protest spaces, and methods for using art to ignite socio-political change. The contributors will provide introductions and examples of their work before engaging in a one-hour facilitated discussion, followed by a 45-minute Q&A.

Collaborating towards Climate Justice

22 May 11 am PST / 8 pm CET

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In this online workshop we will engage with the question of how can we build networks of solidarity and support with those that are directly affected by ecological destruction and climate breakdown? What are meaningful ways of (artistic) collaboration and how do we not reproduce existing power dynamics? Artist Ralph Eya and activist Rosa Marina Flores Cruz will share their practices and invite the audience to engage through practical exercises with their work.