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Homework Club: Ecologically Responsible Producing

Photo by DOGHERINE

Artsadmin’s Homework Club is a welcoming space for performance-based and multi-disciplinary artists, producers, and creatives to come together, learn, and make progress on their projects. 

About this session 

This special edition of Homework Club is for UK-based producers and self-producing artists ready to challenge extractive models and build a more regenerative cultural sector. Part of our Lab XL leadership exchange programme in partnership with Creative Migration (LA/BKK), this session brings a vital international perspective to culture-based climate action. 

Led by Susannah Tantemsapya (Founder & Executive Director of Creative Migration and Bangkok 1899), this hands-on session is for those done waiting for the sector to catch up. Susannah will share the development of Creatives for Climate Action – Thailand (CCAT), a collaborative platform and open-source toolkit built specifically for the Southeast Asian context. 

What we will explore: 

  • Understand where you are: What have you tried? What keeps breaking down? What doesn’t exist yet that should? 
  • Production Decisions: Navigating location scouting, low-impact materials, and how to query an institution’s climate policy before signing a contract. 
  • Tools: We will move beyond checklists to explore frameworks like the Artists Commit Climate Impact Report and the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) Carbon Calculator. 
  • Values-led Models: Producing models that centre decolonization, care, and cultural equity. 

You’ll leave with a clearer sense of how to adapt these tools to your own practice and what building a new system looks like in the UK cultural landscape. 

Susannah Tantemsapya is the Founder & Executive Director of Creative Migration, a nonprofit based between Los Angeles and Bangkok, driving systems change across arts, culture and ecology. In 2016, she founded Bangkok 1899, a cultural & civic hub that opened in 2019, supported by Ford Philanthropy and ECCA Family Foundation, centering long-term relationships and community-led systems. 

She is the producer of Creatives for Climate Action – Thailand (CCAT), established with the EUNIC Cluster and the Creative Economy Agency. Recently, she co-hosted California’s First Policy Forum on the Culture Global Stocktake during LA Climate Week with the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion and Thai CDC. Her global leadership spans the UNFCCC’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action initiative, the G20 Culture and Climate Seminar in Brazil as the sole Asia-Pacific representative, founding Core Team of the first Bangkok Climate Action Week, and a speaker at COP28 and COP30 centering Global Majority perspectives. 

Creative Migration is a women-of-color-led international arts organization – anchored between Los Angeles and Bangkok – driving systems change across arts, culture and ecology. We started at the intersection of arts and international cultural exchange. In 2011, participation in Project Green, a European sustainable filmmaking initiative, marked a turning point: culture became the lens through which we understood our role in shaping how societies respond to the climate crisis. From that shift, a new practice emerged: Creative Migration has integrated environmental responsibility into its operations since 2012 and adopted a formal Climate Policy in 2022. 

Creative Migration was founded in 2005 by our Executive Director, Susannah Tantemsapya, in California. She expanded operations to Thailand in 2018 to open our largest project to date, Bangkok 1899, through seed funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Philanthropy. Currently, our nonprofit has major support from Ford Philanthropy and ECCA Family Foundation. 

Bangkok 1899 is a cultural & civic hub founded by Creative Migration, bridging cultural and climate diplomacy to ignite community-driven action. The space hosts international artist residencies curating collaborations with Thai artists, using art as a tool for social and environmental transformation through workshops, exhibitions and performances that strengthen community resilience. 

Bangkok 1899’s International Artist Residency Exchange has hosted multidisciplinary artists from New Zealand, France, Mexico, Romania, Japan, Denmark, UK, US and beyond. Each residency is shaped around the artist’s own inquiry, grounded in collaboration with Thai artists and communities. In partnership with Na Projects and SATI Foundation, we host youth programs focused on creative expression, mindfulness and preventive healthcare – investing in the next generation of community stewards.  

In 2024, Artsadmin partnered with Bangkok 1899 and the British Council to send Thai artists to London, shifting toward genuine bilateral exchange. Forthcoming partnerships include New Art Exchange and Fondation Fiminco, while working in cooperation with countries such as France, Australia and Canada.  

FAQ

For independent producers, organisational producers, and self-producing artists and creatives at all stages of their careers who want to better understand how to integrate ecological thinking into their practice. This session is for those who may already be familiar with tools such as ‘access riders’ or have heard of ‘green riders’ and sustainability frameworks and want to explore practical approaches to caring for both people and the planet through their work. 

Making art and culture has an impact on people and place, and how we do this matters. As funders increasingly ask questions about sustainability and responsibility, this session offers space to strengthen how you speak about your work and its impact. You’ll gain practical insight, language, and examples to help shape more compelling proposals. You’ll also learn from Susannah, a culture and climate diplomacy specialist working across international contexts including COP and Climate Weeks, bringing real-world knowledge into the room. 

Bring an existing project idea, funding application, or work-in-progress that engages with ecological, environmental, or sustainable cultural practice. You may also want to prepare examples of your artistic work to share, along with any specific questions or feedback from previous applications. Come ready to reflect, test ideas, and work alongside others. 

Questions? 

Please email us at programme@artsadmin.co.uk  

Date and time

25 June 2026
6.30–9pm

Booking

Pay what you can: Free, £5, £10 or £15 tickets.
Book online

Venue

Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London, E1 6AB
Tel: 020 7247 5102
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