ACT was a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition, initiated by ten cultural organisations across the continent working in the fields of performing and visual arts. In an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and growing inequalities we joined our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invited or demanded that we ACT.
ACT emerged from the cultural operators of the preceding Imagine 2020 programme. This European project evolved around raising awareness on the climate crisis, and presenting the arts as a strong designer of possible futures. Social awareness and citizen action on these issues recently saw an enormous increase in intensity and spread.
Through Artsadmin’s work with ACT, between 2019 and 2023 we produced and presented artists’ work on social and climate justice, continuing the work of our biennial 2 Degrees Festival and other artists’ commissions.
Projects supported by ACT
- Season for Change | Artsadmin & Julie’s Bicycle | 2020 – 2021
- Parade of Horribles | Mish Weaver, co-commissioned by Artsadmin and Unlimited | 2021
- Immersion | Selina Thompson | September 2021
- What Shall We Build Here | September 2021 & June – July 2023
- Earth Riot | Rev Billy & The Stop Stopping Choir | November 2021
- ACT Symposium | May 2023
Summer Labs:
- Malaika Cunningham and Sinéad Hargan | Slovenia | 2021
- Zoë Laureen Palmer | Homo Novus Festival, Latvia | 2022
- Jo Hellier | Macedonia | 2023
ACT was supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union
Date | Title | Venue | City |
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28 June – 2 July 2023 | What Shall We Build Here | Various locations: | |
28–29 June 2023 | Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) Symposium | Various locations around Toynbee Studios | What Shall We Build Here |
6 November 2021 | Earth Riot | ||
10 September 2021 | Immersion | Four locations across Tower Hamlets: | London |
8–12 September 2021 | What Shall We Build Here | Various locations: | |
7 June 2015 | #2DegreesFestival | The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination: Climate Action Speed Dating | Toynbee Studios | |
1 June 2015 | #2DegreesFestival | The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination: We Have Never Been Here Before | Toynbee Studios |