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ACT – Art, Climate, Transition

Exploring ecology, climate change and social transition

person wearing a gold jacket and sitting at a table holding a shell in one hand and looking at it
Selina Thompson. Photo by Boxed Studios
2019 – ongoing

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

Summer Labs:

person wearing a gold jacket and sitting at a table holding a shell in one hand and looking at it
A photo of Haeweon Yi kneeling on a wooden floor with her arms outstretched, delivering a workshop to people sitting cross-legged on the floor
person painted blue wearing floral shirt and trousers, standing in a field
two people sat besides each other at a cafe table laughing
Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir singing with hands in the air
A photo of someone painting a bright yellow mural on the wall
Illustration of a person looking up at screens with different people and planets on them

ACT was supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union

artclimatetransition.eu

Date Title Venue City
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
person wearing a gold jacket and sitting at a table holding a shell in one hand and looking at it
Selina Thompson. Photo by Boxed Studios
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