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  • e93 anthony garoufalis-auger – national cultural climate policy

    ‘The economic models and the way that policy is guided in Canada and around the world at the moment assumes that culture will not change. It assumes that we’re self interested individuals, which science is now showing us that that is not the case. We’re actually very collaborative and that are ancient cultures and traditional…

  • e90 shannon litzenberger – state of emergence : why we need artists right now

    ‘I would first and foremost love to see artists really lean into experimentation with their creative practices and to share what comes out of those practices – the learning and experimentation – with each other. I think that’s something that even as a community of art makers we can get better at, but what that…

  • e81 – inspiration

    ‘Art is a practice of expanding consciousness, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to explore and to embody possibility and to engage with the earth as it continues to change and with each other.’ – Rebecca Mwase, excerpt from e10 mwase – expanding consciousness (from an interview at Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020) *…

  • e77 seth klein – identifying a shared vision and a set of actions

    ‘I think the same model (climate emergency coalitions) could and should be used by SCALE to have these arts and culture groups come together, identify a shared vision and a shared set of actions that together constitute a true climate emergency agenda for the arts and culture sector. That’s step one and then agreement to…

  • e76 kim richards – seeding a green new theatre in canada

    ‘I wrote an article called Seeding a Green New Theatre in Canada that is drawing on a lot of principles of conversations happening around a green new deal in the United States and elsewhere, as well as other kinds of social justice movements happening on both sides of the border and thinking through what’s the…

  • e73 judith marcuse – finding the energy to keep moving

    ‘I feel really at the base of myself that creating anything, art, sofas, whatever it is, allows us to give of ourselves to something that may not be lasting but in the moment, that act of creation can engender hope, can engender a sense of autonomy, a sense of possibility and we can’t despair right…

  • e71 green sessions debrief

    ‘The Green Sessions was invented because this small group of people got together and decided we wanted to do something that created impact. I’m really interested in new and more opportunities for us to collaborate as a sector and putting people into focus and a place of knowledge on this agenda’ – Emma Stenning e71…

  • e67 wanna be an ally

    ‘I’ve been thinking about decolonization and reconciliation and other issues in our relations with indigenous communities. I was reading the ‘wanna be an ally’ poem the other day that really affected me positively but also emotionally and I wanted to read it to you.’ * e67 wanna be an ally is a reading of the…

  • e64 a case study (part 2)

    ‘Welcome back to the History of 2021 in Canada seminar. We’re going to conclude our case study today of the 2nd season of the conscient podcast.’ * episode 64 is part 2 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3…

  • e63 a case study (part 1)

    ‘Welcome to the History of 2021 in Canada seminar. We’re going to do a case study today of the second season of the conscient podcast.’ * episode 63 is part 1 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3 of the…