climate emergency
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e95 charles c. smith & kevin a. ormsby – IBPOC arts in planetary renewal
‘Yes, we agree that anti-racism is important. Yes we agree that anti oppression is important. Yes, we agree that equity is important. Yes, we agree that sovereignty is important for indigenous peoples in particular and that decolonization is really important but to us, these are tools to get toward a new society, to transform the…
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e94 devon hardy – data is a powerful thing
‘We have a national data set that’s about to emerge and that’s a really powerful thing. If we can gather data from across the country from arts and culture organizations across the country and build a data set over time, then we’ll actually be able to understand what kind of programming we need for environmental…
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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…
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e92 santee smith – about SKéN:NEN and interconnectedness
‘The environment and sustainability is an integral, if not the founding process, of how we view the world: interconnectedness, responsibility as human beings, to be caretakers of the earth, to be forward thinkers about what we do now will affect seven generations later and that has always been our understanding since we can remember. It’s…
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e91 keith barker – telling a really good story
‘I look for stories that are not there just to educate people. If I tell a really good story and it happens to be about the global crisis, about global warming and about the effects on community, if I get your heart, then you’re gonna go forward and look at other things, you’re gonna start…
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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…
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e89 excerpts from ben okri’s ‘artists must confront the climate crisis’
Today’s episode features quotes from Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days by Nigerian novelist and poet Ben Okri from the November 12, 2021 edition of The Guardian newspaper. Here is the first quote from Ben Okri’s article: ‘Here we are on the edges of…
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e85 tracey friesen – narratives of resilience for a post carbon world
‘What’s starting to interest me is stories of resilience for a post carbon world. What are we going to need for our emotional well-being? It’s going to be a different world not long from now. If we do this, and we must do this, this transition has to happen and there’s going to be a…
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e84 viviane gosselin + mauro vescera of the museum of vancouver
‘Museums have been very good at normalizing social values and so when you have this shift and the government is seeing it, we have to change behavior, the museum can create that space where people can rethink some of their conventional thinking about consuming, for example and there’s all kinds of ways, like we were…
