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  • e86 arts policy, equity and activism class at centennial college

    ‘I’m interested in what we can do to both mitigate the climate emergency and adapt to it but there’s another level which is revisioning the world and maybe that’s the one that’s most interesting, because unfortunately it’s going to be rough for the foreseeable future on earth, but life will go on, with or without…

  • 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…

  • 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) *…

  • e78 milena droumeva – art needs to get on the street

    ‘I think art needs to get on the street, because raising awareness in a gallery is really speaking to the choir. I’ll leave raising awareness, because we both agree that the time for that has passed, but I think art needs to revert back to artisan and crafts, in the sense that imagination can lead…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • e54 garrett – empowering artists

    We do have a future. It may look very different and sometimes our inability to see that future is confused for there not being one.

  • e53 kalmanovitch – nurturing imagination

    We are facing a crisis of failure of imagination and one of the things that artistic practice does is to nurture imagination. It’s our job.