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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…

  • 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…

  • e87 kendra fanconi – on the artist brigade, ben okri, eco-restoration, eco-grief & reauthoring the world

    ‘We are all artists of the Anthropocene. We inherently are because this is the world that we’re living in right now. There’s no other world. We were down earlier at Robert’s Creek (BC) and it’s a salmon bearing stream. I think of it like we’re artists in the Anthropocene, like fish would be in the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • e59 pearl – positive tipping points

    ‘SCALE (Sectoral Climate Arts Leadership for the Emergency) is a national round table for the arts and culture sector to mobilize around the climate emergency. A few months ago, you and I, and a few others were all having the same realization that while there was a lot of important work and projects happening at 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.

  • e44 bilodeau – the arts are good at changing culture

    I think of the arts as planting a seed and saying ‘here’s a problem: let’s think about it together and explore avenues.’