CALL OUT: Organisers and Creatives Needed for a Research Project on Eco-anxiety

Does eco-anxiety affect your audience and community? Would you be interested to explore how creativity might help?

Join The Art & Energy Collective’s FREE creative research project workshops at Positive Light Projects in Exeter for 10 mornings starting this spring.

Art & Energy are looking for 10 organisers and creatives whose work involves communities who may be considering climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Each session will be from 10am – 1pm on Fridays (from 31 March) and will be fun, engaging, hopeful and packed with interesting discussions, explorations, hands-on making, and talks from inspirational thinkers. There will also be vegan food provided by The Daily Bowl to keep you sustained.

This collaborative research project aims to better understand how eco-anxiety is affecting adults, and how creative skills and activities can help us to respond to it and take action in our communities.

The aim is to bring together a network of change-makers in the city to share our experiences, draw out tacit knowledge and inform how we engage people in challenges that affect their lives. This learning will inform Exeter's development plans through Creative Arc.

This project is being delivered by The Art and Energy Collective, with University of Exeter and Positive Light Projects, and with support from Exeter Culture.

Let's learn together and find better ways to face the climate emergency and create a brighter, greener future.

APPLY TO PARTICIPATE HERE: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=c5Ak_Yqi30qxyvl7oxW4T687HpDvRq5Hn_MoE8l-ZZ5UNTM5TU5BOTdZVEtISDdZSlBKMUQ4UFFUOC4u

(Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis)

If you’re unable to participate in this whole programme, but would like to connect or contribute in some way, please contact chloe@artandenergy.org

If you would like to recommend someone to join in, please forward the invitation if you have contact details and copy in chloe@artandenergy.org  

Dates include:

10am-1pm on 31 March - OPEN EVENT - Introduction to Eco-anxiety and creativity

WORKSHOPS (Draft programme)

  • 10am-1pm on 21 April - WELCOMING YOU and your CREATIVITY – Starting the dialogue - How does eco-anxiety affect me and my communities?

  • 10am-1pm on 28 April - How to BURY the GIANT – Taking tiny actions - How do we currently respond to the climate emergency and eco-anxiety ourselves and in our work? What do we think we should be doing?

  • 10am-1pm on 5 May – It all STARTS at HOME – What we have the energy for - In what ways are people creative in response to the climate emergency and how does it affect eco-anxiety?

  • 10am-1pm on 12 May – EVERY DAY is SUN DAY – Utopian thinking - If our work had to be zero carbon now, what sort of work would we make? What triggers eco-anxiety? When do we experience it? Is it good or bad?

  • 10am-1pm on 19 May – The POWER of APPRECIATION – Harnessing hope – Encouraging empathy - How do we deal with 'those people'? - How do we deal with our own ignorance and the ignorance of others? How do we deal with lack of care?

  • 10am-1pm on 26 May – DOING NOTHING for the CLIMATE – Dealing with fear and burnout – How do we support people dealing with eco-anxiety?

  • 10am-1pm on 9 June – TRAVELLING into the FUTURE - How do we speak to people about climate change issues?

  • 10am-1pm on 16 June - POSITIVE LIGHTS - What role do the arts have in relation to eco-anxiety and climate change more broadly?

  • 10am-1pm on 14 July - OPEN CELEBRATION EVENT – Sharing our learning

 
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