Art World Meets in Paris during Climate Change Conference

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Green Teas(e) at Govanhill Baths Community Trust, Glasgow, UK, Green Art Lab Alliance workshop on April 8th, 2014. Courtesy: Creative Carbon Scotland (UK)

Art World Meets in Paris during Climate Change Conference

DutchCulture | TransArtists is taking part in the Professional Workshop, one of the special events of ArtCOP21 during the UN Conference on Climate Change.
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On the occasion of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, the French and international cultural sectors are coming together in the ArtCOP21 to confirm the central role of culture in ecological transition and sustainable development.

ArtCOP 21 is a global festival of arts and cultural activity on climate change, initiated by COAL (FR) and Cape Farewell (UK, GALA partner) and staging city-wide cultural events that address climate as a people challenge and work to create a cultural blueprint of positive and sustainable change.

Following our involvement in the Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA), DutchCulture | TransArtists is taking part in the Professional Workshop on 3 and 4 December.

Working group: art as a medium to mobilize citizens - think globally, act locally
3 December 14.00 (live stream available)
Topic of this workshop is: How to encourage sustainable bottom-up approaches and work closely with local communities. How to develop partnerships which support community engagement on environmental challenges and sustainable development. Participants are Chen Feng and Mu Wei, architects and co-founders of Natur Wuhan (CHN), Anton Polsky a.k.a. MAKE and Igor Ponosov, Partizaning (RUS), Marco Kusumawijaya, urbanist/activist, Rujak (IDN), Carolina Caycedo, artist/activist, Descolonizando La Jagua, Rios Vivos Movement and Asoquimbo (COL), Matthew Biederman, artist, Arctic Perspective Initiative / Changing Weathers (SI), Flannery Patton, Alliance of Artists Communities (USA) and Sithabile Mlotshwa, artistic director of Thamgidi Foundation and IFAA Global (NL). Moderators are Marie Fol, DutchCulture | TransArtists (NL) and Sophia Lapiashvili, GALA- Green Art Lab Alliance (GE).

Plenary session: transforming the culture industry
4 December, 14.30 (live stream available)
In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and COP21 policy frameworks – at local, regional, national and international levels – which bring together the sustainability and creativity agendas by scaling up existing initiatives and understanding, what more is needed. With Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher and working with the Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development (FR), Jordi Pascual, Coordinator of Agenda21 for the culture and of UCLG (ESP), John Crowley, team leader of SHS at UNESCO (UK), Sacha Kagan, founder and coordinator of Cultura21 (DEU), Alison Tickell, Head of Julie’s Bicycle (UK) and Diane Dodd, coordinator for Europe at IFACCA (AUS). Moderater is Cees De Graaff, Director of DutchCulture.

For more information on ArtCOP21, the Professional Workshop, a glossary and links to live streams please go to DutchCulture | TransArtists 

 

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