Creative Climate Action Alliance

The Creative Climate Action Alliance is a collective of artists, small collectives, organisations, peak bodies and issue specific networks. It is open to all. Our intention is to build on the work of Creative Recovery Network and Cultural Gardeners–Australian Alliance for Climate Justice, by mobilising an independent Alliance to practice sector leadership in Creative Climate Action. We aim to work alongside the new Creative Climate peak body to help lead ambitious change.

Australia leads the world in many devastating impacts of the global Climate and Ecological Emergency. Given the urgency of this crisis for society and our creative sector, and the scale of action required worldwide, we believe that accelerating action hinges on a uniquely Australian, decentralised yet unified, cooperative effort.

We prioritise the principle of First Peoples first, recognising the essential role that Elders, community and cultural leaders play in holding Care for Country protocols and practices essential for climate adaptation. Our approach seeks to integrate place-based creative climate action with First Nations leadership and social justice principles of care, underscoring the importance of a community-wide agenda.

Working at the intersection of climate action, creative practice and social justice, we will prioritise artists and others currently disadvantaged in present systems. We will cultivate an alliance across the creative sector, identify and amplify existing work, pool resources and expertise and pinpoint learning needs, to drive collective impact and contribute to systemic change.

We share tools and tactics, build capacity and harness the power of creative skills to co-create climate centred strategies that make a real difference. We will identify practices that need to be dismantled as we strengthen muscles of imagination to envision a more liveable future, beyond the instrumental needs of now. Abundant creativity will regenerate society, through the tangible and intangible work required to find new connections and solutions. How is as important as what we dream and do together.

Through the breadth of our cross-sector relationships, we will determine shared priorities for action, investment and creative practice led responses. Our work will take culture and the arts into the climate space, embedding them into climate discussion, climate change actions, public policy and bring together industry leaders around creative practice processes and pathways for pragmatic action.

Please get in touch to join this collective effort:
Pippa Bailey 0432 188 604
Scotia Monkivitch 0423 987 207

Email: creativeclimateactionalliance@creativerecovery.net.au



Leaders Community of Practice - proposed outline


COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (CoP) definition - a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, and interest in a topic who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals to make change.

This is not a training program, but a group of leaders determined to take ambitious creative climate action and explore the systemic challenges for leaders in the current system, acknowledging that there has been, and continues to be a crisis of cultural leadership in taking responsible action in the Earth Crisis. Working together across the system, this CoP will identify strong principles and model new ways of working through individual and shared action. This is emergent creative practice.

FOR 10-15 Decision makers across the arts system who have control of a budget and the direction of the company, organisation or significant projects/programs they initiate and manage.

We propose that program will explore:

- Practicing First Nations first
- Developing awareness about colonial mindsets, structures and systems that underpin leadership in Australia
- Centring social justice, creative practice and the Climate and Ecological Emergency in your work
- Coping with mental health pressures and climate overwhelm in your role and teams
- Disaster preparedness & mitigation
- Beyond carbon budgeting - how to balance financial, social and environmental sustainability
- Your role and responsibilities in the wider system of arts - locally, nationally and internationally
- Structural change and how that might impact the system
- Thinking systemically, acting specifically
- How to have greater (social) and less (environmental) impact at the same time
- Specific challenges that individuals bring to the group

Please contact us if. you are interested in joining the Leaders CoP

Email: creativeclimateactionalliance@creativerecovery.net.au