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.
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
Please get in touch to join this collective effort:
Pippa Bailey 0432 188 604
Scotia Monkivitch 0423 987 207
Email: creativeclimateactionalliance@creativerecovery.net.au
Alliance Members:
ALIA – Australian Library and Info Association - Cathy Warburton CEO
ALIA – Australian Library and Info Association - Cathy Warburton CEO
AMaGA – Aust Museum and Galleries Association - Katie Russell National Director/CEO
ANAT - Australian Network for Art & Technology - Melissa deLaney CEO
Arts on Tour - Antonia Seymour Executive Director
Arts and Health Networks NSW/ACT/QLD
ARUP – Australasia - Camilla Darton-Rooke Executive Director
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) - Claire Richardson
Blak Dance - Merindah Donnelly Co-CEO Executive Producer
Blue Shield Australia
Bondi Pavillion - Chris Bendall Waverley City Council
Centre of Reworlding - Jen Rae
Chamber of Arts and Culture WA - Tania Hudson CEO
climarte - Deborah Hart Founder
Cultural Gardener network – 213 independent creatives
Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA) WA - David Doyle CEO
Darwin Community Arts - Alyson Evans Strategic Development
Diversity Arts Australia - Lena Nahlous CEO & Executive Producer
Echo tango - Alex Kelly
Feral Arts - Sarah Moynihan & Norm Horton
Freeflow Projects - Louisa Robertson
GLAM – PEAK - Ross Latham Chair
Green Music Australia - Berish Bilander Chief Executive Officer
Groundswell - Arielle Gamble
Grow Do it & Permaculture West - Charlie Mgee
Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation - Alex Wisser
KIN Advisory - KIN Creative - Aimee Smith
Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) - Blair French CCEO
National Association for the Visual Arts NAVA - Penelope Benton ED
PAC Australia - Katherine Connor ED & Rosie Dwyer Manager, Industry Development and Training
Qld Regional Arts Service Network - Trudie Leigo Regional Arts Manager
Rebus Theatre - Robin Davidson Artistic Director
Regional Arts NSW - Tracey Callinan CEO
Regional Arts VIC - Susie Lyons Director, Partnerships and Programming Jo Porter CEO
Regional Arts WA - Pilar Kasat CEO
Shopfront Theatre - Natalie Rose Creative Director, CEO
The Cad Factory - Vic McEwan Artistic Director, Artist, Public Officer
The Corridor Project - Pheobe Cowdery Creative Producer
Theatre Green Book Australia - Grace Nye-Butler & Chris Mercer
International Collaborators:
International Collaborators:
Culture Declares an Emergency - Victoria Burns
Grendel Games
Humanity Summit
International network for contemporary performing arts (IETM)
Julia’s Bicycle
University of Greenwich
Climate Movement collaborators:
Climate Movement collaborators:
The Australian Institute – The Coalition of Climate Ambition
CSIRO Environment - Dr Nicky Grigg
Climate Council Senior Research Scientist
Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia
Doctors for the Environment
Research collaborators:
Research collaborators:
Understanding the importance of research in the framing of effective tools, impact knowledge and
expertise in creative and climate science that is response and linked to placed based activation.
Building critical projects with co-design of research to future proof with practice led research models.
Beyond Disasters Research Advisory Group, facilitated through Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit, School of Population and
Global Health, Melbourne University - Prof Lisa Gibbs Director of the Disaster, Climate & Adversity Unit, Centre for Mental
Health & Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Black Dog Institute - Professor Katherine Boydell Professor of Mental Health, Director, Arts-based Knowledge Translation Lab
and Dr Chloe Watfern
Die Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Austria - Tim Boykett Researcher: futures, physicality, facilitation
Milk Crate Theatre - Jodie Wainwright
Museum and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - University of Sydney - Dr Anna Lawrenson
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience, Fire to flourish, Monash University - Bhiamie Eckford-Williamson
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith Uni Tanja Beers and Julian Meyrick
Sydney School of Public Health, the CREATE centre - Sydney University - Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health - Dr
Claire Hooker Director Academic Career Development, President, Arts Health Network NSW/ACT
Sydney Environmental Institute
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE) and Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets
(CEEM) - UNSW - Mike Roberts Senior Research Fellow in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
(SPREE) and Research Co-ordinator at the Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)
Thriving Kids in Disaster - Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth - Jacinta Perry