How do we use our curiosity to move towards deeper connections? Host Louis VI, and guests researcher Zoe Rasbash and curator Mateo Chacón Pino discuss how research can utilise different forms of knowledge to develop communication strategies and actions to bring communities along.
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REPAIR
How we connect to the earth and each other is more important than ever. Designer Gaja Mežnarić Osole and visual artist Allison O’Connor talk to Louis VI about how public art in unexpected spaces can engage communities with nature, and in turn help us to repair our relationships with each other and the more-than-human world.
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COURAGE
True leadership takes a lot of creativity and courage. Climate justice activist Payal Parekh and artist, activist, permaculture teacher Guy Ritani join Louis VI to talk about how creativity can feed into grassroots-led climate activism, and shape global climate policy in a truly intersectional and intergenerational way.
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PLAY
How can playfulness interact with our Climate Action? Our host Louis VI is joined by theatre-maker and experience designer Toby Peach and director and theatre-maker Ntando Cele, who invite us to think about how humour can connect us to difficult subjects. Toby and Ntando discuss playful activism as a tool to engage audiences with creative climate action, inspire empathy across borders, and give us the permission to step into leadership on climate action.
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INTEGRITY
How can culture tell another story about the climate crisis? Louis VI speaks to producer and artist Eliki Reade and cultural leader Julie Forchhammer about how the arts and culture can utilise our power as an industrial ecology, to challenge the influence of fossil fuels through grassroots action and in policy spaces. They explore art and culture beyond professionalisation, and generate ideas on how we could live “artfully” alongside the more-than-human world.
About Conversations on Creative Climate Leadership
Conversations on Creative Climate Leadership is a new podcast from Julie’s Bicycle centering stories from our global community of Creative Climate Leaders who champion the role of culture in climate activism. Our hosts musician and zoologist Louis VI and JB’s Climate Justice Lead Farah Ahmed talk with some of our Creative Climate Leadership alumni who have generously shared their personal insights on navigating the climate crisis and creatively leading transformative change. Over six episodes we’ll unpack important questions around belonging, communication, creative activism and how to lead courageously with care.
Big thanks to our funders and partners who have supported the work of the Creative Climate Leadership network and the making of this podcast: Pro Helvetia and Stiftung Mercator Schweiz for CCL Switzerland; as well as the European Cultural Foundation's Culture of Solidarity Fund, and Porticus. And a thanks to our host Louis VI, member of Earth Percent - the music industry’s climate foundation, who support JB’s work on climate action with the music community.