Eco-anxiety & creativity in Exeter - project call out
Does eco-anxiety affect your audience and community? Would you be interested to explore how creativity might help?
Join our FREE creative research project at Positive Light Projects in Exeter for 10 mornings starting this spring.
We 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 and will be fun, engaging, hopeful and packed with interesting discussions, explorations, hands-on making, talks from inspirational thinkers, and we will also have yummy 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.
We hope 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.
Let's learn together and find better ways to face the climate emergency and create a brighter greener future.
Dates include:
10-1pm 31st March - OPEN EVENT - Introduction to Eco-anxiety and creativity
WORKSHOPS (Draft programme)
10-1pm 21st April - WELCOMING YOU and your CREATIVITY – Starting the dialogue - How does eco-anxiety affect me and my communities?
10-1pm 28th 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?
10-1pm 5th 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?
10-1pm 12th 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?
10-1pm 19th 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?
10-1pm 26th May – DOING NOTHING for the CLIMATE – Dealing with fear and burnout – How do we support people dealing with eco-anxiety?
10-1pm 9th June – TRAVELLING into the FUTURE - How do we speak to people about climate change issues?
10-1pm 16th June - POSITIVE LIGHTS - What role do the arts have in relation to eco-anxiety and climate change more broadly?
10-1pm 14th July - OPEN CELEBRATION EVENT – Sharing our learning
If you’re unable to participate in this whole programme, but would like to connect or contribute in some way, please let me know chloe@artandenergy.org
With thanks to Art and Energy’s project partners - Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Positive Light Projects and University of Exeter.
“Extreme worry about current and future harm to the environment caused by human activity and climate change.”
