9th November 2026
9am CET / 7pm AEDT
Date: 9th November 2026 9am CET / 7pm AEDT
Link to the event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81097726744?pwd=KFhZtPGjYxQ3axvPxxBunQy4iZM4Gi.1
To mark the opening of The UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye the Green Academy invites the artists/activists Eliki Reade & Lana Nguyen (A Climate For Art (ACFA) to discuss the role of cultural professionals and institutions in the reimagining of an industry divested from fossil fuels. They will introduce some of their strategies, toolkits and how their collaborations inspire cultural institutions to work differently.
They will also introduce their new audio series Cultural Currents that highlights global cultural responses to the climate crisis. The series works to reframe climate discourse as having roots in cultural worldviews, practices and frameworks, and steers listeners towards a wider understanding of what climate response can look like, legitimising culture as a key component of climate work, extending ongoing campaigns for the inclusion of culture at COP31.
Eliki Reade & Lana Nguyen live and work on the lands of the peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nations near Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).
Guests: Eliki Reade & Lana Nguyen
Hosted by Bek Berger
Eliki Reade is an interdependent producer, broadcaster, curator, and artist of Kailoma-Fijian descent. Working across community-led spaces and in climate advocacy, Eliki is led by storytelling, transforming narrative into a vessel for critical connection and action.
He wears multiple creative hats including Program Officer at Naomi Milgrom Foundation, Co-Organiser with Lana Nguyen for A Climate For Art, and a collaborator with Big Four Holiday Camp – Aaron Claringbold, Jack Mitchell and Rebecca McCauley – amongst many other personally fun and exciting projects and loves.
Lana Nguyen is an independent curator, writer and researcher based on Wurundjeri Country with a particular focus on projects that stem from and interact with the politics and cultures of place. She is currently focused on responding to the growing environmental crisis through A Climate For Art, an initiative which brings together people and organisations across the small to medium sector through collective fossil fuel divestment and critical climate conversations.
She is also very interested in place-based, site-responsive projects. Alongside Uncle Peter Swain and Lucas Ihlein, Lana is currently curating the 2028 Cementa Festival, a socially engaged art festival in a regional post-industrial town on Dabee Wiradjuri Country in New South Wales, Australia.
Bek Berger is an Australian-born artist, curator and dramaturg based in Berlin. Her practice explores how curiosity and experimentation can create new forms of connection, collaboration and reciprocity between artists and communities. From 2020 to 2024, Bek curated Homo Novus, the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre in Riga, where she collaborated on Creative Europe projects including ACT (Art-Climate-Transition), THE BIG GREEN and the Nordic-Baltic network FOREST SCHOOL. She was awarded the Saari Residency (Finland) in 2023 and 2025, and received an Australia Council HIAP Residency in 2020.
A Climate For Art (ACFA) is a campaign that unifies the climate response in the arts through divestment and community building. They see the climate crisis as a cultural crisis that requires a cultural response. With a focus on divesting from banks and superannuation companies that support fossil fuels – ACFA is focused on collectivising through tangible actions, as well as growing critical climate dialogues through a community of practice, built from an ongoing series of events, creative projects and gatherings.
https://www.aclimateforart.com.au/
Creative Climate, funded by Creative Australia, is the new national peak body for arts and climate providing leadership, connections, advocacy and access to high-quality resources that support artists, arts workers and arts and cultural organisations and their funders to transition from a carbon economy and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
https://www.creativeclimate.org.au/
The Green Academy and The Big Green project behind is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.