CLICA
Young Climate Campaigners for the European Green Deal
CLICA leverages artivism (art + activism) to promote youth engagement with climate change and increase the voice of disadvantaged youth in the EU’s climate policy.
PP Green
PP Green is our newest pillar that focuses on how art can help bring about environmental & social sustainability. Throughout history, art has been a catalyst for social change, yet, its potential in the context of sustainability remains unexploited. Efforts in this direction remain fragmented and isolated and the Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS) is still not treated as a relevant stakeholder by the EU’s sustainability policies. To change the value proposition of CCS, we are building a network of environmentally-engaged artists, we equip them with innovative knowledge and tools to tackle climate change and we facilitate collaborations among policy-makers and the creative and environmental sectors.
Máté Tenke – cultural manager, Head and Heart of PP Green
Although the arts have centuries of experience in the struggle for freedom and human rights, they have yet to tackle the greatest collective challenge facing humanity: climate change. Its current toolkit is not up to the task, full of harmful topos such as the individualism of Romanticism, the image of the lonely hero, the fragmentation of modernism, the short-sightedness of today’s mainstream media, which make art incapable of rising to the task. I am interested in this challenge, which is also an opportunity for renewal that transforms both the ideological and practical tools of art.
Bálint Antal – project manager
In my opinion, art should not exist for its own sake, it should be a tool that works towards an end goal. Such a goal could be the fight against climate change. What I enjoy the most about my work is that at PP Green, we strive to bring these two fields closer together while offering a platform to the artists and experts involved in our projects and helping our environment and the communities involved. In my projects, I try to build on the experiences I have gained in my personal life and in my artistic adventures, so a do-it-yourself attitude and a community-centered, participatory approach are particularly important to me.
GREEN E.Th.I.Cs
GREEN E.Th.I.Cs – Green Experience through Theatre Inspiring Communities is a European social and community theatre project developed by 18 partners in 12 countries. It implements cultural initiatives of civic engagement to create climate change awareness and foster citizens’ critical thinking and proactivity with respect to the European Green Deal, through performing arts. It adopts playfulness to make climate activism more engaging, via board games, online games and theatre.
The Big Green
With our flagship project, The Big Green, we are bringing environmentally-engaged artists under one large-scale umbrella initiative and experiment with innovative ways of using art to promote sustainability.
Future.Repair.Machine
The international cooperation future.repair.machine investigates the concept of repair as a sustainable and innovative tool in the cultural and social environments of five European cities: Graz, Eindhoven, Budapest, Berlin and Munich.
