Are you an artist, creative, or collective passionate about the environment, community engagement, and the power of art to inspire change? The TIDAL ArtS Lighthouse Calls are now open, offering a unique opportunity to turn your artistic vision into a force for good.
Backed by the European Union, this open call invites innovative, environmentally conscious creatives from across Europe to take part in a groundbreaking initiative aimed at restoring our ocean and waters by 2030.
Lakescape is a creative platform exploring the relationships between water, design and people. Lakescape connects artisans and designers from the European Great Lakes of Vänern, Ohrid Lake and Balaton to investigate and highlight how humans and water can coexist in sustainable ways.
🍀 Is climate catastrophe inevitable? What tools can we use to slow down climate change?
🌱How can artists reconcile their creative pursuits with the urgent need for environmental sustainability? Ukrainian environmentalist-turned-potter, Yuliya Makliuk, works within a framework she calls “Ceramics in the Anthropocene”, exploring the connections between clay art and climate change. Her recent research project and book, Potters Save the World, are dedicated to lowering the carbon footprint of ceramics making. Through the lens of ceramic studio art, Yuliya will unfold the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of art, craft, and ecological responsibility.
Dear teacher / educator,
Following your interest in the teachers’ training “Sustainability Education and Empowerment through Drama – SEED”, we are hereby inviting you to attend the 1st online Info Session which is designed to help the educators to apply for the trainings.
🌱How can we develop sustainable food systems? Open questions like this call for creative ideas. But training programmes for future professionals in fields like food economics have rarely prioritised creative skills. Anke Strauß is one of the people changing this. At Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, near Berlin, Germany, students in a new bachelor’s programme on cultures of food and farming do learn a lot about topics such as soil quality, value chains, or organic production methods as seen from science and technology. But right in the first semester, they also take a course where they explore artistic approaches under Anke’s guidance.
Join us to create a sustainable and creative Europe in our mini-conference series!!
As part of the The Big Green project, the Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 Cultural Capital (Austria), inforelais (Austria), Pro Progressione (Hungary), Marche Teatro (Italy), and Xamk (Finland) invite you to a series of inspiring mini-conferences, symposia and keynotes. Discover how we can create a greener future through innovative and sustainable approaches, together. 💡
Participation is free of charge.
🏡Ecovillages and similar communities are places where people experiment with sustainable living. More often than not, they are home to creatives. Typically, creative visioning is what drives their development in the first place, and they often use art and culture to connect with their neighbours and a wider public. For example, Green Academy Episode 4 features community design researcher Rui Vasques and the Eco Campus of 🌎Live With Earth Association (www.livewithearth.org)🌎 in Portugal. What is your experience of eco-communities as creative spaces? What questions would you like to ask about the topic?
The Colours of Our Earth: Building an Eco-arts Community from the Ground – with Rui Vasques
The second Green Academy of season 2024–25, with a focus on soil!
The partners of the Green E.Th.I.Cs project began this journey together nearly three years ago. During this time, each of us has dedicated countless hours to imagining, writing, rehearsing, and preparing for the final presentations and games. We’ve also worked to spread the message of our project: the urgent need to combat climate change. Each artistic partner of the Green E.Th.I.Cs project is preparing a similar performance based on the same model and with the same goal: raising awareness among different groups of people about climate change through theater and a game like the “Goose Game.” Financed by the European Union, there are eighteen artistic groups from twelve European nations participating in this initiative. Over the next few months, each of these groups begins to present their final performances and games to children and adults, in both indoor and outdoor spaces, across different countries in Europe. In this edition, we’ll be sharing some of these experiences. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
