Commissions

At the heart of Season for Change are 15 cross-artform commissions nationwide including 9 participatory commissions with arts partners, 4 Common Ground commissions and 2 Common Ground co-commissions for artists to create collaborative works centred around under-represented communities in the climate movement. Explore some of the commissions below and more will be announced in early 2021.

Person sitting in a dark space with a light from above illuminating leaves falling on them

Ergon Theatre

Bee the Change

Contact, Manchester

A performance-based work about futures and the climate crisis.

Artist Selina Thompson sits at a table, looking at a conch shell balanced on her right palm.

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Immersion

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Selina Thompson and an intergenerational group of younger and older women of colour from Tower Hamlets explore democratic participation and the effects of climate change.

Zena Edwards

Cece’s Speakeasy

Apples and Snakes

An immersive poetic experience where spoken word artists are commissioned to write new works that inspire hope and action in a climate emergency.

hands holding two little trees with roots and soil

Ruth Ben-Tovim, Anne-Marie Culhane, Lucy Neal and Shelley Castle

Walking Forest

A project spanning ten years honouring women activists globally.

postcard on post in empty warehouse space saying Live for the Future in capital letters

METIS

Love Letters to a Liveable Future

Cambridge Junction

A new show imagining the world(s) we want to live in.

Empty shopping plaza with no people, 2 bins and 1 trees

Xavier de Sousa, Nwando Ebizie, Nicolas Henninger, Jake Krushell

The Space Between

East Street Arts

A series of interactive and participatory commissions that bring together science, art, and activism in communities in Leeds.

Four images as tiles. From top left: a road running through a field; people sitting at tables with hands on their heads; The word compassion written on a stone bench; The word Imagine on a wooden board

Happy Museum

No Going Back

Conversations and a peer learning programme inspiring museums and their communities to shape new stories and actions to address the climate and ecological emergency.

Ling Tan

Chinatown Climate Exploration

Chinese Arts Now

Explore how the Chinatown community make sense of the impact their complex identities have in affecting their everyday actions to tackle the climate crisis.

A person with shoulder length hair photographed from behind so face isn't visible is listening to the audio tour while reading a booklet

Duncan Speakman

Only Expansion

Watershed

An immersive and visceral audio walk in response to our current ecological crisis.

Love Ssega

Airs of the South Circular

A recorded EP, visual trailer, pamphlet and comic about the tragic effects of air pollution in the South Circular and London Boroughs of Lewisham and Southwark.

Hwa Young Jung

Wilding Nature

Workshops with the young people at risk of entering, and experience within, the criminal justice system will lead to a co-produced game.

Rose poses in front of a white background, wearing a pale pink and green sweater.

Rosa Cisneros

Roma: Recycle-Reuse-Reimagine

A series of art workshops in South Yorkshire on the importance of both Roma history and recycling

Jennifer Farmer & Zoë Palmer

The Dream(ing) Field Lab

Three days of rest, rituals and collaboration to create a climate justice manifesto and a practical field kit.

Balraj Samrai & Farah Ahmad Khan

Planet-People-Power

Manchester Museum

Transmitting the sound of ecological imagination, thinking and action across Manchester via grassroots radio networks