Season for Ex-Change One

A three-week programme of free online events for artists, arts organisations and cultural practitioners that ran from 26 October – 13 November 2020.

Watch recordings of discussions and workshops with experts from the creative climate movement and be inspired to take part in the Season for Change Open Programme in 2021.

Explore the events About the programme View Part Two

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Events

Season for Ex-Change

Season for Ex-Change Launch with Jennifer Farmer and Zöe Palmer, Love Ssega, Rosa Cisneros and Hwa Young Jung

Workshop: Arts Practice as Climate Justice

Tackling Climate Change and Building an Inclusive Movement with Zena Edwards

Social Transformations: a Conversation with Social Scientists and Artists (Dr Christina Demski, Hwa Young Jung and Zoe Svendsen)

Workshop: Greening your Live Event or Programme

Workshop: Workplace Climate Action in a Time of Flux

In Conversation: Demystifying Fashion with Lydia Higginson/Made My Wardrobe and Dr Mila Burcikova

Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Chats: Nick Merriman

Q&A with Zena Edwards: Building an Inclusive Movement

In Conversation: Reimagining Futures and Creative Practice with Selina Thompson and Ama Josephine Budge

What if Museums could be Engine-rooms for the Imagination? With Lucy Neal, Rob Hopkins and Hannah Fox

Social Transformations: a Conversation with Adam Corner, Emma Beverley and Kathy Hinde

Workshop: Under Pressure – Ethical Funding during a Crisis

Workshop: Taking a Stand for Climate

Workshop: Making Climate Connections with Simon Curtis and Lucy Neal

In Conversation: Sustainable Cities with Amahra Spence and Aranvir Gawera

Creative Green Awards 2020 in partnership with Season for Change, featuring Love Ssega

About Season for Ex-Change

Season for Ex-Change was a three week programme of free online events for artists and arts professionals to discuss climate action and climate justice. It took place from 26 October – 13 November 2020. Events included:

In Conversations with artists, including: Zena Edwards, Ama Josephine Budge, Selina Thompson and more
Social Transformations: discussions on the future of fashion and sustainable cities
How-To Workshops, including: climate justice in arts programming, ethical fundraising and producing sustainable events
Artist performances and interventions throughout the programme

All events were captioned and/or BSL interpreted.

Who is it for

Season for Ex-Change is for artists, arts organisations, cultural practitioners, producers, curators and anyone who wants to learn about, share knowledge or get ideas and inspiration on embedding climate action and climate justice in their artistic and creative work.

Regardless of if you are a newcomer to addressing climate change in your work, or have been operating in this field for some time, Season for Ex-Change is a place and time for collective listening, learning and action.

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Toolkit

Practical tools and resources for individuals and organisations.

A new collection of guides, case studies and top tips to help the arts & cultural sector fight climate change.

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