Join us for an open, drop-in session focused on the Seed Funding & Mentoring offer, with the opportunity to discuss project ideas and collaborating with others.

No need to register for this session in advance, just click on the link below to join on Friday 7th August.

Join us for the closing session where we will reflect on the sessions together and discuss next steps.

No need to register for this session in advance, just click on the link below to join on Monday 3rd August.

Talia Nizarane is an emergent multidisciplinary artist and artistic researcher from Cuba. Her socially engaged practice explores themes of migration, climate justice, and mobility inequality, particularly in relation to the Global South. Talia took part in the Creative Agents of Climate Change Programme in 2024, and is back to lead a session on her work and approach to leveraging public programming and community co-creation as tools for structural change, advocacy, and policy influence.

Felipe Altenfelder is the founder of Fora do Eixo, a cultural network in Brazil. In this session he will guide you through their approach to systems change and visioning a path through crises. How to address capitalism and consumerism, and exploring models of self-sufficiency.

Join Matt Sowerby - Youth Programmes Lead - Europe at The Resilience Project - for a workshop designed to give participants the essential tools to activate resilience. In this workshop, we’ll explore the relationship between climate emotions and mental health, and learn how to stay grounded, energised, and connected for the long haul. In part 1, we’ll provide some basic Climate Psychology to frame the session. In part 2, we’ll be explaining the concept of the resilience rucksack, and unpacking/surfacing challenges that might be preventing us from being resilience change-makers. In part 3, we’ll be pivoting towards resilience – repacking our rucksacks with strategies that can support us to be more resilient on a day-to-day basis.

Laura Jones is here to help you find your creative compass for uncertain times! This is an interactive workshop for young creatives who want to make change, but may be feeling overwhelmed by the scale of the climate crisis, the pressure to act, or the uncertainty of where to begin. Through reflection, discussion and practical exercises, participants will identify the values that drive them, explore what kind of creative change-making feels most authentic to them, and use those insights to shape a small, grounded next step for a climate-focused project, campaign or community action.

The session is not about having the perfect idea or fixing everything at once. It is about slowing down enough to hear what matters, reconnecting with personal and collective purpose, and leaving with a clearer sense of direction.

Pedro Inoue is a Brazilian designer and graphic artist. He has collaborated with David Bowie, William Gibson, Caetano Veloso, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Since 2010, he has served as Creative Director of the Canadian magazine Adbusters, and was part of the team that created the #OccupyWallStreet tag and poster, which helped inspire the global #Occupy movement.

In this session, Pedro will take participants through his collaborative process, covering media, methodology, and the ethics of creation along the way.

Join us for an open, drop-in session that is purposefully unstructured to allow participants to meet, chat and discuss ideas.

Join us for a drop-in session where the EarthSonic team will set a wellbeing activity for screen-free afternoon.

Jennifer Uchendu and Tori Tsui will share their personal stories of eco-anxiety and what led them to the work they currently do. They will also explore evidence from eco-anxiety research to help participants understand eco-anxiety in different contexts. Following reflective activities, they will provide tips on coping, building an eco-resilience toolkit, and ways we can actively play our role in climate action.

This session is led by Mohammed Usrof - a Palestinian writer and researcher from Khan Yunis, Gaza, working on energy, infrastructure, and colonial power.

In this session, we'll listen before we strategise. We'll start with sound, thinking about how energy, power, and survival can be heard as much as seen. Then we'll follow a real cross-border campaign: shipments of coal and oil, a refinery, a group of dockworkers who refused to load cargo, and the zines that carried the story from one union hall to the next. Along the way we'll talk about building power from the ground up, through decentralised coproduction as a way of closing the gap between the places most shaped by fossil and colonial violence and the places that actually get heard in global climate politics. You'll leave with the sketch of your own zine, built from a climate issue in your own community.

In this session led by In Place of War / EarthSonic CEO Ruth Daniel, you will go through a 90 minute fundraising power session, aimed at artists, community organisers, grassroots project leads and activists. Ruth will cover the basics of fundraising including resourcefulness in practice; how to choose partners; building long-term supporter connections; and resilience.

Charlie Miller (Videographer: TAKKUUK) and Tom Leah (Creative Director: Saturama) will discuss approaches and explorations in the creation of their respective audio-visual projects; TAKKUUK and Saturama.

They will be discussing: How can you create impactful work without a climate action background? What is the appeal of working across disciplines? How vital are the processes of learning, listening and curiosity when trying to connect audiences to your work? Where does a film and / or audio based project begin?

Shereen Perera is an award-winning cultural producer based in London. Shereen will lead an interactive session focusing on practical skills for turning creative visions into real-world projects.

Vera Chisvo is a Zimbabwean civic engagement practitioner, creative industries professional and multidisciplinary artist. She is the Magamba Africa Program Lead at Magamba Network, where she oversees Africa-wide programming across climate justice, civic technology, creative practice and narrative change.

In this session Vera will present her work on organising within communities and sustainable economic structures - including defining community, organising grassroots movements, and exploring cooperative or social enterprise models in local areas.

This session is led by Tafadzwa Chando - an indigenous, youth, and climate activist from Zimbabwe. They are the Founder of Magna Youth and the Climate Refugees Initiative, as well as the International Programmes Lead for Climate Live. In this workshop, Tafadzwa will explore how climate communication often reaches people who are already engaged, informed, and passionate about environmental action. Yet achieving meaningful climate justice requires us to connect with audiences who may feel disconnected, indifferent, overwhelmed, or excluded from climate conversations.

The workshop explores how radical imagination can help artists and activists create compelling, emotionally resonant work that speaks beyond traditional climate spaces. Participants will experiment with creative techniques used in artivism, storytelling, music, theatre, and participatory arts to reimagine who climate movements are for and how artistic practice can foster inclusion, empathy, and action.

This workshop is delivered by Juan Chao - Founder of the Archivo de Música Origina - an organisation that uses new technologies to preserve Indigenous musical traditions at risk of extinction. Juan will explore assumptions connected to Indigenous communities and the environment, and asks what kinds of institutions, knowledge systems, and cultural narratives have enabled some communities to maintain sustainable relationships with particular territories over long periods of time.

Among these narratives are myths and how traditional myths help regulate indigenous people's actions in ways that support the natural cycles of the places where they live and why preserving these stories is important.

Join us for an open, drop-in session that is purposefully unstructured to allow participants to meet, chat and discuss ideas.

This workshop is delivered by Finlay Carrol - a development producer with five years experience in theatre. In 2024, he took part in the Creative Agents of Climate Change Programme, and received seed funding to collaborate with artists on a musical about eco-grief. In this session, Finlay will explore how young climate leaders can use networks to overcome obstacles and accelerate their creative projects. 

This workshop is delivered by musician and activist Martin Atkins, and will explore sound as catalyst for social transformation, and Punk no-budget fringe activism, and exploring music as spaces for community building. Martin will share his approach to screen-printing as activism and the idea of doing something with nothing.

This workshop is co-delivered by Dave Ojay and Nadia Shaikh. The session will look at environmental connection from two diverse but highly connected contexts and approaches - in the UK and Kenya, and how fostering a sense of belonging to the land is the utmost goal.

This workshop is led by Thayù Kilili - an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, filmmaker, writer, and cultural strategist based in Nairobi, Kenya. The session will look at Thayu’s diverse experience and ‘experiments’, via intersectional, safe spaces for change.

Join us for a drop-in session where the EarthSonic team will set a wellbeing activity for screen-free afternoon.

This session is led by Trust Chikodzo from Zimbabwe. It uses the #KickTotalOutOfAFCON campaign — a pan-African youth campaign that reached 5 million people and forced a public response from TotalEnergies — as a live case study in how to influence institutions and power through creative campaigning. Rather than a lecture, participants will move through the same strategic thinking that shaped the campaign, building their own campaign framework by the end of the session.  

This workshop session is led by Dan Glass and Shawn Mugisha, and focuses on ‘Creating Beautiful Trouble’ which is a book, a web toolbox and an international network of extraordinary artist-activist trainers and creative campaigners focused on strengthening their connected social movements through sharing the tactics and techniques of game-changing creative activism.