Creative Climate Resilience Together

We stand at a critical crossroads where technical climate data and frameworks for action must transform into lived, community-led reality. It is through place-based, cultural-led experiences that climate action and the strategies around it become shared purpose and agency, finding meaning and long term direction. Through cultural intervention, governance frameworks can be rooted in the reality of their communities and bring a tangible mechanism for a long term vision and responsive plans that move us all away from unhelpful short-term policy and funding cycles.

With support from the BFI, Julie’s Bicycle (JB) is organising a convening of the creative sector, civic organisation, academic minds, and grassroots policymakers, designed to position arts and culture as a primary driver of climate action. By bringing together the ecosystem of practitioners and policy makers, we aim to align our values, cultivate knowledge-exchange, and plant seeds for multilateral collaborations. We will elevate the impactful work already happening in communities and add the power of the cultural sector as essential infrastructure for a climate-just world.

This is more than an event; it is a generous, open-ended space to listen, learn, and bridge the gap between technical policy and lived experience. This event will be the first step towards building a cohesive relational infrastructure, built on trust and a unified vision, needed to co-create a resilient, equitable, and culturally vibrant future.

This session will:

Strengthen the role of the cultural sector as an important architect of community resilience by showcasing high-impact, scalable models of place-led adaptation that prove culture is essential infrastructure for a climate just world.

Create a generous and open-ended space for cultural and community practitioners, academia, and policymakers to listen and learn from one another, exploring how our shared cultural values can bridge the gap between technical adaptation goals and the lived reality of our communities.

A call out to start building a 'relational infrastructure' by nurturing the trust and shared vision needed for future partnerships, allowing cultural and civic leaders to find common ground and move forward as a unified community of practice.

Booking your spot:

Places are limited, so early booking is recommended.

We encourage organisations to share this invitation with other cultural organisations in your network.