SPRINGBOARD local assembly for creative climate action - Borders

Culture for Climate Scotland

Connecting Threads, CABN & Creative Carbon Scotland invite you to join SPRINGBOARD local assembly for creative climate action in the Borders

St Boswells Village Hall

<a href="https://www.creativecarbonscotland.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Creative Carbon Scotland </a>is working with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TweedRiverCulture" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Connecting Threads</a> and <a href="https://www.cabn.info/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CABN - Creative Arts Business Network</a>, and other organisations across Scotland to deliver a series of local assemblies for creative climate action. SPRINGBOARD brings together artists, cultural and sustainability organisations, climate workers, activists, local businesses, third-sector organisations and anyone interested in collaborating to form powerful local networks for creative climate action. Local assemblies are an opportunity to connect with other practitioners in your region to address climate change collectively.At the Borders assembly, Creative Carbon Scotland and Abundant Borders will lead practical workshops, ending the afternoon with a discussion about where we take the network next to deliver creative climate action. Everyone can sign up for two workshops. These local assemblies are for anyone working or volunteering in the climate or environmental sector, the arts, screen, creative industries, museums, heritage, and libraries. Other local assemblies have taken place or are planned. Programme: 12.00: Join us for lunch. Soup and a roll from Cafe Recharge and good pre-workshop chat will be provided.13.00: Introduction to influencing and collaboration.The session will start with a shared introduction to how the creative sector can influence society on climate change, and share key-concepts for good collaboration practice and climate justice. 1﻿3.45: Poetry reading from Amadu Khan. He will act as a fly on the wall throughout the day to observe and listen, and present a response based on these at the end of the day. 2.00: session 1Option 1: Climate justice and arts &amp; culture Climate justice and arts &amp; culture - with focus on land ownership in the Borders. Climate justice is a way of understanding how climate change results from and exacerbates existing inequalities and injustices as well as how climate action can help create a fairer world. Creative Carbon Scotland will be sharing our own research into how climate justice thinking is relevant to the arts and culture sector in Scotland. The workshop will focus on questions around community ownership, and the role of culture in supporting powerful forces of change.A﻿s part of the workshop, you will get a chance to hear about the <a href="https://www.langholminitiative.org.uk/news/community%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cimpossible-dream%E2%80%9D-set-to-come-true-with-success-for-south-of-scotland%E2%80%99s-biggest-community-buyout-" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Langholm Initiative </a> from Jenny Barlow, estate Manager. The Langholm Initiative is a story of hope, community and a powerful symbol of what can be achieved when we come together. Following two epic community land-buy-outs, helped by thousands of people from all walks of life, against impossible odds, the community of Langholm now own 10,500 acres of the stunning Tarras Valley. The community are now creating the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve which is one of the biggest projects of its kind in the UK for people, nature and climate.Option 2: Land(ings)With <a href="https://clairepencak.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Claire Pencak</a> /<a href="https://abundantborders.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Abundant Borders </a>Community food gardens are sites for growing and nourishing community cohesion, multi-species collaboration and regenerative cultural practices. In working with plants, we are given access to their roots and to the community of soil. They take us down with them into the earth, opening up ways for us to become more earthly in our bodies, lives and communities.Drawing on her experience as the Abundant Borders’ project worker for Duns Community Food Garden and her somatic movement practice, Claire Pençak will invite us to reflect together, through sensory and embodied activities, on how food growing offers regenerative processes and metaphors that can transform our relationship to land and to ourselves. What new provocations and languaging might emerge as we spend time together in the company of plants making comfrey fertilisers (dynamic accumulators) and tasting fresh herbal teas? How might ‘composting the ego’ nourish ecological relationships and support us to dwell more sensitively with the earth?3﻿.00: Break and mapping activity 3﻿.20: Session 2Option1: Arts and environmental collaboration on climate changeCollaboration between the arts and environmental sectors can create diverse opportunities for more effective action on climate change. This session will explore the ways that these fields can benefit from collaboration, offer examples of what has been achieved in the past and explore the practical steps needed to make collaborative projects a success. The session will end with an opportunity to consider what a collaborative climate change project would look like for you.Option 2: Land(ings)With Claire Pençak /Abundant Borders Community food gardens are sites for growing and nourishing community cohesion, multi-species collaboration and regenerative cultural practices. In working with plants, we are given access to their roots and to the community of soil. They take us down with them into the earth, opening up ways for us to become more earthly in our bodies, lives and communities.Options thoughout the daySwap ShopCABN will be running a swap shop at this event. It is a free and local exchange where creatives can pass on things (e.g. materials, sheet music, paint, fabric) they no longer want, in exchange for something they need – a cashless bring-and-buy sale! For more details, check their <a href="https://www.cabn.info/2022/12/cabn-swap-shop-manifest-2022/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website.</a>Project sharing tableIf you have a creative or climate related project you want to share on the day please bring materials for it to put on the project-sharing table. I.e. publication, flyers, art objects. M﻿apping of creative climate action in the BordersW﻿e will bring a big map of the Borders and ask you to pin down any relevant creative climate projects you know!About Amadu Khan Amadu Khan (PhD) is Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He uses eco-poetry and storytelling as creative practice to centre individuals’ and communities’ voices, concerns, and aspirations for the refugee condition, climate change, conservation, and environmental justice. For the past decades, he has read and performed his poetry and storytelling at national and international events including Refugee Week events, the Radical Book Fair, the Stanza Poetry Festival, the Scottish Borders Community Orchestra Celebration, the International Scottish Storytelling Festival and at international conferences. <a href="https://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/portfolio-items/amadu-wurie-khan/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Read more about him here. </a>Travel BursariesCABN have an access fund to support travel expenses to the event if you&#x27;re a creative based in the Scottish Borders. Email Julia &amp; Jessie - hello@cabn.info for more info.AccessibilityWe want to remove barriers to participation in these events and are happy to make adjustments to prevent people from being excluded. The hall is fully accessible, with disabled toilets and wheelchair access. Please inform us of accessibility requirements during the registration process or get in touch by email if you would like to provide more information or ask any questions. Please contact maja.rimer@creativecarbonscotland.com at least one week before the event.Please see our <a href="https://www.creativecarbonscotland.com/about/policies-documents/safe-working-statement/#:~:text=Safe%20Working%20Statement%20This%20statement%20sets%20out%20the,all%20our%20online%20and%20face-to-face%20meetings%20and%20events." target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Safe Working Spaces Statement</a> for more information.G﻿etting thereBus times for the venue: Get the number 68 from Galashiels Transport Interchange at 11.30, arriving at St Boswells Bus Stand @ 12.17 or coming from Jedburgh Bus Station at 11.49 &amp; arriving at St Boswells Bus Stand @ 12.17. You will be asked some questions as you sign up. 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