2021 Members' Posts | ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene

Here are our posts so far for 2021.

You can find over 130 previous posts from our growing network of members published in 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 — and you can also explore all our posts by category, by author listed in our sidebar, or as a constantly updated random selection.

February 2021

Dead Kid’s Fingers & Living Soils

by Anthony Bennett
22 February 2021
Endangered Worlds
840 words: estimated reading time = 3.5 minutes + 1 minute gallery

Multidisciplinary artist Anthony Bennett shares the inspiration behind his sculptures on the crucial role of the usually disregarded fungus in returning life to soils following mass extinction events — and what this offers us in imagining possible human extinction.

January 2021

Conversations with Work That Connects

by Julia Marques
29 January 2021
Conversations
2,970 words: estimated reading time 12 minutes + videos

Climate change dramatist and activist Julia Marquesintroduces a series of lively and engaging conversations she has recorded with fellow members. Artists and researchers explore their experiences with wide-ranging topics which inform the creative work that ClimateCultures celebrates.

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New Members

Asha Alexander – Learner and educator, heading a primary school that has embedded climate literacy and leading on climate change as Executive Leader for a global education provider.
Gloria Barnett – Passionate marine conservation champion, scuba diver, filmmaker, educator and children’s author, whose mission is to help people of all ages understand the world of oceans.
Alan Hesse – Author-illustrator, educator and conservation biologist inspired by nature’s majesty and fragility and the need to protect it and who believes that education should be fun.
Neil Kitching – Geographer and energy specialist who has witnessed climate change’s creeping effects and whose book Carbon Choices addresses common-sense solutions to our climate and nature crises.
Tim Maslen – Part of collaborative art duo Maslen & Mehra, who avoid singular engagement with sustainable narratives and tackle the complexity of economic, social and environmental issues together.
Jennifer Mehra – Part of collaborative art duo Maslen & Mehra, who avoid singular engagement with sustainable narratives and tackle the complexity of economic, social and environmental issues together.
Lionel Playford – Landscape artist engaged with the here-and-now of the weather-world and with poetic ideas about our evolving relationship with nature, often working outdoors with others.
Laura Sedgwick – Experienced producer combining climate concerns with theatre, looking to take sustainability lessons and practices from the subsidised theatre sector to the industry’s more commercial elements.
Robin Walter – Forester and writer of nonfiction and poetic work on trees and the changes needed in the British landscape to deal with climate and ecological emergencies.
Quentin Young – Writer, climate communicator and emerging comic creator working creatively as a storyteller with the aim of reaching mainstream audiences on the issue of climate change.

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2021 Members’ Posts

Dead Kid’s Fingers & Living Soils

Conversations with Work That Connects

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