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e18 ccl usa – a compilation of 10 episodes
Season 1 Episode 17
- I think the arts and culture more widely has a huge role to play in shaping our belief systems and values that determine the way that we relate to the environment.
Sholeh Johnston, e08, conscient podcast
Creative Climate Leadership USA (ccl usa) was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona from March 8-14, 2020 thanks to a collaboration of EcoArts Connections, the University of Arizona and the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) based at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
e18 excerpts from e08-17 brings together 10 excerpts from conscient podcast episodes 8 to 17 drawn from the Creative Climate Leadership USA series. To hear the complete interviews, go to :
Audio introduction for this series, Saturday, March 14th, 20
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Note: below is transcription of an audio introduction for this series of episodes that I recorded on Saturday, March 14th, 2020.
I'm at the biosphere in Oracle, Arizona.
I just ended my participation in the creative climate leadership course, and I recorded a number of episodes for the conscient podcast during this week.
I decided to present them as a series because they are a set of conversations with participants and they all have interconnections in terms of discussions about leadership, climate change, cross sectoral collaboration between art and environment and other things: storytelling, circus arts, aesthetic, technical, methodological…
There's lots of very interesting content that I was able to capture here and so I present them as a set of podcast episodes that have connections between them and that I encourage listeners to explore, because they all, in one way or another, touch upon the theme of leadership in and around the climate crisis.
What happened this week was also very troubling for all of us because the COVID-19 virus started hitting very strong this week and many governments around the world started imposing restrictions and self-imposed isolation, for people like me, for instance, coming back from the US to Ottawa.
What was really interesting was how this group of leaders discussed and developed language about the role of the arts in times of crisis. (note: see Crisis: Principles for Just and Creative Responses)
I was part of that group and it was certainly a highlight for me, having had the privilege to be here and having spent time thinking through not only the role of art, in and around change, but specifically in
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