Interested in how art, film, and wonder can inspire us to work towards a better future? We're having panelists from the Sundance Film Festival, Grist, and Frame Media join us in a conversation on climate imagination and designing the future we want to see.
What you'll do:
During this hour, you'll get skills and practice opportunities to become a more creative, vibrant, and hopeful climate activist!
In the first half of our Action Hour, you'll hear from our awesome speakers on what climate imagination and creativity means to them. They're coming in from creative writing, film, and journalism to tell us the future they imagine and how they nourish their creativity outside of work.
In the second half, you'll get to spend time with speakers of your choice who will guide you through some activities and prompts like:
- What does 2200 look like to you?
- Draw your ideal climate future.
- How can you turn a scientific paper into art?
About our speakers:
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Aditi Pradhan from the Sundance Institute. She's passionate about creative writing, sustainable fashion, and will guide you through her experience in navigating climate change through the lens of film, fashion, and writing.
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Tory Stephens is the climate fiction creative manager and network weaver from
Grist. He's running their annual climate fiction contest, #Imagine2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors.
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Ben Moe, founder of Frame, is reimagining the future of media. Frame is an award-winning news publication dedicated to exploring the unseen sides of the biggest issues of our time, and they publish interactive documentaries you can easily immerse yourself in on your phone!