Ahead of the submission deadline for feedback on the National Cultural Policy, we're saying #CultureIsClimateInfrastructure
Three steps you can take:
1. Read @clairegcoleman article 'Listen to Indigenous voices on Climate and Country' at Arts Hub.
2. Read our submission to the National Cultural Policy calling to formally recognise the arts and culture sector as essential climate infrastructure.
3. Join us in calling for action and resources to support the sector to respond to the climate crisis as the biggest existential threat facing the arts.
We’ve developed a guide for independent artists to use or adapt as you like, and share on your socials. Links to Claire's article, our submission, and the guide for your own submission is in the link in our bio. #CultureIsClimateInfrastructure
The Australian Government is inviting public feedback on its next National Cultural Policy, which will build on the five pillars of Revive — First Nations first, diversity, artists’ centrality, strong institutions, and audience reach — to address emerging priorities and guide the nation’s creative future.
It’s crucial that climate is addressed in the next iteration of the policy. Creative Climate is developing a draft submission and inviting the sector to sign it alongside making your own submissions. We will share the submission in our May newsletter and on our website.
Deadline: 24 May, 11.59pm (AEDT)
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The Burrinja Climate Change Biennale's 2026 Acquisitive Award Exhibition invites Australian visual artists to submit works confronting the climate emergency for a chance to win prizes and exhibition in the Dandenong Ranges from 22 August to 25 October.
Deadline: 24 April
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Are you in an organisation or peak body that is regularly funded by Creative Australia?
If so we’d love to hear from you about what’s driving climate action in your context and what we can do to support you.
Creative Climate and Creative Australia are hosting a series of round tables for sector consultation ahead of co-designing a road map for new capacity building programs.
If you aren’t in a regularly funded organisation but have some ideas, please get in touch. Email us at [email protected].
22 April 10-11am (AEDT)
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Co-Curated by The Theatre Practice (Singapore) and Creative Climate (Australia)
Hosted by the National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore is proud to be the host city for ISPA’s Mid-Year Congress this May. The Congress will commence with the Antony Field Academy and we’re excited to be co-curating the event alongside our colleagues in Singapore from Theatre Practice. This gathering positions sustainability not as a checklist or a top-down mandate, but as a living, shared inquiry shaped by the experiences and insights of all participants.
Expressions of interest close on Wednesday 22 April for participants to Bring Your Own Meeting (BYOM) to the event. Bring Your Own Meeting (BYOM) is a participant-led format that creates space for shared inquiry, dialogue, and exchange.
22 April
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Part of High Tides by 4A
Are you an artist or climate activist wanting to connect with others? Join facilitators Angharad Wynne-Jones and Lana Nguyen from Creative Climate, who will share the work of Creative Climate and explore our responses and relationships to the climate polycrisis. Happening tomorrow!
181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket, NSW
19 April, 2-4PM (AEDT)
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🌏 WORKSHOP // Joy and Purpose in the Climate Polycrisis: A Creative Climate Gathering.
Are you an artist or climate activist wanting to connect with others?
Join facilitators Angharad Wynne-Jones （@angharadcreativeclimate ) and Lana Nguyen (@l_a__n__a ) from Creative Climate(@creativeclimateau ), who will share the work of Creative Climate and explore our responses and relationships to the climate polycrisis.
This workshop will collectively identify capacities and processes to take practical steps in our practices that support our responsibility to Care for Country.
Supported by Creative Climate (@creativeclimateau ).
✨Creative Climate:
Funded by Creative Australia as the national culture, arts and climate action peak body, delivering sector support, engagement, participation and systemic transformation, funded by Creative Australia.
✨Angharad Wynne-Jones:
Facilitator of Creative Climate. From 2011- 2017 she was Artistic Director at Arts House Melbourne where she initiated Refuge – a six year publicly engaged investigation into the role of cultural institutions in climate catastrophes. She was co-founder of Chunky Move, Associate Director of Adelaide Festival, Artistic Director and CEO of London International Festival of Theatre and Founder Director of TippingPoint Australia - energising the cultural response to climate change. She is Co-Chair of Aphids and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement GreenRoom award in 2026.
✨Lana Nguyen:
An independent curator, producer and cultural worker on experimental projects that stem from the politics of place. She co-instigated A Climate For Art (@aclimateforart ), a coalition of small-to-medium organisations who are divesting from fossil fuels and forming collective spaces for learning about climate justice, and is a co-founder of Creative Climate.
🗓 Sunday 19 April, 2–4pm
📍 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
🎟 Free, RSVP via link in bio
📷 1–2: Creative Climate workshop at Bundanon
📷 3: Angharad Wynne-Jones
📷 4: Lana Nguyen
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#4Acentre #CreativeClimate #HighTides #ClimatePolycrisis #ArtAndClimate #WhatsOnSydney #SydneyEvents
A new force for arts and climate has arrived.
Creative Climate’s brand is rooted in connection, care, and collective action. Inspired by mycelium networks — the unseen systems that connect, support, and regenerate ecosystems — the visual identity reflects the organisation’s role as a connector across the arts, climate, and community. A low-carbon, lo-fi aesthetic underpins the system, using dithered imagery, system fonts, and restrained motion to model sustainability in practice. The result is a brand that feels grounded, generous, and quietly powerful.
From national advocacy to community-led events and resources, the identity is designed to hold many voices and stories — growing and evolving like mycelium itself. Creative Climate’s brand doesn’t just represent change; it creates the conditions for it to spread.
Photography 📸
Slide 4: Launch photography @astridmulder.photography
Slide 7: Mycelium simulation based on open source visual code experiment called ‘Random Growth’ by Jeff Thompson
Dither tool: @antl.ii
Image descriptions:
Tile 1: Creative Climate poster on a fence in front of a canola field. The poster says creative climate and has three pink and yellow ovals with dithered textures.
Tile 2: An animation of the growing mycelium on yellow background with “creativeclimate” logo in black.
Tile 3: A white canvas tote bag on a bed of yellow flowers. The bag says creative climate and has three vertical ovals with yellow and pink dithered textures.
Tile 4: Image of a person from Creative Climate launch in front of a table of native plants.
Tile 5: An animation of a wheat field that has been treated with a yellow and pink dithering effect.
Tile 6: Mock-up of the Creative Climate website on a phone screen
Tile 7: An animation of the pink and yellow image of mycelium forming a circular shape
That’s a wrap! If you haven’t already, please sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with all our movements through 2026. We’re really looking forward to organising with you. Have a wonderful holiday period and catch you on the other side 🌱
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Our final session for Adaptive Futures 2026 is about to begin.
Join us for our last workshop of the year chatting Speculative Futures with Pippa Bailey and Dr Jen Rae.
Register now via the link in bio 🔗
Theatre Green Book Australia (TGBA) and Arts on Tour launched a joint initiative, the Green Circle.
Facilitated by TGBA co-founder, Grace Nye-Butler, the Green Circle has provided a support and knowledge framework to a Circle of seven companies, including Sydney Dance Company, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin Theatre Company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, Performing Lines, and Monkey Baa Theatre Company, to achieve ‘Baseline Standard’ of the internationally recognised Theatre Green Book Australia.
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