How arts & culture work for our planet
The climate conference “endlich” in Augsburg two weeks ago was – on many levels – a true blessing for me. It was emotional, connecting and affirmative, inspiring and empowering at the same time. Very socially sustainable indeed! The human connections made and inspirations released still reverberate today. Here are my highlights and thoughts to content, play and connection. “endlich”...
Today kicks off the nationwide theatre project with the German title “Auf die Plätze! Endlich! Los! – Theater-Staffellauf fürs Klima”. It is a relay run (“Staffellauf”) from theatre to theatre, from north to south in 18 days throughout the country. It is a symbol of and a demand for more sustainability and climate protection in the theatre sector – a...
Past Friday on the 25th of March 2022, the Fridays For Future movement went out on the street again for global climate strike number 9. In Germany, it counted 220.000 activists demanding to put people before profit. In the face of the Russian war against Ukraine, especially we Europeans became aware of just how much we are dependent. On what?...
The climate crisis keeps the world in check. Scientists warn, Fridays For Future strike, the world leaders meet and debate – recently at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Can we keep the 1.5 C promise of Paris alive? And is it not time to integrate a very important ally, namely the creative community into the planning? Because they...
Ich mache mit diesem Artikel gleich drei ungewöhnliche Dinge: 1. gibt es ihn auf Deutsch, da er an die deutschen Leser*innen und Wähler*innen gerichtet ist , 2. geht es dieses Mal nicht um Kunst & Kultur und 3. werde ich persönlich, was mir nicht leicht fällt, aber in Anbetracht der Situation dennoch notwendig erscheint. Ich sage es klar heraus:...
We know about the potential of arts and culture to stimulate change. Social transformation processes need more than rational logic. In order to engage a critical mass for transformation to take place, it needs emotional involvement. Art is able to create such emotional involvement. Art makes complexity human. This is extremely important regarding the complex and for us Western societies very “distant”...
