In 2021, Scene Stirling commissioned a cohort of five artists to reflect on the COP26 conference, and how climate change impacts their lives and practice.

Working collectively over a few months, the cohort elected to build an ‘ecosystem’ of ideas, germinating concepts that balance disparate art practices, differing perspectives and contrasting experiences, coming together to create a harmonious whole.

The Scene Stirling Climate Change COP26 Commissions cohort is represented by filmmaker Sean Hall, performance artists Kate Clayton and David Sherry, musician Rory Green, and poet Ojo Taiye, working with each other for the very first time on this occasion, and mentored by artist, curator and peer-educator Jonathan Baxter.

The ‘Creative Ecosystems’ exhibition will be the first time their collective work is publicly shown. The exhibition will feature drawings, poetry, original music and sound work, video, and performance in what will be a uniquely immersive and thought-provoking experience.

Do you want to engage with more diverse audiences? Do you want to be more accessible as an organisation? Do you want to be more inclusive?

Online event, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/improving-equality-diversity-inclusion-skillshare-training-workshop-tickets-299444004077

Come to this taster training session on Tue 24th May, 2-4pm, to learn best practices from initiatives, projects and organisations working with diverse communities. You will hear from:

-Shgufta Anwar, founder of Al-Meezan, about how they engage the local Muslim community on climate change.

-Anna Baran from Granton Goes Greener / Granton Parish Church / Eco Congregation, about how they engaged the local Polish and Christian communities.

-Ali, Lottie Evans and Maisie McDavid from Transition St Andrews, about their bikes for all abilities initiative.

-Sandy Winterbottom from Women Climate Action, about how they engaged with women.

-Steven McCluskey from Bikes for Refugees, about their bike redistribution project with the refugee communities.

These examples will then be followed by facilitated breakout rooms to share learning and best practice on the themes of Faith, Race, Disability & Women.

We will conclude this training with final tips and advice from Aekus Kamboj, Environment Officer for the Ethnic Minority Environmental Network / CEMVO Scotland.

The session will be held on zoom. A link will be emailed prior to the event.

We will be collecting key points into a document and encourage all participants to share resources. This is an initial taster training. This taster training will be followed by more sessions on the topic.