CREATIVE CLIMATE ACTION - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE ARTIST

Wednesday 25th October

As alarm grows in our communities in response to the rapidly escalating Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, artists are helping to reimagine our systems to be more creative, caring, accountable and hopeful.

We are a vital workforce of adaptive, passionate, and creative people, using extraordinary skill to stir senses, connect hearts and minds, and to ask difficult questions and raise awareness of the deepening crisis. We follow First Nations protocols in Caring for Country.

We are bringing unique perspectives and challenging us all to proactively collaborate in creating a better future.

To remind Australian policy makers of their obligations under the Paris Agreement, we are engaging in a locally based, national day of creative action on 25th October, the International Day of the Artist.

Wherever you are, this is an opportunity to share your work and your passion for a livable planet.

Whatever your medium, whichever First Nations country you are on, please join us in presenting Creative Climate Action. Help remind decision makers of the importance of artists in Sustainable Transition Planning, Emergency Response, Disaster Recovery and in collectively creating a liveable future.

Please post images or short videos to SM platforms using hashtags #Artists4LiveableFutures #InternationalDayofArtists

#artists4climate and tagging @CulturalGardeners,

Tag or message a politician:

Federal Arts Minister @tony_burke_au and Environment & Water Minister Tanya Plibisek;

Federal Minister for Climate Change, Chris Bowen

ACT Minister for the Arts, Tara Cheyne,

ACT Minister for Climate Change, Economic Development & Tourism Andrew Barr

NSW Arts Minister John Graham and Enviroment Minister Penny Sharpe,

Victorian Minister for Environment, Tourism & Major Events Steve Dimopoulos

Victorian Minister for Creative Industries, Colin Brooks

Victorian Minister for Climate Action, Energy and Resources Lily D'Ambrosio

SA Minister for the Arts, Andrea Michaels & SA Environment Minister, Susan Close

Qld Minister for the Environment, Leanne Linard & Qld Arts Minister, Leanne Enoch

WA Minister for the Environment & Climate Change Reece Whitby;

WA Minister for the Arts, David Templeman

NT Minister for the Arts Chancey Paech, NT Minister for Major Events Paul Kirby,

NT Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water Security Lauren Moss

Tasmanian Minister for the Environment + Climate Change, Roger Jaensch

Tasmanian Minsiter for the Arts, Madeleine Ogilvie

Who we are

Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Justice

We are over 300 individuals and organisations from all states and territories, working in the cultural sector, deeply concerned with taking action on the converging planetary climate and ecological crises. Find us on Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook, X and via the Arts Front platform.

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