New in our Creative Showcase, artist Hanien Conradie shares her new exhibition. Water-Verse showcases a decade of painting, film & performance with water as both medium & teacher. climatecultures.net/portfolio/wa...

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Julian Bishop shares 3 new poems written in response to Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', where dissension between its famous fairy characters plays out in ‘distemperature’ and ruptures in the patterns of nature and the affairs of humans. wp.me/p8dsAT-5re

New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase: Writer & researcher Jules Pretty presents 'Story for Climate and Nature Recovery', his YouTube channel featuring short films with stories about people and places and exploring how story can help bring transformation. climatecultures.net/portfolio/st...

The new Substack from ClimateCultures' Mark Goldthorpe, 'Changing paths through woods and waters', reflects on desire lines in the landscape as ways to reconnect with the more-than-human & our need to expand our failing ‘consciousness contract’. climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/changing-p...

New on the ClimateCultures blog, artist Julien Masson's a recent Southampton community collaboration with artists, residents & businesses. They've used recycled garden furniture, instruments & miscellaneous timber found locally to create public art that transforms public spaces. lnkd.in/exKejDvh

New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase, artist Michael Gresalfi's 'Drop the Beef': a 1940s cabaret-style saxophone blues combining original lyrics & AI instructions to ask us to consider the environmental impacts of our food production and consumption. climatecultures.net/portfolio/dr...

In our latest post, researcher & writer Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction -- writing stories to entertain, raise awareness of effective climate action & inspire sustainable behaviours -- and her latest thrutopian novel, 'The Philosopher and the Assassin'. wp.me/p8dsAT-5pG

Our new post: Dr Anna Hartnell marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina to highlight the human causes (“There is no such thing as a natural disaster”) while questioning ‘Anthropocene’ labellings of human nature as hard-wired for destruction. climatecultures.net/endangered-w...

“Our maps (mental or actual) and our language are two ways in which, even as we describe and value the natural world of which we are a part, we almost inadvertently ‘other’ it, set it apart in some way. ...

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Mary Waltham introduces her and fellow artist Jackie Amies’ joint exhibition on their local ancient woodland. Their art invites our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas, which have been largely untouched by human activity since before 1600.

The latest 'ClimateCultures & more' post on Substack, looks at the sense of agency that hope brings - in contrast with being overwhelmed by the climate and nature emergency or complacent from blind techno-optimism that ‘progress’ inevitably cures its own problems - through the lens of Hope Tales.

New on ClimateCultures: Excited to share 2 new pieces from artist & researcher Iain Biggs. In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process. wp.me/p8dsAT-5mT

Our latest Substack picks up on a recent item about the atmospheric impact (literally) of the great satellite acceleration of the last decade, which now builds in the deliberate 'phase out' of redundant machinery by burning up by re-entry. ... climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/de-orbitin...

New on our blog: Citizen artist Yky challenges fellow artists to consider their roles & responsibilities, alongside those of scientific experts, in how their art engages audiences & other citizens to overcome linear thinking in questions of urban resilience & social complexity. wp.me/p8dsAT-5lB

In the latest Substack post for ClimateCultures&more, 'Here be dragons', ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe takes a lead from artist & researcher Iain Biggs and his recent thoughts on Ursula le Guin and the value of imagination. climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/here-be-dr...

New on the ClimateCultures Blog: Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future? wp.me/p8dsAT-5lW

New on the ClimateCultures blog! Poet & artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year: an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow & care for the seeds of imagination. wp.me/p8dsAT-5li

New at ClimateCultures, Jennifer Leach & Andrea Carr‘s Earth-arts organisation Outrider Anthems invites us into Bullwoman – a dreaming. Their collaborative Portal Theatre project brings everyday reality into rich contact with deeper worlds, suggesting new myths for our times. wp.me/p8dsAT-5ir

New in our Creative Showcase: Sculptor Dan Pooley's Road Gator Fossil blown-out tyre carved in metamorphic marble is an Anthropocene technofossil that may be found in future strata as a reminder of our environmental impact, coastal erosion & life's fragility. climatecultures.net/portfolio/ro...

Our new #FlashFiction #competition has launched. We're asking for <500 words about moments of #epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. @climateculturesetc.bsky.social @andrealearned.bsky.social

New on the ClimateCultures blog: Martin Mahony, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of East Anglia, introduces a new selection of student contributions to our online Museum of the Anthropocene. climatecultures.net/learning-in-...

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