CREATIVE CLIMATE FORUM 2026
Collective Power
Join us on Thursday, September 24, 2026, at Pier 57 in New York City for the Creative Climate Forum: Collective Power —a day-long gathering of creative expression, dialogue, and collective action at the intersection of climate justice and culture.
Registration is FREE and open to all. Priority will be given to those active in climate work from most impacted communities.
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EXPLORE THE FORUM
Hosted by the Human Impacts Institute, this year’s Creative Climate Forum Collective Power brings together artists, organizers, and changemakers to explore how culture can disrupt harmful systems and regenerate more just, connected, and sustainable futures.
Join us for a full day of performances, panels, hands-on workshops, and immersive art installations—all designed to ignite the power of collective imagination and inspire real-world action.
Whether you stay for the whole day or curate your own experience, you’ll leave energized, informed, and ready to take action.
CONVERSATION & LEARNING
Join thought-provoking panels, hands-on workshops, and nature walks happening all day long. Begin by disrupting what holds us back, questioning the systems and stories that shape our world. Then turn toward regeneration, creating space for connection, collective care, and imagining what becomes possible together.
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KEYNOTE GUEST
Kumi Naidoo offers a keynote that resonates with decades of struggle, solidarity, and hope, illuminating the path toward collective liberation. He will speak to the vital force of artivism as both a mirror and a catalyst, awakening the courage needed to build a more just and beautiful world.
About Kumi Naidoo
A South African human rights and environmental justice activist, Kumi Naidoo is the President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, Co-Founder of Global Artivism Initiative, and the former Executive Director of Greenpeace International. He currently serves as a global ambassador for Africans Rising. He is also the former Secretary-General of Amnesty International.
MORE INSPIRING VOICES & WORKSHOP LEADERS
Enhance your skills as a climate leader with insights from invited expert guest speakers and hands-on workshops.
Special guests include:
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Be inspired throughout the day by global artists who ignite climate action through powerful movement, music, and storytelling.
NYC Climate Writers' Collective + Climate Imaginarium
Writers in the NYC area who write on climate crisis topics + host & facilitate climate writing events and a center for climate, community, and culture in New York. City.
Artichoke Dance Company
Innovative and engaging performances paired with environmental activism, education, community building and civic engagement.
AnkhLave Arts Alliance
Advancing artists in the contemporary art realm and harnessing the transformative power of art as a catalyst for difficult conversations, fostering dialogue between diverse communities.
IMMERSIVE
INSTALLATIONS
Between workshops, panels and walks, dive into interactive climate storytelling with our invited creative partners—including the New York Botanical Gardens, THIRTEEN, PBS Nature, DearTomorrow, Grey Area Collective, climate psychologist Leslie Davenport, and Hudson River Park Trust.
Discover ecosystems, share your hopes and climate reflections, and connect through moments of curiosity, resilience, and collective action. and many more.
This is FREE and open-to-the public. For Living Room activations, no registration is required.
PBS NATURE / THIRTEEN
Explore stories and interactive experiences that invite audiences to deepen their connection with wildlife, ecosystems, and the natural world.
GREY AREA COLLECTIVE
Step back in time with a rotary phone—and make a call for the climate. Take a moment to share your reflections on where we are headed, what is at stake, and how our collective power can help meet the climate crisis with courage and action.
NEW YORK BOTANIC GARDEN
Step into a traveling pop-up exhibition, Before New York, that imagines the ecological landscapes of the New York region before urbanization and invites reflection on its living past and possible futures.
THE CLIMATE THERAPIST IS IN
Pause for a supportive, one-on-one conversation with climate psychologist Leslie Davenport, to process climate feelings, build resilience, and reconnect with a sense of agency.
DEARTOMORROW
Become part of the installation by writing a letter to the future. Add your voice to a collective message of hopes, commitments, and actions that can help shape a more livable, just world.
HUDSON RIVER PARK TRUST
(3-6pm only)
Discover the Hudson River’s vibrant marine life through a hands-on touch tank experience with Hudson River Park educators.
COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
Stay for a sunset event overlooking the Hudson River. Join us for this evening filled with networking, music, and climate community connections.
The Creative Climate Happy Hour sponsored by THIRTEEN / PBS NATURE will celebrate the closing of the Human Impacts Institute’s 2026 Creative Climate Forum – Collective Power, with drinks from Harlem Hops, a local BIPOC-women-owned brewery, appetizers from local vendors curated by Maggie Baird, and sunset views over the Hudson River. Hosted at the beautiful Pier 57 Living Room in Manhattan, the evening will feature sneak peaks at NATURE’s upcoming programming, live performance, and offer up a warm and uplifting closing moment for networking, celebration, and collective reflection.
THANK YOU
PARTNERS & ALLIES