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Our Creative Communication programs communicate tough social and environmental topics in creative ways through arts and culture.
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Our Learning-By-Doing programs develop your leadership skills through real-life problem solving and community service.
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Our Curated Actions programs create unique opportunities for you to implement and share your ideas, expertise, and solutions.
Think Like a Kid
We are excited to share our newest film, Think Like a Kid, a series of interviews between children and climate leaders from around the world! These kids sat down to ask the adults questions about their experience, but you will be surprised at what we found!
Help us make more videos like this by subscribing to our YouTube channel. If we reach +1,000 subscribers we will have the opportunity to use the YouTube Space in NYC to create more inspirational videos like this! Click the button below to subscribe today! Thank you for your support!
Artivist with Me
Every Sunday at 10am NYC | Virtual
Nov 15th-December 15th
Join our 2020 Creative Climate Awards Artists for a conversation about art, activism, and why they use creativity to inspire action. Tune in every Sunday for three conversations with NYC artists who are pushing artistic boundaries, while combating the climate crisis.
Grab your favorite brunch treats and have a conversation with the Human Impacts Institute's 2020 Creative Climate Awards artists. Learn about their process, their community, and how they use their creativity to inspire social change.
Creative Climate Awards Opening
Sunday, November 15th 6-8pm NYC | Virtual
Join us for an interactive, virtual experience like no other at our 10th annual Creative Climate Awards launch party!
Meet our artists, network with climate experts, and get inspired to act. It will be an evening of immersive, virtual experiences, including live performances, mingling with participating artists, and networking with climate experts from around the world.
The 2020 CCAs run from November 15th to December 15th and you won't want to miss this kick-off event full of inspiring and innovative ways to address climate change from our very own NYC-based artists.
Art & Action Chats
Every Friday at 12pm NYC | Virtual
November 13th-December 18th
Grab a meal and have a conversation with the Human Impacts Institute's 2020 Creative Climate Awards curators and their special guests. Explore the intersection of the climate crisis with issues, such as racial justice, gentrification, waste and consumerism with NYC's leading cultural institutions, policymakers, artists and activists.
Each week will be facilitated by a different CCA guest curator. Join us for them all!
Friday, November 13th: Bronx Council on the Arts
Friday, November 20th: The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA)
Friday, November 27th: WATCH the new, inspiring film, GATHER, with your family! Join our special WEDNESDAY De-colonizing Food in America Thanksgiving Celebration and get the free code.
Friday, December 4th: Materials for the Arts
Friday, December 11th: Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Friday, December 18th: Chinatown Art Brigade
Telling the Story of the Climate Crisis
Wednesday, November 18th 7-8:30pm NYC | Virtual
Join us for an evening of storytelling and conversation with The Arctic Cycle about the future of our planet and civilization, the story of the climate crisis.
While we usually think of climate change in terms of natural disasters and policy failure, this narrative doesn’t tell the whole story of the massive transition currently taking place. Storytellers can – and most often do – balance this doom-and-gloom approach by highlighting ways in which we are learning and growing, culturally and technologically, in big and small ways.
This salon brings together storytellers from the fields of journalism, theatre, and fiction to discuss what stories we need to tell ourselves to succeed.
Imagine There’s a Future...
Wednesday, December 2nd 7-8:30pm NYC | Virtual
Join us and artist Eve Mosher as she discusses the duality of climate grief and climate courage. She will share methods for creativity in showing us the possibility for great change and evolution that we are approaching in a year of tumult, anxiety and catastrophe.
This salon will explore questions such as: How do we create a future which values human relationships and centers justice and car? How do we emerge from this moment as a species more in tune with the ecosystem in which we live?
Together, we will explore the value of imagination, creativity, play and possibility.
Long-term Thinking in Uncertain Times
Wednesday, December 9th, 7-8:30pm NYC | Virtual
Join us and artist Sarah Cameron Sunde, creator of 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, co-founder of Works on Water, for a process-based conversation with her current collaborators as they work to build the final work in her 36.5 series in Lenapehoking - New York City.
This salon will dive deep into questions, such as: How do we deepen the work when the pandemic throws us a hard-ball? How do we go into the unknown and trust in a slow process? How do we work hyper-locally with a global perspective?
It's Getting Hot in Here! A Climate Action Benefit
Tuesday, December 15th at 7-9pm NYC | Virtual
Join the Human Impacts Institute for our 10th annual Creative Climate Awards closing party! It will be an evening of immersive, virtual experiences, including live performances, mingling with participating artists, and networking with climate superheroes from around the world.
Stay tuned for our line-up and very special guests!
