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This page focuses on UK arts, sport and culture by, for or involving local communities. Arts, sports and cultural events and resources can help increase awareness of sustainability issues, provoke discussion and exploration of new ideas and solutions.

Image: Blackheath Bike & Kite Festival, Jun 2009. Spectators watching the kite displays. Attribution: Stephen Craven
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  • News SPRING: “We radically re-imagine the piano in today’s throw away culture”. Edinburgh’s Pianodrome is the essence of a circular economy, Daily Alternative (Aug 28, 2024)
  • News Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024)
  • News Women’s football holds immense potential as a lever for climate action, Amy James-Turner, theguardian.com (Jun 11, 2024)

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Events

  • Event Sep 6 - 15, 2024 (Fri-Sun) — Heritage Open Days, celebrating our fantastic history and culture. Your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore, heritageopendays.org.uk

Networks and movements

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Holding Earth (subtitled)
Authors: Culture Declares
Date: 2024-04-22
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Transformative singing to change hearts and minds
Authors: Climate Choirs, Jan 19, 2024
  • culture declares emergency, "a growing movement of individuals and organisations involved in arts and culture who are declaring a climate and ecological emergency. This means truth-telling, care-taking, and change-making" link checked 08:01, 22 May 2024 (UTC) Video: Culture Declares on youtube.com
  • writersrebel.com, added 15:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Climate Choir Movement, "grown rapidly since Autumn 2022 and now has choirs in Bristol, Bath, Oxford, London, Sheffield, Swansea, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Southampton & Guildford." Video channel on youtube.com, added 18:01, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Sport and sustainability

Video

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Climate Choir Movement sing 'People Have the Power' at Restore Nature Now!
Authors: Climate Choirs
Date: 2024-06-24
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The People's Palace of Possibility, Lyth Arts Centre
Authors: Lyth Arts Centre, Jul 19, 2023
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Ben Okri's Letter to the Earth, read by Noma Dumezweni
Authors: Culture Declares
Date: 2021-02-16
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How to's

  • Start a neighbourhood cinema, justact.org.uk
  • Street Party, promoting street parties, which are a chance for people to enjoy their street without traffic for a day, and encouraging neighbourliness across the UK
  • Ten steps to running your own Ideas Farm, November 2012, Wellington H2A

See also

local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages

External links

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Authors Phil Green
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Created March 5, 2017 by Phil Green
Last modified June 30, 2024 by Phil Green
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