GLOBAL DAY OF CREATIVE ACTION
While people sit in rooms talking about it, people from around the world mobilise to participate in a Day of Creative Action: a visible, powerful, immediate and tangible response to the detrimental and significant effects of climate disruption on all our communities.
The project intersection with world leadership days where those of influence gather to discuss what can be done. Previously, outside of these meetings you may have seen huge creative installations or performance works: artists communicating the most vital elements of the conference in the most powerful medium imaginable.
But, not everyone sees these incredible works, is able to get to Dubai, Paris, New York or Glasgow or perhaps even has access to the internet to see the works online. Even more importantly - these messages often don't relate to everyone and their experience of the climate crisis, at a local level.
This open-platform project aims to decentralise who gets to create artworks about climate change and the climate crisis, and include broader audiences in the conversation.
On a designated day, for 24 hours, artworks emerge around the world that are locally relevant to help inform, inspire and provoke a better understanding around the climate crisis, and what we can do about it.
These artworks provide a visible, powerful, immediate and tangible response to the detrimental and significant effects of climate disruption on all our communities. When we join these forms of creative expression together, they create a huge global body of work that has power, impact and shows the diverse struggle we are all facing together.
2 global events
158 artworks
34 Countries
1.5M eyeballs
Artistic Expression:
Encourage a complete range of forms and mediums of creative expression to encourage access, inclusivity, and decentralisation of artistic expression.
Community Connection and Education:
Solutions-focused artworks and forms of creative expression that are intended to inform, educate, inspire and motivate communities into individual and collective action.
Global Engagement:
Involve artists and audiences from various countries, promoting cultural exchange, local perspectives, and diverse perspectives.
Localisation:
Elevate voices and perspectives from silenced or ignored communities who are the first and worst affected by the climate crisis to demonstrate impact, adaptation and resilience.
Sick of climate inaction? So are we!
Everyone can join our movement: a global day of creative action to coincide with the global leadership meetings. This is an open-platform, solutions-focused public, creative response to the climate crisis, from right where you are.
Each GDCA, Micro Galleries aims to have artworks to spring up across the world on over 24 hours, and you don’t need to be a professional artist. The work can be ANYTHING: mural, performance, installation, a reading, a poster, projection mapping, music – anything you want to contribute that creates positive input - for you, your community, and the global community. The works will span across all practices, with a particular focus on the involvement of creatives from climate vulnerable countries.
Don’t have an idea but want to participate? No problem, We always commission one of our artists, to create an open-source, simple but powerful public installation with a "how to" pack that you can easily present, so anyone can be an artist! Just sign up, download all the information, and see the video installation guide.
Al participants document their work, creating a digital archive and mapping of global creative responses, interactions, and impact.
Why?
The impacts of climate change are being felt everywhere and are having very real consequences on people’s lives. Climate change is disrupting national economies, costing us dearly today and even more tomorrow. But there is a growing recognition that affordable, scalable solutions are available now that will enable us all to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies.
The latest analysis shows that if we act now, we can reduce carbon emissions within 12 years and hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and even, as asked by the latest science, to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
We have the Paris Agreement – a visionary, viable, forward-looking policy framework that sets out exactly what needs to be done to stop climate disruption and reverse its impact. But the agreement itself is meaningless without ambitious action.
Your creative contribution is an ambitious action!
On 21 September, during the 2019 U.N Youth and the U.N Climate Action Summit, Micro Galleries instigated our first Global Day of Creative Action.
To our shock, amazement and excitement, over 90 works across 27 different countries/states around the world generated new creative expression of, and innovative solutions to the climate crisis. It had an online reach of 190,000 people who engaged directly with the content, over 300 people helped create the works, over 5,000 people saw, participated, asked questions of the works from around the world. Yep. Nearly 200,000 people directly connected with this concept in one form or another.
This project was supported by The Ministry of Culture, Peru, and Jason Stephenson.
6 November, 2021
Our second iteration in 2021. This one had a twist as we were mid-COVID so we exoanded how you could participate.
1. Create a public creative response
2. Register to install our open-source project
3. If in rigid lockdown or due to COVID-safety, digital responses can be submitted this year AND and we even had a team standing by to help make these where needed