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The Climate Arts Incubator

In 2024, DearTomorrow developed a new strategic communications program to help facilitators and educators engage their communities around the climate crisis.

The Story

Climate change has wide-ranging impacts on our mental health and wellbeing, showing up in different ways across geography, culture, and generations. We created the Climate Arts Incubator to explore how art can be a catalyst for social change, and how we can use storytelling to connect people across generations and cultures.

The Outcome

This series is a deep dive into future-imagining. We piloted our Climate Arts Incubator with partners in Slovakia, Armenia, South Africa, and Colombia. Guest experts Leslie Davenport and Harriet Shugarman joined us to share their knowledge and experience with the group.

We helped our partners adapt and implement a range of programs in their home communities, including intergenerational climate-arts workshops, performances, participatory installations, and letter writing campaigns.

“It has been incredibly important and fulfilling to work with DearTomorrow … Going through the series with the DearTomorrow team has given me space to hone in on how I can do this work in my context to sustain the work of existing climate actors while also finding ways to bring new people into the movement.”

Sarah Robyn Farrell, Climate Lounge, South Africa

The Impact

Through the program, our partners were able to reach more than 700 people in just six months, and now have the knowledge and skills to apply our narrative approach to their ongoing work with communities across the world. Through programs like the Climate Arts Incubator, we’re helping our partners build the collective strength to face upcoming challenges, unlocking the power that exists within communities to make change.

 

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