Climate, Ecology & Community Resilience

Supporting communities as they navigate ecological change through imagination, dialogue, and place-based creative practice.


Our Theory of Change

1. Climate change is a social, emotional, and cultural crisis — not just an environmental one.

Communities experience ecological disruption through grief, anxiety, loss of livelihood, disconnection, and uncertainty. These challenges require not only policy change, but cultural practices that help people process, connect, and imagine.

2. Creativity strengthens resilience by providing shared spaces to reflect, learn, and envision new futures.

Research shows that arts engagement supports wellbeing, increases adaptive capacity, and fosters cross-community connection — all essential for navigating ecological change.

3. Long-term creative engagement helps communities understand systems and shape collective action.

When participatory arts, place-based research, and community dialogue come together, they support cultural conditions that make effective, community-informed climate policy possible.


Our Approach

Participatory Performance & Creative Dialogue

Works like You, Me, and the Woodsmoke bring communities together to explore ecological questions through embodied experience, conversation, and collective imagination.

Place-Based Research & Community Partnerships

Residencies, local collaborations, and fieldwork connect creative practice with the lived realities of climate impact across rural and urban regions.

Creative Learning & Public Engagement

Workshops, installations, and educational programs help people build emotional resilience, deepen ecological literacy, and participate more fully in climate decision-making.


How to Get Involved

For Organizations & Communities

Partner with us to bring creative climate engagement to your region. Residencies, community dialogues, and place-based creative strategies tailored to your local context.

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For Funders & Supporters

Invest in long-term creative strategies that foster climate resilience and collective wellbeing. We welcome conversations about multi-year support, commissions, and community-based pilot sites.

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Imagination helps us build the futures we hope to inhabit.

Below, Explore the projects and partners that are bringing this work to stages, streets, and sites of civic purpose…