ACFA Symposium (recordings)
In February 2025, in partnership with Next Wave, City of Melbourne and George Paton Gallery, A Climate for Art held a symposium which aimed to build relationships and extend a vocabulary around how culture underpins the climate crisis. We brought together a range of speakers to survey past and current key projects, ongoing practices, and thinkers from the arts, academia, activism and climate campaigning.
Listen back to recordings of some of this incredible program:
Growing Perspectives
Ronen Jafari and Sebastian Henry-Jones
from West Space
Orientation
Angharad Wynne-Jones
Talk It Out
(Group Conversation)
Targeting Finance
Market Forces
Labours Worth Saying Yes To
Jacina Leong
Relational Ecologies Across Art and Academia
CACP
Retired Responsibility / Ecocide and Genocide
Zena Cumpston
Taking a Worldview
Erica McCalman
A Climate for Art
A Climate For Art (ACFA) is a campaign that unifies the arts around the issue of our changing climate through divestment practices and community building. ACFA sees the climate crisis as a cultural crisis that requires a cultural response.
With a focus on financed emissions – banking and superannuation – ACFA is focused on collectivising our response through tangible actions, as well as growing critical climate dialogues through a community of practice, built from an ongoing series of events, creative projects and gatherings.