KYOTO: AN ARTS & CLIMATE GATHERING
Friday, 25 April 2025
14:00 - 16:30 (GMT)
Soho place, London, UK
Have you seen Kyoto and are now feeling excited about the arts’ role amidst the climate crisis? Are you an artist, producer, policymaker, activist, scientist or journalist looking to engage in discussion and make connections for future collaborations, and ultimately enable your work to empower the public?
Join Good Chance, the RSC, Rachel Styne and Jessica Foung, the co-producers of the ★★★★★ sell-out hit Kyoto, for this Arts & Climate Gathering, which will bring together people from across the arts and climate spheres, to foster lasting cross-sector connections and inspiring debate around the question, “What is the power of storytelling in the climate crisis?”
The event will feature provocations from key players offering varied perspectives from across these spheres, which will be interspersed with facilitated group discussion and networking opportunities. The full speaker line up is:
Suzanne Dhailwal (artist, writer and cultural strategist who has led campaigns and artistic interventions to challenge fossil fuel investments in the Arctic and Nigeria),
Holly Race Roughan (Artistic Director of Headlong theatre, leading their Green Justice work including their touring experiments like Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living In the Time of Extinction),
Indré Rockefeller (climate communicator working with Project Drawdown and founder of The Circularity Project, championing circular design in fashion),
Nicky Hawkins (communications consultant working with Heard on public campaigns to shift the public perception on climate issues),
Zoë Svendsen (theatre director, dramaturg and currently developing the eco-creative practice of ‘climate dramaturgy’),
and Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson (Co-Artistic Directors of Good Chance and the Co-Writers of Kyoto).
The event will be moderated by Ankur Bahl (actor, writer and cultural strategist).
