Summit Up
On 25th April, Turning the Tide’s six partners – Fablevision, Scotland – Intercult, Sweden – Instyut Kultury Miejskiej, Poland – Wiener Bildungs Akademie, Austria – Artit, Greece and Dear Hunter, Netherlands) – come together for the Climate and Culture Summit at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
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Turning the Tide Tackles Climate Change
Members of the River Cities Network worked together during the exciting and hugely successful Memory of Water project. Some of the members of that collaboration have continued working together – looking at shared challenges on waterfronts and the possibilities and limitations of artists’ interventions to support future building narratives. In spite of Brexit, the partners have been determined to keep Glasgow and Fablevision in the frame and we are delighted to announce that the follow-on project, called Turning the Tide (TTT) has been successful in achieving a large cooperation project grant for 2024-26. An international Climate & Culture Summit in Glasgow in April 2024 will ‘kick off’ the whole pan European project – a platform for artists and local citizens to impact ‘expert’ dialogue with politicians, developers and planners in Scotland and Europe. The delegation will visit Glasgow during the week of the 22 April 2024 – an opportunity to keep Scotland at the cutting edge of cultural innovation and we are determined to overcome the challenges posed by Brexit that mitigate against ongoing participation. Led by Intercult (Sweden) with members of the River Cities Network, TTT is a creative response to the threat of climate crisis on waterfront cities: inspiring trans-disciplinary dialogue through artistic co-creation, creative cartopological mapping and international cross-sectoral dialogue. With five partners (Intercult, Sweden – Instyut Kultury Miejskiej, Poland – Wiener Bildungs Akademie, Austria – Artit, Greece and Dear Hunter, Netherlands), TTT’s premise assumes climate change can be impacted through cultural planning led by artists and informed participation. Although inspired by Fablevision’s longitudinal practice over 10 years – 6 years supported by Creative Scotland and the City of Glasgow: Riverside Solidarity, 2017-19 and Memory of Water, 2019-2022 – Brexit means exclusion from Creative Europe. Scottish expertise in socially-engaged practice, however, qualifies Fablevision in a consultancy role.
