Green Tease: Emotional and community resilience

Join us in Dundee for a Green Tease exploring the intersections between art practice, climate change and mental health. We’ll hear from four creative practitioners who embed climate and care in their work.

Reflecting on the emotional impacts of climate action and climate justice practice, our panellists will share how they navigate and mitigate these challenges through creative expression, meaningful communication and community-building. This Green Tease is inspired by Dundee’s vibrant ecosystem of organisations, groups and freelancers working hand-in-hand with communities to sustain hope, nurture welcome and imagine better futures. Together, we’ll celebrate the power of building emotional resilience and networks of support for creative climate work.

To frame our discussion on the emotional dimensions of creative climate work, the talks will reflect on the Inner Climate Response Alliance's idea of 'communities of care'. This idea explores how collective processing and meaningful action can come together to nurture resilience and long-term change.

Through short presentations, our speakers will share how their personal relationship with climate change has shaped their creative practice, leading to the creation of initiatives and projects that support both personal and collective wellbeing. After these presentations there will be time for the audience to ask questions and share insights.

The presentations will include an introduction to the work of the Climate Psychology Alliance by Kate Adams, Co-Chair and Artist. Kate will speak on emotional resilience, discussing eco-anxiety and how effective inner work can strengthen collective and creative action on climate.

Agenda

• 5.30pm – Doors open, with light-bites style buffet
• 5.45pm – Welcome and introductions
• 6.00pm – Presentations
• 6.40pm – Panel discussion
• 7.20pm – Creative reflection
• 7.30pm – End

About our speakers

Kate Adams is a Performance Maker, Facilitator, Lecturer and Co-Chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance. She's interested in how we can draw on creative processes in sharing our experiences of the climate and ecological crisis, and how we can strengthen our relationship with the natural world. As a facilitator, Kate is committed to developing co-creative spaces for people to explore new possibilities.

Aileen Angsutorn Lees is a Thai-British Writer and Artist based in Perthshire. She is the founder of Decolonising the Outdoors, an interdisciplinary project which aims to dismantle narratives of dominating land and extracting nature, to rebuild relationships with the more-than-human world, and to empower communities by imagining anti-imperial anti-capitalist futures.

Mel Kalkan is a Dundee-based Visual Artist and Co-Founder of Room to Be, a grassroots creative hub and garden celebrating diversity, environmental awareness, creativity, and wellbeing through nature and connection. Driven by playful curiosity, she champions making as a way to support wellbeing, working sustainably with what she can find and believing wholeheartedly in community engagement and creativity as powerful forces for connection.

Su Shaw (aka SHHE) is a Scottish-Portuguese Sound Artist, Musician and Producer based in Dundee. Her multidisciplinary work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound, space, environment and ecology. Presenting sound works, performances and installations internationally, SHHE is a Cryptic Artist, alumna of Julie’s Bicycle Creative Climate Leadership programme and co-founder/producer of dundee radio club.

Green Tease: Emotional and community resilience is a partnership event by Culture for Climate Scotland and Creative Dundee.

Image credit: StudioQN

About Green Tease

Green Tease is culture/SHIFT's ongoing informal events programme connecting cultural practices and environmental sustainability across Scotland. Since 2013, Green Tease has provided a platform for those interested in teasing out the links between the arts, climate change and environmental sustainability through the exchange of ideas, knowledge and practices. Green Tease events are open to people from creative and environmental backgrounds and free to attend.

Accessibility

Getting here

Art Angel is in the centre of Dundee and is well served by public transport.

Dundee train station is 800m away. Travel assistance is available on the train service, for more information please visit the ScotRail guidance for accessible travel.

Dundee Bus Station is 800m away. For more information on services operating to and from Dundee, please visit Stagecoach .

Art Angel does not have a dedicated car park. Limited on-street parking is available on Lindsay Street. The nearest on-street blue badge parking bay is 95m from the entrance.

Internal access

Art Angel is on the first floor of the Enterprise House building accessed via a lift. Accessible toilets are available.

Do you need support to attend?

CCS is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for everyone, regardless of their disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, economic status or caring responsibility.

We will make any necessary adjustments to our events so that no one is excluded. These adjustments will, most likely, differ from event-to-event and person-to-person, so we need your help to get it right. In the past, we have provided quiet spaces, British Sign Language interpreters and internet dongles for portable internet access. We now provide access packs including ear defenders, sensory supports and reading overlays at in-person events.

Some adjustments may take more time to arrange than others, so we appreciate you giving us as much notice as possible about what you need so that we can support you to get the most out of this event.

Please inform us of your accessibility requirements for this event during the registration process. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to hannah.imlach@cultureforclimate.scot or telephone +44 (0)131 243 2760 and speak to a member of staff.