World Premier of Solito to Solidarity song and music video at COP27!

We’ll be releasing our new music video for our song, “Solito to Solidarity,” tomorrow, November 11, 2022, at the COP27 conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The song’s words were written by Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman, and the music was composed and performed by Ibrahim Tchan and his band in Benin. The video was created by Francis Anoum.

The showing will take place at 1pm in Egypt, which is 3am Pacific Time!

You can register for the free event here.

#ArtCultureHeritageCOP27 invites you to a day and night to lift up culture at COP27.

Contemporary climate planning has so far failed to keep 1.5 alive or deliver transformative adaptation, especially for the most vulnerability communities. One basic reason: current climate planning doesn’t dare to dream. It fails to help people imagine practical, desirable low carbon, just, climate resilient futures. It relies too heavily on technocratic solutions at the expense of place-based, people-centered, rights-based and demand side strategies. It favors voices from institutions that have helped cause the climate crisis and excludes those best positioned to critique them.

ArtCulureHeritageCOP27 is an extraordinary day-long convening during COP27 of those committed to unlock the power of culture from arts to heritage to flip this paradigm.

Throughout the day and night of 11 Nov, #ArtCultureHeritageCOP27 offers a joyful, informative, performance filled space that celebrates and unites the diversity of creative climate action:

• Traditional knowledge and heritage buildings and landscapes that pre-date the fossil fuel era can point the way to post-carbon living.
• The worldviews held by Indigenous Peoples and local communities never co-opted by modern take-make-waste approaches offer counterpoints to unsustainable paradigms of ‘progress.’
• Artistic, heritage, creative, and imaginative tools support transformative reinterpretation of inherited mindsets, including the carbonscapes and petrocultures which are the heritage of the Anthropocene.

Attend the daytime programme, the evening programme or both!

Co-Create @ #ArtCultureHeritage COP27

The daytime programme, Co-Create @ #ArtCultureHeritage COP27, is a place to meet, learn, share, collaborate, and act on culture for transformative climate action, featuring artistic performances, discussions, learning events and more.

Doors open at 9am and the programme begins at 10am. A free lunch is offered. Performances will be woven into the day including poets, musicians and cultural voices such as Kathy Jetnil -Kijiner, Poet and Climate Envoy of the Marshall Islands, Cultural Ambassador of Climate Vulnerable Forum; Queen Quet of the Gullah Geechee Sea Island Coalition, and singer and storyteller Sam Lee.

Co-Create sessions include:

• Conversation Starter: Four Perspectives on Culture as a Pillar of Climate Action
• Climate Education for all: Linking Culture, Education, and Climate Empowerment (offered in French and English)
• Culture Networks and Climate Mobilisation: Five leaders of cultural networks discuss their organisation’s approaches to climate action and reflect on the lessons of the morning sessions.
• Multiple Paths/Shared Aims: A conversation about the diverse cultural paths to transformative climate action.