Day 1, Session 1: Creativity and Climate adaptation awareness
Mikey Martins (Artistic Director Freedom Festival Arts Trust) In conversation with Kate Smith (Energy & Environment institute and Risky Cities project) and Gill Hughes (Risky Cities and Ideas Fund projects) – discussing impact of creative practice on participants and in regard to raising awareness of issues of climate adaptation and resilience.
With a focus on creative practice and its potential to impact and raise awareness of issues impacting social justice, climate adaptation and as always to stay true to our roots, we will be looking closely at modern-day concepts of Freedom from a creative perspective.
Freedom Festival Arts Trust in partnership with key colleagues from the University of Hull: The AURA Innovation Centre, The Institute of Incarceration, The Wilberforce Institute, The Energy and Environment Institute, Global Latinidades Centre, historians and journalists working with The Guardian newspaper’s Cotton Capital and Legacies of enslavement projects, partners of the InSitu Network from Oerol Festival (Netherlands), and La Strada Festival (Austria) have all come together to co-design this 4 day year’s annual Freedom Talks programme, it’s going to be a very inspiring and informative few days!
The Freedom Talks (formally Symposium) is not just a place for Creatives, Academics, Arts and Festival Professionals, but for anyone from any sector who is interested in the impact of arts-based research, arts and festivals in public space and socially driven arts practice can make in modern-day society.
It is a place to meet, network, listen to extraordinary stories of creative practice and experience extraordinary interactive content as part of this year’s multi-disciplinary International Arts Festival.
The Freedom Festival’s Freedom Talks offers a space to be inspired, motivated, challenged and to discuss.
