Arts, sport and culture news

• Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
• Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists points at how governments could help sectors in crisis, theconversation.com (Oct 17, 2025)
• Kech cultural festival celebrates Balochistan’s resilient spirit in Turbat, Pakistan, globalvoices.org (Oct 16, 2025)
• Redefining the race: the initiative tackling running’s carbon footprint, positive.news (Sep 04, 2025)
• Rooting Together, Grassroots Economics and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 29, 2025) — Life, Culture, and Commitment in Our Village
• ‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina, theguardian.com (Aug 28, 2025)
• Where the Music Lives, Rediscovering the Center of Our Commons and Letting It Overflow, Will Ruddick, willruddick.substack.com (Aug 10, 2025)
• Getting young and old people to dance together boosts health and reduces age discrimination – new research, theconversation.com (Aug 06, 2025)
• World Cup 2026 'most polluting ever' claims report, bbc.co.uk (Jul 09, 2025)
• How huge migrating animal puppets captivate in ways that climate news can’t, theconversation.com (Jun 26, 2025)
• Kenya outlawed the sharing of Indigenous seeds. A village choir is fighting back, globalvoices.org (May 10, 2025)
• How storytelling, creativity and collaborations can inspire climate action, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2025)
• Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)
• The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol – a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)
• Legislative theatre: how this interactive artform empowers communities to create social change, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2025)

• I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action, Margaret Reid, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2024)
• We need stories, characters, mythologies to firm up our resolve to tackle climate catastrophe. Swarm Dynamics are animating these, for NGOs and others, Daily Alternative (Oct 28, 2024)
• Parkrun: The local jog that became a worldwide hit, BBC News (Oct 05, 2024)

• There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)
• How Germany’s ‘Orchestra of Change’ Inspires Action, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 11, 2024)
• “Sing Wild Seeds”, guided by Brian Eno, invites songwriters and musicians to become social futurists with their skills. First gig? Glastonbury, Daily Alternative (Jul 11, 2024)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden

• How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet, Daily Alternative (Jun 05, 2024)

• Inside the exquisite Tibetan monasteries salvaged from climate change, bbc.com (May 01, 2024)

• A class act: the therapy school for children raised in Delhi’s red light district, positive.news (Apr 15, 2024)
• Resist The Devil We Know, Alternative Editorial (Apr 14, 2024)

• She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)

• Hector Bellerin at Real Betis: Championing sustainability and tackling social issues, BBC News (Feb 16, 2024)
• ‘A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing, theguardian.com (Feb 07, 2024)
• Green Football Weekend: how to make a Premier League club truly ‘sustainable’, theconversation.com (Feb 01, 2024)

• Concern over 3 continents format for 2030 world cup., globalvoices.org (Oct 12, 2023) — "FIFA's announcement is totally detached from reality … Not only does it contradict their own pledge to cut emissions, but it sends the wrong message to football fans around the world that such a tournament is compatible with a sustainable future and a healthy environment. FIFA is saying one thing and doing another." Freddie Daley, Cool Down Network
• Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues, bbc.co.uk (Sep 03, 2023)
• The sports movement spreading positivity in war-torn Yemen, positive.news (Aug 16, 2023)
• These Chicago Afghans Have Built A Community On The Soccer Field, borderlessmag.org (Jul 18, 2023)

• Epitaph for a baobab: remembering South African poet and activist Don Mattera, The Conversation (Jul 26, 2022)
• Vermont Green: The new US club attempting to do things differently, BBC Sport (May 11, 2022)

UK arts' leading figures join call for green recovery from coronavirus crisis^[1] Jun 22, 2020

• Royal Shakespeare Company to end BP sponsorship deal.^[2] Oct 2, 2019
• A new, collective business model for traditional crafts in Oaxaca.^[3] May 2, 2019
• Building a fair art market in a sharing economy.^[4] Apr 29, 2019
• Singing Cicadas Collective amplifies power of creative storytellers in Hong Kong, Dec 17, 2018...^[5]
• South Bronx teens get creative about climate change, Oct 23, 2018...^[6]
• "The mission is to remind people what they have in them already": Common Wealth are making movements from theatre, Sep 3, 2018...^[7]

References

• World's first solar panel mural unveiled in San Antonio, Nov 17, 2017...^[1]
• Singing for Peace – Dahab, Egypt, Nov 11, 2017...^[2]
• Berlin's Holzmarkt Shows the Incredible Potential of Urban Villages, Aug 23, 2017...^[3]
• How an open source board game is saving the planet. Students learn how to solve environmental problems while having a good time and contributing to the maker community. Jul 28, 2017...^[4]
• How Crowdfunding and Collaboration Helped Create a Vibrant Cultural Space in Buenos Aires, Apr 17, 2017...^[5]
• Creative Communities and Arts-Based Placemaking, Jun 13, 2015...^[6]
• Linking Sport and the Environment to the Peace and Poverty Agenda in Kenya, UNEP and Underprivileged Children and Youth Kick Off New Reconciliation Initiative, 2008...^[7]

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