Artitude
Artitude - Climate, Culture, Circularity
Introduction
Artitude: Climate, Culture and Circularity is a place-based collaborative movement enabling community-led transformation in our relationship with nature, waste, circular economy and climate action. It is an exciting community engagement project grounded in the circular economy, that will use the arts and creative practice to encourage behaviour change and challenge attitudes to waste, consumption and climate action.
- Using the arts & creative practice to strengthen the climate movement in the Northwest.
- Bringing together activists to grow ideas through arts-led engagement.
- Engaging with the arts for joy and community care
Project partners include Northern Ireland Resources Network, The Playhouse Derry, Queen’s University Belfast, Derry City and Strabane District Council
Funded through National Lottery Climate Action Fund
What is Artitude?
Our Vision
We recognise our raw humanity as part of nature and the need to live as healthier, happier, and more sustainable people and communities:
- Through storytelling and creativity we reconnect to our deeper motivations of belonging and the natural world: enabling long-term, sustainable behaviour and attitudinal change leading to broader transformation between people and nature.
- We work together across diverse communities in a locality through common cause and creativity.
Our Missions – Using creative practice to empower communities & individuals to enact change, we will deliver:
- Artitude Residencies over sustained periods of duration led by communities throughout the Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) area.
- Festival programming- local-led and climate-inspired
- Learning and Dissemination- Public Media and Discourse Portfolio, championing community voices
- Research and Evaluation- Listening and Learning from people in communities
- Partnership Development – New Modes of Governance to lead transformational change
Artitude – Phase 1, 2021-2024
Series of one off workshops including:
- Regenerative Gardening Design Weekends
- Lilliput Theatre Puppet Show
- Botanical Dye Workshop
- My World My Home – Creative Campaigning
- Repair Cafe Foyle Collaboration 3 – The Big Fix
Artitude Climate Arts Festival
Artitude Festival featured 24 events over three days at The Playtrail, a woodland forest education and urban farm site in Derry City
Artitude – Phase 2, 2025-2027
During phase 2, artists will be in residence in local communities, working with and for the people to encourage creativity, embedded in the circular economy.