Announcing the Current Climate - join us for our launch event!

This year, we’re proud to be launching The Current Climate, a new season of creative work focusing on climate change and sustainability in the music industry. Through a range of discussions, performances, workshops and commissioned projects, we’ll be inviting our community to ask critical questions about the challenges that the cultural sector faces in adopting approaches and practices that are more environmentally aware.

On Wednesday 6 April, at the free-to-attend launch event for this new flagship series, we’ll be looking at the cultural world’s far-reaching influence on sustainability issues, and considering a question that involves artists, organisers and audiences around the world: when it comes to climate change, what message is the music industry sending?

Creative work has the power to emphasise and amplify our relationship to the environment, shaping our thinking and pointing to solutions. Through a panel discussion involving activists, programmers and representatives of the West Yorkshire region, we’ll focus on the responsibility of everyone involved in producing creative work in the music industry, as well as the infrastructure that supports it, considering ways we can generate conversations with our audiences aimed at building a greener sector.

The panel discussion will be followed by a performance from Hayley Suvsite, a sound artist whose work is in constant conversation with the environment, observing natural spaces and their experiences of preservation and pollution.

The Current Climate: ‘Culture and its potential to inspire positive climate action’ is free to attend, and takes place on Wednesday 6 April at Kwas Wine Shop in Huddersfield. Find out more below.

For more information visit https://hcmf.co.uk/the-current-climate-culture-and-its-potential-to-inspire-positive-climate-action/