Climate Change in Africa: Artists Speak and Connect

This cross continental interactive exhibition forms part of a larger creative dialogue between African artists, climate experts and delegates attending the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), in Cancún, Mexico, in December 2010. The exhibition includes selected visual artworks from artists from across Africa and aims to be a creative and interactive conversation between various, different, communities of practice to highlight the specific climate, and other environmental, challenges facing the African continent.

In addition to planned screenings in Cancún during COP 16, this exhibition will form part of the first Connecting Our Planet & Re-imagining Together (COPART) Climate Fluency Exchange (CFE), supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Southern Africa and scheduled from the 4th-10th December 2010, in Cape Town. The CFE will bring together artists, activists, scientists and the general public to engage in new ways about climate change.

The exhibition was put together by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Southern Africa, through support from the COPART movement and the Arterial Network. COPART is a collaboration between artists, scientists and activists in preparation for, and in response to, the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17), which will be held in South Africa, in December 2011. The Arterial Network is a continental network of artists, cultural activists, arts NGOs, cultural enterprises and others committed to developing African music, dance, theatre, literature, craft, design, visual art and film in their own right, and as means to contribute to democracy, human rights and development in Africa.