SPRINGBOARD 2025 – reserve your place now!
SPRINGBOARD: Assembly for creative climate action 2025 takes place online on Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 March.
We are all facing enormous upheaval caused by the climate crisis, the economic and funding environment, the long-tail effects of the pandemic and more. We need to know how to find our way in this new world. That’s why we’ve chosen transformational change as our theme for SPRINGBOARD 2025. We’ll focus on how all of society will need to reimagine itself in the face of the climate change we are experiencing, and how the arts and cultural sector, as well as working on its own transformation, can contribute to the transformation of wider society.
Who’s it for?
SPRINGBOARD is for cultural and climate organisations, freelance creatives and climate champions, funders, local and national government, the public, and private and third sectors.
Watch parties
To reduce travel emissions for participants, we’re holding this event online, but because we know how useful it is to get together in a room, we’re also experimenting with watch parties around Scotland.
Local hosts in Aberdeen, Ayr, Caithness, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fife (St Andrews), Glasgow and Stirling will welcome people in person on the assembly’s first day (5 March) to watch together, to discuss what they’ve heard, particularly in relation to their locality, and to network.
Find out more and book your place at a local watch party.
Outline programme
Day 1: Wednesday 5 March
10.15am-5.30pm including breaks
The first day will focus on keynote speakers and inspiration. We’ll watch, listen and learn together online or at local watch parties.
Speakers will include:
- Rebecca Ford, Director of the International Futures Forum, will introduce the Three Horizons, a framework for structuring our thinking about the future to unlock transformative innovation.
- Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee, will share her thoughts and experience on change, challenge and leadership that catalyses positive outcomes.
- Amina Shah, National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland, will talk about the library transformed – how to imagine the next chapter in an age of uncertainty.
Throughout the day there will be artistic contributions by Ink Asher Hemp, freelance multidisciplinary artist, facilitator and advocate. Attendees will have time for networking in small groups online or at watch parties and breaks for private reflection away from your screen.
Day 2: Thursday 6 March
10am-5pm including breaks
For the second day, we will work entirely online. We’ll be in breakout rooms for interactive workshops, panels and discussions, some of which will benefit from input from Day 1 speakers on their processes and practice for transformational change.
Breakout sessions will be topic based and last for 1.5-2 hours. Some will be limited in numbers to allow full participation, but we may repeat them if there is demand.
Topics will include:
- Future thinking frameworks
- Evaluating the impact of arts-based interventions in climate change work
- Working with artists in climate change projects
- The arts and culture’s influencing role
- Place-based working and the arts/culture
Email us on [email protected] if there is another topic you would like to discuss with fellow participants.
We’ll publish more details about the programme and speakers once they are confirmed.
Ticket prices
Price per person
- Culture / climate change freelancer – £12
- Scottish arts sector employee – £15
- Scottish third sector non-arts – £30
- Funding organisation – £30
- Arts sector beyond Scotland – £35
- Scottish public / academic sectors – £40
- Private sector – £75
Freelancer bursaries
Please note the deadline to apply for a freelancer bursary has now passed.
We recognise that many freelancers in the cultural and climate change sectors cannot participate in events like SPRINGBOARD 2025 due to financial pressures. However, freelancers’ contributions are invaluable to creative climate action, so we’re offering up to 10 bursaries of £300 to cover attendance time.
Help us spread the word about SPRINGBOARD 2025
We’re keen to have a large audience of diverse participants from across the culture, climate, public, academic, third, philanthropic and private sectors.
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