Event Themes

Our Inspirations

PCF is dedicated to transforming our shared cultural discourse around climate change towards building an ambitious, sustained social response, empowering the Arts and Artists to engage, re-envision and co-create a far more sustainable safe climate future.

Through multimedia storytelling and other forms of creative community engagement, we aim to immerse broader audiences in the profound reality and immensity of living in a world that is rapidly changing. Our mission is to help cultivate and then lead a shared cultural commitment towards a more sustainable society and safe climate future, enriched through the arts, the Earth Sciences, and lived human experiences.

Below you can find some of our inspired and inspiring events for climate action in 2019. All events can be customized to your group's particular setting and context - to discuss specifics and book your event, please get in touch.

Event Themes 2019

Find a list of our current event options below, each customizable to your group's particular setting and context. Note that all photos shown here are stills from the documentary film Beyond Crisis, used under license. For a downloadable PDF version of these event descriptions to share, click here.

Art for Climate Action

South Bronx Environmental Justice Tour Performance

In any major social change, art and culture have always played powerful roles in catalyzing people into deeper social engagement and action. This workshop empowers participants to craft new stories and images, bringing out the “climate artivist” in you.

Building the Clean Energy Future

Educating youth on sustainable sources of energy like solar power

There is much discussion around the need for a 100% clean energy future, but what would this actually look like? This workshop explores how a mixture of clean technologies could help provide the foundation for a 100% fossil-free energy society - contributing greatly to healthier communities, and a far safer climate future.

Climate Adaptation and Impacts

Helicopter Rescue Team at Work After Floods in South Carolina, 2015

As some climate impacts are now inevitable due to the climate change we’ve already locked in, it’s critical for us to consider how best to adapt and prepare for these changes as individuals, communities and nations. This discussion focuses on expected future impacts in your region, and adaptation measures and programs available.

Climate and Technology

Geothermal Plant and Solar Farm in Costa Rica, 2014

This workshop explores technology-driven climate solutions, and the need for tech industry leaders especially to also lead on climate action and innovation today. This includes opportunities for greater leadership on climate change within the tech sector, and the tech-related components of your particular business or organization.

Climate Communication

Forest Fires are due to increased temperatures and drier weather from climate change

Are mainstream communication techniques on climate change failing, and if so how can we best improve on them? This workshop explores common climate communication approaches, bringing in current research on best practices and opportunities that exist today to improve our communication.

Climate Justice

Supporters of the climate at the People's Climate March

While climate change may be a global phenomenon, its impacts are anything but equal. This workshop explores principles for implementing climate solutions that take into account both historical and present injustices, working towards a world that will not only be “climate safe” for the privileged few, but for all.

Climate Storytelling

Skit by protesters about large organizations reducing emissions by just enough to make NGOs happy but, overall an insignificant amount

For any great change in history, storytelling has always been key for growing social support towards a new, more inspiring future. This workshop looks at how our cultural stories have been powerful drivers of change throughout history, while identifying and reimagining some of the major cultural narratives driving change today

Faith and Climate Action

Prayer Rally for Climate Action, Global Divestment Day, London, UK

Faith-based traditions have played a leading role in advocating for social change in many social movements throughout history, leading the way towards a brighter, more compassionate future. This workshop explores opportunities for more ambitious faith-based leadership on climate - including respect for social justice and creation.

Future Scenarios in a Rapidly Changing World

While it’s easy to feel that we’re simply “locked in” to a future global trajectory, history shows us this is far from the case, and (within constraints) our future is still very much open and malleable. This workshop explores everything from deep decarbonization outcomes to business-as-usual, building backwards from these visions to help us better articulate the most useful roadmap forwards.

Gifts from our Climate

Every day we eat food, drink water and enjoy many other amazing “fruits” of our current climate system, sustaining all life and society. This workshop focuses on identifying some of the major gifts of our climate over the development of human civilization, and how we can best express gratitude for these gifts going forwards

Human Identity in a Rapidly Changing World

Every day, we hear about new and accelerating changes already taking place due to a warming world, fundamentally reshaping the world we all live in. Exploring the convergence of an increasing technology with large-scale environmental change, this workshop wrestles with how this changes what it means to be human.

Movement-Building for Climate Action

Diverse turnout t People's Climate March

Social change rarely happens without a broad group of people engaging to shift culture in a new direction. Recognizing the ever-changing nature of the global climate movement as it exists today, this workshop seeks to unpack some of the strategies being used to build a movement at scale to address the climate crisis.

The Political Landscape of Climate Change

Paris Agreement and the signing countries' own political agendas

Can we bridge the world’s many differences today to achieve meaningful progress on climate change? This workshop explores the international and national politics of climate change, building off of the historic Paris Climate Agreement adopted by 196 countries in Dec. 2015 - exploring barriers & opportunities to action.

Potential Responses to a Changing Climate

Climate Change is Hurting our Earth More than anything else

The climate system and entire natural world that depends on it is changing very quickly - how might we best respond to this? This workshop explores the range of possibilities, from large-scale proposals to prevent future warming, accelerate clean energy and draw down emissions, to smaller-scale interventions.

With gratitude

Each event we’ve designed has been inspired by the global movement that is right now working around the world to address global climate change, and build a safe climate future. Thank you to all people working for change today who continue to inspire us forwards.