Between wildfires, hurricanes and rising shorelines, the impact of climate change affects us daily. The Artists Climate Collective is a nonprofit group uniting artists across North America in the fight against climate change. To this end, the Collective produced Art to Action, a film composed of dance, musical performance and spoken-word pieces evoking a variety of emotions and reactions to our changing climate.
The film includes a piece from Atlanta-based dancer and choreographer Darian Kane, and features dancers from all across the city, including artists from the Atlanta Ballet, Terminus Ballet Theatre and Immerse ATL. Kane joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes along with Atlanta Ballet colleague and choreographer Keaton Leier, Co-Founder of the Artists Climate Collective.
Leier shared the Collective’s philosophy of addressing climate through art, saying, “My other two co-founders and I see that the arts have such a unique power to change perspectives on the way people think about general issues, and so we thought the best way we could promote change and provoke awareness was to use our strengths, which is art and creation of dance, and bringing artists together to push the movement.”
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