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Creative Climate Engagement
Artivism — using creativity to make climate action visible, felt, and shared.
Artivism is CCAIE's creative climate engagement program. It uses art, storytelling, youth expression, and public participation to make climate issues easier to understand, more emotionally connected, and more accessible to communities.
What it is
What is Artivism?
Artivism brings together art and activism to support climate awareness, public learning, and community engagement. Through creative activities, visual storytelling, school and youth participation, and public-facing campaigns, CCAIE uses Artivism to help people connect climate change to lived experience.
Why it matters
Why creativity matters in climate work
Climate change is often explained through technical reports, data, and policy language. Those tools are important, but they do not always reach people emotionally or locally. Artivism helps translate climate issues into visual, personal, and community-centered forms of expression.
Make climate learning more accessible
Help young people express climate concerns and solutions
Support community dialogue
Turn awareness into participation
Make environmental issues more visible
Connect climate action to culture, identity, and lived experience
By the numbers
Artivism Impact Snapshot
CCAIE's journey so far — verified figures from across our climate education, youth innovation, and creative engagement work.
1,275
Students Reached
Across schools and learning communities
40
Teachers Trained
Building local capacity to teach climate
30,000
Young Persons Engaged
Through campaigns, workshops, and digital reach
10
Young Innovators Graduated
From CCAIE youth programs
3
Countries Covered
Reach across the continent
3
Climate Clubs Created
Active youth-led groups in schools
40+
Schools Engaged
Participating in CCAIE programs
Artivism program
Two cycles. Thousands engaged.
30,000+
Digital Reach
Across Artivism campaigns and content
750
Workshop Participants
Hands-on creative engagement
6–36
Age Range
Inclusive of children, youth, and young adults
5
Engagement Formats
Social media, radio, workshops, exhibitions, city tours
2
Artivism Cycles Completed
Urban Art for Heat & Waste Reimagined
Photos & stories
ARTIVISM: Climate Education Through Art
Using creative expression to engage young people in climate conversations and action. Two Artivism cycles completed, reaching thousands through multi-format engagement.
Waste Reimagined Art Exhibition
Students transform waste materials into powerful art pieces, sparking conversations about circular economy and sustainable consumption.
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Activities
What Artivism can include
Artivism takes many forms, depending on the community, the partners, and the moment.
Climate art workshops
Youth storytelling
Poster and visual campaigns
School-based creative activities
Community exhibitions
Climate pledges and public displays
Spoken word, poetry, and performance
Digital climate storytelling
Creative documentation of climate action
Across programs
How Artivism connects to CCAIE's work
Artivism strengthens CCAIE's broader work by making climate action more visible, participatory, and accessible. It can support Climate Safe Schools through student creative activities, Climate Conversation Series through storytelling and public dialogue, Crafting Tomorrow through youth expression and innovation, and the Climate Action Index through public-facing communication and advocacy.
Get involved
Get involved in Artivism
CCAIE welcomes interest from young people, schools, artists, educators, community groups, storytellers, designers, cultural workers, and partners who want to use creativity to support climate learning and action.
Interest form
Artivism Interest Form
Use this form to express interest in participating in, partnering with, or supporting CCAIE Artivism activities.
What happens next
CCAIE will review your submission and contact relevant participants, collaborators, or partners as opportunities develop.
Explore the rest of CCAIE's programs
Climate Action Index, Climate Safe Schools, Climate Conversation Series, Crafting Tomorrow.