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Annual Conference 2024 | Climate Emergency: What about Culture?

Acesso Cultura’s annual conference will take place on 21st October 2024 at Fábrica das Palavras, in Vila Franca de Xira, and will focus on the topic of climate change.

Climate change has become a climate emergency. Cultural professionals in different countries are coming together in an organised and structured way in working groups, associations and other types of initiatives, aware of two essential things: the impact of the climate emergency on the sector itself; and the role the sector can play in creating policies for transformative climate action. In Portugal, we can’t say that the cultural sector is mobilised. There are various projects and initiatives, but they respond to individual concerns and are local in scope. There is no generalised and shared awareness, let alone vision and demand, regarding the emergency we are facing. At the same time, this reality is not unique to the sector. During the election campaign, the climate emergency was not an “issue” for most political parties.

Acesso Cultura invites us to register and join their annual conference. We need to listen, we need to talk, we need to act.

Prices

Normal: €35
Students / Unemployed people: €30
Access Culture members: €25