My conversation with Julie's Bicycle CEO Alison Tickell on art and climate change
- Art can speak to people in meaningful ways that really does call on us to respond to this differently. So wherever you are, anywhere in the world, you will almost certainly have some kind of creative cultural allegiance and how do we use that in a purposeful way is a critical question for us all…
alison tickell, conscient podcast, october 2019, ottawa
Meet UK musician and climate change activist and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle Alison Tickell.
Alison is a colleague and friend who I first met at the National Arts Centre’s Summit on Theatre and Climate Change in April 2019.
She is CEO of Julie’s Bicycle, a UK based charity that supports the creative community to act on climate change and environmental sustainability. Julie’s Bicycle believes that the creative community is uniquely placed to transform the conversation around climate change and translate it into action.
I had the pleasure of going for a walking interview with Alison on parliament hill in Ottawa on October 26, 2019.
I asked Alison how the arts contribute to environmental awareness, about the relationship between art and the public and the work of Julie’s Bicycle. We then got into a philosophical conversation about art, life, Buddhism and many other things as we descended the stairway from Parliament Hill to the shore of the Ottawa river...