Jen Rae is one of the 25 selected participants in Australia Council and Julie’s Bicycle’s inaugural Creative Climate Leadership program interrogating the role of arts and culture in the climate emergency.

CCL empowers artists and cultural professionals to take action on the climate and ecological crisis with impact, creativity, and resilience. Participants will deepen their understanding of the climate and ecological crises, understand and develop the role of culture and creativity in responding to these challenges, and emerge with a toolbox of approaches and practical solutions for transformative action.

CCL will be held in Bundanon, New South Wales, from 11 – 16 September 2023. This year’s candidates work in areas as varied as music to ecology and theatre to justice.

We acknowledge the people of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups as the traditional owners of the land on which Bundanon is located. In Dharawal the word Bundanon means deep valley.