ACTION PACT 2022: READY, RESILIENT, REINVENTED
Action Pact 2022: Ready, Resilient, Reinvented is a three-month initiative to spotlight the topic of climate change through the programs of Boston’s Cultural Institutions. This coordinated effort is composed of longer-term and singular programs and initiatives including; exhibitions, installations, panel discussions, film screenings, lectures, children’s programs, workshops, festivals, and more.
Participants in Action Pact make up the cultural fabric of the City of Boston—join us as we creatively grapple with one of the most pressing issues of our time—climate change.
MEMBER PROGRAMS
More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape
March 18th, 2022 – November 2022
ExhibitionThe Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library presents a free exhibition examining how environmental protection and social justice (and injustice) have been woven together in the past, present, and future. Through maps and photographs, images, and data visualizations, this exhibition encourages one to confront stories about how environmental conditions have worsened inequalities along lines of social division– and highlights the possibility to bring people together to forge new kinds of common action.
Fenway Farms Rooftop Garden at Boston Children’s Museum
Spring 2022
InstallationThe Red Sox are bringing Fenway Farms to the Boston Children’s Museum! The new space will provide produce and herbs for the facility and hands-on educational opportunities for youth to learn about sustainability and the life cycle of plants and how they influence the environment around them. The garden will change seasonally and will include plants and vegetables, some of which will be shared with the Museum’s animal life, including red leaf lettuce for the turtles on exhibit. Fenway Farms at Boston Children’s Museum is scheduled to open to public programs in the Spring of 2022.
In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss
May 15th, 2022 – December 31st, 2022
exhibitionIn Search of Thoreau’s Flowers is a multisensory experience that marries art and science through a modern interpretation of Henry David Thoreau’s preserved plants. The exhibition invites visitors to experience emotionally resonant connections to the profound loss of natural diversity caused by human-induced climate change and urges us to ask, “what do Thoreau’s findings tell us about what plants are winning, and what plants are losing, in the face of climate change today?”
For a full list of Action Pact programming visit our Events Page.
ORIGINAL PUBLIC ARTWORKS: VISIONING THE FUTURE
As part of Action Pact 2022, we are delighted to present Visioning the Future, a series of thought-provoking, ephemeral art installations that raise public awareness about the impacts of climate change. The Boston Green Ribbon Commission, in partnership with The Experience Alchemists, commissioned six Boston-based artists to imagine climate-themed artworks using materials that have no long-term environmental impact that will appear at member cultural organizations located across the city of Boston from April through June 2022.
We worked with our member organizations to identify highly trafficked locations across a diverse swath of the City of Boston. Final locations and images of the works will be revealed via social media and through a press release. No one will know exactly when or where the next one will appear and because they are exposed to the elements, no one knows exactly how long they’ll last.
We invite you to create your own climate change-inspired artwork and share it on your social media channels. Tag us at @actionpactboston and use the hashtag #VisioningTheFuture for a chance for your work to be featured on our social channels.
ABOUT THE EFFORT
The City of Boston aims to be carbon neutral by 2050, as well as resilient to the greatest climate threats. To support these efforts the Green Ribbon Commission and over 40 of Boston’s world class arts, history, sports, and entertainment organizations have partnered together to launch the Action Pact Boston campaign. Arts and culture have the power to open people's minds and help people see things in new ways. Our goal is to harness that power and encourage a sustained focus on visioning and achieving a climate-safe future.
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CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS WORKING GROUP
