We bring together young artists and activists to create music for climate action.
Our mission is to use the power of music to inspire people and push for change. Music has the power to unite and our vision is to mobilise people with the help of music to accomplish system change. We invite young artists and activists from around Europe and provide them with a platform and the inspiration to create original music to inspire action. We will meet in Stockholm for a week of co-creation where activists and artists meet and inspire each other during Inner Development Goals summit.
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Name of the organisation(s): LiveGreen Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Alva Last name of representative: Danielsson Age: 20 Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
By ticking this box, I certify that the information regarding my age is factually correct. : Yes Gender: Female Nationality: Sweden Function: Project Coordinator Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rörläggarvägen 31 Town: Bromma Postal code: 16833 Country: Sweden Direct Tel:+46 72 702 97 20 E-mail:alva@climatelive.se Website:https://www.livegreen.se/en/
Name of the organisation(s): Inner Green Deal Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Noah Last name of representative: Maurer Age: 23 Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
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Name of the organisation(s): Inner Developement Goals Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Niklas Last name of representative: Larsson Zakrisson Age: 25 Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
By ticking this box, I certify that the information regarding my age is factually correct. : Yes Gender: Male Nationality: Sweden Function: Project Coordinator Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Norr Mälarstrand 14 Town: Stockholm Postal code: 11220 Country: Sweden Direct Tel:+46 73 326 70 35 E-mail:niklas@innerdevelopmentgoals.org Website:https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/
Music moves people and shapes societies and cultures. From gospel to the call for freedom in the 1960s to the music that inspired unification and peace. Music unites, connects, transforms and moves people.
In 2021, we organized the biggest concert for climate justice in Sweden – Climate Live. 12 000 people attended onsite, and 250 000 people viewed online. Activists from Fridays for Future, including Greta Thunberg, performed live together with nationally and internationally known stars. The concert became a megaphone for the young activists’ message, and helped to expand the climate justice movement in Sweden.
We are now preparing our next exciting step, with the aim to work more closely with artists and their music as a force for inner change, as well as system change. During the spring of 2023, we will invite young artists from around Europe to create original music that inspires climate action.
We plan a week of co-creation that includes:
- (Re)connecting: to the state of our planet and why we must fight for climate justice to prevent further damage
- Exploring: what we can do to have a greater impact
- Co-creating: how can we create music from the stories of climate activists and scientists
The week will culminate with the artists performing at the 2023 Inner Development Goals (IDG) summit in Stockholm. This is a major 2-day event with 7 cultural venues including the city's more referred cultural “temples” such as the Cirkus Arena and Berns.
To be able to share the experience with a broader audience, we will also document the project, as well as support artists in follow-up actions for climate justice.
Climate justice
Music
Action
Youth
Connection
Our overall guiding objective is to accelerate the transformation to a longterm sustainable system where climate justice is achieved. Based on historical events, we know that music is a powerful tool to bring people together, and we want to use music to:
Connect - bringing people together make them feel connected and part of something bigger. We curate the best music and create transformative events to create the biggest possible impact.
Inform - raise awareness around the topic of the climate and environmental crisis. We view our concerts and events as campaigns to raise awareness before, during and after the events.
Partner - invite young artists and activists to create and co-create original content. In addition we seek to partner with organisations who have large platforms to distribute and leverage our music and messages.
We look forward to selecting 7-15 artists to join us in Stockholm. We will ensure to have a good geographical spread with at least 5 different countries from the different parts of Europe.
Inspire - through music inspire the general public to be part of the climate justice movement. We will explore partnerships with organisations in the music industry in order to reach out widely in Europe. We document and publish videos from the week.
Act - work with artists and the broader music sector to explore how to inspire their fanbase to act and support the climate justice movement. We have close contacts with leading artists that support our messages and are exploring with them how they can activate their fanbase We will try the concept of artistic activism in different ways, for example guerilla concerts, combining performances with speeches from activists, etc. We will also give tools to artists and fans in how they can put pressure on political leaders to act against the climate crisis.
For people to move towards a climate just society, they need to be inspired and emotionally engaged.
Music is a beautiful medium and nature an endless source of inspiration.
We look to curate the most beautiful music that can stand on its own – even without considering its climate or environmental message.
And beyond that, we know that music is an experience, an arrangement of sound in time. We therefore work hard to create the conditions that favor an open and receptive state of mind to fully appreciate and experience the music.
That is why we are excited to be able to invite musicians from around Europe in the most beautiful venues of Stockholm, the Cirkus Arena (place for 1500 people), Berns (700 people) and five other cultural spaces.
It is vital that climate and environmental action is inclusive. Not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also because a transformation that is not accessible nor affordable nor shared, simply won’t work. Lack of representation, marginalisation of different people and cultures, and neglecting the diverse perspectives and wisdom of everyone affected by important decisions - are all reasons why we are facing today’s climate crisis.
People who are marginalised in a social justice context (for example disabled people, people of colour and indigenous people) will be significantly more affected by the climate crisis, and are also the ones experiencing its consequences first. The people who have contributed the least to climate change, are also the ones being most affected by it. If we are to solve the climate crisis, we need to recognise this injustice and activly work toward justice. This is what we call climate justice, and it needs to be implemented in every aspect of environmentalism, including this project
Below follows an overview of how we try to ensure that that our concerts and events are inclusive:
Co-create our programmes with a highly diverse team and with musicians from around Europe:
Inviting artists from around Europe, with different backgrounds
All expenses paid for participating artists
Deliver our programmes for free to those that need it most:
Investigate and push for the possibility of free tickets for climate activists at the IDG Summit
Make our format with concerts and mini-summits available to the global music community:
Film the week and publish the content
Give tools to artists and fans on how they can use their music, voices and platforms to raise awareness around climate change.
Ensure our internal work is intersectional and accessible through out the working project:
Make sure the process of decision-making within the movement is democratic
Make sure marginalized voices always are listened to
Music can reach and move the many
- We intentionally invite musicians who can connect with large mainstream audiences so that we activate as large as possible part of civil society.
- While our initial focus has been on Sweden, our concept intends to connect with musicians and their audiences in at least five countries in Europe,
- To increase reach, we invite musicians to sing both in their native language – for their audience in their home country and record a version in one of the major European languages of their choice: English, French or German or another major language.
We seek to create real dialogues and co-creation through:
- Inviting musicians from all parts of Europe and in that way contribute to the diversity of voices on sustainability and climate change.
- Inviting citizens to events in the countries of the artists that include a viewing of our videomaterial from the co-creationweek, a performance of the song and a live debate on how to accelerate the green transformation.
- Connecting artists with activists and scientist to learn and explore the topic of climate justice
In addition to this, every part of civil society will benefit from climate justice in the long run. If business-as-usual is allowed to continue, we will all be loosers in the climate fight. Music and concerts has the ability reach a wider and younger audience than just the 2023 Stockholm-summit itself, which is why we also will focus on making that reach.
The design and development of the concept builds on a unique collaboration between the music sector and the youth movement Fridays for Future:
Fridays for Future, with whom we run the project Climate Live. We have experience of creating concerts and events where climate justice is, along with music, the primary focus and message. Climate Live is a youth lead project, where youth activists are decision makers, project coordinators and employees in the organisation.
The Inner Green Deal and benefit from their knowledge of the EU, inner development and behaviour change and their ability to raise funding
The inner Development Goals and benefit from their ability to host large gatherings and invite us to perform with ten artists across 7 venues during two days in October 2023.
We bring together activists, scientists and artists to learn from and get inspired by each other, in order to produce original songs through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Artistic activism and advocacy: We give knowledge and tools to artists that help them to be an active part of the climate justice movement and create music and art that has an impact.
Social justice: We focus on the social aspects that are affected by the climate crisis, since there is a lack of knowledge by the public as well as people in power. Transformation without inclusion won’t be sustainable.
Inner development: is not only about skills and mindset but also about being present and aware of our connection to ourselves, others and nature. To cultivate values such as gratitude and compassion, which are essential qualities for transformation.
Climate and environmental science: Everything is in line with research. We are bringing in experts and scientists within climate change as well as the connection between art and psychology.
The knowledge of climate and environmental science is essential for activists and artists in their work, and creates the foundation on which they can build their music and their activism. Combining social justice with the climate and environmental questions, is what we mean when we talk about climate justice.
We have experienced that there are huge knowledge gaps and great lack of understanding of the crisis amongst all actors in the music industry. The common understanding is a basic knowledge of climate change itself, but not the urgency nor the effects it will have on their industry is in general understood.
Also, when events and music organizations work on sustainable development and transformation, they usually look at scope 1, 2 and 3, which explains the direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from their business. However – the industry’s largest impact as well as potential is actually in scope X – its influence on people’s attitudes, behaviors and actions. In this project, we want to explore this new field in how to create a positive impact through music.
We also want to try out a method that was used in a not so organized way during the civil rights movements: to create innovative spaces where climate activists, scientists and artists meet, reflect and share experiences together, in order to inspire new music that is built on voices from the front line of the climate crisis.
We aspire to change this by focusing specifically on climate justice and systemic change through:
- Creating large scale events with leading artists and climate activists from Fridays for Future and other movements.
- Engage with artists to create long-term relationships to mobilise their fanbase, beyond a “one-off” endorsement or statement
- Engage with the music industry to decrease the carbon footprint and continue to think about how to use it enormous cultural and social reach in a positive way.
The Climate Live project was launched in 2021 by Fridays For Future groups all around the world. The concept was to host a concert addressing the climate crisis, bringing people together for the music, and also listening to message of climate justice. In 2021, concerts were held in over 40 countries.
While many young activists in other countries had a hard time to navigate in a music industry dominated by older business men, trying to overcome challenges such as lack of funding, deminishing and sexist attitudes as well as youthwashing – Climate Live in Sweden managed to find a sustainable way of existing and growing. We have a strong foundation to keep experimenting around artistic advocacy, fan activism and disrupting concerts. Our learnings and methodology will result in a theory of change that can be used by activists as well as artists in countries around the world. Our goal is to educate and support Fridays For Future groups, especially in the MAPA* countries, to use the power of music to expand the climate justice movement and get their message out to more people.
*By climate change the most affected people and areas in the world.
The climate crisis is the most important question of our time, and will affect every living being on this planet. The deadlines for avoiding climate collapse and irreversible tipping points are coming up fast, yet the action against this is far from where it should be. In order to solve the climate crisis, we need an extensive system change, transitioning away from the injust and fossil-based system we are currently using.
This issue is the main focus of our initiative, addressing the climate crisis and encouraging people to mobalise and push for change locally in their own communities, as well as world wide.
This concept does not have to be solely large concerts reaching a national or international audience. There is an importance of empowering the local communities and grassroots movements, and this could be done through connecting with local artists, and creating smaller concerts or music-events locally. These small-scale are also important in building that reconnection with our planet, and continuing the fight for climate action.
