Creative Spaces | Climate Reality DFW

creative spaces working group

We are all creative - sometimes without realizing how.

Creative strategies are vital in addressing the complexities of our Climate Crisis. It is exciting to collaborate and encourage each other. Group members often come up with new ideas that combine different skills and experience.

The Arts help us to reconnect with Nature

The Creatives Working Group supports our individual projects and facilitates collaboration between its members, as well as with other groups.

Regenerating the Soul and Creative Spirit

We are applying the theme of Regeneration for the Earth

To ourselves as Creative People and Activists

Through a Process called Wisdom Wheeling.

The phrases we create are wonderful inspirations for art, photography, lyrics,

prose or what we like to call Poet-Tree.

All are welcome.

We meet virtually every other third Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm CT. Please check our calendar for dates.

Contact: Beth at bandobeth@gmail.com. Beth Bando will respond to your inquiry

Our experience pool includes: mural painting, theater, music composition and performance, storytelling, poetry, visual arts, dance, video/film making, sculpture, photography

We Creatives know how the arts are useful

in our work, to express, connect and

illustrate problems

People change behaviors in response

to their feelings about issues.

And Images, stories, music reach

people through their feelings

Works from members of our Creatives group

Shingle Mountain Blues

An environmental justice music video publicizing a toxic dump in Dallas (Dan Green and Ryan Hamilton)

Climate Change Blues - September Song

A multimedia arts piece on the fires on the West Coast -in process (Marya Salman, Dan Green, Maureen Kellen-Taylor)

Emerge and Regenerate

An ecological poem with music to help us reflect on opportunities for change even in the wake of disastrous events.

Being Green & Other Mysteries

On a very, very hot summer day, the first day of summer vacation, five teenagers each receive a mysterious letter telling them to meet in the park by the family farm. The letter is unsigned but there is a familiar insignia at the bottom of the note. They are told that “Five will arrive, feeling alive” but they don’t know who or what to expect.

When they arrive at the park, they discover each of their five teenage cousins has also received the letter. They remember the insignia at the bottom of the note is the family coat of arms. Upon finding another letter mysteriously awaiting them, they discover an invitation to participate in an ancient rite of passage that all teenagers in their family lineage have experienced for generations.

Thus begins a journey to a magical island where all will be revealed to them about living a life of harmony with self, other and the earth. Through the majesty of nature they are able to face and bring peace to their inner conflicts.

Their last teaching comes in finding tips about living well with the environment. They each choose easy steps from recycling to energy management to take back with them to implement in their homes, schools, churches and neighborhoods.

Dallas Dreams Mural Creation

Dallas Dreams Mural creation in time-lapsed video

Naysaying the Noise

The poem expresses the ways that being in Nature restores us to our basic humanity and experience of interconnectedness. This is a collaboration between LA and DFW chapters. The poet from LA just completed the virtual training and is a mentee of mine. In addition, the piece is a collaboration of the members of Creative Space.

Climate Anthem 2021

Together we can change the world if we fight for climate justice

creative spaces working group

Works from members of our Creatives group

We Must,

We Can,

We Will

Solve the Climate Crisis