SPRINTS x
TEDxBucaramanga

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Act for climate now.

About SPRINTS

Countdown, TED’s initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, and Fine Acts – a global creative studio for social impact, joined forces to kick off a series of SPRINTS creative bootcamps on climate change around the world. The goal: to engage artists to envision what a better climate future looks like. Today, this has grown into an extraordinary global collaboration with 20 TEDx events, collectively hosting 22 SPRINTS.

SPRINTS is an original format, developed by Fine Acts – a creative bootcamp where visual artists are briefed on a topic by experts, and then have 48 hours to produce an artwork on that specific issue. Throughout the process, artists are supported by a pool of mentors. Each edition of SPRINTS also ends with a public pop-up exhibition.

Furthermore, all visuals are published under an open license, so that activists, nonprofits, movements and educators globally can use and adapt them in their work towards climate action.

In 2023/2024, we collaborated with 13 events, hand picked by the TEDx Program. We supported the amazing TEDx teams to select awesome local visual artists, organize effective creative bootcamps and inspiring public exhibitions, and curate a host of brilliant illustration collections.

As a result, hundreds of new artworks joined our unique Artists for Climate vault with open-licensed visuals on climate change. Selected works were also featured on Fine Acts’ global platform for free socially-engaged art – TheGreats.co, where they joined The Climate Collection, an invaluable public resource with a distinct focus on hope & solutions.

Meet the awesome artists (from left to right): Andrés Rivero (Guturo), Paula Garzón (Aveadora), Daniel Rodríguez (Danyrus), Silvia Báez, Fidel Castro Cabello, Ed Camacho, Sofía Bernal, Daniel Méndez, Jairo Mantilla (Xaima), Javier Nuñez (Pepiyo Gráfico)

Our event in Colombia

In 2023, we partnered with TEDxBucaramanga – one of the most prominent TEDx events in Colombia. The amazing team of TEDxBucaramanga hand-picked a powerful group of 10 local visual artists, organized a creative bootcamp and a public presentation of the works, and curated and produced the great collection below.

During the bootcamp, the artists had the opportunity to engage with various local authorities, organizations, and environmental activists. This included the Mayor's Office of Bucaramanga, the Metropolitan Area Office of Bucaramanga, and social organizations like the Defense Committee of the Santurbán Moorland. These interactions provided valuable insights into the local industry's impact on climate change, affecting the region's fauna, flora, and water supply.

The pop-up exhibition of the collection will be launched at TEDxBucaramanga on February 27, 2024 – with the support of the city’s local government.