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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): Antony Squizzato, Clër Dodu, Clotilde Francillon (Paper Pistol), Corinne Szczepaniak, Koda, Morgane Isilt Haulot, Pascal Cuttoli (Royal Glamsters), Vincent Béchet (Pulco Mayo)
Our event in France
In 2023, we partnered with TEDxClermont – one of the most prominent TEDx events in France. The amazing team of TEDxClermont hand-picked a powerful group of 8 local visual artists, organized a creative bootcamp and a public exhibition, and curated and produced the brilliant collection below.
Clermont-Ferrand and its surrounding area are famous as the "water castle of France" but recently things changed dramatically, and there are many water-scarcity issues in the region. The artists used the format to turn their personal experiences into artworks.
On briefing day, the team hosted a special meeting with Claire Antoine who helps organizations into their ecological redirection. At the end of the first day, they also met Flore Vasseur, the director of the Bigger Than Us documentary, after a screening of the film to a family audience with many teenagers. Both moments were very impactful for the creative process of the artists.
A first exhibition happened at La Comédie de Clermont, during the local startup & innovation annual Forum. In Spring 2024, the works will be shown during the Les Arts en Balade festival.
The Bootcamp & Exhibition
Reflections
“Artists in Clermont are not really used to collaborate, so this was a great opportunity for them to spend the entire bootcamp in a single location – both a coworking space and a photo studio, CoWork’it, where TEDxClermont is based. It was great to see that they really enjoyed spending creative time together and also having time to discuss the ideas and concepts that they were working on. This was very interesting, and honestly quite surprising.”
“Аt the beginning, they were not sure that they could make it. Мaybe only one or two had experience of producing artworks quickly. The other ones were saying – oh, it’s gonna be very short. But, in the end all artists were very happy to have managed to create great and diverse work within this timeframe.”
The Collection
Vincent Béchet (France)
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Clotilde Francillon (France)
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Corinne Szczepaniak (France)
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