SPRINTS x
TEDxKuwaitCity

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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): Abrar Zenkawi, Amal Ghannam, Dalal AlAjmi, Eli Bou Chaaya (ElitoArt), Fahad Dhawi, Lavenia Hanna Boules, Lamia AlSalahi, Hanouf Almonaifi, Yara Meraki*

Our event in Kuwait

In 2023, we partnered with TEDxKuwaitCity – one of the most prominent TEDx events in Kuwait. The amazing team of TEDxKuwaitCity hand-picked a powerful group of 9 local visual artists, organized a creative bootcamp and a public exhibition, and curated and produced the great collection below.

In Kuwait City, hosted by the AlHamra group, the TEDxKuwaitCity SPRINTS brought together artists and the community to envision a hopeful future. Local artists crafted impactful visuals that portrayed an optimistic outlook on climate change. Alongside this gathering, the TEDxKuwaitCity team conducted an upcycling workshop for youth, fostering a space for young individuals to engage with local climate action efforts and share their insights and ideas with the broader community.

The pop-up exhibition will take place during the National Day celebrations in Kuwait starting from February 23, 2024, until the end of the month - in Kuwait City Alhamra Exhibition Center.