SPRINTS x
TEDxSurat

 

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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): Dipti Lalani, Fagun Shah, Huzefa Indorewala, Maithilee Junankar, Priyanshi Jhaveri, Ruchi Chaudhari, Sonakshi Singh, Surya Nair, Trina Sen, Vikas Aswani

Our event in India

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

During the bootcamp there were very intensive discussions: "this literally became a collective effort, instead an individual effort" because the group wanted to create 10 different pieces, telling different stories, in different styles. 

The exhibition was visited by around 1100 people, during the TEDxSurat event. The artists were present to meet and interact with the audience. The organizers collaborated with a local NGO to make the whole event zero-waste, and convert the messages into action. 

TEDxSurat also have plans to showcase the works at other events during 2024.

The Bootcamp & Exhibition

Reflections

 
“After the exhibition was over, these guys were so inspired because they were there physically, and they could interact with the audience. There were a lot of goosebumps moments where they would say – Hey, I never thought that I would talk to a hundred people about my art.”
— Saurabh Pacheriwal, organizer, TEDxSurat
 
“This literally became a collective effort, instead of an individual effort. And I think that was the beauty of it.”
— Saurabh Pacheriwal, organizer, TEDxSurat
 
 
 
“Talking about impact – it’s not just about the art. I think the format that you have developed is amazing because, even if you don’t want to, it really gets you into it. This is one thing I remember – and all of the artists did talk about this – that they were so happy being a part of the format, and that more than enjoying making the artwork, they enjoyed the process.”
— Saurabh Pacheriwal, organizer, TEDxSurat

The Collection