SPRINTS x
TEDxVicenza

 

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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.

A teaser video the TEDxVicenza team used to announce the upcoming exhibition without spoiling the surprise.

 

Meet the awesome artists (from left to right): Chiara Diluviani, Alice Walczer, Elisabetta Benfatto, Jacopo Rosati, Kelly Romanaldi, Luca Nardi, Luna Scortegagna, Mattia Riami, Michela Zalunardo, Valentina Gonzo

Our event in Italy

In 2023, we partnered with TEDxVicenza – one of the most prominent TEDx events in Italy. The amazing team of TEDxVicenza 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.

The exhibition happened as part the TEDxVicenza Countdown event, where the artworks were prominently showcased, to great audience feedback, and the artists – invited to the TEDx stage. 

The exhibition was interactive – the TEDxVicenza team created a soundtrack for each illustration. A QR code with the link to the respective music piece was placed right next to each artwork, so the public could enjoy the illustration and listen to the soundtrack at the same time.  You can find all soundtracks here (and below). 

The organizers are currently trying to find an association or organization that is willing to "adopt" the exhibition and give her a longer life.

The Bootcamp & Exhibition

Reflections

 
“The bootcamp went very well. We spent a great weekend in a beautiful place, surrounded by art and creativity. The artists were enthusiastic about the event and very happy they had the opportunity to work on such important topics, alongside their colleagues, and spend a few days together. They made new connections and friendships – they were already talking about organizing a reunion for next year!”
— Stella Bozzato, TEDxVicenza
 
 
 
“The artists were so excited just to have time to talk to each other and to ask each other for suggestions – can you please come here and tell me what you think? Do you think that I should modify something? And this is also the feedback that they gave us – that it was so amazing to have the chance to work in an environment where they could be with other artists, because they usually work alone. It was just so good to see them really cooperating. It was very inspiring.”
— Stella Bozzato, TEDxVicenza

The Collection