Kenya and Wales

The Good Ancestor project is a Black-led artist club that acts as an activator and disruptor for creative, collaborative and decolonised activism hosted by Sub Saharan Advisory Panel and funded by Arts Council Wales. This artist club will explore climate and nature through an international lens, focusing on Wales and Africa. The Climate Crisis is highlighting pre-existing inequalities:
 

• The carbon footprint of Western powers is the main contributor to climate change.

• Consumerism in the West is a cultural boundary to meaningful change.

• Global South countries are under the greatest threat from climate change.

• Nature movements are predominantly Western led, operating from within Western cultural norms and structures.

• Climate change is disproportionately impacting marginalised communities with the fewest resources to cope.
   

Diaspora communities feel the impact of climate change on two fronts: in Wales and among the communities they come from. It impacts them financially and emotionally as they continue to support family and friends abroad. We want to claim a central space in combating the Nature Emergency, using soft power to nurture Black-led creative and decolonised action.
 

Nature does not move along national boundaries, the Climate and Nature Emergency affects all species of plants and animals (including us humans) all across the globe. We will work with artists and partners to explore the global Nature Emergency both locally and in a global context.​

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