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EVENT / DIGWYDDIAD
Good Ancestors: Artists Panel & Exhibition Tickets, Fri 13 Jun 2025 at 14:00 | Eventbrite
Books / Llyfrau:
It's Not That Radical by Mikaela Loach
Climate Is Just the Start by Mikaela Loach: 9780593897324 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Art and Climate Change by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Decolonising Climate action / Dad-drefedigaethu gweithredu ar yr Hinsawdd
Decolonising climate action | ODI: Think change
Decolonising Climate Justice: An Indigenous Perspective – HAD (had-int.org)
Race and Climate Change / Hil a’r Argyfwng Hinsawdd
Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice - The Lancet
Why climate change is inherently racist - BBC Future
The global climate crisis is a racial justice crisis: UN expert | OHCHR
Celebrating our sisters: Black women leading the charge for climate justice | Friends of the Earth
Do The Green Thing » The Colour of the Climate Crisis
Colonialism / Trefedigaethu
Black Art / Mudiad Celf Pobl Ddu
What Was the Black Arts Movement? (thecollector.com)
The History of the Black Arts Movement | Widewalls
Black Art History / Celf pobl ddu ar yr hinsawdd
The Colour of the Climate Crisis – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Currents: 9 African artists using their art for climate activism (lacuna.org.uk)
In ‘Black Power!,’ Art’s Political Punch and Populist Reach - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
‘Let’s talk about race and the climate’ - What Design Can Do
Can art save the world from environmental catastrophe? | Tate
Wales / Cymru: Maps, art and decolonisation - National Library of Wales
Climate Change Creative | Art For A Sustainable Future | Loop | BBC Scotland
Decolonising the Climate Movement
Fair Fashion? A conversation on fashion, race and climate justice
Climate Crisis: Farmin on the Frontline
Patriarchy, racism, and colonialism caused the climate crisis | Jamie Margolin | TEDxYouth@Columbia
Podcasts / Podlediadau:
Decolonization in Action Podcast - Podcast - Apple Podcasts
African Climate Alliance Podcast - African Climate Alliance | Listen Notes
Climate Africa Now Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
Art of Interference | Podcast on Spotify
The Cultural Frontline - Art Against Climate Change - BBC Sounds
Climate Reframe - Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement
Top 10 Black Environmentalists To Know About Dogwood Alliance
15 Black Environmental Leaders to Follow | Yale Sustainability
mikaela loach (@mikaelaloach) • Instagram photos and videos
Dominique Palmer (@domipalmer) • Instagram photos and videos
Birdgirl | Dr. Mya-Rose Craig (birdgirluk.com)
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African Artists Combatting Climate Change Through Art -
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Volunteering - Keep Wales Tidy
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This is a Black-led artist club, that acts as an activator/disruptor for creative, collaborative and decolonised activism 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:
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.
The Club will:
We, at the Sub Sahara Advisory Panel acknowledge that climate change affects all of us, especially minoritised groups. Our members feel the impact of climate change and many are supporting families and friends in the countries and communities they come from. We want to create a safe, supportive and active space for diaspora communities in Wales to address climate change in Wales and beyond. This is why we at SSAP have launched the Wales African Diaspora Climate Change Club and make sure our communities are engaged and our voices are heard on the topic of Climate Change.
Minoritized communities are four times more likely to live in areas at high risk from climate change in the UK. And as Diaspora communities we feel the impact of climate change on two fronts: in Wales and at home were severe drought and flooding are already taking their toll on our people, for example in Nigeria.
Most carbon emissions come from industrialised countries in the Global West, and from Western lifestyle of consumerism. But their impact is most acutely felt in countries with lower emissions in the Global South, including in Africa. This was acknowledged at COP27, and pledges were made to provide financial assistance to nations most vulnerable and impacted by the effects of climate change through a ‘Loss and Damage Fund’. While we welcome the historic decision, it remains to see how quickly funds will be raised and actions implemented.
Climate Change is not the only challenge to our natural world; Pollution and Mass Species Extinction are interconnected issues alongside Climate Change which we must fight to preserve natural balance on our beautiful planet. While more and more people are waking up to this issue, the Climate and Nature agendas are still white-dominated, with Black and Indigenous communities often pushed to the side lines. At the same time, our communities sometimes see Climate Change as a ‘white problem’ and don’t feel it is something they can personally be involved in.
1. Clwb Cyfiawnder Hinsawdd (Kenya a Chymru)
Mae hwn yn glwb artistiaid dan arweiniad pobl Dduon, sy'n gweithredu fel actifydd/amharydd dros actifiaeth greadigol, gydweithredol, sydd wedi’i dad-drefedigaethu, sydd yn cael ei ariannu gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru. Bydd y clwb artistiaid hwn yn archwilio newid hinsawdd a natur trwy lens rhyngwladol, ac yn
canolbwyntio ar Gymru a Chyfandir Affrica.
Mae'r Argyfwng Hinsawdd yn pwysleisio'r anghydraddoldebau sydd yn bodoli’n
barod:
Dydy natur ddim yn symud ar hyd ffiniau cenedlaethol, mae'r argyfwng Hinsawdd a Natur yn effeithio ar bob rhywogaeth, o blanhigion a mwynau (gan gynnwys ni fel pobl) ar draws y byd. Byddwn yn gweithio gyda gwyddonwyr a phartneriaid i archwilio'r argyfwng Natur yn lleol ac o fewn cyd-destun byd-eang. Bydd y Clwb yn cyflawni’r canlynol:
Rydym ni, yn y Panel Cynghori Is-Sahara, yn cydnabod bod newid hinsawdd yn effeithio ar bob un ohonom, yn enwedig grwpiau lleiafrifol. Mae ein haelodau'n teimlo effaith newid hinsawdd, ac mae llawer ohonynt yn cefnogi teuluoedd a ffrindiau yn y gwledydd a'r cymunedau maen nhw'n dod ohonynt.
Rydym eisiau creu gofod diogel, cefnogol ac actif i gymunedau diaspora yng Nghymru i drafod newid hinsawdd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt. Dyma pam rydym ni ym SSAP wedi lansio Clwb Newid Hinsawdd Diaspora Affricanaidd Cymru, a gwneud yn siŵr bod ein cymunedau'n cymryd rhan a'n lleisiau'n cael eu clywed ar y pwnc Newid Hinsawdd.
Mae cymunedau lleiafrifol bedair gwaith yn fwy tebygol o fyw mewn ardaloedd sy'n wynebu risg uchel o newid hinsawdd yn y DU. Ac fel cymunedau Diaspora, rydyn ni'n teimlo effaith newid hinsawdd ar ddwy ongl: yng Nghymru ac adref, lle mae sychder difrifol a llifogydd yn barod yn effeithio ar ein pobl, er enghraifft yn Nigeria.
Mae'r rhan fwyaf o allyriadau carbon yn dod o wledydd diwydiannol yn y Gorllewin Byd-eang, ac o ffordd o fyw prynwriaethol y Gorllewin. Ond mae eu heffaith yn cael ei theimlo fwyaf mewn gwledydd sydd â chyllidebau is yn y De Byd-eang, gan gynnwys yn Affrica. Cafodd hyn ei gydnabod yn COP27, ac fe wnaethpwyd addewidion i ddarparu cymorth ariannol i genhedloedd sydd fwyaf bregus ac sydd yn cael eu heffeithio fwyaf gan effeithiau newid hinsawdd trwy ‘Gronfa Colled a Damweiniau’. Er ein bod yn croesawu'r penderfyniad hanesyddol, amser a ddengys pa mor gyflym y bydd arian yn cael ei godi, a gweithredoedd yn cael eu rhoi ar waith.
Nid newid hinsawdd ydy’r unig her i'n byd naturiol; mae Llygredd a Difodiant Torfol Rhywogaethau yn faterion sy’n gysylltiedig â hyn, ynghyd â Newid Hinsawdd, sydd yn rhaid i ni frwydro yn ei erbyn i gadw cydbwysedd naturiol ar ein planed hardd. Tra bod mwy a mwy o bobl yn dechrau dod yn ymwybodol o'r mater hwn, mae’r agendâu Hinsawdd a Natur yn dal i gael eu dominyddu gan bersonau gwyn, gyda chymunedau Duon a Brodorol yn aml yn cael eu gwthio i'r ymylon.
Ar yr un pryd,mae ein cymunedau weithiau'n gweld newid hinsawdd fel 'problem person gwyn’, a dim yn teimlo fel ei fod yn rhywbeth y gallan nhw’n bersonol gymryd rhan ynddo.