eco-citizenship
Climate Commitment
Here at the Academy, we are believers of human-driven climate change. The Academy’s own direct experience of apocalyptic wild fire danger every year since our beginning has left us with sobering truths. In 2020, the Academy committed to meaningfully lowering its carbon footprint while yet increasing its musical activities and widespread impact. Learn more.
Composing Earth
Composing Earth is a uniquely robust commissioning program for alums of the Academy who recognize that climate change — climate disruption — is a bona fide civilizational emergency. In addition to creating new work, composers are offered a stipend to embark on a long gestation period to study issues of environmental crisis with mentors and peers. Learn more.
Distance Learning: Climate Action
This course on climate action specifically for artists is a weekend-long introduction to a whole-systems framework of planetary boundaries and social foundations. Renowned scholar/communicator of climate science (and music lover) Rob Davies leads this course so that the climate-aware artist can begin to inform themself and stir their creative psyche for stories to convey through their chosen medium. Learn more.
Musicians’ Climate Citizenry Blog
One component of the Composing Earth program is a “Weekly Musing” where Fellows reflect on the climate crisis and its place in their lives. Many of these entries, originally shared only with group members, have been edited as blogs for the public shared here. The Musicians’ Climate Citizenry Blog also includes articles published in magazines and entries specifically written on the subject.