Open Call: Exploring Energy, Culture & Creativity

Climate Connections is partnering on an exciting new international publication, called On a day like today we just need to look forward…

The publication from art.earth Books, and developed in collaboration with Regen and The Art and Energy Collective, invites creative, community and innovative voices to help shape the stories we tell about our changing energy future.

At a time of accelerating climate impacts and fractured discourse, the publication asks:

• How do we imagine energy futures now?
• Who gets to shape these stories?
• How can creativity, community and cross-sector collaboration help us collectively navigate what comes next?

Submit your ideas

The editorial team at art.earth are looking for 400-word proposals that respond creatively, critically, poetically or experimentally to themes of energy, culture, environment and community. The focus is on narrative, exploration and imaginative approaches rather than definitive solutions.

Submissions may come from:

• Artists and creatives
• Community organisations
• Engineers, researchers and designers
• Activists and local groups
• Interdisciplinary thinkers
• Storytellers, poets and performers

This call is open to local, national and international submissions.

Important dates

Deadline for submissions: 9 May 2026, 11pm UTC
Initial selection announced: 3 June 2026
First drafts due: 31 July 2026
Publication date: late November 2026

Submit your proposal here!

Feeding the Insatiable

In 2016, art.earth, Regen and Schumacher College hosted Feeding the Insatiable, a three-day international gathering exploring ‘real and imagined narratives of art, energy and the environment’ during what many described as an uncertain moment for the planet. The summit brought together artists, scientists, engineers, community leaders and policy thinkers, not as representatives of sectors, but as human beings confronting shared ecological challenges.

The event was shaped in the aftermath of the Paris COP21 agreement, with speakers, performers and participants explored how art, culture and interdisciplinary collaboration could help us approach energy transition. It worked to reframe energy not simply as a technical field, but as a human and cultural one, rich with emotion, imagination and story.

Regen has since described the event as a formative experience that reshaped their approach to storytelling, partnership and their Art & Energy programme, better understanding the transformative impact cultural dialogue can have on our energy landscape.

A decade later, On a day like today we just need to move forward… picks up this thread.

Help spread the word

Do you know an individual or group working across climate, creativity, community or energy? Why not share this opportunity with them? Submissions are open until 9 May 2026, for a publication date in November 2026. Get your ideas in today!

Submit your proposal here!