A regular series of delicious and nourishing online events. Each Breakfast has a different focus, and everyone is warmly welcomed.

Our friendly Breakfast gatherings run from 9-10.30 am (UK time), on the last Thursday of the month, via Zoom. We alternate between an ‘open space’, and a themed breakfast which includes a line-up of speakers. These are relatively informal spaces for the community to network, welcome new Declarers, bring questions and challenges, and share knowledge and practices. Everyone is welcome: individual Declarers, representatives of Declarer Organisations, and anyone interested in Culture Declares.

Next Breakfast | Thursday 26th February

Theme and registration TBC.

Previous Breakfasts

On loss and remembering: how art can help us grieve and heal

So many animal and plant kin, people, cultures, languages, and practices are being lost through violent systems of extraction and exploitation. We know this. But we also need to create spaces to collectively feel this. Joanna Macy and many others have taught us the power of sitting with pain. Instead of privatising, repressing, or pathologising our pain for the world, we honour it. We re-frame it as compassion, and this brings us back to life. We are reminded that grief is a container for love. For this breakfast, sandwiched between Remember Nature day on 4 November and Lost Species Day on 30 November, we hear from artists who are honouring, archiving and remembering the lost, telling their stories, and creating space for healing and accountability. With Youngsook Choi, Merlyn Driver, Persephone Pearl and Hannah Davey.

Collaborations between artists + environmental organisations

Environmental organisations are waking up to the necessity of poetics, imagination, arts and culture in shaping a more ecologically balanced and responsible world. What can happen when we bring together environmental organisations – who hold advocacy power, resources, data, research and organisational capacity – with artists, who can powerfully disrupt the status quo, tap into people’s hearts and make things meaningful? What are some of the challenges when building partnerships – how can we manage potential power dynamics, or different ways of working, communicating and seeing the world? We hear from Karine Decorne, Gaby Solly, Clare Oxborrow, Emanuela Yogolelo and Sas Kraftowitz.

Learning from the more-than-human | Through creative practice, how can we more deeply engage with, learn from and collaborate with the more-than-human world? 

What happens when we remember that knowledge is held not only by humans, but by animals, plants and land? How can we begin to listen to and learn from our more-than-human kin, and widen our perspectives in order to design more harmonious, connected and reciprocal systems? And what might we learn about ourselves – our own instincts, intuitions, and embodied intelligence? During this breakfast, we explore the practices, tools and techniques that we as artists, practitioners and humans can use in order to learn from our more-than-human communities, with speakers Lousia Chase, Kay Michael and Beccy McCray.

Art that changes things | Through creative practice, how can we more deeply engage with, learn from and collaborate with the more-than-human world? 

Art and culture can do more than ‘respond to’ or ‘raise awareness of’ the earth crisis. Whilst eco exhibitions proliferate around the world, many are asking if art that merely invites speculation goes deep enough. As Marv Recinto wrote, ‘eco exhibitions won’t save us’. Artistic and cultural practices have the power to actually begin to shift things, through deeply engaged, collaborative, place-based processes. We hear from Freddie Yauner, Radhika Jani of Platform London and Food Justice London, Eloïse Currie, circus artist and co-creator Of The Wild circus, and James Aldridge.