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How to be a viral climate change activist

8 December 2022
How to be a viral climate change activist

Ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP27, Crtve Development partnered with Seen, to host a workshop on ‘How to be a viral climate change activist’. The purpose of the workshop was to empower young climate storytellers with the tools to fully understand how to create content that has the potential to go viral.

The interactive online workshop was hosted online and was attended by 137 climate activists from around Africa, who all have their own climate change story to tell.

The two and ½ hour workshop was a deep dive into three key areas to creating viral content specifically tailored to the climate change activists that attended.

First, we focused on ‘How to tell an impactful environmental story.’ This covered the process from concept to creation and how to create impact.

The second hour focused on the ‘shorts model,’ and how to effectively use shortform video formats to create both awareness and reach, and also how to use this limited time format effectively.

The workshop concluded with an important discussion on how algorithms work and what makes a platform push one’s content to a broader audience and the importance of engaging online.

Attendees were also able to openly discuss how each could improve each other’s content offerings by sharing their own thoughts and experiences on how they could raise awareness on climate issues and solutions to larger audiences, and thus amplify their voices further online!

The workshop is a must-watch for climate change activists seeking to improve their overall online presence as it covers both the technical aspects of creating professional content as well many tips and tricks that the SEEN team have learnt and perfected over the years.

Watch the ‘How to be a viral climate change activist’ workshop here

WE!ARE workshops launch in Kenya

18 October 2022
WE!ARE workshops launch in Kenya

Crtve Development hosted the first of its We!Are campaign capacitation workshops from the 5th to the 8th of September 2022.

Held in Nairobi, Kenya, the workshops included creative hubs, activists, policy makers, designers, visual and auditory artists plus community leaders from South Africa, Mozambique, Egypt, Nigeria, Malawi and Zimbabwe.

Some of the creatives that took part included Joan Otieno-  a Nairobi based artist specialising in the use of waste materials, Laissa Malih- a Laikipian Maasai and first female filmmaker in her community, Dorphanage- a spoken word artist and Kenyan singer Ras Amor.

It was a week of learning, sharing, networking and inspiration.

Over 15 organisations participated in the inaugural event including Africa No Filter, Greenpeace, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Royal Danish Embassy in Kenya.

Each organisation helped shape the narrative of climate justice to focus on important African policy issues for communities through the medium of art and creativity in the lead up to COP 27.

Capacitation Workshops

The WE!ARE workshops offer both online and in-person training sessions that focus on climate related policy education.

These workshops focus on getting our youth involved in the fight against climate change and to appreciate the importance of climate justice in Africa and how it affects all our futures.

These sessions include an arts and media up-skilling programme, community participation, leadership and entrepreneurship, and policy capacitation.

Creative Hubs

A core component of the We!Are Movement is to partner with trusted local creative hubs in Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa and Egypt to curate and execute engaging community activations.

These hubs are where artists will be co-creating with their community, become leading voices in the call for climate justice while generating impactful social media content to spread the message to their respective audiences.

Through creative installations, pop-up showcases, workshops and mentorship programmes which address climate action in relevant and refreshing ways, we invite our African youth to become actively involved in telling the climate change story from an African perspective ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP 27) being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 6 to 18 November 2022.

Kenya Workshop Speakers and Discussion points

Our list of speakers and discussion points at the Kenyan We!Are Workshops included:

  • Chineyenwa Okoro Onu – World Economic Forum Global Shaper
  • Eric Njuguna – Climate Activist
  • Joan Otieno – Warembo Wasanii
  • Kenneth Kigunda – Climate Story Africa 
  • Wambui Gathee – Docubox
  • Kevin Lunzalu – Co-founder, Kenyan Youth Biodiversity Network
  • Natasha Kimani – Africa No Filter

The We!Are Movement

The We!Are movement is a campaign launched by Crtve Development, a pan-African social agency that champions change on the African continent.

Through the power of art, technology, journalism and research Crtve Development are championing for African-owned and led development that will bridge the gap between people and policies.

Climate justice and the challenge that climate change presents in Africa is at the heart of the We!Are Movement.

While Africa has the least impact on climate change, globally, Africa and Africans are often the most impacted!

The We!Are Movement strives to change the narrative behind climate change in Africa by engaging with Africa’s youth and calling on them to make their voices heard through the mediums of music, art, fashion and storytelling, so that we can turn the attention on Africa and highlight the climate justice needs of Africans.

We want young people from affected communities to take climate action seriously by participating in workshops, showcases, inclusive partnerships and conversation.

We want the youth to unleash their creative potential and for the We!Are Movement to serve as a catalyst that enables them to retell the story of “the Africa we want to see.”

Visit here for more on the We!Are Campaign.