Music Events at COP26

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If you're not heading to Glasgow, you can join events by subscribing to the COP26 YouTube channel, or by exploring the Google Arts & Culture Digital Green Zone.

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Find out how and see the full programme here: https://ukcop26.org/attending-the-green-zone-virtually/

I want to highlight the following event, chaired by the fantastic Alison Tickell at Julie's Bicycle...

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15:00 - 16:00, 01 Nov 2021

Musicians in Exile, Glasgow’s asylum-seeking and refugee musicians, perform their homelands’ music, with new songs created for COP26 about climate change’s impact on refugees.

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11:00 - 11:30, 02 Nov 2021

15:00 - 15:30, 02 Nov 2021

Join one of the UK’s leading children and youth choirs for a performance of songs inspired by climate change.

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14:00 - 15:00, 04 Nov 2021

Fear of the Green Planet is a multimedia and participatory music project by Co-Founder of May Project Gardens and Artist KMT Freedom Teacher; permeating the whole-systems thinking that permaculture inspires. Launching the development of a new genre that advocates for solutions oriented social and climate justice. This project is a full length album through the creation of new tracks, music videos and performances etc.

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10:00 - 11:30, 05 Nov 2021

Across the world, artists and arts organisations are mobilising around the climate crisis and discovering a deeper connection to the planet. This in-conversation event, chaired by Alison Tickell, founder and CEO of non-profit Julie’s Bicycle, explores the vital role that arts and culture must play in climate transformation.

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16:30 - 18:00, 06 Nov 2021

Expect a mixture of live music, film from Louis himself, talks, a diverse interactive panel of brilliant young POC Experts & Climate Activists exploring why people of colour in the UK & the West have been purposefully alienated & disconnected from the Natural world & what we’re doing about it.

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12:30 - 14:30, 08 Nov 2021

Join Hogan Lovells & the Great Green Wall Frontline team on a music-driven journey across Africa's Great Green Wall. Followed by a panel discussion on how you can become involved in this wildly ambitious movement, featuring Malian musician and climate activist, Inna Modja.

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14:00 - 15:00, 08 Nov 2021

Founder and trustee of the charitable trust “Indigenous People’s Cultural Support Trust” and internationally acclaimed virtuoso cellist and composer, Emily Burridge will perform her solo cello composition “Into the Amazon”.

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13:00 - 14:00, 12 Nov 2021

The Fèis Phàislig Ceilidh Trail is a professional development opportunity for up-and-coming traditional musicians.

The projects aims to give musicians aged 16-25 an experience of life as a musician on the road as well as the opportunity to develop their stagecraft.

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15:00 - 16:00, 12 Nov 2021

Glasgow and New Orleans are both Cultural hubs, meccas for Culture bearers from the worlds of Music, Art and Performance. This Partnership and Collaboration developed over the last several years between those from the Performance worlds in both cities, and academics and scientists focused on Climate Change and how devastating weather events affect the diverse peoples who are ALSO the Musicians, Artists and Performers and a Historian who links them as well as serves as an expert on the impact of Hurricanes on a cultural city.

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16:00 - 17:00, 12 Nov 2021

In our contribution to COP26, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has worked in partnership with Scotland House, Scotland’s international enterprise network, to stimulate global conversations and provide a diverse range of artistic responses to the climate change debate.

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See the full programme here: https://ukcop26.org/the.../green-zone-programme-of-events/