Upcoming events
Inter-Narratives: When climate communication works (and when it doesn’t)
Suzanne joins three other specialists with unique takes on what makes for powerful, effective climate communication - and why - this conversation will explore lessons learned from campaigns, case studies of climate communication that have really landed, and examples that really haven’t.
Chaired by Adam Corner (Climate Barometer), the panelists will rummage around in the climate comms back catalogue (which by now stretches over more than two decades), and shine a light on the most exciting and challenging campaigns around right now.
Are we learning from our mistakes? What’s the next frontier for campaigns to navigate in terms of communication and public engagement? What aren't we getting right yet?
How to Actually Solve the Climate Crisis
As part of the Ignite: Climate Content Summit , Suzanne will give a keynote speech and join Emma Pinchbeck and Qasa Alom to discuss the big-picture changes that can transition us away from fossil fuels.
MIND THE CULTURE GAP: How Cultural Heritage, Entertainment, Storytelling are Igniting Climate Action
Suzanne will join other featured speakers for this impact webinar unpacking learnings from COP28 in Dubai to strengthen the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion’s roadmap towards COP30.
Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction
Suzanne joined a day-long closed working group to map out the future of the Climate & Colonialism research project - a collaboration between the Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph ABP gallery.
Climate Matter Week: Climate Change, Culture and Societal Engagement
Suzanne will give a talk on Climate Justice, Culture and Societal Engegement as part of the Climate Matters Week at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
RE/SISTERS A Lens on Gender and Ecology
Suzanne was the Climate Justice Curatorial Consultant for this major group exhibition exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, and highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
Ecologies in Practice Conference: Education, the Arts, and the Earth Crisis
In this talk, Suzanne will explore how the climate crisis intersects with the ongoing colonial exploitation of crucial ecosystems such as the Athabasca Delta in the Canadian Tar Sands to the Niger Delta. She will share her practice as a climate justice creative to expose the webs of corporate and financial power that have led to the current crisis. Through working in international, intergenerational solidarity her work has sought to uplift those challenging the paradigm which has led to the devastation which characterizes the Anthropocene.
18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future
Suzanne is humbled to announce that she will share her first solo exhibition as part of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future. The Architecture Biennale will take place in Venice Italy, from Saturday 20 May to Sunday 26 November 2023 (pre-opening 18 and 19 May), curated by the architect, professor of architecture and writer Lesley Lokko.
Decolonial Europe Day: Europe and the Responsibility for Repairing Colonial Crimes
As part of the Decolonial Europe Day, Suzanne will join the session organised by the African Futures Lab, which will explore Europe's role in addressing colonial crimes, ongoing racial inequalities, and the impact of European policies on global racial justice.
Climate+: real people, real stories, real change - A Thinking Ahead Institute film night
Suzanne will join a panel discussion accompanying the the Thinking Ahead Institute film night.
Green Tease: Decolonial perspectives on climate and culture
Suzanne joins Parvinder Marwaha and Titilayo Farukuoye to explore the growing movement within the arts to engage with and address the UK’s colonial history, looking at how this is intimately connected with work on climate change as a neo-colonial issue.
Environmental Racism: A story of colonization and ecocide
Join Suzanne for a webinar co-hosted by Stop Ecocide Canada and RAVEN Trust.
The purpose of this webinar series is to educate and raise awareness on using international law, and specifically a crime of #ecocide, to uphold Indigenous rights and environmental protection.
Eco-agenda and Environmentalism
Suzanne will present a talk at the NEW NOW, an international online platform for the exchange of ideas about and interpretations of reality and for research on the present moment.
GEN In Conversation: Creative Strategies for Change
While we watch the world's leaders stumble towards agreement at COP26 in trepidation, at home we are often left with a feeling of powerlessness wondering, ‘what can we do?’. Join Suzanne for a creative strategies workshop.
Art & Design in the Age of Climate Crisis and Ecocide
Lecture in the Politics and Performance Series at the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR), organized by Sruti Bala and Elize Mazadiego.
The Mont Pèlerin Rewrite - Guest Workshop
Suzanne will present a guest workshop to inform the Anthropocene Curriculum at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, as part of the Mont Pelerin Rewrite project. Suzanne's lecture will explore decolonsing climate justice and activism in the context of COP26.
Plastic pollution – a tale of social injustice
This roundtable conversation aims to offer a global perspective to the issue of plastic and the associated injustices, bringing together experts from different parts of the world. The event coincides with the forthcoming collaborative exhibition Plastic: Remaking Our World, bringing together product design, graphics, architecture and fashion collections from the V&A and Vitra Design Museum, as well as collections all over the world.
Silbersalz Festival - The nexus between environmental and social justice
Problems like poverty and racism are directly related to environmental issues. What does this mean and how to take action?
Every drought, every flood has consequences for the local population: economic, political and social problems emerge or worsen. Therefore, it is necessary for scientists from different fields to exchange ideas and find solutions together. Suzanne Dhaliwal joins the discussion with Prof. Saleemul Huq and Dr. Kira Vinke, moderated by Fritz Habekuß.
GEN In Conversation: Colonial conservation and uneven development
Suzanne Dhaliwal joins Kendi Borona, Milka Chepkorir and Ashish Kothari as they share their first-hand experiences of the ways Indigenous Knowledge and community-led education can revitalise our human connection to land and build resilient, thriving societies.
changing ENERGY
A creative provocation by Suzanne Dhaliwal
- alongside an online discussion with Dr Ellie Standen, Joanna Clarke, Dr Samiya Selim and Andy Middleton (Chair)
changing MONEY
Online discussion with Suzanne Dhaliwal, Dr Emily Bacon, Shameran Abed and Oliver Balch (Chair), and a creative provocation by Oana Aristide.
Abandon Normal Devices Festival: Resurface Talks
The cultural shift required to address the climate crisis calls on the cultural sector to look closely at the sites of ecocide globally, to understand the relationship between white supremacy, colonialism and ecological degradation. Frontline communities resisting extraction have been at the forefront of challenging the current rate of exploitation and exposing the absence of monitoring and restoration of vital ecosystems that have brought us to this planetary tipping point. In this talk, Suzanne will explore how the climate crisis intersects with the ongoing colonial exploitation of crucial ecosystems such as the Athabasca Delta in the Canadian Tar Sands to the Niger Delta.
Black Gold: Petropolis and Crude Britannia - online film screening and discussion
In this online event, Suzanne joins James Marriott, whose new co-authored book Crude Britannia provides a stark context for the discussion after the screening of Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands.
Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation - Online Book Launch
Suzanne joins the book’s authors James Marriott, Terry Macalister and a wide-ranging panel for this special launch event marking the release of Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation, published by Pluto Press, as part of Radical May.
How to bring eco-criticism into the art academy? - online event
Based on the assumption that contemporary art education educates critical and committed makers, we investigate what is needed to fruitfully discuss themes such as climate breakdown and eco-criticism with students. The question 'How important is it that the art academy itself is also sustainably organized?' must be addressed in this discussion.
Together for a Fair Climate Future - Panel
Suzanne joins a panel discussing how to tackle the unequal impacts of climate change.
Climate change impacts will not be felt equally in society. How do we make sure most impacted communities are central to the UK’s response?
Radio Disaster: The Climate Change Series
Environmental justice, economic justice, racial justice and gender justice are indivisible parts of a global struggle to readdress existing power structures. Active movements must ensure that these matters are embedded in the agenda of the transition away from the fossil fuel economy by addressing the root causes of capitalism and colonialism.
No Culture on a Dead Planet
This Earth Day come and explore how you as arts and cultural sector practitioners can take on the challenges of the climate emergency and shift your studios, organisations and communities to make impactful environmental change.
Urgency Intensive: Intergovernmental Panel Art & Climate Change
The Jan Van Eyck academy invites you to partake in an exercise of imagination and long-term thinking centered around the Intergovernmental Panel on Art and Climate Change (IPACC)
Keynote: Art & Design in the Age of Ecocide
Notable climate activist and creative Suzanne Dhaliwal (UK) presents a keynote address on contemporary decolonial design and art practices used in activism that aim to challenge white supremacy and oppression within environmental movements. Dhaliwal will outline anti-oppression and creative action trainings developed to support an inclusive environmental movement grounded in anti-oppression principles.