In the lead up to COP30 in Belém, Julie’s Bicycle collaborated with People’s Palace Projects on Arte Pelo Clima (Art for Climate), an initiative inviting artists from across Brazil to create new works in response to the climate challenges facing their territories.
The project forms part of We Make Tomorrow, the global call to place culture at the heart of climate action. Through artistic practice, the participating artists explore how culture can communicate climate realities, strengthen community connections, and advocate for climate justice.
The initiative brought together four artists and collectives working in different regions of Brazil: Lucas Ururahy, Ziel Karapotó, Olinda Tupinambá, and Rainhas das Matas. Each created an original work rooted in their local context and community.
Watch the Arte Pelo Clima Film
The short documentary below explores the artists’ work and the communities they collaborate with. It highlights how creative practice can help tell the stories of territories experiencing environmental change and social inequality.
The film features:
- Lucas Ururahy: Tocando o Barco (Touching the Boat), a collective sound-based sculpture created from a vessel and developed with the Sepetiba community in Rio de Janeiro.
- Ziel Karapotó and Olinda Tupinambá: Indigenous artists who combine ancestral knowledge with contemporary expressions. Their work values the original worldview and the deep connection with the forest, bringing reflections on environmental preservation and cultural resistance.
- Rainhas das Matas: an artistic collective from Soure/Ilha do Marajó in Pará, which unites sustainability, Marajoara culture and LGBTQIA+ protagonism in art and resistance actions. It is from the forest that the Queens flourish: leaves, seeds and colour transformed into struggle, affection and visibility.
Together these projects demonstrate the vital role culture plays in shaping climate narratives and mobilising communities.
About We Make Tomorrow
We Make Tomorrow is a global call urging policymakers to recognise culture as a vital climate solution. Since its launch, over 1.5 million voices have joined the call for culture to be placed at the centre of climate action.
Header image: Rainha das Matas performer at our COP30 event, photo by Ana Paula Gomes
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