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The latest updates, insights and opinions from the Julie's Bicycle team.
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La Caverne du Pont Neuf: France’s public art in a climate emergency
Graciela Melitsko Thornton reflects on her visit to La Caverne du Pont Neuf, an immersive, multi-sensory art installation created by the artist JR, as the Creative Green team were advising on its carbon footprint.
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Culture’s Role in a Justice-led Fossil Fuel Phase-out
During London Climate Action Week 2026, we hosted a free panel discussion with artists and activists at the front of creative climate action.
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Cool Off in Culture is back for 2026
The Cool Off in Culture campaign transform's the UK's cultural venues into a national cooling network offering refuge from the heat with air conditioning, shaded seating or free water refills.
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Adaptive Futures: Bradford – our final session
As part of our Arts Council England programme, JB is delivering a series of in-person and online workshops in Bradford through our Adaptive Futures and Creative Climate Accelerator programmes. These sessions bring together cultural practitioners, community leaders and local experts to explore how creativity can support place-based climate adaptation.
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London Climate Action Week 2026
Join Julie’s Bicycle at London Climate Action Week 2026 to put culture and creativity at the heart of climate action.
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Get involved: Sector opportunities June 2026
Discover funding opportunities, events, commissions, and open calls from within the creative climate community this May.
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Open call: International Touring & Environmental Responsibility Programme 2026
Applications are now open for this initiative supporting arts organisations in England, Denmark, and Norway to develop sustainable, inclusive, and equitable models for international touring.
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Heritage Adapts! A global call for climate adaptation
This blog is the first of a series of pieces from JB on the topic of AI and its use in the creative industries. We will be exploring the environmental and ethical concerns arising from the use of this technology, how the sector is responding to these challenges, and what the future of AI in the arts might look like. This piece focuses on the ethical considerations of AI use.
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Whose Creativity Is It? AI, Artists’ Rights and the Ethics of the Machine
This blog is the first of a series of pieces from JB on the topic of AI and its use in the creative industries. We will be exploring the environmental and ethical concerns arising from the use of this technology, how the sector is responding to these challenges, and what the future of AI in the arts might look like. This piece focuses on the ethical considerations of AI use.
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Julie’s Bicycle Wins ‘EXCELLENT Solution’ Award For Climate Tech
Julie’s Bicycle (JB) has been awarded the Arts Professional ‘Excellent Solution’ Award for its Creative Climate Tools, the world’s first carbon calculator and toolkit specifically for the creative sector.
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Get Involved: Sector Opportunities May 2026
Discover funding opportunities, events, commissions, and open calls from within the creative climate community this May.
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Celebrating Three Years of Partnering on BFI Sustainable Screen
Over the last three years, through the BFI’s Sustainable Screen programme ‘beyond production’, Julie’s Bicycle has supported over 100 cinemas, film festivals, sector support bodies and screen archives to step up on environmental practice and action. As we set out on the next three years of the programme (2026-2029), our programme team reflects on their highlights from the last three years.
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