- Art is a practice of expanding consciousness, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to explore and to embody possibility and to engage with the earth as it continues to change and with each other.
Rebecca Mwase, excerpt from an interview at Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020
(episode 3 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)
Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona from March 8-14, 2020 thanks to a collaboration of EcoArts Connections, the University of Arizona and the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) based at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Rebecca Mwase (they/she) is a Zimbabwean-American theater and performance artist, consultant, and cultural organizer working at the intersection of art and social justice.
They craft performance, processes, workshops and curriculum that investigate the possibilities for embodied revolution.
Her work creates spaces to reckon with and release the impacts of oppression while deepening a sense of connection and belonging.
Photo of Rebecca Mwase by Melisa Cardona.
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Hey conscient listeners,
I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa).
It’s my way to give back.
In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and its francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I Ipublish free ‘a calm presence' Substack see https://acalmpresence.substack.com.
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Claude Schryer
Latest update on July 8, 2025
