Art for the Climate in Montreal

The climate emergency is hitting us hard. It requires immediate action on the part of our politicians to rise to the height of the crisis. Artivism allows civil society to continue to engage in the fight against climate change and to respond to climate despair through art.

Two days away from the next leaders' debate, and a week after the historic march that brought 500,000 people to Montreal, the message of this mural - which includes Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal, citizens and volunteers from Greenpeace - recalls the intersectionality of environmental, social and racial issues facing the climate crisis.

The message of the fresco is about climate action, and it reads respectively in French and in Atikamewk Let’s Do Something About Climate and Nakatoweritetan (Let’s Protect Everything).