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Nurturing the role of creativity to help us transform to ecocentric governance and culture

The Australian Earth Laws Alliance believes that cultural change is a vital part of building Earth centred governance and culture. Our Earth Arts Program and an Earth Arts Collective are an important part of our culture change work.

PLEASE VISIT OUR DEDICATED 'EARTH ARTS' WEBSITE to see information about our 2026 Arts Program, and all of our previous year's activities.

AELA'S EARTH ARTS PROGRAM IN 2026 - 'KINSHIP'

Please join us for an exciting range of activities, as we celebrate AELA’s 2026 Earth Arts Program: ‘Kinship’.  Kinship 2026 is an invitation for all creatives to celebrate, create works and events, and learn more about our deep interconnection and entanglement with all of life on earth.

We’ll be hosting creative conversations, arts workshops and other events in the lead up to – and during! – ‘Earth Arts Week’ from 16-20 November 2026. 

You can find all the information about our Kinship Program on our AELA Earth Arts website here.

Questions? Please email us anytime – creative@earthlaws.org.au

WHY KINSHIP?

Human beings are just one member of the wider Earth community, and we are all connected and interdependent with all other species and ecosystems. ‘Kinship’ invites us to reflect, celebrate and be inspired by the creative, cultural, bioregional, spiritual and practical ways that humans relate to, and are part of, nature. ‘Kinship’ aims to enable us to enrich our understanding of what it means to be part of the Earth community.

Our 2026 Kinship Earth Arts Program will see AELA host arts projects, workshops, creative exhibitions, writing programs and more – to stimulate reflection, conversations and cultural shifts that acknowledge the wonder, beauty and our reliance on, the more-than-human world.

How you can join ‘Kinship 2026’
* Invitation to Participate *

If you’re interested in being part of Kinship 2026, there are a number of ways to participate:

  1. Earth Arts Virtual Gallery – showcase your work to the Earth Arts community and beyond;
  2. Nature Writing Scholarship – (details available soon!);
  3. Earthwords and Artling Anthology – submit your poetry, essays, artworks, photography and more;
  4. Kinship Webinars – let us know if you, or your contacts, would like to join an Earth Arts webinar this year, to discuss and promote creative responses to the Kinship theme; and/or
  5. Host in-person activities during Earth Arts Week (16-20 November 2026)

Please visit our Earth Arts website here, to learn more about how to participate in Kinship 2026, and to submit your ideas and EOI.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH AELA’S EARTH ARTS PROGRAM

Please visit our dedicated website for our Earth Arts Program – www.eartharts.org.au

 

Past Events and Projects

Please click on the links BELOW, or visit our Earth Arts website, to find out more about the events below:

Creative Conversations 2024

Voices of Nature 2020 - AELA's Biennial Arts Program

RONA18 - ('Rights of Nature Australia 2018') Celebrating the Rights of Nature

  • View the catalogue from our 2018 Arts Program, which was connected to the 2018 Peoples' Tribunal and biennial Earth Laws Conference.

RONA16 (‘Rights of Nature Australia 2016’) Celebrating the Rights of Nature

  • View the catalogue from our 2016 Arts Program, which was connected to the Peoples Tribunal for the Rights of Nature Australia.

Earth Leaders Lab – July 2014, Bundanon NSW

  • In conjunction with Bundanon Siteworks, AELA worked with De Quincey Co and Lean Productions to run a 1 day workshop that brought people together from the arts, education, law, science and architecture, to explore how our different professional traditions engage with caring for the Earth.  Our National Convenor, Michelle Maloney, also joined a panel facilitated by ABC journalist Robin Williams, and AELA Project Manager Jules Livingstone led workshop discussions with Bundanon participants about Earth laws topics.

Wild Law Art Exhibition – September 2013, Brisbane

  • This art exhibition was created in partnership with Professor Marian Drew and her colleagues and students at the Griffith University College of Art.  It opened in conjunction with AELA’s 2013 Wild Law Conference, titled “Living within our Ecological Limits – Law and Governance for a Finite World”.

Wild Law Arts Incubator – June 2012, Sydney

  • In partnership with De Quincey Co. This workshop was organised by De Quincey Co, to bring Earth lawyers, indigenous community leaders and artists together to explore Earth jurisprudence. AELA’s National Convenor Dr Michelle Maloney gave a talk and led workshop discussions at the event.