Activism - Advocacy
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative
spontaneity with the rest of humanity around earth… We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor
for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.
—BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Entertainment, arts, and media resist oppression by expanding awareness, expressing truth, preserving identity, challenging propaganda, inspiring courage, subverting censorship, and offering visions of liberated futures. When governments attempt to control people, creatives respond by rekindling imagination, sovereignty, and the unquenchable human desire for freedom.
Art does not merely reflect the world—it remakes it.
—JOHN RAATZ
Creatives as Activists
The relationship between activism and creative artists is deeply intertwined, as both arise from a desire to express truth, challenge limitations, and inspire transformation. Activism seeks to awaken awareness and bring about social, cultural, or environmental change; creative artistry does the same through imagination, emotion, and the language of symbols, story, and beauty.
Artists often become activists—consciously or not—because authentic creativity engages the moral and spiritual conscience of society. Through music, film, literature, painting, performance, and digital media, artists give form and voice to the unseen dimensions of collective experience: suffering, hope, injustice, and possibility. Art can reach where argument cannot, awakening empathy and reflection.
Conversely, activism can nourish artistry by grounding it in purpose. It can give artists a cause, a community, and a context for their creative gifts. The activist impulse infuses art with urgency and relevance, while the artist’s imagination gives activism heart, depth, and vision.
At their best, activism and creative artistry work together as two expressions of the same creative impulse—the impulse to envision and embody a more conscious, compassionate, and just world.
The artistic community’s responses to “corporate domination of the arts”—meaning the increasing control of artistic production, distribution, and funding by corporations, brands, and profit-driven institutions—range from resistance and critique to adaptation and subversion.
—John Raatz
Details of GATE EarthCare offerings will be posted here.
The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.
—Eckhart Tolle
GATE EarthCare: A Creative Movement for a Thriving Planet
GATE EarthCare is GATE’s planetary stewardship initiative—an invitation for Creative Artists, storytellers, and cultural innovators to bring their gifts in service to the flourishing of our shared home. Rooted in the understanding that Earth is the foundation of all human creativity, EarthCare mobilizes the transformative power of entertainment, arts, and media to inspire awareness, compassion, and action for the well-being of the planet.
EarthCare empowers creatives to use their voices, visions, and platforms to illuminate ecological truth,
rekindle our relationship with the natural world, and catalyze a global cultural shift toward regeneration.
Through projects, collaborations, community engagement, and conscious storytelling, EarthCare cultivates a new narrative—one that honors Earth as a living system, recognizes our interdependence, and champions
the choices and behaviors that sustain life.
At its heart, GATE EarthCare stands for this simple yet profound belief:
When we nurture the planet, we nurture the future of humanity.
EarthCare invites all creatives who feel called to environmental stewardship to join
a growing network of artists devoted to shaping a more conscious, compassionate,
and ecologically balanced world.
Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify.
The good artist is a vehicle of truth, he formulates ideas which would otherwise remain vague and focuses attention upon facts which can then no longer be ignored. The tyrant persecutes the artist by silencing him or by attempting to degrade or buy him. This has always been so.
—Iris Murdoch
The flaws of our leaders perfectly mirror the emotional underdevelopment
of the society that elevates them to power.
—Gabor Mate