ClimArts
Originally from Mumbai, Kripa Iyer and Neelambaree Prasad, are friends and fellow dancers and founded Madhuriya, an art based not-for-profit in London. They have trained (and still do) under the lineage of Padmavibhushan Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra for over two decades and now teach and perform to spread the joy of dance in the UK. Kripa is an economist and Neelambaree a pharmacologist. Combining their leadership skills and experience from the worlds of policy and healthcare, and as curators, they launched ClimArts in collaboration with Terra.do at the London Design Festival 2022. It is a unique platform for artists anywhere in the world to learn from climate specialists, collaborate with them and have an opportunity to present their climate storytelling to a global audience
ClimArts empowers artists and climate experts to become impactful storytellers:
We offer learning programs to train creative individuals in climate storytelling: ClimArts Labs, ClimArts Fellowship, and ClimArts Studio.
Storytelling, enhanced through art, is a powerful tool for climate communication. It simplifies complexity, fosters connection, and inspires urgency. ClimArts empowers storytellers—individually and collaboratively—to create works that amplify climate narratives, driving understanding, connection, and action.
Madhuriya, also founded by Lyer and Prasad, has a vision to co-evolve Indian Classical and Western Art forms in the UK. By co-evolving Indian art forms alongside Western arts in the UK as dancers, storytellers and curators, they use arts as a tool to inspire and provoke action. The workshops employ dance and art to impart various skills – non-verbal communication, building confidence, reading body language and improving physical and mental health.
London, UK · Non-Profit