Penny talks about wild swimming, our connection to water, resources and responsibilities, recognising resilience, shaping things together, sustainability planners, and how we might better engage with eco-anxiety and distress by leaning into embodiment, imagination and opening up to what's needed.

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The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room