CCAT Global Hub

Launched as a defining pillar of the inaugural Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW), the Creatives for Climate Action - Thailand (CCAT) Global Hub by Creative Migration transformed Bangkok 1899 into the city’s dedicated space for exploring the intersection of climate action and cultural practice. As an organizing partner, Creative Migration built BKKCAW from ideation over nearly a year, shaping it into a cornerstone of the regional agenda and connecting global cultural climate initiatives directly with local leadership in Southeast Asia.

The week-long pilot edition served as a vibrant meeting point for artists, designers, filmmakers, policymakers, youth leaders, and local communities to connect, exchange ideas, and spark long-term transnational collaborations. From immersive data-driven performances to policy-shaping workshops, the CCAT Global Hub demonstrated how creative ecosystems can hold space for nuance, dialogue, and systemic change.

Key Public Programming & Activations

• S3K | Preserve: Science Storytelling Spectacle A groundbreaking pre-week kickoff performance by Thai artist and environmentalist Notep alongside Cyrus James Khan, presented in partnership with Fuzion Far East and AktivAsia. S3K fused science, storytelling, and spectacle by transforming field environmental data into immersive visual and sonic landscapes, cultivating a deep emotional connection to abstract environmental issues.
• Ancestral Currents: LIVE by Wonderfruit An experiential evening taking over Bangkok 1899 in three chapters: plant meditation, live performance and connection. Indonesian electronic duo Bottlesmoker utilized living plants as instruments to build a calming soundscape, followed by a collaborative live performance with Tontrakul that bridged Thai and Indonesian ritual instruments (like the phin, khaen, and karinding) into modern electronic landscapes. The night concluded with a cross-genre global music afterparty with Na Projects at Na Café.
• Connect Creative for Climate Action: A collaborative youth activation by the Thai collective neo-baannok and the Local Conference of Youth Thailand (LCOY)—a platform under YOUNGO, the youth constituency of the UNFCCC. This initiative successfully bridged environmental advocacy with creative arts, bringing together digital creators, musicians, and policy advocates at Bangkok 1899 to translate complex climate issues into accessible, narrative-driven content.
• Cosmic Corals: Ecological Memory in Mixed Media A surreal, week-long exhibition by Bangkok-based Egyptian artist Shereif Eldesouky, on view in the gallery room at Bangkok 1899. Inspired by island travel and personal memory, the mixed-media works explored themes of interconnectedness and consciousness, reminding viewers that climate adaptation is both a personal and planetary process.
• Precious Plastic Bangkok Workshops: An interactive, hands-on community workspace addressing the plastic waste crisis in Thailand. Participants engaged in circular design by utilizing specialized recycling machinery to transform recycled plastic beads into unique, personal accessories like bracelets and keychains, highlighting community-led, income-generating solutions to plastic pollution.

Workshops & Media

• The Regenerative Strategy Lab by anewkind.studio A three-hour strategic intensive at Bangkok 1899 that introduced organizations to living-systems frameworks. Moving beyond traditional sustainability models, the workshop demonstrated how teams can mimic nature's 3.8 billion years of intelligence to drive innovation, strengthen stakeholder ecosystems, and build resilient workplace cultures.
• Where Change Begins: Power, Purpose, Action by AktivAsia An interactive, beginner-friendly campaign workshop hosted at BACC, designed to equip emerging activists and climate-concerned citizens with basic organizing strategy concepts and participatory tools to effectively transition climate awareness into sustainable public action.
• Food. Air. Land: Breaking The Vicious Cycle by ClimateCats Studios A bold, intersectional panel and screening event at BACC that put Thailand's air pollution crisis at the forefront. Unpacking the hidden environmental costs of industrial agriculture, the session spotlighted real solutions through grassroots farming initiatives and collective action, grounding scientific data in lived human stories.

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