Accelerate Youth Energy Summit

Accelerate Youth Energy Summit

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Posted 2024-11-14 by dpmfollow

Mon 18 Nov 2024 - Tue 19 Nov 2024


Young people are being invited to an event exploring how to create a fairer and more sustainable future for the region. Taking place at the CBS Arena in Coventry on 18 and 19 November, the Accelerate Youth Energy Summit will feature speakers and workshops as well as a new performance Accelerate.

The summit forms part of the Highly Sprung Young Producers Collective which is aimed at inspiring energy-conscious young people to invest their skills and experience in a better future.

“We have designed the Youth Energy Summit to inspire young people to bring their power and have their say, making a call for change,” said a spokesperson for the event. “The problem with energy is the way that it is made. The most popular way to make energy is unsustainable and bad for the environment. We need to prioritise making energy sustainable to improving people’s lives now and in the future.”



Accelerate is delivered through a partnership between arts organisation and young people’s charity Highly Sprung, Warwick Institute of Engagement, Sustainability West Midlands, EON and Coventry City Council’s Strategic Energy Partnership and WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group).

Accelerate - the performance brings together dark humour, bold movement, aerial performance and conveyor belt dance. Performers battle through daily life, juggling with the exhausting demands of the day-to-day, struggling to find the energy. With only so much fuel to get them through, reserves begin to run low so they must look for alternatives.

Highly Sprung executive director Sarah Worth said: “In the performance, we show how the planet is fighting back, and it’s getting messy, with the ‘dirty’ energy that fuels us running out of steam. The performance looks at the world’s fuel supply and energy production and its relation to climate change, and how this impacts the physical resilience of energy infrastructures and ultimately our mental health, as a result of fuel poverty.”

Accelerate aims to provide a platform for the voices of young people on issues concerning the global and local energy crisis, providing space for young people to take action to improve the use of and understanding of energy and its impacts on poverty and quality of life.

The Accelerate Youth Energy Summit is open to school groups and free to attend but places need to be booked. For more information see here.

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