Back in April 2025 we hosted REALISE, our ever first sustainability summit. At Native Events we recognise that the creative sector has a powerful role to play in shaping the future. In Ireland alone, over 80,000 people work across the Cultural and Creative Industries, yet many of us don’t recognise our potential as agents of change.
The climate and environmental crisis, a messy set of ‘wicked problems’ demands new ways of thinking, ways that creatives are uniquely positioned to provide. Artists and performers, writers and musicians, illustrators and designers. And a whole world of other folk – programmers and curators, researchers and facilitators, event organisers and festival-makers, stage technicians and script editors, theatre, nightclub and venue managers, educators, advertisers and set-builders.
We are storytellers, visionaries, and cultural leaders. And as such, we have the ability to reimagine possibilities, challenge narratives, and inspire action. The REALISE Summit is about empowering that collective imagination to not just envision a better world, but to actively create it.
