KIN Creative

A separate arm of our business, KIN Creative brings climate change and sustainability advisory services to the creative arts sector, whilst simultaneously advocating for the important role of the arts in the transition to a more sustainable future.

Director of KIN Creative, Aimee Smith, is an award winning choreographer and dance artist who has worked at the intersection of sustainability and climate change for over 20 years. After a decade long career in the arts she retrained to obtain a Masters in Sustainability and Climate Policy. After working in the public and private sector for a number of years, Aimee loves to bring these pragmatic skills and expertise in climate and sustainability to support arts and creative organisations on their climate journeys.

Simultaneously Aimee has always advocated for the role of the arts in this messy, beautiful transition to a climate safe, climate just future. She knows the arts has so much to offer humanity on its journey right now - as storytellers; visionaries; culture shifters; places to host conversations and dialogue about the things that matter; as vessels to access other ways of knowing, doing and being; and as practice-ground to dream up and prototype the future.

Aimee is a Creative Climate Leader fellow (Creative Australia, 2023) and a Realise Your Dream Recipient, for her leadership in this space. She co-founded Arts and Cultural Workers for Climate Action (ACWCA).

As a sustainability and climate change advisor she has worked with:

  • Arts on Tour

  • The Last Great Hunt

  • Trick of the Light

  • Freedom Time Festival

…amongst others.

“We worked with Aimee on an environmental audit for our touring theatre company based out of Aotearoa New Zealand. Aimee came recommended to us by other friends in the arts as being understanding of the unique ways of our sector, and we couldn't have been happier. Aimee was flexible, friendly and down to earth, making the complex science and heartbreaking realities of environmental consciousness a bit easier to understand and deal with. She was very open to understanding the weird-and-wonderful ways the theatre sector works, and she was very happy to take the time to explain anything we were confused by. She is an excellent collaborator and communicator - highly recommend.”

Trick of the Light