Ben Okri wrote recently "as artists we (must) dedicate our lives to nothing short of re-dreaming society. We have to be strong dreamers. We have to ask unthinkable questions". In these times that demand that we reimagine everything, what is the role of the creative people in our societies, in our communities? How might creative people, as Toni Cade Bambara put it, “make revolution irresistible”? And how might we make our community activism more creative, better linked to our local artists? We’re joined by **Nigel Adams**, one of the founders of Music Declares Emergency, musician, broadcaster and composer **Hannah Peel**, Yemeni-Scouse poet and activits **Amina Atiq** and by **Chloe Naldrett** from Extinction Rebellion and Birmingham Rep to explore how together we can harness the power of creativity, shaped by your questions and reflections. **Hannah Peel** is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Her solo record career includes Mercury Music Prize shortlisted electronic album, Fir Wave; Awake But Always Dreaming, an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; and the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band. Following her Emmy-nominated score for Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch, Hannah is composing the music for Sky TV's 7-part series Midwich Cuckoos and releasing a new album The Unfolding with Paraorchestra. She is a regular presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show, Night Tracks. \[[www.hannahpeel.com](http://www.hannahpeel.com)\] **Amina Atiq** is a Yemeni- Scouse poet, performance artist, creative practitioner & award-winning community activist. BBC Words First Finalist 2019 & Young Associate & Anti-racism group member for Curious Minds, as well as an Artist fellow of DadaFest and the Weston Jerwood Creative programme. She is currently working in-collaboration with 20 Stories High, a new public arts project coming to Liverpool 8 working closely with Muslim young people, titled Poets' Gift. Her new work Broken Biscuits explores her grandmother’s 1970s Yemeni-British household. In 2020, she produced a short documentary, Unheard Voices, capturing the stories of Yemeni shopkeepers in Liverpool. She is working on a new online and print project, Scouse Pilgrimage, commissioned by Unity Theatre. **Nigel Adams** is co-founder of UK Record labels [Full Time Hobby](https://www.fulltimehobby.co.uk "Full Time Hobby") and [Hassle Records](https://www.hasslerecords.com "Hassle Records") and has worked in the music industry for over 25 years. His keen interest in the environment, including a course in Climate Science at the Royal Institute, led to an active involvement with Extinction Rebellion including co-facilitating XR Hackney in 2019 and co-founding [Music Declares Emergency](https://www.musicdeclares.net "Music Declare Emergency") and the AIM Climate Action Group. **Chloe Naldrett** is a mother of two boys, living in Bristol.  For the last 20 years she has been a theatre producer, working for the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Oxford Playhouse and (currently) the Birmingham Rep, as well as in the commercial West End, whilst managing varying levels of existential anxiety about the state of the planet.  Over the last three years she has redressed this (im)balance by combining theatre with climate activism, working with Extinction Rebellion Bristol, XR Bristol Families, the Bristol-based campaign Our Air, Our City, and Culture Declares Emergency: South West.  She believes that we need to help communities create their positive vision of the future to fight for.