Name: Sharpen Your Climate Story: A Workshop with Chloë Fraser
Start: 2026-09-30T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-30T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Upstart & Crow Studio

Description

Sharpen your climate story in this cozy, hands-on workshop for women working in the environmental space and adjacent fields. Part journaling, part talking circle, part strategic brainstorm, this 90-minute session helps you find the language and framework to share why you care about climate change.

We’ll use guided prompts to draw out your personal climate story, including how your experiences have shaped both your connection to this work and how you show up in it professionally. You’ll explore narrative strategies that externalize your authority and perspective, and connect the dots between your own story and the climate impacts you care about most. From there, we’ll shape it into a clear, audience-ready pitch and workshop it in small circles.

You’ll leave with a refined mini-climate story and a resource cheat sheet of tools and language — some familiar, some new — that you can put to use immediately.

This event is part of our Women Talking Climate series. The registration fee is $5. All proceeds of the event go to Upstart & Crow’s climate programming, including writers’ residencies, book clubs, grants and more. Please RSVP here to reserve your spot.

More about Upstart & Crow:

Upstart & Crow is a not-for-profit creative studio and literary incubator that champions writers, readers and stories, and the role they play in shaping our lives. We develop original programs, support artists and revel in creative projects focused on Literature In Translation / Climate Solutions / Poetry / Civic Dialogue / Community & Skills Building … all with the aim of elevating the role of literature and storytelling in our lives. Find us on Granville Island, Gibsons and online at upstartandcrow.com.

Accessibility:

The main studio of our shop is accessible for folks with mobility aids. There is a washroom on the main floor available for attendees. As part of disability justice and community care for the chronically ill, vulnerable and elderly, we ask that you refrain from attending if you feel sick.

Questions: hello[at]upstartandcrow.com.

More about the facilitator:

Chloë Fraser is a storyteller, communications strategist, and facilitator committed to driving impactful climate action across Canada. She works in communications at an environmental non-profit, where she translates critical conservation and climate science into stories that resonate with diverse audiences. Chloë has taught an accredited storytelling course at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and led dozens of workshops on climate communications. She also collaborates with local non-profits to amplify their impact through strategic narrative design. Chloë was named one of Canada’s Top 25 Under 25 Environmental Leaders and was featured in the National Observer’s climate leaders column. She holds a BA in Economics, Law, and Ethics from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in International Relations and Creative Writing from UBC.