A project to build a tree house for use as a public space in Berlin Das Baumhaus is a collaborative project between neighbors and local & international artists to build a tree house for use as a public space in Berlin-Wedding starting this year. Together they’re acting on the little voice in their heads that… Continue reading DAS BAUMHAUS
Author: Lena Felde
Lena is the Treasurer of Cultura21 Germany. She is studying Cultural Sciences (Mag. Art.) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.
WATERWASH Welcomes
Sunday, June 22nd at 12 noon is the opening celebration of five inClimate events of WATERWASH Welcomes. Join ecological artist Lillian Ball for a picnic discussion about the WATERWASH project (2010-2014) and how its native wetland plants mitigate increased storm water pollution. A limited number of participants can also enjoy a rowboat ride with Rocking the Boat program assistants to hear… Continue reading WATERWASH Welcomes
The Kreuzberg Community Arts Festival
The Kreuzberg Community Arts Festival takes place from June 21st to June 27th. For seven days, the courtyard between the Expedition Metropolis Theatre and Rosa Parks Primary School will be transformed into an expressive arena of cultural diversity with theatre, music, exhibition, film, book readings, games and picnics. Everyone is invited to experience art in… Continue reading The Kreuzberg Community Arts Festival
Schumacher College – courses on Creativity and Design
Join Schumacher College (UK) for residential short course and postgraduate programmes in art and ecology, creative engagement, ecological design, writing and storytelling for personal and social transformation. Short courses for 2014 Dark Mountain – New Stories at the Cliff Edge, 23 – 27 June With Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine Radical creative thinking from the… Continue reading Schumacher College – courses on Creativity and Design
FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action
An exhibition of upstate/downstate NY artists who work with food and agriculture – Curated by Amy Lipton (ecoartspace) Smack Mellon – 92 Plymouth Street at Washington – Brooklyn, NY 11201 June 7 to July 27, 2014 Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 5pm-8pm Artists: Joan Bankemper/Black Meadow Barn; Joy Garnett; Habitat For Artists Collective (Simon Draper, Michael Asbill, Carmen Acuna,… Continue reading FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action
Imagining »Earth«
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ Conference, May 29 – 31 2014, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance. Claiming the ›global‹ importance of a problem, a place or a practice aims for the mobilization of attention and resources that exceed… Continue reading Imagining »Earth«
Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Telemark University College Bø, May 13.-15. (Tue-Thu), 2014 The aim of the COST Action IS1007 meeting is to provide new perspectives and practical examples of the transformative role of culture for a sustainable future. The symposium will investigate the many ways of integrating perspectives on cultural change, social learning, experience-based training, innovation… Continue reading Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis
Making_Life
– a research platform for art and synthetic biology “I wonder how much of this Making Life project (what’s in a name) will consist of critical reflection on “the making of novel life-forms from ‘scratch’”, and how much – through its association with art – will in fact be providing social and moral legitimacy (and… Continue reading Making_Life
SoilCulture
2-5 July 2014 “A Nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt Using the arts to revitalise our relationship with a resource we take for granted. Over four days at Falmouth University’s Woodlane campus in July this year, the RANE research group in collaboration with The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW)… Continue reading SoilCulture
Art for the Anthropocene Era
by Eleanor Heartney Reposted from www.artinamericamagazine.com […] It can be hard to shake a sense of imminent eco-doom. Or is there room for “dark optimism,” as the eco-themed initiative Expo 1: New York at MoMA PS1, in Queens, last summer styled it? The UN report contains recommendations for international emissions caps and other cooperative measures,… Continue reading Art for the Anthropocene Era
