Set designer Sandra Goldmark is starting up a new sustainability project with her husband, Michael Banta, a production manager and technical director, along with several theatre colleagues. They are opening a 4 week Pop-Up Repair shop in northern Manhattan, this June. The shop is a challenge to the cycle of use-and-discard consumer goods, and will be staffed… Continue reading Pop-Up Repair and theatre artists
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Proposals for creative art+science, participatory and open environmental education in the Gulf of Finland / Baltic Sea Region
On the Pixelache website, Andrew Paterson introduced 6 proposals, first presented at the Gulf of Finland Year Trilateral Environmental Education seminar, Tallinn, 28.2.2013 (http://www.gof2014.fi/en/partners/education/) and part of an ongoing dialogue and cooperation with Russian NGO Friends of the Baltic, based in St. Petersburg (http://baltfriends.ru/). Find out more here…
Call for participants: Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence
Transdisciplinary expedition, production workshop and events Location: Pyhäjoki, Finland – Time: 31.7. – 12.8.2013 – For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and doers + everything or opinion in between. Deadline to apply: 5.5.2013. The sixth nuclear power plant of Finland is planned to be built at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki. The aim of the project… Continue reading Call for participants: Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence
New Essay Competition from WOLFoundation
The Web of Life Foundation is issuing the first call for essays for its 2013 essay competition. WOLFoundation is dedicating to stimulating new thinking in the field of sustainability and socio-environmental issues. Within this context, the theme of this year’s essay competition is “An Aspirational Future“. Essays should be up to 2,000 words of prose… Continue reading New Essay Competition from WOLFoundation
JALAN JATI (TEAK ROAD)
On show at the John Hope Gallery Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK) until July 7th 2013 The results of three years of research and production, the interdisciplinary exhibition from Singapore, Jalan Jati (Teak Road) opened at the Edinburgh Science Festival on 21 March 2013 and runs at the John Hope Gallery Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh until July 2013. Jalan Jati (Teak Road)… Continue reading JALAN JATI (TEAK ROAD)
Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles
For an upcoming issue of Antennae Submission Deadline: 1st of September 2013 “At the forefront of today’s social issues are questions related to the human relationship to nature and the environment, the meaning of a sustainable future and the relationship of environmentalism to modernity and today’s economic structures. While the sciences have, until recently, dominated… Continue reading Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles
Fish Story Talk and Artmaking Workshop in Memphis, TN (USA)
A pre-opening event for Memphis Social, at Crosstown Arts – Organizer: Aviva Rahmani, ecological artist Address: 427 N Watkins St, Memphis, TN 38138 (USA) – Date: Monday, May 6, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm Where do the lives of fish and people meet in Memphis? An evening of talk and artmaking will map the… Continue reading Fish Story Talk and Artmaking Workshop in Memphis, TN (USA)
Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape
Exhibition – April 22 to May 25, 2013 Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature – Edinburgh College of Art – Evolution House (corner of Westport and Lady Lawson Street) – Edinburgh, EH1 2LE, Scotland Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon to 4:45PM or by appointment on Saturday. The Collins & Goto Studio presents an on-going series of… Continue reading Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape
An Orange County Almanac – now available as paperback
An Orange County Almanac, and other essays, which was published in November 2012 as the 7th Volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on Culture and Sustainability, in collaboration with WOLFoundation, is now also made available as paperback by the WOLFoundation. It is available for purchase ($7 + p&p. No sales tax.). For enquiries please send… Continue reading An Orange County Almanac – now available as paperback
Call for abstracts: Ecology In Practice – Creative Conservation Symposium
5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration in Madison, Wisconsin, USA October 6-11, 2013 The symposium is convened by David Haley and Richard Scott. Haley has convened and chaired the Ecological Arts symposia at SER (Society for Ecological Restoration) World Conferences in 2000 (Liverpool), 2005 (Zaragoza) and 2011 (Merida), and contributed to Richard Scott’s Creative Conservation workshops… Continue reading Call for abstracts: Ecology In Practice – Creative Conservation Symposium
