Reposted from: www.sustainablepractice.org “Sila” is the name of a play written by Chantal Bilodeau. The titel comes from an Inuit word for the breath of life, the primary component of everything that exists. The play is about an ice scientist, an Inuit activist, an officer for the Marine Communications and Traffic Services and a polar… Continue reading Reading of the play “Sila”
Category: Sustainability
UK Green Film Festival
The UK Green Film Festival is a not-for-profit, national film festival showcasing films and filmmakers engaging with environmental and climate change themes that challenge, inspire, educate and entertain. Featured films include: The Age of Stupid, Vanishing of the Bees, Fields of FuelGasLand, With Landscape in Mind, Plastic Planet, Planeat, and The Pipe. Films will be… Continue reading UK Green Film Festival
Eighth international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 10-12 January 2012 “This conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.” Call for papers open… Continue reading Eighth international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability
News from the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
1. The magazine CSPA Quarterly explores sustainable arts practices in all genres (performance, visual art & installation, music, and film/video) and policy. It serves as a formal terrain for members of the network to discuss and evaluate diverse points of view, while celebrating innovations and sustainable movements. The fifth issue called for work related to… Continue reading News from the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
Conference: “People and Nature in Mountains”
21st to 23rd September 2011, Trondheim, Norway Abstract submission deadline: 15th June. This conference will address how archaeology and cultural history can be integrated with long-term and contemporary ecology to understand landscape dynamics and underpin sustainable management and conservation of both cultural heritage and biodiversity in mountain environments. For more information visit: www.ntnu.no/vitenskapsmuseet/peopleandnature.
“Imperishable Water” and the Question of Development
Reposted from poieinkaiprattein.org Field workshop from 29th of May until 5th of June 2011 in Rhodes, Greece Departure: 29th of May 2011, 19.00 from the Port of Piraeus with the Blue Star Ferries. On the occasion of the World Environment Day, June 5th 2011, this field trip aims at combining artistic, philosophical and environmental approaches… Continue reading “Imperishable Water” and the Question of Development
Call for Proposals of Wishful Thinking
Write a proposal to a US government agency – Deadline: 1st of May. As self-declared Artists in Residence for the US Government, the Institute for Wishful Thinking (IWT) believes that the community of artists and designers possesses untapped creative and conceptual resources that could be applied to solving social problems. With this in mind they invite… Continue reading Call for Proposals of Wishful Thinking
“GROW_ABILITY” Exhibition in Riga, Latvia
Until May 8th at RIXC Gallery “Grow_Ability” is an interdisciplinary art e xhibition that explores issues of “food as energy”. The exhibition features three installations. Super Meal by the Swedish artist Erik Sjödin draws attention to the aquatic plant Azolla – one of the worlds fastest growing plants, which is a rich source of nutrients,… Continue reading “GROW_ABILITY” Exhibition in Riga, Latvia
“Edward Burtynsky: Oil” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Exhibition until July 3rd; Symposium on May 6th and 7th The images of the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: Oil explore the hotly-debated effects of oil extraction and our international dependency on the substance. The symposium in May brings together top scientific and arts industry experts for two days of discussion about essential issues of oil, planetary sustainability, and the energy options available… Continue reading “Edward Burtynsky: Oil” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Ashden Directory & Ashdenizen launch new project to find metaphors for sustainabilty
By Another Name: New Metaphors for Sustainability To launch the Ashden Directory and Ashdenizen’s major new project on metaphors for sustainability, a new DVD was just released, devised and directed by Wallace Heim. “Sustainability is a concept without strong or imaginative metaphors. Over the next months, we’ll ask artists, scientists, activists and cultural commentators to… Continue reading Ashden Directory & Ashdenizen launch new project to find metaphors for sustainabilty
