The Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts released the tenth issue of its quarterly online magazine. It contains content from contributors who were part of their first issue, along with a few new perspectives. Click here to read more
Category: Sustainability
Uranium Film Festival starts soon in Rio de Janeiro
51 films from 20 different countries will be screened between May 16th and May 26th 2013 in the cinema of Rio de Janeiro´s famous Modern Art Museum (MAM). The International Uranium Film Festival is an annual festival dedicated to all films, short and feature documentaries, movies and animated films about nuclear energy, atomic bombs, nuclear… Continue reading Uranium Film Festival starts soon in Rio de Janeiro
Conference in Indonesia: ‘The Power of Culture as Catalyst in Sustainable Development’
New pathways for locating culture as an integral part of sustainable development will be explored and highlighted when a World Culture in Development Forum is held in Bali, Indonesia, on 24-29 November 2013. This conference will focus on four themes: • Culture, Freedom and Social Sustainability, • Culture and Economic Sustainability, • Cultural Convergence in… Continue reading Conference in Indonesia: ‘The Power of Culture as Catalyst in Sustainable Development’
Brazil: Seminar on Culture and Sustainable Development
Within the framework of the Joint Programme ‘EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues’, the Ministries of Culture and Planning, Budget and Management will hold a seminar on Culture and Sustainable Development, which will take place from 21 to 23 May 2013, in Brasilia, Brazil. The focus will be on links between cultural diversity and environmental sustainability. Read more… Continue reading Brazil: Seminar on Culture and Sustainable Development
Congress in China: ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’
An international congress entitled ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’, organised by UNESCO with the support of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, will be held in Hangzhou, China, on 15-17 May 2013. The focus will be to discuss the role of culture in sustainable development in view of the post-2015 development framework. Read… Continue reading Congress in China: ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’
Amazon Our Land
The launch of the CD Amazon Our Land by the young artists from the band Backyard Drums, from the project Rivers of Meeting, will be taking place today (this Saturday) from 7pm onwards (timezone: UTC -3), in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco (in Brazil), between the Amazonian Rivers Tocantins and Itacaiúnas. Anyone can participate… Continue reading Amazon Our Land
Ecocide
Cathy Fitzgerald published on her blog “An Arts and Ecology Notebook” an interesting long post about enforcing the legal notion of “ecocide”, and about the work of UK legal barrister (and performer of mock trials) Polly Higgins, who defines ecocide as follows: “Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of… Continue reading Ecocide
Pop-Up Repair and theatre artists
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
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
