Australian Artist Jenny Brown, currently residing in Berlin, Germany on a DAAD scholarship, is inviting to her exhibition Burnt Stars – Meditations on resistance, resilience and systems, curated by Adam Nankervis at stattberlin, an art space (in Berlin) dedicated to new forms of artistic expressions. The opening event is on Thursday 17 January 2013 at… Continue reading Exhibition: Burnt Stars by Jenny Brown
Category: Sustainability
Call for nominations: “AWEInspiring” Arts & Environment Award
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management´s (CIWEM) Art and Environment Network (AEN) is calling for nominations for their annual Arts and the Environment Award, carried out in association with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW), to recognise innovation and excellence in work by arts practitioners or environmentalists engaging with… Continue reading Call for nominations: “AWEInspiring” Arts & Environment Award
Promised Land – Fracking arrives in Hollywood
The documentary Gasland released in 2010, which portrayed the devastating effects of a method of drilling into shale gas formations called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, in rural american communities, garnered mostly positive reviews from film critics and newspapers but also negative responses by fracking lobbyists. The latter resulted in the launch of a website called… Continue reading Promised Land – Fracking arrives in Hollywood
Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin
After taking place twice in Brazil, the International Uranium Film Festival came to Berlin in October 2012. The highlight of the festival was the screening of four movies about the nuclear disaster of Goiânia, 1987, one of them Cesium 137: The Nightmare of Goiânia (1990), a movie by already deceased Roberto Pires which had already… Continue reading Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin
Competition to Design a Sustainable Theatre now open
Could You Design a Sustainable Theatre? World Stage Design 2013 is a celebration of International performance design from the world of theatre, opera and dance. The event will take place in Cardiff, UK in September 2013, hosted by the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and includes an exhibition as well as public performances… Continue reading Competition to Design a Sustainable Theatre now open
Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University
British environmental artist Chris Drury´s art installation Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around created back in July 2011 on the Wyoming university campus, was originally intended to inspire a conversation about a prevalent environmental problem in the region. Global warming has, so scientists say, led to less pine beetles dying off by below zero… Continue reading Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University
Get Fracktious – National Climate March in London
The Campaign against Climate Change, a UK-based group concerned with raising public awareness to human-caused climate change, is organizing a demonstration march through London on Saturday 1st December 2012. The main topic is the expansion of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a destructive extraction practice of previously un-tappable “shale-gas”, in the UK, which is seen as… Continue reading Get Fracktious – National Climate March in London
The Myth of Apathy: Going Beyond Behaviour Change
17:30 – 19:30 – 20 November 2012 The UCL Energy Institute of the University College London has invited Dr. Renee Lertzman, a strategic communications specialist focusing on the deep psychological dimensions of sustainability, to talk about her current research. In the seminar, Dr. Lertzman, currently teaching at the Royal Roads University in Canada, addresses how… Continue reading The Myth of Apathy: Going Beyond Behaviour Change
Drawing the line
As reported in The New Yorker, eco-artist Eve Mosher was more or less forcefully reminded of one of her older projects by the more recent catastrophic event, Hurricane Sandy. Back in 2007 over the course of six months, she drew a line of chalk through Brooklyn representing 10 feet above see level. Comparing the results… Continue reading Drawing the line
Grounded – Soil Film Festival
Celebrate Soil Awareness! As part of the first Global Soil Week, the film festival Grounded will take place at Kino Arsenal in Berlin on the 18th and the 21st November. On two days, a selection of international films on the topic of soil and soil protection will be shown. Ten directors present the diversity and… Continue reading Grounded – Soil Film Festival
