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Renga Platform Poetry
A renga is a series of short verses linked into one long poem, composed collaboratively by a group. It is a wonderful, reflective experience which draws inspiration from the seasons and our changing relationships with the natural world. We will be writing a Nijuin (20 verse) renga which takes a day to write.
Join Artists Alex Finlay and Anne-Marie Culhane for an interdependent poem, people are invited to come and join the group to write or listen. www.renga-platform.co.uk
The future of sustainable energy
Film screenings and displays by the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. www.ashdenawards.org
‘The Ghost in the Machine’
All day durational art work, engraving onto the outside of a car images of the 150 million year old plant and animals that contributed to the crude oil that runs the combustion engines that threaten us with yet more extinctions. Create the ‘The Ghost in the Machine’ Artwork with Benedict Philips, www.thebenedict.net
The Clothes She Wears
A clothes installation from women around the globe, with background narratives displayed on hangers.
Electronic waste exhibition
Follow the circuits of disposal with the Electronic Waste Exhibition by Jennifer Gabrys, A series of informative graphics on the resource paths of electronics and electronic waste. www.signalspace.net
Dirt Cafe
The Dirt Cafe starts off with a meal and a discussion in a
provocative environment. It is an evolving project, that offers
evidence of how collaboration and imagination can be applied to reveal alternative scenarios, encourage joined-up thinking and include sensory, social and ethical engagement. www.dirtcafe.com. Click here to view a copy of the Dirt Cafe image.
Doctor’s Surgery
Join the Open University ‘doctors’ to help write prescriptions for a more equitable world.
See this exciting new research at the Open University’s geography department, www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/geography/
Proboscis
Investigate cultures of listening with Proboscis www.proboscis.org.uk
Human Echoes: a dialogue on cultures of listening
Human Echoes: a half day dialogue on cultures of listening is the first stage of Proboscis’ Human Echoes project and will bring together a group of 15 experts from the arts, civil society organisations and academia. Proboscis has also commissioned artist Camilla Brueton to make a new work in response to the dialogue. The aim of the event is to
draw out what it means to create ‘cultures of listening’,
generating a set of ideas about how cultures of listening enable knowledge mapping and sharing and how that in turn can help people address concepts of interdependence in ways that are relevant to our lives.
During the afternoon Proboscis will be showing the Social Tapestries and Diffusion projects and their recent publications along with its short films Annotating the City 6mins and Topographies and Tales (work in progress) 20 mins. Members of the public attending the afternoons activities will be invited to share their thoughts on
cultures of listening, building a body of knowledge and stories on the subject throughout the afternoon.
Earthly Sins Confessional
The Earthly Sins Confessional booth is a non-judgemental
environmental advice installation, that was created by Futerra and Anti-Apathy to offer a different kind of
‘Enlightenment’. After confessing your ecological
sins, you will be asked to take a pledge – three simple
lifestyle changes that will help to relieve guilt and kick start the path to a cleaner more equitable world. www.earthlysins.org
One World
Declare you interdependence in One World, a network organisation working for sustainable development through information and communication, www.oneworld.net
D-Fuse
Join International artists and designers, D-Fuse in the Communication Session www.dfuse.com. D-Fuse Info Pack. D-Fuse Outline.
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…in the Jordaan, one of the favourite tourist spots of the city. This man’s arm was broken in a squat eviction that took place there yesterday. By the time these cops get their pension the Netherlands will probably not have much longer to exist as a country. It will be under water and millions of Dutch refugees will be pouring over the border into Germany saying sorry they kept asking for their bicycles back but could they please have a house, a job and a future? By then most of northern Germany will also be under water, along with Bangladesh, New York City, much of Florida and large parts of China.I’m listening to Al Gore as I write this having just watched American scientists on TV saying that global warming caused by CO2 emissions is a certainty but American politicians are incapable of doing anything about it. The voters want to carry on driving their 4×4’s. I’ve noticed over the years how popular Jeeps and Land Rovers and Hummers have become in Amsterdam as Holland has become richer and richer. Shell is a Dutch company with a lousy human rights and environmental record. The Dutch Rabobank helps to finance the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, along with ABN Amro, ING and Fortis Bank, which is just about all the Dutch banks. So the Dutch are washing their own country down the plughole of history.European and American neocolonialism is destroying the planet. Time is running out. We have ten years to change but nobody wants to. I frankly don’t care what happens to the Dutch. They have their history of slavery and colonialism so they shall reap what they have sown. But the millions of poor people in Bangladesh, once a Dutch colony till the British moved in? I care what happens to them. They don’t deserve to be the victims of our greed. Hurricane Katrina was America’s wake up call. Did they hear it? Some did. Most are still not listening. To put all this in perspective there has been life on earth for 3.6 billion years. After 160,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens we are already at the tipping point of extinction as a result of just 250 years of affluence that started with the industrial revolution in Britain. If you want to survive this take my advice. Don’t be under forty years old. Only a revolution in our thinking and behaviour will give us a chance of survival.Washington Post/Al Gore
