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ikonoTV Presents: Art Speaks Out – 24 Global Stream

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SAVE THE DATE
December 5, 2015 at 6 p.m. (CET)

Climate change is not a purely political issue; nor is it limited to the COP21 conference in Paris. It is above all a human issue, one that connects us all, everywhere in the world.

At ikonoTV — the only broadcaster in the world to showcase art and only art 24/7 — we believe that art can give a new and powerful voice to the pressing concerns of global warming and man-made natural disaster, and that we can use art’s emotional appeal intelligently to convey the urgency of these issues in a deeper, more immediate way.

Our proposal is to invite artists to join forces and to put together a 24-hour playlist of contemporary video works based on environmental themes, free of any additional commentary. Because these concerns affect us all, and because art’s language is universal, artists are probably best equipped to enlighten and to touch us. This is why we present these issues from an artist’s point of view — to implement art’s power to speak out on this serious matter and appeal directly to human feeling.

“Art Speaks Out” will be a global event, broadcast exclusively on ikonoTV. It will run uninterruptedly from:

6 p.m. on Saturday, December 5
to 6 p.m. on Sunday, December 6 (CET).

ikonoTV’s global reach includes satellite transmission, SmartTV applications with access to over 200 million households worldwide;
a 24/7 stream for all online and mobile devices;
and over 135,000 Amazon downloads in only five months, making us the number one app in our category in the US, the UK, and Germany.

“Art Speaks Out” is a worldwide forum — an invitation to open our eyes to climate change, our responsibility to the planet, and the necessity of adopting measures of sustainability.

SNEAK PREVIEW

ikonoTV’s upcoming 24-hour digital event ART SPEAKS OUT, which will be broadcast globally in conjunction with the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris as an official part of ArtCOP21.

https://vimeo.com/143397345

Our ART SPEAKS OUT program features Swiss artist Ursula Biemann’s stunning and disturbing video Deep Weather.

The work is comprised of two parts: Carbon Geologies, set in the tar sands of the boreal forests of Northern Canada, and Hydro Geographies, set in flood-threatened Bangladesh. The connection between a tar sands project in northern Canada the size of England and dangerous weather patterns and rising sea levels in Bangladesh sheds light on the global effects of man-made natural disaster. The video, narrated in an eerie whisper, begins with aerial views of the inconceivably toxic tar sands wasteland, entirely devoid of wildlife and birds,  and progresses to footage of Bangladeshis collecting clay in plastic sacks to reinforce the embankments in lower-lying areas—“collective social actions to protect villages on the outer rim of these amphibian territories.”

“Climate change, exasperated by projects such as the Canadian tar sands, puts the life of large world populations in danger. (…) Hands-on, machine-less work by thousands is what climate change will mean for most people in the deltas of the global south.”

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As part of the ART SPEAKS OUT playlist, Canadian artist Isabelle Hayeur’s large digital montages, videos, and site-specific installations delve into precarious ecosystems and the collision between natural and artificial environments. Her work takes a critical approach to the environment, urban development, and social conditions, exploring feelings of alienation, uprooting, and disenchantment. Her works are to be found in some twenty collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

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Using copyright law as an artistic strategy:

Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees

Preview of the environmental art featured at the upcoming ArtCOP21 as an official part the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Blued Trees consists of a musical score painted with nontoxic slurry onto a series of trees growing on private land that lies in the path of the planned Spectra Energy Algonquin Incremental Market pipeline. The course of the pipeline runs within 115 feet of the Indian Point nuclear facility, and a Fukushima-scale event could annihilate the entire East coast of North America. This ambitious project seeks to halt the expansion of the pipeline by implementing an unexpected legal tool: artistic copyright. If the government grants Rahmani her copyright, Spectra would have to destroy the artwork to complete the pipeline expansion, thus infringing on its moral rights. It’s a brilliant strategy—if it works.

Beautiful Renewables: Land Art Generator Talk 18 November 2015

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This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland

As we aggressively implement strategies towards 100% carbon-free energy and witness a greater proliferation of renewable energy infrastructures in our cities and landscapes, we have an opportunity to proactively address the aesthetic influence of these new machines through the lenses of planning, urban design, community benefit, and creative placemaking. Please join the Land Art Generator Initiative, Creative Carbon Scotland, SCENE Consulting, and ecoartscotland for a presentation and discussion about the aesthetic and cultural implications and the concomitant potential for community benefit of renewable energy infrastructure.

LAGI Founding Directors Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry will speak about the LAGI 2016 Open Competition and the LAGI Glasgow project, highlighting the role that creatives are playing in the design of our energy futures.

Location: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation
Date: lunchtime (12.30-2pm) 18 November 2015

The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) brings together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, engineers, and others in a first of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to see to the design and construction of public art installations that uniquely combine aesthetics with utility-scale clean energy generation. The works will serve to inspire and educate while they provide renewable power to thousands of homes around the world.

Free but places limited. Please book here: http://www.artcopscotland.com/event/land-art-generator-initiative/

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.

It has been established by Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate with On The Edge Research, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.

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Launch of the world’s largest climate festival!

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Climate is everyone’s business. Join the cultural movement towards a carbon neutral, clean future. We need the negotiations taking place during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to succeed and build a sustainable global culture.

ArtCOP21 will connect hundreds of thousands of people to the climate challenge through a extensive global programme of major public art installations, exhibitions, concerts, performances, talks, conferences, workshops, family events and film screenings taking place right across Paris and worldwide. Climate is Culture.

We have over 150 events in 19 countries already signed up – and there are many more to come….. Check out the programme, and if you’re an artist, arts organisation and/or have a climate-related event coming up  register it now.

Only through shared activity and excitement can we make a creative, clean and sustainable future society a reality.

www.artcop21.com

SPREAD THE WORD: #ARTCOP21

Extreme Whether Is Coming Paris

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George Bartenieff & Karen Malpede, Co-Artistic Directors

artwork by Luba Lukova

“Powerful, potent drama,” The Kenyon Review

“Provocative and brave, laced with humor and danger.” Andrew Revkin, The New York Times

Theater Three Collaborative, as part of ArtCop21, and in a three-nation collaboration (USA, Switzerland and France) will stage bi-lingual readings oExtreme Whether in Paris, December 10, 11, 12, in collaboration with Cei de Facto, a rising Swiss theater, Bi-lingual Acting Workshop, Paris-New York and the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris, with Swiss, French and American actors.

We are grateful the Rockefeller Brothers Fund which has provided us with a generous travel grant. And, as always, we are grateful our audience for your continued support of theater that could not exist without you. Please help pay the actors by making a donation of any size and your name will be added as a Producing Partner our Paris program. Become part of bringing an American climate change play the international festival of culture surrounding the United Nations Climate Conference.

We’ll be in the thick of things and Karen will be blogging in the lead-up and from Paris for The Kenyon Review, donors can choose receive the blogs by email. Click link her first blog: “Extinction: The Illusion of Abundance”.

Extreme Whether, a play by Karen Malpede, developed and produced by Theater Three Collaborative, featuring George Bartenieff and Kathleen Purcell, from the original New York cast, will be part of ArtCop21, in Paris, during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, Cop21.

We thank the following for their funding and collaboration:

Nurturing Local Seeds Into Global Vibrancy: Climate Change Theatre Action

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By Chantal Bilodeau

This post originally appeared on Howlround, and is being posted under a under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(CC BY 4.0). You can find the original post here: http://howlround.com/nurturing-local-seeds-into-global-vibrancy-climate-change-theatre-action

This week on HowlRound, we continue our exploration of Theatre in the Age of Climate Change begun last April with this special series for Climate Change Week NYC. How does our work reflect on, and respond to, the challenges brought on by a warming climate? How can we participate in the global conversation about what the future should look like, and do so in a way that is both inspiring and artistically rewarding? Find the rest of the series here.

A common complaint about the theatre is that it is so small and reaches so few people that it has no impact.

I disagree.

It is true that theatre doesn’t have the reach that film or television have. But why should it? It was never meant for mass consumption. It is also true that theatre is slow moving. Most organizations plan their seasons one or two years ahead, and are not equipped to respond to the immediacy of a moment. However, theatre artists are not bogged down by these limitations. Rally enough of them and you will reach a great number of people, often on a deeper level than any mass media could. Get them excited about an idea and they will move faster than you can say “climate change.”

This has been my experience working on the international Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA). A collaboration between NoPassport, The Arctic Cycle, and Theatre Without Borders, CCTA is a US/Canada initiative designed to raise people’s awareness about the United Nations 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) taking place November 30 – December 11, 2015. Ironically, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the highest retail season of the year, world leaders will convene in the City of Light to negotiate a binding agreement that will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a “safe” level. By all scientific accounts, COP21 is our last chance at keeping the climate reasonably under control, and our lives and the lives of all other dwellers on this planet, well, livable.

To mark this momentous event, and the fact that in April the US became chair of the Arctic Council and established, as one of its focus areas, addressing the impacts of climate change, Elaine Avila, Caridad Svich, Roberta Levitow, and I conceived of CCTA. Our goal is to invite as many people as possible, who may not otherwise pay attention to this history-in-the-making event, to participate in a global conversation. Modeled on previous theatre actions focused on gun control and the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill, CCTA draws on the expertise and resources of local artists, while being global in scope and uniting multiple countries and culture around a common issue.

CCTA consists of a series of readings and performances of climate change-themed plays, poems, and songs. We have curated a collection of one to five minute pieces in three languages by writers from all six livable continents, from countries as diverse as Australia, Canada, France, India, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Palestine, Uganda, the UK, and the US. These plays will be made available to collaborators worldwide who will design their own event and present them in the months of November and December. The events can be as modest as a reading in a classroom with a group of students, or as elaborate as a fully staged performance in a theatre in front of an audience.

The pieces are as varied as the artists writing them. They are about rich and poor people of every culture and color, are set in urban and rural areas in developed and under-developed countries, are realistic, metaphorical, reflective, funny, wistful, irreverent, scary, and sad. Together, they form a mosaic of climate change experienced on a personal level. They paint a portrait of communities struggling to understand what is happening to our world and how to best respond to it.

All Climate Change Theatre Action events will be registered with ArtCOP21. Acting as an umbrella organization, a little bit like 350.org did for the People’s Climate March in September 2014, ArtCOP21 is creating a map where cultural events related to COP21 will be listed. In addition, when technically possible, events will be livestreamed on HowlRound TV, making them accessible to all CCTA participants and to global audiences.

As I write this, more than sixty collaborators have agreed to host events, ranging from readings in living rooms to day-long festivals, from radio programs to site-specific performances near glaciers. In addition to Canada and the US, we have venues in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and Zimbabwe. By the time this is published, we will most likely have secured close to seventy-five venues. I’m hoping that when it is all said and done, one hundred events will have been presented worldwide.

Theatre is a mighty tool. The only thing small about it is the vision of those who don’t know how to harness its potential. This season four women theatre artists with no money whatsoever, are, in effect, creating a global movement. Through sheer force of will, and many hours spent at the computer and Skyping across time zones, we are planting, one by one, a series of local seeds that have the potential to affect our economies, political systems, environments, and cultures. And if they are nurtured right and the gods smile on us, these seeds will grow into a vibrant explosion of echoing voices worldwide. Is this not an apt metaphor for how we need to handle climate change?

It is always tempting to trust that others—with more time, more knowledge, more resources—will do the work that needs to be done. But theatre cannot wait for sluggish institutions to take the lead, just like climate change cannot wait for governments to regulate or big corporations to smarten up. We each have a responsibility to plant and nurture our own seed. And with some luck, a neighbor might be inspired and also plant a seed. And so might the neighbor’s neighbor. And soon, we will realize that the music carried by the wind is actually a harmony of global voices fighting for the right to enjoy a healthy and sustainable planet.

If you would like to host an event as part of the Climate Change Theatre Action, see the Call for Collaborators and contact us on Facebook.

ARTCOP21 FESTIVAL FOR CLIMATE

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With ArtCOP21 Festival on the Banks of the Seine in Paris, COAL offers citizen participation weekends in the great debate of COP21 through artists’ interventions on issues of climate.

Climate change is everyone’s business. In this year 2015, the Parisian atmosphere is particularly sensitive to this issue with the preparation for the COP21 to be held at Le Bourget from 30 November to 11 December.

Without citizen involvement, negotiations that will take place at the end of the year can not succeed. This is why the Festival for Climate, first highlight ofArtCOP21 , was born. Designed as an exchange device, it is animated by artists but told citizens to make Berges de Seine, track history and sustained communication in essence, a space for dialogue, advocacy and mobilization around climate.

At the time of the sharing economy and the reappropriation of public space, come and share the creative energies that exist today in ÃŽle-de-France around the COP21: leave a video message to COP21 negotiators through COPBox ; exchange on What remains with performance artist Thierry Boutonnier and HEROICA Pig Farm of Happiness; immerse yourself in the Amazon rainforest of Rodolphe Alexis and climate landscape Kisseleva ; ask the climate vocabulary with Nathalie Blanc and David Christoffel , co-build a work for the COP21 with Waste arts ; learn about the COP21 with the Parisian Agency for Climate and finally take position with #OccupyHope , monumental collective Ya + K and followed by a Line up with the inspired sound system mobile Never Chill Out Van Bellastock !

Go to the banks on 11 and 12 July from 11h to 22h
More information www.projetcoal.fr and www.artcop21.com

IN THE PROGRAM

COPBOX
Leave a video message to COP21 negotiators through COPBox
From 11 July to 27 August / Monday to Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 12H / 12H 21:30 Friday / Saturday from 10 am to 21:30 / Sunday 10 am to 7:30 p.m.

WHAT WE STILL
 Exchange on “What remains” with the performer and artist Thierry Boutonnier HEROICA pig 
July 11 and 12 from 11am to 17h

PARALLEL LINES
Immerse yourself in the sound shower “Parallel Lines” 
on July 11 from 10h to 22h / 12 July from 10h to 16h and 18h to 22h

BRIEFS CLIMATE
Experience the words climate with “climate Memory»
July 11 and 12 from 14h to 17h

WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN
Co-build works for the COP21 – Children Workshop
July 12 from 14h to 17h

CLIMATE IN GAMES
Ask about the COP21 with Parisian Climate Agency
July 11 and 12 from 14h to 17h

Art + COP21? 
July 11 from 17h to 18h30

INTERCONNECTED CLIMATE
July 12 from 16h to 18h

#OccupyHope
Take #OccupyHope position with the installation of the collective Ya + K. 
11 July from 14h to 17h

COAL PRICE 2015 – ANNOUNCEMENT OF NOMINEES

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COAL is pleased to announce the nominees for the ten artists COAL Art & Environment Prize in 2015 on the climate and the six artists nominated for the special price COAL Oceans in partnership with Tara expedition. The 2015 edition of COAL price marks a key step ArtCOP21, the cultural agenda of COP21 worn by COAL and Cape Farewell. Winners will be selected by a prestigious jury on September 17 next to the Museum of Hunting and Nature.

For its sixth edition, the international call for projects of Price COAL calling artists to inspire the negotiations of the COP21 brought together 389 artists from 51 countries folders. This success reflects the commitment of artists to the environment and the recognition of COAL price on the international stage.

TEN AWARD NOMINEES COAL ART AND ENVIRONMENT 2015

Alex Hartley (England, born in 1963), NowhereCollective Disaster (Belgium), Temple of Holy Shit

FICTILIS (Timothy Furstnau and Andrea Steves – USA), True Cost Market

Julie Navarro (France, born in 1972), Sundew

Livin Studio (Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger) – Austria, Fungi Mutarium

Mare Liberum (USA), Mergitur sed Regurgitat

MELD (USA – Australia-Greece), Climate Change Hip-Hop OperaMonte Laster (USA-France, born in 1959), CO-OPStefane Perraud and Aram Kebabdjian (France, born in 1975 and 1978), Black SunYesenia Thibault-Picazo (France, born in 1987), Craft in the Anthropocene

PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS TEN NOMINEES

Global warming is everyone’s business. The limit to 2 ° C through a binding agreement uniting nations met at the 21th UN Climate Conference to be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015, it is the hope of containing rising Water, food insecurity, extinction of species, ocean acidification or the disappearance of systems’ unique and threatened “like coral reefs. Without the involvement of all the negotiations that will take place at the end of the year can not succeed. The artists nominated for the Prize in 2015 COAL imagined collective projects, citizens, local and global scales, solutions developers, stories, warnings and models involved in awareness and action.Three groups of artists strive to change our daily individual impact on climate change by reversing the laws of consumption and living. Livin Studio, Austrian artist duo Katharina Unger and Julia Kasinger, develops a prototype Fungi Mutarium mycelium culture capable of degrading persistent toxic waste by transforming them into edible biomass. FICTILIS, consisting of Timothy and Andrea Furstnau Steves offers meanwhile, with participative installation True Cost Market, a grocery store where every product is sold its real price, once built the cost of its environmental and social externalities. The circle is complete, with the Temple of Holy Shit, the Collective Disaster dedicated to recycling of human bodily waste. A transdisciplinary and collaborative project that reminds us with humor that we are all producers of fertile ground, a real alternative to agricultural chemical inputs.

The energy, scientific speculation and the time scales are the main concepts of human impact on the climate that fuel the imagination of artists. Julie Navarro initiates us with Sundew, an aesthetic journey on human relationships and landscapes, along the Limousin bogs. These geological formations act as true “sink” of carbon and contribute to natural climate regulation. The artist and the writer Stefane Perraud Aram Kebabdjian lead us in turn in a futuristic fiction where the first prototype of a photovoltaic ice pump designed to contain global warming would have been born. The Black Sun appears as a monument to the ambivalent scientific utopia and uncertainty of our energy transfers. The Anglo-French artist Yesenia Thibault-Picazo, also explores the possible fictions of a future with geology of Craft in the Anthropocene, a draft design on speculative soils and anthropic resources of tomorrow.

Our destructive behavior requires a new ethical and political utopia quest based on the common theory, sharing of resources and wealth, collaboration and citizen start. English, Alex Hartley approached by imagining a utopian space, without borders and without jurisdiction, dedicated to free thought. Nowhere is an island, not a place, consisting of all the commons that exist today outside laws and regulations of the 196 nations of the world. The extraterritoriality seems the only possibility to think a united humanity and peace. From global to ultralocal, there is a step that crosses Monte Laster with CO-OP, an aesthetic and democratic project, which asks how art can be a vehicle for action and reflection on living together throughout the territory of the Seine-Saint-Denis. Artists also intend to raise awareness and put pressure on the negotiators. Mergitur sed Regurgitat the New York collective Mare Liberum, combines poetry and creative activism. Echoing the motto of the city of Paris “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur” (It is tossed by the waves but does not sink), they will sail during the COP21 on Archipelagist, a paper boat that has the ability to flow and to resurface. Powerful metaphor of climate change and our power to act …The registered art historical revolutions in our collective imagination. Because we all hope that COP21 will make history, MELD, which brings nearly fifteen artists, created the Climate Change Hip-Hop Opera a total art project to permanently include the struggle against climate change cultural and aesthetic history.

The winner of the Prix Art et COAL Environment 2015 will benefit from a grant of 5,000 euros and a residence in the area of Belval (Ardennes), owned by François Sommer Foundation .

SIX COAL SPECIAL PRIZE NOMINEES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TARA OCEANS EXPEDITION
Hortense Le Calvez and Goussin Mathieu (France, born in 1988 and born in 1985), 2.0 Corals
Nicolas Floc’h (France, born in 1970), productive StructuresJérémy Gobé (France, born in 1986), MOSE / LatistellataElsa Guillaume (France, born in 1989), coral CosmographieHenrik HÃ¥kansson (Sweden, born in 1968), The Coral SeaMrugen Rathod (India, born in 1982), Untitled

The winner of the special prize Oceans leave for a month in residence on Tara as part of the mission of Tara on the coral – ” coral reefs facing global change on the planet “- to be held in the Pacific Ocean 2016 2018.

THE JURY

Claude Anthenaise, chief curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature

Agnès b., stylist

Elodie Cazes, coordinator of the art collection agnès b.Philippe Cury, oceanographer

Anne Ged, director of the Paris Climate Agency

Emma Lavigne, director of the Centre Pompidou MetzPRIZE CEREMONY 2015 COAL MUSEUM OF HUNTING AND NATUREThe ceremony will take place in 2015 COAL Price 17 September 2015 at the Museum of Hunting and Nature, which runs until 26 September installing a meteorological history, food and revolution of the artist Asa Sonjasdotter, COAL Award winner in 2014.

MORE INFORMATIONS
PROJETCOAL.FR / ARTCOP21.COM

Image Credit: © Julie Navarro, Sundew, peats, 2015 Gifts of rain

 

Place to B: COP21 – The ambition

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During the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which takes place in Paris from 30th November to 11th December 2015, Place to B offers not only a place to stay, but also a coworking space, a program of events and a “News Fab Lab” about climate and solutions for the ecological transition.

http://placetob-cop21paris.com/en/

Beyond COP21, Place to B is above all a movement fuelled by all those who want to convey the message in a different way.

 

How we started…

How come the world’s worst predicted disaster does not mobilise people? Why aren’t there huge worldwide  demonstrations to protect our most valuable asset – our planet -, to engage us in a real ecological transition? Does the challenge appear too distant from our everyday concerns? Doesn’t a different narrative about the world need writing?

What is Place to B?

Climate change is an anxiety-provoking subject which is difficult to tackle in the media and gives us a sense of powerlessness despite the fact that solutions exist.

Place to B answers this by creating an innovative and multidisciplinary information factory, with the ambition to write a different narrative about climate issues and to create a unique newsworthy momentum during the COP21 in Paris, December 2015.

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Want to be in the center of Paris? Not far from the negotiation center but also close to the other events?

Place to B is an ideal coworking space that will welcome journalists, bloggers, graphic designers, illustrators, web developers, photographers, video makers, comedians, writers…  who want to cover the COP21 negotiations and look for an ideal workplace tailored to their needs : web connection, communication toolbox, etc.

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A themed program of events will include meetings, press conferences, daily briefings, discussions with experts and public figures and the delivery of content proposed by Place to B’s COPilots. But also moments of conviviality, various workshops, film screenings, concerts… all open to public.

Want to come in Paris to follow the negotiations but can’t find an accommodation easily?

Place to B offers a place of residence in a youth hostel with 600 beds, whose prices have been specially negotiated.

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Together for a new narrative

In contrast to the often alarmist and negative speeches, we wish to build a realistic narrative, which takes into account the issues that need to be popularised and which generate hope by conveying existing and future solutions, while remaining realistic.

Creating a different narrative requires disrupting production habits, transforming usual ways of thinking and questioning our practices to reach a new organisational model. Far away from conventional media discourses, the strength of such an approach is that it involves civil society as a whole in this new form of information production.

Place to B : a B for Planet B, Plan B, Bourget, RER B, Bloggers, Bottom-Up, Bees… and for “The place to be”, aka Planet Earth!

Opportunity: Call for contributors on arts and environment research

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This post comes from Creative Carbon Scotland

This opportunity comes from IETM international network for contemporary performing arts, and relates to the larger ArtCOP21 movement that Creative Carbon Scotland will be engaging with through the facilitation of ArtCOP Scotland. Share your own practice with IETM to represent the work being done within arts and environment in your locality!

Have you developed projects and practices embedding environmental sustainability in its content and/or in the connection with the audience and local communities? Is ‘environmental sustainability’ the topic of a single project of yours, or is it part of a long-term strategy, also as regards your touring policy, stage materials and building etc.? Does tackling environmental sustainability entail any challenges in looking for support and funding?

We’re looking forward to hearing from you about how the arts can embrace environmental sustainability and bring a change in individuals and society. We’re also interested to hear about the challenges and the possible ‘failures’ you experienced, and the lessons you learned.

This new edition of IETM’s Fresh Perspectives series is developed in collaboration with COAL, the multidisciplinary Coalition for art and sustainable development set up in France in 2008 by professionals in contemporary art, sustainable development and research. This publication will be presented during ArtCOP21 in Paris, in the frame of the International Conference on Climate Change COP21.

To participate in this project, please complete the questionnaire found here through the Fresh Perspectives Call for contributors by 15th June 2015.

Image: Mona Sfeir ‘The Recycling Labyrinth’ (site-specific installation from 8,000 plastic bottles, placed near UN building in Geneva (2011) via Playing Futures/Flickr Creative Commons

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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