Berlin Germany

Conference â€œCultural Dimensions of Climate Change and the Environment in North Americaâ€

June 27, 2012Cultura21Arctic North, Berlin Germany, Canada Climate, Changing Climate, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Science, Contradictions, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Deep South, Deniers, Emitters, Essen Germany, Francesca, Global Problem, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Human Dimensions, Humanities, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mainstream Politics, Mexico City, Mitigation Efforts, North America, Oleg, Paris France, Political Beliefs, Rana, Regional Level, Sacha, Science Institutions, Symbolic Representation, Vitality

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The Conference will take place at theÂ Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany (June 28-29 , 2012)

Climate change is an inherently global problem. However, climate change impacts as well as mitigation efforts are always perceived and dealt with locally and in a culture-specific way. Global warming interacts in multiple ways with North American ecological and social systems. On the one hand, the U.S. and Canada belong to the worldâ€™s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases. On the other hand, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South is already heavily affected by a changing climate. Despite the USâ€™s and recently also Canadaâ€™s rejection of international binding climate targets, on the local and regional level, some of the worldâ€™s most ambitious climate initiatives can be found in North America.

Striking about the symbolic representation of climate change in the USA is a relatively huge cultural variety. While in Europe climate change deniers are largely marginalized and without influence on mainstream politics, American views on climate change and the environment become increasingly polarized according to political beliefs. And whereas the U.S. hosts some of the worldâ€™s leading climate science institutions, religious explanations of why global warming is or is not happening, repeatedly have found supporters in media and politics, too.

How can these contradictions be explained? The participants will deal with these questions in the course of the conference that focuses on the human dimensions and cultural representations of climate change and the environment in North America.

You can read the program here.

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February â€“ June 2012

June 26, 2012Cultura21Abstract Reality, Anxieties, Berlin Germany, Byways, Coexistence, Collectives, Copenhagen Denmark, Country Artists, Cozzolino, Disciplinary Approach, Flora Fauna, Francesca, Home Remedies, India, Infrastructural Development, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Local Knowledge, Mexico City, Mythologies, Oleg, Ongoing Projects, Organic Movement, Paris France, Priya, Rana, Rathore, Reflection, Sacha, Visual Perspective, Vitality

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Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways is a project inviting reflection by artists on the anxieties embodied by the rank infrastructural development across India and its uncomfortable coexistence with local ecologies.

Now in its third year, the project has invited artists, collectives and other professionals to develop projects that are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary approach. Mapping various sites across the country, artists and communities have come together to discuss the regeneration of the environments they inhabit. The project encourages the archiving of local knowledge and mythologies, flora, fauna, home remedies, stories and folklore as integral to the specific artistâ€™s intervention.

This years ongoing projects are:

NR 9: Akshay Rathore and Flora Boillot (Aulinjaa Village, Madhya Pradesh)

Abstract Reality: A Visual Perspective on the Organic Movement in Madhya Pradesh http://aulinjaamp.blogspot.in/

NR 10: Priya Ravish Mehra (Najibabad, District Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh)

Making the Invisible Visible: The Darning Tradition of India

http://rafoogari.wordpress.com/

NR 11: Uma Ray (Domahani, District Jamshedpur, Jharkhand)

Where the River Meets its People

http://wheretherivermeetsitspeople.blogspot.in/

Â For more information about the event and the ongoing projects , please click here.

Good Pitch Europe 2012 â€“ GPEU12

June 24, 2012Cultura21Alliances, Berlin Germany, Community Activism, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Documentaries, Documentary Filmmakers, East Jerusalem, Financial Crisis, Foundations, Francesca, Freedom Of Speech, Great Britain, International Filmmakers, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Lgbt Rights, London Uk, Mexico City, Multinational Companies, Nonviolent Protest, Oleg, Outreach Campaign, Paris France, Pitch, Plight, Raft, Rana, Royal Institution, Sacha, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Issues, South Sudan, Vitality, War Crimes

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Good Pitch is an innovative model bringing together the skills of documentary filmmakers with NGOs, foundations, social entrepreneurs, brands, governments and media around leading social issues to expand the resources aimed at maximising the impact of social-issue documentary.

Good Pitch Europe will be held on 25th of June at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, UK. Eight filmmaking teams pitch their film and its associated outreach campaign to the assembled audience with the aim of creating a unique coalition and campaign around each film in order to accelerate its impact and influence and form alliances.

The final pitch is immediately followed by a Networking drinks event where nearly 100 filmmakers and around 300 participants can exchange ideas and contacts with broad discussion encouraged around the issues and challenges involved.

The eight selected projects are the work of a raft of international filmmakers, featuring stories from across the globe. These documentaries explore the European financial crisis, the plight of freedom of speech in the face of resistance from multinational companies, state-building and the emerging democracy of South Sudan, the fight for LGBT rights in Uganda, nonviolent protest and community activism in East Jerusalem, civil war crimes in Sri Lanka, surviving a devastating stroke, and the 21st century revolution in Egypt.

To know more about the event and the selected projects, visit http://goodfilm.org/

Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012

June 23, 2012Cultura21Bard College, Berlin Germany, Chandler Gallery, Compensation For Damages, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Crutches, Dear Mother, Entreaty, Francesca, Guest Curator, Hudson Valley Artists, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Linda Weintraub, Love Letter, Mexico City, Mid Hudson Valley, Mother Nature, Museum Exhibitions, Museum Of Art, Newpaltz, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Samuel Dorsky Museum Of Art, Sustainable Planet, University Of California Press

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The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art presents its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley.

The exhibition will run from June 23 to November 4, 2012 in the museumâ€™s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery.

This yearâ€™s exhibition titled Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 is organized by guest curator Linda Weintraub. Ms. Weintraub served as the first director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute at Bard College where she originated 50 exhibitions and published over 20 catalogues. She is the author of several books about contemporary art including To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, to be published by the University of California Press in 2012.

For Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012, Ms. Weintraub invited artists to send something to Mother Nature that expresses their relationship to her and their feelings about her. What would it be? Love letter? Care package? Medal of honor? Bill for unfulfilled promises? Payment for services rendered? Prayer for guidance? Crutches for support? Bouquet of praise? Compensation for damages? Reward for effort? Entreaty for forgiveness? Pledge of devotion? Summons for misconduct? Condolences? Advice? Warnings?

You can read an interview with the curator here.

For more information about the exhibition, you can go to http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/exhibitions_6.html

Arts education for transformation

June 20, 2012Cultura21Arts Education, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Debates, Democratic Communities, Drama Theatre, Education Association, Francesca, International Drama, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Nurture, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, sustainability, Sustainable Futures, Vitality, World Congress

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On the way to the forthcoming Rio+20, we would like to share with you this video byÂ IDEA (International Drama Theatre and Education Association), which celebrates the 2010 World Congress on Arts Education. This video is one of the contributions of the Brazilian Network of ArteducatorsÂ (ABRA) to debates taking place on Culture and SustainabilityÂ in the PeopleÂ´s Summit during Rio+20. The 2010 Congress was created by artists and arteducators from 60 countries to share pedagogies that nurture empathy,Â solidarity, creative humanity, cooperation and democratic communities for sustainable futures.

Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit

June 13, 2012Cultura21Arctic Sea Ice, Berlin Germany, Central London, Climate Change, Co2 In The Atmosphere, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Ecological Crisis, Environmental Progress, Extreme Energy, False Solutions, Fundamental Shift, Global Battle, Global Surface Temperature, Institute Of Education, Ioe, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Land Grabs, Legal Frameworks, London Uk, London Universities, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Plenary, Political Commitment, Rana, Rio Summit, Russell Square, Sacha, Square Tube, Time Bomb, University College London

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Taking place on June 16th and 17th, 2012 in London, UK.Â At the central London Universities â€“ SOAS, the Institute of Education (IOE) and University College London (UCL).

Organised by the Campaign against Climate Change with the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Department for Development Studies. Opening plenary in IOE, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, Russell Square Tube.

Â Rio to Rio: 20 wasted years?

Â Between 1992 and 2012:
The global surface temperature has risen by 0.38C.
The Arctic sea ice has decreased by 2.94 million square kilometres.
The CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by 35.19 PPM.
30 661 900 hectares of Brazilian forest have been lost.
More than 431,215.08 million tonnes of CO2 have been emitted.
The amount of CO2 emitted per year has risen from 21,421.45 to 30,398.42 million tonnes.

A wide range of workshops and seminars â€“ and an exciting main plenary â€“ are planned.Â Titles include :

â€œFood Security how can we stop a tragedy unfolding?â€
â€œGreen Energy versus â€˜Extremeâ€™ Energyâ€
â€œOne Million Climate Jobsâ€
â€œInequity is not only bad for society but a barrier to dealing effectively with the ecological crisisâ€
â€œRenewing Political Commitment to win the global battle against eco-calamity: a lost cause or is there a way forward?â€
â€œWe will not achieve environmental justice without a fundamental shift in valuesâ€
â€œNew legal frameworks for a new era of environmental progress and justiceâ€
â€œCan London lead the way in the fight against climate meltdown?â€

and more workshops on: Green growth vs De-growth; bioenergy and land grabs; forests and biodiversity; aviation; geo-engineering; oceans; Zero Carbon Britain by 2030; arctic methane time bomb; generational justice; climate refugees;civil disobedience; â€œfrackingâ€; population, gender and climate change; false solutions; TREC: energy from the desertsâ€¦and more.

To register a place at the conference click here.

This is a free event but donations to help the campaign would be appreciated.

Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012

June 11, 2012Cultura21Art Timeline, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Decades, Environmental Issues, Essayist, Francesca, Global Village, Huffington Post, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Last Decade, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Political Art, Political Artists, Rana, Sacha, Social Intervention, Vitality

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For the last decades, collaborations between art and ecology have become more popular as an option to try solving environmental issues, as well as a way of social intervention. You can take a look at the work of several environmental artists in this article by G. Roger Denson, cultural critic and essayist, published by the Huffington Post, which discusses political artists of the last decade:

Click here to read the full article.

Conference 12 â€“ Delivering Sustainable Theatres

June 8, 2012Cultura21Adaptation, Architects, Audiences, Berlin Germany, Challenges, Circus, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Economic Constraints, Energy Costs, Experiences, Francesca, Future Generations, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, London Theatres, Mexico City, National Planning Policy, Oleg, Paris France, Policy Framework, Rana, Rising Energy, Sacha, Social Disciplines, Stratford, Sustainability Agenda, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Development, Theatre Consultants, Triple Bottom Line, Vitality

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12 June 2012 â€“ Stratford Circus, London

The challenge of achieving the triple bottom line

Conference 12 looks at the sustainable design, development and operation of theatre buildings in relation to environmental, economic and social disciplines, and the challenges of delivering sustainable theatres for future generations. The conference will look at what sustainable development now means for theatres, what opportunities exist for theatre buildings in the new National Planning Policy Framework, how funding programmes are now promoting more sustainable capital development of theatre buildings, and what is needed to ensure theatres can meet the triple bottom line head on and continue to thrive.

The conference will explore the way how theatre buildings have addressed the sustainability agenda and introduced new technologies and adapted to meet rising energy costs, tougher environmental building standards, economic constraints and the expectations of the audiences,Â and they will also share the experiences of the 48 London theatres on The Theatres Trust ERDF funded ECOVENUE project.

Conference 12 will be of interest to those trying to maximise economic, social and environmental returns from their theatre buildings through redesign, adaptation or new builds. It provides the opportunity to discuss these issues with other theatres, government and arts policy makers, theatre consultants and architects and take part in the debate.

Final deadline for registration is 9 June 2012

For more details and registration, click here.

A Call for Youth to Attend the International Climate Negotiations

June 7, 2012Cultura21, Open CallsApplication Materials, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Doha Qatar, Dot Org, Francesca, International Climate Negotiations, International Climate Policy, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Members, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Train, United Nations, Vitality, Youth Delegate, Youth Delegates, Youth Perspective

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SustainUS is accepting applications to go to the United Nations climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar.

All youth 18-26 are eligible to apply to attend as a youth delegateÂ in Doha, Qatar from November 26 to December 7, 2012. Before the conference youth train other youth to be adept at understanding international climate policy, lobbying, communicating with press, producing media and fund-raising. At the conference youth delegates collaborate with other international youth to bring a youth perspective to the negotiating table.

Applicants are required to be between the ages of 18 and 26 as of December 2012 and to either (a) be a US citizen or (b) have studied or worked in the US for more than six months. All application materials must be received by 5:00 pm EST on Sunday, June 17, 2012.

To learn more about SustainUS and apply to attend the 18th Conference of Parties in Doha, visit http://sustainus.org/apply-cop18.

You may also direct questions to agents [at] sustainus [dot] org.

4th Sustainable Summer School â€“ Finland

June 6, 2012Cultura21Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Finland, Francesca, Helsinki, Insights, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Participants, Rana, Sacha, September 3rd, Suomenlinna, Transition, Vitality

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The 4th Sustainable Summer SchoolÂ« for students from all around the world starts on August 25th and ends September 3rd, 2012 in Helsinki.

This year the Sustainable Summer School is hosted by the Aalto University and takes place in Helsinki on Suomenlinna island. In the Sustainable Summer School the students will work together on different subjects in workshops â€“ conducted by experts. The summer school is completed by an expert day to provide the participants with up-to-date knowledge and deep insights in this years topic: Â»Sustainable TransitionÂ«. The Sustainable Summer School is part of the Aalto University program contributing to the World Design Capital activities.

For further information and registration please visit www.sustainable-summer-school.org