Creative Arts

Borders Network: Creative Environments

September 7, 2012Cultura21Berlin Germany, Business Network, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Arts, Creative Environments, Francesca, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Network Designers, Oleg, Ongoing Projects, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Scottish Borders, sustainability, Vitality

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This blog was created recently, with support of the Creative Arts Business Network to support an informal network for artists, designers, makers in the Scottish Borders concerned with ecology, environment and sustainability; sharing their upcoming and ongoing projects with other people interested in sustainability and eco-art.

For more information, you can visit:

http://ecoartborders.wordpress.com/

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Funded PhD: theatre and learning for sustainability

July 4, 2012ecoartscotlandAcademic Partners, Agendas, Artistic Director, Awards Scheme, Catherine Wheels, Climate Change, Closing Date, Company Producer, Creative Arts, Creative Industry, Curators, Doctoral Thesis, East Lothian, Imagination Theatre, Knowledges, Paul Fitzpatrick, Robertson And Company, Studentship, Time Study, University Of Glasgow, Urban Context

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â€˜Sustaining the imagination: theatre and learning for sustainabilityâ€™

3 year funded PhD hosted by the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow in partnership with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company â€“ Further information â€“ Closing date 9th July 2012.

Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow is seeking to award one fully funded PhD studentship to commence 1 October 2012.

The studentship, which will support three years of full-time study, is funded through the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards Scheme. Within the wider School of Culture and Creative Arts, the studentship will be based in the Theatre Studiesâ€™ subject group. The studentship is with non-academic partners Catherine Wheels.

The student will undertake a critically informed and contextualised practice-based doctoral thesis exploring how site-orientated theatre can facilitate childrenâ€™s engagement with sustainability learning. Reviewing theÂ landscape of theatre that connects with environmental and climate change agendas, the research will suggest original ways in which place-based rather than issue-based performance can engage children in developing everyday sustainability practices. Through the partnership with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, the student will have an opportunity to acquire a range of creative industry skills and knowledges whilst developing critically-informed work which aims to respond to one of the greatest and most pressing challenges of our time. Working directly with Catherine Wheels, and supported by its Artistic Director Gill Robertson and Company Producer Paul Fitzpatrick, the studentâ€™s practice-led research will be developed at and respond to two contrasting sites: a primary schoolÂ located in an urban context (Glasgow) and another in a rural context (East Lothian).Â

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 byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™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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Extended workshop report now released on Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts

February 22, 2011Cultura21Asef, Asem Summit, Asia Europe Foundation, Berlin Germany, Civil Societies, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Arts, Creative Cities, Cultural Theory, Francesca, Further Reflections, Ikkk, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Masayuki, Mexico City, Oleg, Osaka City University, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Sasaki, Stadlbauer, Summit, Theory Research, Urban Contexts, Urban Research, Verstraete, Vitality, Webportal, Workshop Participants, Workshop Report

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The extended report (59 pages) is now available: clickÂ here for download (PDF file). This longer report contains detailed discussions from the workshop exchanges, as well as several â€˜good practiceâ€™ cases and further reflections elaborated by workshop participants in the couple of months following the workshop.

Please join the discussion in the forum!

About the workshop

Prof. Dr. Masayuki Sasaki, giving the impulse presentation for the workshop

On October 2-3 2010, Sacha Kagan of the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research and the Arts (IKKK, Leuphana University Lueneburg) organized a workshop together with Prof. Dr. Masayuki Sasaki, director of the Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, for the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), as part of the official side-event of the 8th ASEM Summit of Heads of State, i.e. the 4th â€œConnecting Civil Societies Conferenceâ€ in Brussels.

Sacha Kagan synthesizing a few insights on day 2 of the workshop

Workshop participants discussed issues related to â€œSustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contextsâ€ and elaborated policy recommendations for the 8th ASEM Summit.

The discussions are continuing beyond the two days of the workshop itself, as witnessed by the extended report.

Christina Stadlbauer, Camille Dumas and Kyo Zapanta discussing recommendations

Shorter report

Besides the extended report edited by Sacha Kagan and Katelijn Verstraete (Assistant Director, Department of Cultural Exchange, ASEF) which we are releasing now, a 4-pages briefing report was already released on November 18th 2010: Click here for direct download:PDF file ; clickÂ here for the news item on the Culture360 webportal (from Nov. 18th 2010 when the briefing report was released).

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura211 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21
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APInews: Michigan Prisoners Address Climate Crisis

April 6, 2009newsAddress Climate, Commutation, Creative Arts, Curated, Duderstadt, Global Climate Crisis, Jackson Prison, Janie, Jason Wright, Keynote Speech, Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Prisoners, Panel Discussion, Pbs, Pbs Documentary, Prisoners Art, Prisons, Professors, University Of Michigan, University Of Michigan Ann Arbor, William Ayers

April 8, 2009, is the last day of the 14th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, this year showing works addressing the global climate crisis. The show, presented annually by the Prison Creative Arts Project PCAP, opened March 24 at the Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Curated by UM Professors Buzz Alexander, Janie Paul and Jason Wright, it shows 300 works by 200 artists from 40 prisons. Events included a keynote speech by Chicago Citizen of the Year William Ayers, a panel discussion on women and children inside prison, a speak-out by Detroit youth, an artists talkback, a conversation about Michigan Parole and Commutation Board practices, a film about art inside Jackson Prison and release of the first annual Literary Review of Writing by Michigan Prisoners. “Acts of Art,” a PBS documentary about PCAP, was broadcast across Michigan in March and April.

via APInews: Michigan Prisoners Address Climate Crisis .