Showing posts with label David Buckland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Buckland. Show all posts

21 April, 2015

Cape Farewell helps us understand how climate change and culture connect


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n 2001 the artist David Buckland created the Cape Farewell project to instigate a cultural response to the climate challenge. Cape Farewell is now an international not-for-profit programme based at the University of Arts London: Chelsea, with a North American foundation based at the MaRS centre in Toronto.

David Buckland.
Working internationally, we bring creatives, scientists and informers together to stimulate a cultural narrative that will engage and inspire a sustainable and vibrant future society. Using creativity to innovate, we engage artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge.

Our complex societies have evolved dependent of fossil fuel for our energy. It is now proven that carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of these fuels is causing potentially devastating damage to our habitat. Our developing Cleantech industries can replace our dependency of fossil fuels and deliver a cleaner, healthier culture.

Cape Farewell asks the best of our creative minds to engage with this challenge and to build a vision for a sustainable future.

Learn more about the Cape Farewell Project here: "What does culture have to do with climate change? Everything."

18 March, 2015

An event not to be missed


This rather special event on Tuesday, May 5, that is not to be missed.

Artist, film-maker, writer and curator, David Buckland, will talk about the international CapeFarewell Project, encouraging us to build transformative, dynamic and sustainable societies.

This lecture is part of the ART+CLIMATE = CHANGE 2015, a Melbourne-wide Festival of Art exhibitions, forums and talks seeking to harness the creative power of the arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change.

More detail from CLIMARTE.