Art, Cities and Regeneration. Asia – Europe. Masterclass in residence – Lecce, Italy, 17th -26th September 2013 Eighteen creatives and artists (9 from Asia and 9 from Europe), selected through an international open call, will be given the opportunity to discuss and try to answer the question “What is next in art, cities and regeneration?”,… Continue reading Call for Applications: Default 13
Author: Sacha Kagan
Research Associate at the ISCO - Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISKO - Institut für Soziologie und Kulturorganisation), Leuphana University Lueneburg, Sacha Kagan founded the International level of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, as well as the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST). The focus of his research and cultural work lies in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability. Doctor in Philosophy (Leuphana University Lueneburg) with a thesis on the subject of culture, the arts and sustainability under the perspective of complexity ; M.A. in Cultural Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; and Graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux (political sciences).
For Cultura21, Sacha is also coordinating the eBooks series, the regular updates on our multi-lingual website, the English section of our webmagazine and the work of our Lueneburg-based interns.
Festival IDEAS CITY
New York City, 01/05/2013 – 04/05/2013 The 2013 iteration of IDEAS CITY, the biennial festival created to explore the future city and to effect change, will take place in downtown New York on May 1–4, 2013. Formerly known as the Festival of Ideas for the New City, IDEAS CITY was founded by the New Museum… Continue reading Festival IDEAS CITY
Congress in China: ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’
An international congress entitled ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’, organised by UNESCO with the support of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, will be held in Hangzhou, China, on 15-17 May 2013. The focus will be to discuss the role of culture in sustainable development in view of the post-2015 development framework. Read… Continue reading Congress in China: ‘Culture: Key to Sustainable Development’
Amazon Our Land
The launch of the CD Amazon Our Land by the young artists from the band Backyard Drums, from the project Rivers of Meeting, will be taking place today (this Saturday) from 7pm onwards (timezone: UTC -3), in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco (in Brazil), between the Amazonian Rivers Tocantins and Itacaiúnas. Anyone can participate… Continue reading Amazon Our Land
Ecocide
Cathy Fitzgerald published on her blog “An Arts and Ecology Notebook” an interesting long post about enforcing the legal notion of “ecocide”, and about the work of UK legal barrister (and performer of mock trials) Polly Higgins, who defines ecocide as follows: “Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of… Continue reading Ecocide
Pop-Up Repair and theatre artists
Set designer Sandra Goldmark is starting up a new sustainability project with her husband, Michael Banta, a production manager and technical director, along with several theatre colleagues. They are opening a 4 week Pop-Up Repair shop in northern Manhattan, this June. The shop is a challenge to the cycle of use-and-discard consumer goods, and will be staffed… Continue reading Pop-Up Repair and theatre artists
Proposals for creative art+science, participatory and open environmental education in the Gulf of Finland / Baltic Sea Region
On the Pixelache website, Andrew Paterson introduced 6 proposals, first presented at the Gulf of Finland Year Trilateral Environmental Education seminar, Tallinn, 28.2.2013 (http://www.gof2014.fi/en/partners/education/) and part of an ongoing dialogue and cooperation with Russian NGO Friends of the Baltic, based in St. Petersburg (http://baltfriends.ru/). Find out more here…
Call for participants: Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence
Transdisciplinary expedition, production workshop and events Location: Pyhäjoki, Finland – Time: 31.7. – 12.8.2013 – For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and doers + everything or opinion in between. Deadline to apply: 5.5.2013. The sixth nuclear power plant of Finland is planned to be built at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki. The aim of the project… Continue reading Call for participants: Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence
New Essay Competition from WOLFoundation
The Web of Life Foundation is issuing the first call for essays for its 2013 essay competition. WOLFoundation is dedicating to stimulating new thinking in the field of sustainability and socio-environmental issues. Within this context, the theme of this year’s essay competition is “An Aspirational Future“. Essays should be up to 2,000 words of prose… Continue reading New Essay Competition from WOLFoundation
JALAN JATI (TEAK ROAD)
On show at the John Hope Gallery Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK) until July 7th 2013 The results of three years of research and production, the interdisciplinary exhibition from Singapore, Jalan Jati (Teak Road) opened at the Edinburgh Science Festival on 21 March 2013 and runs at the John Hope Gallery Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh until July 2013. Jalan Jati (Teak Road)… Continue reading JALAN JATI (TEAK ROAD)
