The Ekotopfilm festival

International festival of Sustainable Development, Bratislava (Slovak Republic) 31 st July = deadline for film entries The 40th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films – ekotopfilm 2013 will be held in October 7-11th, 2013 in the capital city of Bratislava, Slovak Republic.The Ekotopfilm is a week-long festival providing the visitors with documentary films all over… Continue reading The Ekotopfilm festival

The resistance at Gezi Park

June 3th, 2013, ARTISTSINRESISTANCE, Istanbul (Turkey) The initial protests in Istanbul at the end of May were led by environmentalists, opposing the replacement of Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim Military Barracks demolished in 1940. One of their claim in the press statement released by the artists : “We are here… Continue reading The resistance at Gezi Park

Call for participants: “Field_Notes – Deep Time”, 15th – 24th September 2013, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland

“Field_Notes – Deep Time” is a week long art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, will develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation… Continue reading Call for participants: “Field_Notes – Deep Time”, 15th – 24th September 2013, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland

ufaFabrik’s 2nd Forum: Creative strategies of sustainability

9th – 14th of September 2013, ufaFabrik, Berlin (Germany) Building on the experience of their first event in 2012 (on which we reported on Cultura21’s webmagazine: click here to read our article in German language) this one-week seminar organized by ufaFabrik in Berlin for cultural operators proposes a common reflection and “a time of intense… Continue reading ufaFabrik’s 2nd Forum: Creative strategies of sustainability

Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface

“Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface”  will be held at Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany, from September 1 – 10, 2013. The Td Summer School 2013 offers a “Td Training Module” (Sep., 1-6) and a Special Training Module in “Constellation Analysis” (Sep., 9-10) in cooperation with the Center for Technology… Continue reading Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface

CAL FESTIVAL – 20 + 21 June 2013, Utrecht, Holland

Utrecht (the Netherlands) Celebrates Peace with Community Arts – A two?day symposium at which Dutch artists join their colleagues from Afghanistan, Palestine, Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Serbia, Northern Ireland and elsewhere to explore what connects them. According to Eugene van Erven (University of Utrecht): “Probably the most complete gathering of artists working in war zones around… Continue reading CAL FESTIVAL – 20 + 21 June 2013, Utrecht, Holland

Call for Applications: Default 13

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

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

Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles

For an upcoming issue of Antennae Submission Deadline: 1st of September 2013 “At the forefront of today’s social issues are questions related to the human relationship to nature and the environment, the meaning of a sustainable future and the relationship of environmentalism to modernity and today’s economic structures. While the sciences have, until recently, dominated… Continue reading Art, Environment, Sustainability – Call for articles