| June 23rd, 2009 |
Radical Nature, Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet is an exhibition that examines how nature has inspired artists and architects. The show takes a historical look at strange and experimental buildings since the 60s that have changed the way we see the world.
via Radical Nature Comes to the
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| June 22nd, 2009 | Caleb Klaces writes: In December this year representatives from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen for the 15th UN Conference of the Parties (COP15) to discuss international targets for the reduction of CO2 emissions. The roughly 1,500 delegates will mostly be men, as they always have been. During the period … Go to
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| June 21st, 2009 | Funds will commission playwright Chantal Bilodeau to write a play on race, poverty and environment
Thursday, June 18, 2009 – San Diego, CA – Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, San Diego’s community-focused, socially-conscious, Equity theater company, today announced The James Irvine Foundation has awarded the Company a $30,000 grant over two years to commission a new
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| June 21st, 2009 |
“Remember, if someone you don’t know very well is trying to get you to build a bomb, just say no!”
So speak the puppets of the Earth First! Roadshow.
At the recent Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama symposium, PhD candidate Sarah Standing read a paper analyzing Earth First!
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| June 21st, 2009 | Skye Sherwin in The Guardian:
Even the remotest hermit knows that the effects of climate change are the greatest threat faced by mankind. So where does that leave artists? Can they contribute anything to debates about the environment? Might the imperatives of environmentalism constrain their freedom to make interesting work? And … Go
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| June 20th, 2009 | {Chapman Kelley’s wildflower park in Chicago. I think this is a before shot?}
…or at least the courts say so.
I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out what is going on here, mostly because I haven’t seen before and after shots, but artist Chapman Kelley is appealing a court decision stating that his
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| June 19th, 2009 | Are we heading into an era of a homogonized plant and animal communities, brought on by our global economy that moves everything around, whether it is goods, animals or bacteria and fungus?
In an article titled The Sixth Extinction in the May 25, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about
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| June 18th, 2009 | When it comes to changing perceptions, artist Heather Morison, whose work with Ivan Morison is strongly located in narrative, argues for the importance of story telling in a new interview on the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre website:
One of the things which I find really fascinating is how when you … Go
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| June 18th, 2009 | The Tree Museum, a project celebrating 100 trees and the stories of 100 people, will be up this summer in the Bronx to commemorate the 100th anniversary of The Grand Concourse, a boulevard in that neighborhood.
Created by artist Katie Holten, you can read all about it at treemuseum.org or in
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| June 17th, 2009 | I hope you noticed on the main site we’ve been running the respond! campaign. If you can spare us a couple of minutes to let us know how you can improve it, we’d be grateful.
Take a crack at the respond! survey. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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