Just to say there will be an RSA stall at this year’s UK Aware – Ideas for Greener Living-fest at Olympia later this month. I’ll be there on the Saturday; if any of you are there too, come along and say hello.
|
I’ve posted an interview with the poet Jen Hadfield up on the main site. I’ll admit I hadn’t even heard of her until she won the T S Eliot Award a few weeks ago, but Nigh-No-Place turns out to be really great for its vivid, unruly, close-up-view poems about life in This via Pruned, (which possibly does itself a disservice by calling itself merely a landscape architecture blog): Picture caption: (According to the Brookings Institution, “beneath this concrete dome on Runit Island, part of Enewetak Atoll, built between 1977 and 1980 at a cost of about $239 million, lie 111,000 The second Manchester International Festival released its 2009 programme this week. It’s turning into the the best multi-platform arts festival in the UK – but then the size of its budget – a whopping £10m this year – probably helps with that. That said, they’re making great artistic decisions. While If anybody hasn’t seen this, here’s Franny Armstrong, Mark Lynas and Pete Postlethwaite ambushing Miliband at the London premiere of Age of Stupid last weekend. It needs to be said, Miliband was there, he takes it on the chin and responds well. The political reality is that until http://vimeo.com/user1428
Energy Cafe | Gunpowder Park Mar 21 2009 from William Shaw on Vimeo. At Gunpowder Park, Saturday March 21. The Energy Cafe, a project commissioned by the Art of Common Space; and an excuse to try out the Flip Video. Tania Kovats’ TREE will be unveiled at the Natural History Museum tomorrow. It’s a special commission for Darwin 200. In an interview with Tom Bailey for RSA Arts & Ecology, she talks about the process of thought that led her to take Actor Pete Postlethwaite is considering handing back his OBE if the UK government gives the go-ahead to the Kingsnorth Power coal-fired power station, linking the Kingsnorth issue to the Iraq War protests, the largest in modern UK history. “We tried to stop Tony Blair going At Copenhagen, Nicholas Stern admits his 2006 Stern Report underestimated the gravity of the problem – not so much the economics of it, or in terms of the more recent data coming in, but the stunning lack of political response: “Do the politicians understand just how |
  Upcoming Events
|
 
|
|
Copyright © 2012 The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts - All Rights Reserved |
||
