
Creative Climate
Date and time
Location
School of Arts, Birkbeck College (Room: G10)
43 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PD
United Kingdom
Description
Creative Climate
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Birkbeck School of Arts
Birkbeck College, University of London
8 May 2018
Symposium Programme
9.30am:Registration and Coffee
10.00am - 11.15am:Keynote Panel(Chair: Seda Ilter)
ZoëSvendsen (Artistic Director, METIS):Capital is unnatural: climate change, capitalism and representation of the human
Alan Simpson (Shadow Chancellor's Advisor on Sustainable Economics and previous Labour MP): Dance me to the end of love – an economics for tomorrow
11.15am - 12.30pm:Panel 1(Chair: Bruno Roubicek)
Grace Halden & Phil Johnstone:Nuclear imaginaries, society, and climate change: a conversation
Cara Judea Alhadeff & Rob Mies: Social Permaculture: What’s Love Got To Do With It? Lessons from Zazu Dreams
Lisa Woynarski & Sheila Ghelani: Ecology, Colonialism and Agency: Objects in Dialogue
Camden People’s Theatre, Julie’s Bicycle, Arcola Theatre: Climate Change and Creative Industry
12.30pm -1.30pm: Lunch(Provided at G10)
1.30pm – 2.45pm: Panel 2(Chair: Louise Owen)
Maria Sakellari & Victoria Melody: Climate change and migration: An alternative story
Lily Hunter-Green & Luigi Aloia: Bee Composed:A Growing Concern for Nutrition, human health in a future without bees
Femi Nylander & Rob Lemkin: Exterminate all the Brutes
Maria Nita & Dominic Kelly: The Power of Story: Storytelling as a Body Pedagogic Approach in Climate Awareness and Public Engagement Practices
2.45pm – 4.00pm: Panel 3(Chair: Fintan Walsh)
Nik Wakefield: Air Time: 'Ecological Images', or how to be happy about global warming
Olivia Osborne: Climate Change is a Dish Best Served Cold: Cry my a Glacier, they wrote
Klaus Schafler: Hacking the Future and Planet
Breathing Space (Phoebe Wright-Spinks): ‘RISE’ – A site specific performance by Breathing Space Collective on rising sea levels
4.00pm – 4.15pm: Coffee
4.15pm – 5.15pm: Performance (Chair: Bruno Roubicek)
Too Much of Water by Stephen Bottoms
5.30pm – 8.00pm: Wine Reception – Exhibition by Birkbeck’s artist-in-residence (Keynes Lib)
Lily Hunter Green: Bee Composed Live