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