PAST EVENTS
THAW
This weekend (14-16 Jan 2022), tune into THAW, a performance work on suspended ice, Sydney Opera House.
Event details and links to livestream of the show, to watch safely from home.
From the Sydney Opera House THAW site:
’A colossal block of ice suspended above Sydney Harbour. On it, a woman alone. Isolated on this frozen world, the woman scrambles to protect it from the elements and the industrial crane that seems to toy with them both. How long will the iceberg last? How long before the system collapses? Her future hangs in the balance. Just like ours.
An embrace of epic scale and iconic location, THAW will stop you in your tracks. This visually arresting work marks a dramatic return to Sydney Festival for globally renowned local company, Legs On The Wall. Featuring a 2.7 tonne block of ice hoisted 20 metres above the Harbour and a score by Alaska’s Matthew Burtner, THAW is part art installation, part slow-drip suspense thriller.
DAILY PROGRAM
THAW is performed by three artists throughout the period of a day.
Start time: 12pm
Join us at 7:30pm if you want to catch the end
Finish time: 8.30pm
THAW CAM
This event is available to view as a livestream on the Sydney Opera House Stream platform and as part of Sydney Festival's At Home digital program.’
International Symposium on Museums and Sustainability,
ICOM; Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Shanghai, 21-24 Nov 2021.
Zoom link below.
International Symposium on Museums and Sustainability, Shanghai, 21-24 November 2021. PROGRAM: link
Climate talks 2021
Throughout 2021, the Science Museum Group is hosting a series of Climate Talks – panel discussions, Q&As and events connecting you with leaders, experts, activists and campaigners as they discuss how to tackle the problems facing our communities due to climate change. There are eight events published, all of them are free to attend, but booking is required.
More information on the website: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/climate-talks
how are our oceans responding to climate change?
science and industry museum - online
Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface and as the planet heats up, they are feeling the impact acutely. But how exactly does climate change affect our oceans, how do our oceans influence climate change and what can we do about it?
our broken planet
Natural history museum - London
In the run-up to the global UN conferences of COP15 on biodiversity and COP26 on climate change, join us as we debate why and how our relationship with the natural world needs to change.
Climate Heritage Network - social media tile circulated during COP
Cop26: Get involved - 1-12 November 2021
the Green Zone Programme: Link
Online and onsite at the Glasgow Science Centre, 1-12 November 2021
Check out the winning exhibitions in the “Reimagining the Museum” competition, tune into the YouTube channel.
With over 100 exhibitors, 200 events and 11 sponsors taking over the space, there will be amazing opportunities to listen, learn and celebrate climate action.
ICOM UK - 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 16-19 2021 - JOIN ONLINE
Each year ICOM UK, in partnership with NMDC, organises the one-day Working Internationally Conference. 2021 will be a little different. The Conference is a 3-day online event, with each day focusing on a major global issue:
Day 1: Social Justice: Museum responses to decolonisation, restitution, Black Lives Matter, representation and youth
Day 2: Museums and Sustainability: Challenges of working in and responding to a changing climate
Day 3: The Future of Museums: Where are we now, and where do we go from here?
View the programme HERE and book tickets via Eventbrite
Climate Speaks 2020
Present - May 2020
Climate Museum, New York, USA
Workshops, Competitions and Performances
We have seen the hunger youth have for creative ways of engaging with climate action, and how their imagination and vision inspire audiences.
Young people deserve better than climate chaos and they know it. The October 2018 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounded a new level of alarm, intensifying the call to transform our society to stave off the worst impacts of climate change and build towards a more equitable, climate-safe future.
We still have time to act, though the window is shrinking. Youth voices cut through the accumulated fog of passivity, driving home the moral imperative of immediate action.
Modelled after a successful Climate Speaks 2019, Climate Speaks 2020 will involve a range of written and spoken arts, as well as more public performance opportunities.
Multiple workshops will run aimed at high school students from the New York Metropolitan area, followed by a competition and a performance in May 2020.
Click here for more information.
Climate Change 2020
Conference: October 12-13, 2020
Zurich, Switzerland
9th World Conference on Climate Change, will be organized around the theme “An Insider’s View of Climate Science, Politics, and Solutions”
Climate Change 2020 is comprised of keynote and speakers sessions on latest cutting edge research designed to offer comprehensive global discussions that address current issues in Climate Change 2020
Click here for more information
CLImate Show 2020
Show 1:September 16 – 20 2020
Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
Show 2: December 2 – 4 2020
Montreux Convention Center, Montreux, Switzerland
The International Climate Show (Salon International du Climate) is an independent structure acting in compliance with the highest human and environmental values. The mission of the Climate Show is spreading sustainability in all its forms (products, services or social behaviour) in the various sectors of everyday life. The exhibition of the Climate Show is one of the means of dissemination of sustainability and focuses on environmental-friendly solutions and innovation including bringing into light some traditional sustainable solutions that have been neglected.
Click here for more information
ICOM UK - 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
March 16-19 2021 - Join Online
Each year ICOM UK, in partnership with NMDC, organises the one-day Working Internationally Conference. 2021 will be a little different. The Conference is a 3-day online event, with each day focusing on a major global issue:
Day 1: Social Justice: Museum responses to decolonisation, restitution, Black Lives Matter, representation and youth
Day 2: Museums and Sustainability: Challenges of working in and responding to a changing climate
Day 3: The Future of Museums: Where are we now, and where do we go from here?
View the programme HERE
green solutions: how carbon credits work and their integration into art shipping
dietl international: june 13, 2021
Online
Hear from Joshua Tosteson (COO of Everland Marketing) and Laura Tapping (Carbon Program Manager at Sustainable Travel International) and learn about carbon credits, off-sets and how these can help businesses and institutions reduce their carbon footprint.
sdg forum series - green museums and the paris agreement
The chinese university of hong kong: may 06, 2021
Online
Do you know your carbon footprint? How do our daily carbon emissions contribute to climate change? Museums, as trusted institutions, play an increasingly important role as conscience of our society and have the duty to communicate climate change with the public. The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Invited speakers from the US, Australia and Hong Kong will share at the Green Museums and the Paris Agreement forum the experiences and achievements in greening museums, enhancing sustainable operations and advancing climate change education. The forum also serves as an important step to build a community of green museums which act locally and ideate globally.
Conserving the arts and the environment
Sydney arts management advisory group: may 03, 2021
Sydney
What is the impact of the arts and cultural sector on the environment? How can art most effectively speak to our environmental concerns?In June 2019, a report by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network ranked Australia 38th out of 162 countries in terms of sustainability.
Join a panel of experts as they discuss arts, artistic practice and how these can help advance sustainability goals and strong action on climate change.
PLEURIVERSUM
Manifestation: Nov 2 - 15, 2019
Amsterdam
In 'Pleuriversum' all makers and speakers play with the issue of global ecological threats and the current climate debate. We look at our planet as a closed system in which small changes in one place can also have an effect elsewhere - positive or negative.
From the visual arts, social design, performance art, fashion, philosophy, literature and science, the art manifestation is set up as an ecological system in itself. Starting with our own body as a self-regulating cycle, increasingly zooming in on the world around us, the manifestation meanders throughout the entire Arti building as one sensory laboratory. With stimulating ideas and playful, surprising insights from cultured meat ice cream and beauty articles from body juices, to a Groningen ditch and its inhabitants, European lobby in pulse fishing and the consequences of nuclear disaster Fukushima.
Artists: Isabel Burr Raty (CL/BE) | Thomas Thwaites (UK) | Pink Pony Express (VS/NL) | Koos Buist (NL) | Esther Kokmeijer (NL) | Marwan Moujaes (LB) | Tinkebell (NL) | Madison Bycroft (AU) & Angelica Falkeling (SE) | Next Nature (NL) | Global Warm Up (FR/PE/IT/DE) | Kalan Sherrard (VS) | Iekeliene Stange (NL) & Ibelisse Ferragutti (BO) | Schwierige Franz (NL) | Talking Trees (NL) | Abel Kroon (NL)
Concept en samenstelling | Arjen Lancel & Merel Noorlander
Arti et Amicitiae
Nov 2, 2019
Amsterdam
Arti et Amicitiae stands for art and friendship. It is a society where makers and enthusiasts come together. The building, designed by Berlage, has room for all kinds of initiatives by modern artists. A nice, central place to meet and discover. The Museum Night is also the opening of the Pleuriversum Universum art event. Various artists took over the entire building for two weeks. Are you inspired by contemporary art here? Then also visit De Appel.
Can seaweed help curb global warming?
ted talk: Oct 17, 2019
It's time for planetary-scale interventions to combat climate change -- and environmentalist Tim Flannery thinks seaweed can help. In a bold talk, he shares the epic carbon-capturing potential of seaweed, explaining how oceangoing seaweed farms created on a massive scale could trap all the carbon we emit into the atmosphere. Learn more about this potentially planet-saving solution -- and the work that's still needed to get there.
Eco City World Summit
Summit: Oct 7 - 11, 2019
Vancouver
The World Gathers for Ecocity World Summit 2019
Can cities be both ecologically healthy and socially just? There are no easy answers, not even in Vancouver, one of the world’s greenest cities. Yet multiple solutions are emerging with new leadership and new partnerships. Ecocity 2019 is where these breakthroughs and advances will be shared. Jointly hosted by the City of Vancouver and the British Columbia Institute of Technology, join Mayor Kennedy Stewart and a host of local, regional and global experts converging in Vancouver this October to build the bridge to socially just and ecologically sustainable cities
Design Exhibition
Launch: Fall 2018; Exhibition: Spring 2019
A show imagining climate museums around the world, with contributions from major international architects. Curated by Reed Kroloff. (Image credit: Brandon Wang)
HumanNature
lecture series: 2018
sydney
The Humanities in a Time of Environmental Crisis
Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series, 2018
Environmental change seems to be happening all around us, and yet voices differ over its causes and consequences. At the same time, our human activity is playing an increasingly significant role in shaping the earth and its future possibilities.
This landmark lecture series will offer a range of talks by leading international scholars in the Environmental Humanities. It will draw on insights from history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and related disciplines and explore the important roles that the humanities can play in addressing some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our day.
This Lecture Series is jointly funded and coordinated by the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, Western Sydney University, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum.
International Symposium on Climate Change and the role of Education
symposium: April 12th and 13th, 2019
United Kingdom
Education in all its forms plays a crucial role, globally and locally, in engaging and empowering people to act to alleviate the impacts of the climate change. Even though education is a key element which can be deployed in fostering climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, there is a paucity of events where a special focus to education is given. In order to fill in this gap, the International Symposium on Climate Change and the Role of Education is being organised by Bishop Grosseteste University (UK), the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the International Climate Change Information Programme. This symposium is aimed at those working in, or concerned with, education and climate change. It provides an opportunity to showcase projects, approaches and activities that investigate or utilise education as a means to mitigate or adapt to climate change. The conference also highlights the pedagogical approach museums and galleries utilize in discussing science, which arguably happens more than in classrooms.
Climate Museum Festival
Festival: October 2018
New York, USA
A celebration of climate engagement and solutions, with art and science programming. Special feature: a climate-focused spoken word competition for NYC youth.
Climate Museum, new york - programming
Panel Series: Spring – Summer 2018
New York, USA
A series of panel discussions. First panels explored climate emotion and climate art; upcoming panels will focus on climate risk and climate storytelling. Dates and speakers to be announced.
Season for Change
Programme: June-Dec 2018
United Kingdom
Season for Change is a UK-wide programme of cultural responses celebrating the environment and inspiring urgent action on climate change.
From June–December 2018, organisations and artists across the UK spark conversations about the future of our planet through performances, exhibitions, talks, film screenings, workshops and events.
Season for Change runs from 1 June until 16 December 2018, finishing to coincide with the COP24 UN Climate Negotiations in Katowice, Poland.
Narratives of climate change symposium
symposium: 5-6 july 2018
university of newcastle, NSW, AUSTRALIA
The struggle to solve the problem of human-forced climate change - which requires us to stop using fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas and end deforestation - has become an ever-present backdrop to political discourse, an intermittent topic in popular media, a central concern for community and social movements in the Global South and North, and a magnet for scholarly engagement.
The climate change problem is a disruptive, and potentially creative force that challenges, among other things, diverse ways of living, expectations of a good life, the dominant patterns of production and consumption, dominant frameworks of knowledge and the political, the fundamental precepts of legal systems, and the presupposition that our children’s children will inherit a world in which humans and the greater community of life can flourish.
At the same time, discourses around climate change risk invisibilising other histories of power and exploitation, such as colonialism, that have long inflicted violences upon First Nations peoples and their lifeworlds, and which underpin the reality that both the impacts and root causes of climate change are experienced disproportionally by the most vulnerable. Indeed, some climate change interventions serve to undermine rather than sustain Earth.
Contact: uonlawevents@newcastle.edu.au
New York’s Future in a Changing Climate
What can New Yorkers do to respond to the crisis of climate change? And how can we reimagine our relationship to the complex natural systems that sustain us? In this new series of conversations, leading voices and thinkers in the field propose how New York can adapt – and even thrive – as a coastal city in an age of rising waters.
This series is inspired by our Future City Lab, the interactive third gallery of New York at Its Core, the Museum's landmark permanent exhibition on New York City's 400 year history.
Click here for more information
The Anthropocene in Museums: Reflections, Projections and Imaginings
Workshop: December 3, 2015 - December 4, 2015
The Anthropocene is an idea now challenging and inspiring museums of many different kinds and in many parts of the world. This invitational workshop focused on how museum scholars, curators and other practitioners have responded to this concept with new experiments in collecting, exhibiting and programming. It explored what the community of museums engaged with contemporary cultural and environmental issues has learned to date about working with and in the Anthropocene, and asked how these experiences might inform future projects.
Presentations and discussion explored the Deutsches Museum’s Welcome to the Anthropocene exhibition, focusing particularly on how audiences have responded to this ground-breaking gallery. This project was drawn into conversation with other current and emerging projects, including the Deutsches Museum’s forthcoming Energy Transitions exhibition, the National Museum of Australia’s Australia in the Age of Humans project and the American Museum of Natural History’s work with Pacific museums responding to climate change.
For more information about this event please visit the Museums and Climate Change Network Blog.
For the full workshop guide please refer to:
The Anthropocene in Museums Workshop program
Convenors
Please direct enquiries to one of the convenors:
Kirsten Wehner, Sydney Environment Institute
Libby Robin, Australian National University, libby.robin@anu.edu.au
Jenny Newell, Australian Museum, jenny.newell@austmus.gov.au
Helmuth Trischler, Rachel Carson Center / Deutsches Museum, h.trischler@deutsches-museum.de
This workshop was sponsored by the Deutsches Museum, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society ( www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de ) and the Museums and Climate Change Network.
Collecting the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change
WORKSHOP: October 2, 2013 - October 4, 2013
Co-convened by the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Australia
Participating organizations include:
National Museum of Australia
American Museum of Natural History
Center for Art & Environment, Nevada Museum of Art
Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE), University of Wisconsin Madison
Deutsches Museum
Environmental Humanities initiative, University of Sydney
KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm
Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University
Convenors:
Jenny Newell, Curator, Pacific Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History
Libby Robin, Senior Research Fellow, National Museum of Australia
Kirsten Wehner, Head Curator, People and the Environment, National Museum of Australia
Jacklyn Lacey, Curatorial Associate, American Museum of Natural History
Contact:
Jenny Newell, Australian Museum, jenny.newell@austmus.gov.au
Attendees at the Collecting the Future workshop, American Museum of Natural History, October, 2013.
“How to? From Climate Knowledge to Climate Action”: International Symposium
Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost. , Bremerhaven, Germany
International Symposium: EXHIBITIONS AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SEPTEMBER 24-25, 2020
The Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost wants to create a platform for exchange, to learn from each other and try to work on an impactful result for the 52nd Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies in Bonn. Let us demonstrate that extracurricular places of learning, with the involvement of the community and sustainable educational programmes, can form a collective impact and help to create a vibrant future for all.
For further information: www.klimahaus-bremerhaven.de/symposium2020