Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic

Category: Art News Posted: 01 July 2009

See photos from Cape Farewell's gig at the Eden Sessions on 9 July, when Marcus Brigstocke, Shlomo and Liam Frost performed in the Mediterranean Biome pre Razorlight's Eden Session.

London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre

Category: Talks and Lectures Posted: 01 July 2009

Join Lemn Sissay, David Lan, Ruth Little and David Buckland at the London Literature Festival, Southbank Centre, on Saturday 11 July

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Latitude Festival

Category: Art News Posted: 24 June 2009

A green field, a green event; hear all about Cape Farewell's event at Latitude Festival on 19 July, when David Buckland was joined by Marcus Brigstocke, Shlomo and Jarvis Cocker...

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Andes Expedition returns

Category: General News Posted: 19 June 2009

Cape Farewell has just returned from the Andean Rainforests of Peru on an 18 day trek through shrinking glaciers, cloud forests, rain forests and the Amazon ›

2010 Expedition

Category: General News Posted: 19 June 2009

2010 Arctic Expedition
9 September to 1 October 2010

On 9 September 2010, Cape Farewell begins it's 9th Art & Science expedition to the Arctic. For 22 days the crew of 20 voyagers will sail around Svalbard on the Noorderlicht.

For 22 days, 10 artists and 5 scientists from around the world, among which are writers, playwrights and architects, will be inspired by the beauty of the Arctic and introduced to the science which is conducted on board, giving them a better understanding on the topic of climate change.

Some of the crew members are Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky (musician/DJ/writer, USA), Deborah Warner (theatre & opera director, UK), Matthew Clark (digital artist/Creative Director of UVA, UK), Mikhail Durnenkov (playwright, Russia), Cynthia Hopkins (performance & music artist, USA), Leonid Tishkov (visual artist, Russia), Iris Haeussler (visual artist, Canada), Marina Moskvina (novelist, Russia), Beth Kapusta (writer/architecture critic, Canada), Daria Parkhomenko (Director of Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Russia) and others.

They journey to the Arctic will be broadcasted on the expedition blog.
Daily posts by the crew members will be sent back to the Cape Farewell website that will display regular blogs, images and video reports from the expedition.

Onwards

One of the expeditions crew members, Matt Clark, artistic director of United Visual Artists (UVA), will be onboard the 2010 Arctic expedition as substitute of the whole UVA team and as part of their research towards a new large scale commission for the National Maritime Museum (NMM). UVA is working closely with both the NMM's and Cape Farewell’s extensive archives and knowledge, and gains the Cape Farewell Art & Science Expedition experience, to develop an immersive and interactive installation for the NMM’s forthcoming Special Exhibitions Gallery. The exhibition, titled High Arctic, will launch in June 2011 as the first temporary show in the Museum’s new Sammy Ofer Wing.