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Art & Climate Change in Madrid

Category: Art News Posted: 01 February 2008 PDF Print E-mail

Don't miss Art & Climate Change at Fundación Canal, Madrid. The exhibition co-curated with the Natural History Museum in 2006 and exhibited in London at the Natural History Museum and Germany at Kampnagel, Hamburg in 2007 began its international tour this February at Fundación Canal. The exhibition runs in Madrid until 27 April 2008.
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Linacre lecture by David Buckland

Category: Talks and Lectures Posted: 22 January 2008 PDF Print E-mail

Join David Buckland on the 21st February as he presents his Linacre lecture 'Good Planets are Hard to Find – a Cultural Response to Climate Change' updating the audience on the progress of Cape Farewell from 2002 to 2008 and discussing the fundamental role of culture in responding to climate change. Part of the 2007 Linacre lectures organised by Oxford University.


Time Magazine Pictures of the Year 2007

Category: Media News Posted: 31 December 2007 PDF Print E-mail

Cape Farewell are proud to announce TIME Magazine's 2007 Pictures of the Year features Nick Cobbing's photograph from the 2007 expedition.

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Winter Season at Eden 2007-2008

Category: Art News Posted: 20 December 2007 PDF Print E-mail

Cape Farewell's Winter Season at the Eden Project opens this Christmas, featuring a major new commission Blossom by artist Clare Twomey. Inspired by the famous biospheres of the Eden Project, Cape Farewell travels to Cornwall to begin an ambitious three-year collaborative residency programme with both the Eden Project and Southbank Centre exploring the sustainability of human existence at this critical time for the planet.
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Southbank Centre Residency

Category: General News Posted: 02 August 2007 PDF Print E-mail

Cape Farewell begins a three-year residency at Southbank Centre, operating as a cultural eco-hub for the Centre's creative and environmental initiatives ›


Siobhan Davies talks to Dr Chris West

Category: Talks and Lectures Posted: 01 July 2007 PDF Print E-mail

Siobhan Davies talks to Dr Chris West, Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme about her work with Cape Farewell on 7 July, 2007 at the Oxford Playhouse. Siobhan Davies's work Endangered Species, created for the Cape Farewell exhibition Art & Climate Change, will be installed in the Oxford Playhouse foyer until 7 July 2007.


National Maritime Museum Lecture

Category: Talks and Lectures Posted: 01 June 2007 PDF Print E-mail

David Buckland and anthropologist Hugh Brody speak at the National Maritime Museum's Freeze Frame lecture series on Saturday 23 June 2007. Freeze Frame is a five week series of talks by explorers, artists, historians and scientists hosted by the National Maritime Museum in celebration of International Polar Year 2007.


Cape Farewell on NPR's Morning Edition

Category: Media News Posted: 21 May 2007 PDF Print E-mail

Listen to the report In a Changing Arctic, Artists Seek to Inspire Change by Lynn Neary, broadcast to 13 million listeners on NPR (National Public Radio) on May 21, 2007.
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Ian McEwan and John Schellnhuber - A Conversation About Climate Change

Category: Talks and Lectures Posted: 02 March 2007 PDF Print E-mail

A Conversation About Climate Change - a discussion between novelist Ian McEwan and Professor John Schellnhuber, Germany's Chief Government Advisor on Climate - took place on 22 March 2007 at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. The event took place alongside the exhibition Art & Climate Change, and was staged as part of the British Council's Conversations series. Based on the broad scientific acceptance that global warming and its impacts are a reality, and in the wake of the findings of the Stern Report, the conversation explored dynamic new ideas around climate change and the action that should be taken by governments, companies and individuals.
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Website wins distinction in the Webby Awards

Category: General News Posted: 10 December 2006 PDF Print E-mail

Cape Farewell are proud to announce our website has received an Official Honoree distinction at the 10th Annual Webby Awards 2006.

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