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Apr 9 | Marjolijn Dijkman residency at Clare Cottage
The Dutch artist becomes the first artist selected for an international residency at Clare Cottage as part of the RSA's Citizen Power Peterborough programme More...
Julie's Bicycle | The carbon impacts of recorded music products in a time of transition
A new report by Julie's Bicycle looks into research on carbon impact of downloading and streaming recorded music and argues that we still don't know enough about what the real impacts of this new virtualised arts industry are. More...
COP 15 | Culture|Futures
Culture|Futures is an international collaboration between organisations and individuals concerned with shaping a cultural agenda to support the transition towards an Ecological Age. We are one of them. And we're pleased to announce the launch sympsosium taking place in Copenhagen this December, in the run up to COP15. More...
July 14 | The Dalston Mill
EXYZT's The Dalston Mill, part of Radical Nature, opens to the public on July 15 alongside a new installation of Agnes Denes' Wheatfield, A Confrontation More...
July 13 | Rock's "Industry Green" tools unveiled
As the summer festival season kicks off, music industry green team Julie's Bicycle unveil a new set of tools for rock festivals to audit and improve their carbon emissions. More...
May 07 | Age of Stupid at the RSA
To launch the nationwide release of The Age Of Stupid the RSA holds a special screening on May 22, with a discussion by George Monbiot, director Franny Armstrong and Dr Richard Betts of the Met Office's Climate Impacts research team. Plus a video link from Dr. Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Vice-President of the Maldives. More...
May 06 | Olafur Eliasson
Eliasson's first permanent sculpture in the US, a man-made island called The parliament of reality will be unveiled in a New York state art centre on May 16. More...
Apr 30 | Futuresonic: new "citizen science" artworks announced
Blowing bubbles in the cause of art and science? Collaborating with the Natural History Musem and the Met Office, Futuresonic founder and artistic director Drew Hemment unveils two new projects for this May's festival that merge art and science in ways that can help us understand our environment better. More...
Apr 23 | RSA in major public art debate
As Channel 4 launch the Big Art series, the RSA hosts a debate featuring Grayson Perry, Munira Mirza, Andrew Shoben and Jonathan Jones of The Guardian. Can the public be trusted wtih public art? Chaired by Jon Snow. More...
Apr 03 | Guandu Sculpture Festival
The list of artists selected for the 4th Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival have been announced. The annual event at Taiwan's Guandu Nature Park commissions sculptures with an environmental theme; this year it's "Land, water and culture". More...
Apr 03 | Call for Respond! events in June
If you have an event, exhibition, talk or any other activity going on in June that in some way addresses environmental issues, you'll want to know about Respond! - an RSA Arts & Ecology initiative in conjunction with Bash Creations that highlights what's going on throughout the UK that month. More...
Apr 01 | 350.org COP15 action
Bill McKibben, Bianca Jagger, Vandana Shivaand others issue a call for a global day of action on October 24, in the run up to COP15. More...
Mar 20 | Sustrans Active Travel
The RSA joins leading public health, transport and planning bodies to back the call for government to invest 10% of transport budgets in cycling and walking initiatives to help fight the UK's obesity crisis. More...
Mar 20 | Gustav Metzger @ Manchester
Announcing their new programme for 2009, the Manchester International Festival unveil details of new artworks by Gustav Metzger and Jeremy Deller. More...
Mar 17 | Art in the high street
New figures from Experian suggest that as many as one in six shops in the UK will be empty by the end of this year. A growing number of artist initiatives aim to reverse that trend. More...
Mar 04 | Artists protest visa clampdowns
The Chinese artist Huang Xu was refused a visa to the UK to attend the January opening of his new exhibition of photographs (see left). The creative sector is petitioning government, saying that visa restrictions have become so onerous they are preventing the free flow of artistic ideas - especially from the developing world. More...
Mar 02 | US Coal demo
Bill McKibben's 350.org organise "the first protest of the Obama era" to demand the closure of Capitol Hill's polluting electricity generation plant. More...
Feb 24 | Age of Stupid on sale
New docu-drama movie directed by Franny Armstrong and starring Pete Postlethwaite premieres on March 15 in 64 cinemas nationwide. The Guardian calls it: "The first successful dramatisation of climate change to hit the big screen." More...
Feb 18 | Wildlife Photography Awards
The BWPA launch their international photography competition on April 2. The competition offers awards to photographers who highlight "the great wealth and diversity of the natural history of the British Isles". More...
Feb 11 | Manifesta 8
Announcing the location for 2010's Manifesta, director Hedwig Fijen says the foundation chose Murcia "because it is a region which has two faces two of the most urgent challenges facing humankind, those of immigration and water." More...
Feb 11 | Zones of Conflict
RSA Arts & Ecology's Emma Ridgway will be among guests taking part in the discussion Zones of Conflict: Transnational Communities on Saturday Feburary 14 at Tate Britain. More...
Feb 03 | TippingPoint launch
Never mind the weather; TippingPoint Commissions goes ahead despite the cancellation of Ed Miliband's launch yesterday. Read the news item for details of how to apply. More...
Jan 29 | TippingPoint Commissions
On Monday February 2 John Ashton, the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change launches TippingPoint Commissions, a new scheme to create a body of artistic work about environmental change. More...
Jan 23 | Huang Xu, October Gallery
Chinese artist Huang Xu's large c-prints are a sublime critique of the economic and environmental crisis that is enveloping his country. His first London show at October Gallery is being opened by Michaela Crimmin of RSA Arts & Ecology. More...
News Jan 22 | Energy Cafe
Artists Amy Plant and Ella Gibbs create a community food initiative at Walthamstow's Gunpowder Park bringing together local residents and food growers. More...
News Jan 21 | Trash heads
Gloucestershire artist Gavin McClafferty makes sculpture portraints from rubbish as part of council's Zero Waste Challenge Week. More...
News Jan 16 | Burning Ice
RSA Arts & Ecology's Michaela Crimmin is among the artists, scientists and cultural critics taking part in Kaaitheater's five-day series of events examining issues around art, society and environmental change. Burning Ice starts on January 19. More...
News Jan 08 | The Landfill Prize
John Naish, health writer and author of Enough: Breaking Free From the World of More announces a new award - The 2009 Landfill Prize - for the most must-not-have item to grace a shop's shelves. More...
News Jan 06 | Bill McKibben
One of America's leading climate activists calls on the art community to take part in his campaign to put pressure on politicians in advance of November's COP15 conference. More...
News Dec 31 | Jarvis Cocker
Having returned from the 2008 Cape Farewell expedition earlier this year, the former Pulp star uses his guest editor slot on Radio 4's Today Programme to challenge Ed Miliband on the government's record on climate change, and to meet up with climate expert Lord Stern More...
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