The advice in this column although designed for the arts in the US, applies equally to environment and ecology, suggesting the best tactics to influence politicians, policy-makers and public sector decision-makers. It highlights the importance of starting the meeting by establishing: the fact that you are a constituent, and that the people you represent are... Continue Reading →
Volunteers and Gardeners needed. Get your hands dirty!
CCA Summer Volunteer Days at Westthorn Allotments Help us develop land at Westthorn Allotments into a fun and workable garden site as part of the CCA education and outreach programme which supports the wider Glasgow growing network and specific local communities. Each day will involve a workshop from an artist or gardener on a particular... Continue Reading →
Space is the place
Landscape in Artists' Films 14 Jun 2011 – 4 Jul 2011 (Every Tuesday at 18:30) Glasgow Film Theatre invites you to a four-week course Space is the Place: Landscape in Artists' Films. Landscape has long held a fascination for the avant- garde. This course examines how British filmmakers such as William Raban, Chris Welsby, Emily... Continue Reading →
Fracking
The minor earthquake in Cumbria last week brought fracking to the UK headlines. Fracking is a technology for extracting gas from unconventional geological formations. Very topical in the North Eastern US where there hasn't been a huge oil industry, but where now fracking is being considered as a means to extract gas. The problem is... Continue Reading →
Conflict Resolution on Highland Estates
The Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability is currently hosting four artists' residencies leading up to a major conference on Conservation Conflicts: strategies for coping with a changing world which takes place at the end of August. Dalziel + Scullion are undertaking one of the residencies, and Matthew Dalziel described the project, You might be interested... Continue Reading →
“By Leaves We Live”: the vital politics and poetics of the tree
Jennifer Clarke and Rachel Harkness are convening an excellent session focused on trees, referencing Patrick Geddes' "By Leaves We Live", within the Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth. Abstracts come from all over the world and take trajectories across the topic: religious practice and space; time and trees (both... Continue Reading →
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