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How the arts came together over climate change

June 9, 2009 by william
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With over 60 events in Respond!, it’s clear that there is a huge amount of activity going on in the arts which tackles the environmental agenda.

A few key players helped nudge the arts scene towards this subject matter. In a new interview for the Respond! site, Judith Knight, co-director of ArtsAdmin, who are behind the 2 Degrees festival later this June in London that’s part of Respond! tips her hat to the arts/climate change organisation TippingPoint who were among the key players galvanising the UK arts community around the issue:

Individuals were thinking about these issues in a personal way, but it began really when some of the ArtsAdmin team went to the second TippingPoint meeting (of artists and scientists) and it was quite devastating; an extraordinary event for me on the arts side. I don’t come across scientists that often and they were very communicative. I walked out after two days in Oxford feeling 50% in despair, with another 50% of real positive energy because there were so many people doing so many amazing things, really engaging and doing stuff – scientists studying the weather on Mars, for example. Worries in the arts community often just come out as just Oh isn’t it terrible and it was encouraging to meet these science people. In general, the TippingPoint meetings have been a real inspiration, having a huge effect across the world.

Read the whole interview.

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  • About Respond 09

    Respond! takes place in June 2009 to highlight and celebrate a month of nationwide events, exhibitions, talks and projects that demonstrate the arts’ engagement with environmental issues.

    On the main Respond! website you can find information about what's happening across the UK alongside features, blogs and much more.

    There are already an incredible amount of projects, organisations and initiatives in the arts that have responded to the ever-increasing threats to the environment and continue to organise vital and stimulating discourse around the subject. The RSA Arts & Ecology website is committed to drawing attention to this work and extending the debate further among an active and engaged audience.

    In June this year we want to take a snapshot of the activity that is taking place in the UK to build on the agenda of World Environment Day which takes place on 5 June.

    The project is being delivered in association with Bash Creations - an events production company whose aim is to reduce the ecological footprint of the British entertainment industry by introducing innovative and creative ways to implement sustainable practice.

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