EVENTS
World Environment Day 2024
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
12 noon – 1.30 pm AEST
Lunchtime Listening Lab
FREE. Open to all.
Western Plains Cultural Centre front lawn, 76 Wingewarra Street Dubbo NSW (-32.249940, 148.609669)
Missed this event or disappointed with what you heard on World Environment Day on 5 June? Listen to what the trees and beneath the lawns sounded like on 30 May—a day of sunshine and wind as opposed to still, cold and overcast like it was on World Environment Day. These recordings were made as a backup plan in case of bad weather.
READ THE FIELD NOTES FROM THIS EVENT (blog post)
Take 5 minutes of your lunch break on World Environment Day to listen to the heartbeat of a tree and the energy in the earth beneath your feet on the front lawn of the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo NSW. Connect with life that’s more than human. Come with an open mind, leave with a full heart. This experience will be facilitated by Dubbo-based multi-media artist, Kim V. Goldsmith with the support of Dubbo Regional Council’s SPARC Support Grant Program and the Western Plains Cultural Centre.
This event is part of the ecoartspace Australian Dialogues series of coordinated events.
About the Australian Dialogues
The Australian Dialogues formed in 2022 to nurture a conversation between Australian creatives working in the ecological space. While seeking to create hopeful actions to address the issues impacting the environments where they live and work, they also remain connected to the broader ecoartspace community. Members of the Australian Dialogue represent the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary creative practice across all states and territories of Australia. Their practices include field-based and academic research, public art, community arts and cultural development, site-specific and site-responsive art, across the visual arts, sound art, moving image, performance, and other art forms.
This group has been discussing actions and collaborations on the theme of ‘care versus management?’, and we are now planning a series of events and activities leading to a group exhibition in Western Australia in 2025 and other events in greater Australia from December 2025 to January 2026. The first of these events will be on World Environment Day, 5 June 2024.
Taking its model from the worldwide 2015 ArtCop21, where “designers, artists, architects, scientists, and international thinkers come together to respond to COP21 and imagine together fresh narratives and perspectives to reinvent new worlds”, Australian ecoartspace members will create mini-public expressions for World Environment Day. All forms of ecological art shall be publicly accessible. For example, considering the power of listening before speaking, members will be creating online and offline active listening opportunities.
Details of where and when these events will be held are on the ecoartspace website.
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