EcoArts Australis formed in 2010 when environmental and arts practitioners came together, realising there was an opportunity to use the arts in creative ways to improve environmental sustainability.
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Launched at the Armidale Tree Group Mike O’Keeffe Woodland Centre, the group is a wholly run by volunteers. Its Board draws on the experience of people working across the natural resources and arts sectors.
We have run two successful international conferences in 2013 and 2016 on the arts and environmental sustainability. Our third conference will be 26-28 May this year. It will focus on using the visual and performing arts to encourage pro-environmental behaviour.
We are excited about the range of presentations, which include performances, an art exhibition, participatory workshops, films and posters as well as oral presentations. Presenters (several international) come from art, sociology, environmental education, interpretation, scientific and early childhood education backgrounds.
Our audience includes people working directly in the arts, in research, local government and the non-government sector.
Keynote speaker, Professor Mark Howden, is director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University and contributes to several major national and international science and policy advisory bodies. Mark has worked on climate change for over 30 years. He will speak on the role of the arts in the providing a cultural shift to addressing climate change.
Keynote speaker Cecily Miller has been a leader in community arts, in the USA, for more than 20 years. She founded Spark Art which partners with artists, organisations, and community groups to create public art that is inspired by the qualities of place and explores peoples’ concerns. She will speak on community and temporary public artworks in the USA that promote pro-environmental behaviour.
Keynote Marda Kirn founded Ecoarts Connections in the USA and coordinates a huge range of projects that link scientists, artists and sustainability professionals and will be discussing this important linkage.
Other presenters will highlight issues including climate change, urban trees, oceans, the Antarctic, threatened species, dieback, conserving species and conservation, water, urban planning, science/art collaborations and ecological restoration.
Artforms reviewed include music, festivals, visual arts, installations, audio art, flash mobs, poetry, literature, comics, children’s stories, ephemeral art, circus, performance, story telling, community arts, public art, Indigenous art, collaborative artworks, environmental art, conceptual art.
Conference information: http://www.ecoartsaustralis.org.au/events-and-projects/conference-2019-using-the-visual-and-performing-arts-to-encourage-pro-environmental-behaviour/.