Cape Farewell: Culture and the Climate Challenge

How is climate change a cultural challenge? Artist-led initiative Cape Farewell head to the Arctic this September to find out.

Musicians including Laurie Anderson, Vanessa Carlton, Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Ryuichi Sakamoto, KT Tunstall and Martha Wainwright, join artist Sophie Calle, comedian Marcus Brigstocke, poet Lemn Sissay, beat-boxer Shlomo, architect Sunand Prasad, composer Jonathan Dove, and playwright Suzan Lori Parks, to make up a 40 strong international team, led by photographer David Buckland.

Their destination is Disko Bay, west Greenland, where the challenges of climate change leave their strongest mark. Science teams from the National Oceanography Centre and the British Geological Survey embark upon a full programme of work while the creative team will set about turning the facts of climate change into a human story. It is the way we live our lives that has caused climate change and the solution to a potentially devastating reality has become a cultural challenge.

Join Cape Farewell director, David Buckland, as he talks about the upcoming ambitious expedition, showing film clips from the ice strewn 2007 east Greenland voyage on the IMAX screen and introducing the 2008 team. Professor Chris Rapley, director of the Science Museum will open the event and facilitate a question and answer session from members of the crew and from the audience.

This event will not be taking place at the Dana Centre but instead at the IMAX Theatre in the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 2DD. Please come to the Science Museum’s Group Entrance, which is located on Imperial College Road, just to the north of the main Science Museum entrance.

This event will take place in the Science Museum IMAX Theatre.

Event organised by:
The Science Museum

Speakers

Simon Boxall, National Oceanographic Centre
David Buckland, Cape Farewell
KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter
Facilitator: Chris Rapley, Science Museum Director