Apiary Joins Farming and Artist Communities
By Emma Orlow, Food Tank
Today, Honey Fingers, the Melbourne-based apiary run by architect Nic Dowse, carries the torch for artists interested in honey with a space for this growing community.
Tag: art as social change
If We had More Imagination, We could Have Less Capitalism
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
If we take this idea seriously, that this is an interpenetrated, interrelated, interconnected cosmos, then there’s going to be interconnections with creativity.
The Migrant Quilt: Re-Stitching the Fabric of Community
By Valarie Lee James, Open Democracy
Women on the border often have a different take on immigration issues: more of a ‘tend and befriend’ approach, a kind of common sense, needle-to-fabric mend. The responses of women to the Migrant Quilt exhibit define the soft heart of what it means to be human.
What Science Fiction Ought to Be
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
If you think there is hope for a decent future -- and I do -- then make that future come alive for your family and friends. I ask only two things: that it shows a realistic future, and that it be fun.
Hedgespoken, ‘a Vehicle for the Imagination’
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
What are the unhealthy stories that we tell now? The story of unlimited growth. The story that we are separate. Any number of stories about who we are and our place in the world, and what it means to be alive.
Medusa’s Curse: The Necessity of Art in the Climate Struggle
By Kathleen Dean Moore, Resilience.org
Because I am a literary writer, writing about climate justice, people often ask me, What is the importance of the arts in the climate struggle? I turn to Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth century German philosopher. “We have art in order not to die of the truth,” he wrote.
Everything that Rises must Converge
By Charlotte Du Cann, Charlotte Du Cann blog
In a time of fall and fragmentation , if you are wise, you do not look for the powerful Ones with their faraway promises and angry rhetoric. What you find yourself searching for is something real, something coherent, something you can count on -- your relationship with fabric of things, a certain meaning that comes from the natural world, held instinctively in the forms of creatures and plants.
Post Present Future
By Ruth Cross, Transition Network
I have been running POST PRESENT FUTURE for almost a decade. It’s a simple project where I invite people to write a letter to their future – anything they want as long as it’s to themselves – which they receive in the post five years later. It’s like an alternative post service – just with a five-year delay.
The Crisis of What Comes Next
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
We’re in a systemic crisis. Because stories are not told well, and haven’t been told well by probably you and I at times, and certainly by the green movement, we’ve told some of the wrong stories, and that hasn’t helped people to engage with the biggest problems we’ve got.
“We’re a Movement, not Just a Magazine”
By Kylie Noble, Open Democracy
Can the arts stimulate new ways of living in old mining communities like Doncaster? Aided by a small team of part-time staff and many volunteers, a regular print magazine, festivals, events, campaigns, meet-ups and exhibitions have all been spawned from Doncopolitan’s co-working space office on Copley Road.