The public is invited to join the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute and the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre for a free weekend seminar celebrating and showcasing eco-arts in the Blue Mountains and beyond.
Project participant Monica Nugent hugging a tree. Photo: Kate Reid.
Seminar Dates and Times:
Saturday 23 October 10am -11.30am
Sunday 24 October 10am - 11.30am
Zoom links provided via Eventbrite booking.
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute in collaboration with Blue Mountains Cultural Centre is hosting a free weekend of online seminars celebrating and showcasing the eco-arts in the Blue Mountains and beyond. These seminars will include the launch of the online Recovery exhibition - the culmination of a creative collaboration between artists, writers and local citizen scientists conducted throughout the lockdown, exploring human responses to and the recovery of our natural world after the devastating fires of 2019/20.
PROGRAM
Saturday 23 October 10am-11.30am - Planetary Health and the Arts
Exploring the big picture, this session examines the theoretical and the philosophical importance of the arts in communicating ecological science.
Confirmed Presenters and Panellists:
David King, son of Aunty Mary King, Gundungurra Aboriginal elder, and member of The Gully Traditional Owners: Welcome and acknowledgements.
Lis Bastian, Blue Mountains City Council: The role of arts in the Planetary Health Initiative
Sabrina Roesner, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre: Embedding eco sustainability within the arts
David Curtis, Eco Arts Australis, Ecologist and Musician: The role of the arts in shaping environmental behaviour
Barbara Lepani, Social and Cultural Innovator: The Wild Mountain Collective, Building on the Songlines Tradition of Australia’s First Nation’s Cultures.
Paul Brown, Arts Program Leader Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute: Arts-Science-Environment; Methodologies, BMWHI Eco-Arts initiative and Recovery Project
Bonita Ely, Interdisciplinary Artist, Associate Professor UNSW: Without Water There is No Life
Sunday 24 October 10am - 11:30am - The Eco-Arts in Practice
A showcase of ecological art from practitioners in the Blue Mountains and beyond, including an exploration of works from the BMWHI Recovery creative arts project.
Confirmed Presenters and Panellists:
Ian RT Colless, First Nations Artist and Dancer from the Dharabuladh (Therabluat) clan of the Gundungurra people: The relationship between Country, culture, arts & self.
Cheryle Yin-Lo, Photographer, Printmaker and Community Cultural Development Worker: The Power of Creative Arts in Combined Environmental Knowledge making
Jon Rose, Musician, Artist and recipient of the Don Banks Award: Great Fences of Australia.
Freedom Wilson, Printmaker, Artist, Collaborator: Mapping Ecological Change With Printmaking & The Recovery Print Project collaboration.
Ian Brown OAM, Photographer, National Fire Medal recipient & former National Parks fire manager: Nature photography as dissent
Hollis Taylor, Zoömusicologist, and Ornithologist, ARC Future Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Absolute Bird, Celebrating Avian Aesthetics
Penelope Cain, Artist with a research science background, working interdisciplinary at the science-art interstitium: Lyrebirds, The song historians