Cape Farewell at Southbank
Three Year Residency
August 2007 - July 2010
Southbank Centre, London
In August 2007, Cape Farewell began its three year artists residency at the Southbank Centre. Cape Farewell will operate as a cultural eco-hub at the heart of the centre's creative climate change initiatives. Watch this space or sign up to the mailing list to receive details of future events at Southbank Centre.
Slow Food Lunch Club
2 May 2008
During the Southbank Centre's Slow Food Market, Cape Farewell joined forces with the Slow Food London team to prepare a sustainable fish lunch. Alongside delicious food and armed with eco-friendly marker pens, fellow lunchers scribbled thoughts onto table-cloths on the benefits of slowing things down.
Christmas at Southbank Centre
18 December 2007 - 5 January 2008
Over the Christmas period a selection of Max Eastley’s Arctic sounds play in the Royal Festival Hall's ballroom as part of their Christmas installation. As part of a collection of fairy tales read by resident artists at Southbank Centre, a recording by Vicky Long of Oscar Wild's Selfish Giant - a cautionary tale about the need to care for each-other and the environment - can be heard in the Story Telling Chairs installation in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, 18 December 2007 to 5 January 2008.
Live Arctic Link
September - October 2007
voyage.capefarewell.com
Southbank Centre, London
Eden Project, Cornwall
A graphic exhibition and video portal at Southbank Centre and the Eden Project followed both the Arctic crews, mapping the journeys and providing a live link to the voyages. Visitors to the Royal Festival Hall, Eden Project and the voyage websites watched the voyages unfold via daily video reports, blogs, and images of the art, science and increasing effects of climate change in the Arctic.
Enter the 2007 Voyage website ›
Voyages Launch Event
Sunday 9th September 2007, Southbank Centre
3pm Gamelan, Sea Shanties and Film in the Royal Festival Hall
4pm Compèred by comedian Marcus Brigstocke
5pm Youth Team Launch at Festival Pier, Southbank Centre
The expedition launch - at Southbank Centre on Sunday 9 September - was hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke in the Royal Festival Hall, with a special maritime send off for the students down the Thames. Musicians, singers, the Cape Farewell youth team and artists past and present joined David Buckland, founder and director of Cape Farewell, Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre and Professor Mark Maslin to celebrate the voyage launch. The event was part of Southbank Centre's environment weekend Saving Paradise, that began on Saturday 8 September with Paco Pena's Requiem For the Earth and Gamelan Wayang, an all-night session of traditional Javanese storytelling, shadow puppetry and music.
See images from the launch ›
Jude Kelly, Southbank Centre
“Nothing is more important than our planet, and we all responsible for its welfare: we are already beginning to experience the catastrophic effects of ignorance. But statistics and constant messages of doom are not necessarily the best way to face these challenges. I asked Cape Farewell to join us as Artists in Residence because of the important and unique work they are doing in bringing together the artistic and scientific communities in order to address issues around climate change, in highly imaginative and thought-provoking ways. Their residency is part of our vision for Southbank Centre to become a place for debate through artistic encounter.”
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