About the Expeditions
Since 2003, Cape Farewell has led seven expeditions to the Arctic. Our first Youth Expedition and fourth Art/Science Expedition launched in September 2007. Each expedition was spectacular and unique in its own way. The Art/Science Expedition was an epic journey sailing over 1800 nautical miles, whilst the youth expedition took twelve students from the UK, Germany and Canada to the High Arctic to complete landmark art and science projects.
In September 2008, Cape Farewell returned to Greenland, furthering our knowledge of this Arctic region but visiting the west coast for the first time, with two expeditions – a Youth Expedition run in collaboration with the British Council, Canada and our fifth Art/Science Expedition.
The aim of each expedition is to inspire the artists, musicians, play-writes, comics, educators, teachers and young people who travel with us to respond in some way and make work which engages audiences with climate change and ultimately help achieve a cultural shift that embraces sustainable lifestyles.
Our previous work with artists and writers has had a considerable cultural impact leading to a substantial body of artworks, publications and our first film. Each of the artists Cape Farewell engages has the potential to add to the evolution of a new creative and cultural language, communicating to new audiences and building towards a critical mass of awareness.
Aims
- Cape Farewell aims to bring education, science and the arts together through adventure and environmental awareness.
- Undertake a virtual and physical voyage to the Arctic, the place at the heart of the climate change debate
- Disseminate current thinking and information about ocean science to as broad a public as possible through science, arts, education and the media
- Employ the web and a rich variety of media to excite the public into a deeper understanding of ocean currents and their direct relationship to global warming
- Work with scientific community to develop new ways to communicate recent oceanographic discoveries utilising interactive web design, video graphics and games and artistic projects
- Work with artists to produce powerful visual events to capture public attention and inform
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Dr Valborg Byfield 2003 / 78°N 11.5°E
"Because Ny-Ålesund is far away from cities, roads and air traffic, the measurements made there shows you what happens in the Earth's atmosphere as a whole. When scientists detect an increase in carbon dioxide in the air on Mount Zeppelin, it is because global carbon dioxide levels have increased - not just that people locally are burning a little more fossil fuels than usual..."
Read the full blog post by oceanographer Valborg Byfield from the 2003 expedition ›
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