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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Musician

Ryuichi Sakamoto joined Cape Farewell on the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition, visiting the spectacular Disko Bay area of West Greenland with over 40 international artists, journalists and scientists.

An exclusive track by Sakamoto from the Disko Bay Expedition was featured on the free CD with the April 2009 edition of Songlines Magazine.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is an Academy Award-winning, Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo.

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The Arctic Poppy Chronicles

'The Arcic Poppy Chronicles' by Michèle Noach are to be seen at the Botanical Garden Oxford

Exploring the Oceans

Watch new Cape Farewell films on the future of the ocean.

 

Lates with Mastercard at the Science Museum, London

Cape Farewell rejoins the Lates with Mastercard at the Science Museum. Join us on Wednesday 24 April, from 6.45-10pm, for a night of entertainment, knowledge and exploration on the topic of 'Climate Science'.

Our Time In Ice

The exhibition ''Our Time in Ice' is still on until 31 May in Brighton and will be accompanied by a talk on Sat, 19th May by Michèle Noach, David Buckland and Chris Wainwright.

Phytology

An action-reserach project around wild plants and urban space in the heart of East London.

This Clement World

Cynthia Hopkins musical perfromance, 'This Clement World', is showing in New York, Feb 2013.

ADRIFT - Walks around London

Follow the ongoing inquiry of ADRIFT. This time will Cape Farewell’s poet in residence, Tom Chivers, walk with us through London. Find out more ›

Creative Time Reports

Cape Farewell is contributing monthly a short film to Creative Time Reports; a dynamic multimedia website featuring artists around the world actively engaging in and commenting on the most pressing issues of our time.  

Iceberg through the porthole of the Grigory Mikheev in Disko Bay
Icebergs photographed from the deck of the Grigory Mikheev as we approach Disko Bay
Ryuichi Sakamoto at the mouth of Sermeg Avangnardleq Glacier
Geoscientist Carol Cotterill looks at layers of sediments under the sea bed in Disko Bay in the survey profiles completed during the expedition
Walking on Little Eqe, near the mouth of the Disko Bay ice fjord
Justifying Bad Behaviour, an artwork by Francesca Galeazzi created during the expedition
Godhavn shore littered with ice
Uummannaq, the most northerly settlement we visited during the expedition
Ryuichi Sakamoto records sound at the mouth of Sermeg Avangnardleq Glacier
David Buckland, Martha Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Vanessa Carlton
Oceanographer Emily Venables deploys the Argo float, a remote unit programmed to follow and monitor the West Greenland Current
Artwork by Sunand Prasad visualising the volume of one tonne of CO2, the average emission per person per month in the UK
KT Tunstall and Oceanographer Emily Venables review maps of the Disko Bay area during the expedition
Disko Bay

Ryuichi Sakamoto at the mouth of Sermeg Avangnardleq Glacier