Youth Expedition Programme
On the first Cape Farewell Art/Science Expedition in 2003, Colin Izod (ex English teacher and director of Big Heart Media) and Suba Subramaniam (ex Science teacher and co artistic director of Angika Dance company) developed an ambition to take a group of teenagers to the Arctic and in September 2007 this ambition was realised with the first Youth Expedition taking twelve students from the UK, Germany and Canada to Svalbard.
Whilst in the Arctic, the students completed landmark art and science projects and beamed back videos and blogs to their schools culminating in a live Q&A from the Arctic with each voyager and each school. Working with Creative Partnerships in England and British Council Canada, Cape Farewell have developed a 'blueprint' which summarises the youth programme of expeditions, what was the purpose, how it was achieved, what has happened since and how schools can develop creative climate change programmes based on combining arts and science within schools. This resource will soon be available online for schools worldwide to access.
In the beginning of September 2008 the second Youth Expedition Programme has been launched of Cape Farewell Canada, a Cape Farewell and British Council initiative inviting 28 young people from across the world onboard. These 28 individuals act as youth ambassadors within their schools and communities.
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Dr Tom Wakeford 2005 / 78°N 11.5°E
"Today you will have almost certainly inhaled an atom of carbon exhaled by Julius Caesar, when he uttered the question 'Et tu Brute?' to his treacherous aide. Now multiply your breathing by the respiration of every plant, fungus, bacteria, human being and other animals. You do not need a calculator to conclude that organisms have, by their very existence, exerted a powerful influence over the global climate..."
Read the full blog post by Tom Wakeford, biologist and action reserarcher, from the 2005 expedition ›
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