Future

We are currently in the process of developing the 2008 - 2011 strategic plan.  This document will direct our work over the next 3 years and ensure that we do what we say we are trying to do.  Once it is published it will be available to download on our website.

All of our future work is dependent on raising the finances to complete it. If you would like to offer your support to Cape Farewell please contact the office for more information on our corporate sponsorship and donations programme.

We know that our future programme will contain an elements of exploration, creation and communication.  A few of our future projects include:

Expeditions

September 2008 - In September the fifth Art/Science expedition will explore the west coast of Greenland. In collaboration with the British Council, Canada we are also launching our second youth expedition, taking 28 young people from across the world to experience the High Arctic.

2009 onwards - future expedition locations currently under discussion include the Amazon (Cloud Forests) and North-East Passage (Russian Arctic).

The Art Programme

Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change 

Our international tour of the exhibition Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change continues to the Miraikan, Tokyo - Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and innovation in July 2008.  The exhibition is expected to tour for 5 years with interest from a host of international venues.

Eden Project Collaboration

Cape Farewell continues to work with the creative team at the Eden Project to inform and feed into their creative programme. One year into our collaboration with the Eden Project and following a successful placing of work across the site during winter 07/08 we are gearing up for further Winter Season installations in 2008. Once again, in the winter months Cape Farewell artworks will be shown across site and performances will take place in the Biomes.

Over the summer season in 2008 and during the September 2008 expeditions website portals promoting/presenting the autumn voyages will be installed on site.  We are working with the Eden Project to choose a student from the Cornish area to take part in the 2008 youth expedition.

A series of residencies will be launched in the winter time, giving Cape Farewell artists the opportunity to engage with the Eden site at their own pace and in a quiet and focussed way. We have coined this the Slow Art Programme. Work emerging from these residencies will be brought into Cape Farewell presentations during Eden’s summer and winter seasons.

Southbank Centre Residency

Our three-year residency continues with ongoing contributions to the Southbank’s Learning & Participation activities. These include small interventions such as hosting a Slow Food Lunch at Southbank’s Slow Food Market, May 2008 as well as consulting on the department’s ongoing creative programming. In June we will play a part in the Symposium, The Art & Craft of Saving the World and in July we and our education team will collaborate with LIFT and Tipping Point on climate focused events when LIFT comes to the Royal Festival Hall.

With the programming teams we are planning performances, events and activities for the end of 2008 and into 2009. These will feature artists who have been on and are going on our expeditions.

Alongside our creative work we are actively contributing to the development of the Southbank Centre’s first Sustainability Plan, kick started by Tony Butler, Clore Leadership Fellow on secondment at Southbank. In 2008 its focus is to engage staff with the climate change agenda and to assess the site’s carbon footprint. 

Liverpool School of Art & Design

Cape Farewell will return to Liverpool for the third showing of its work in the city, early 2009. The exhibition will be curated by Prof. Colin Fallows, Chair of Research at Liverpool John Moore’s University and will be presented in partnership with Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moore’s University and Liverpool University. Liverpool School of Art & Design opens its new gallery January 2009 and the Cape Farewell exhibition will be the flagship presentation in this new gallery space.

Tate Britain

Tate Britain invited Cape Farewell to consult on and be a part of an AHRC funded project named The Sublime. The research project studies the way in which artists have responded to the notion of the sublime over the centuries. The project is now working with the Cape Farewell’s directorial team and artists to explore contemporary responses to the sublime. A commissioning body will be used to develop work that will help answer research questions posed by the project. The project will continue over 2008/09 and 2009/10.

Youth Programme

Education Directors Colin Izod and Suba Subramaniam have worked with Creative Partnerships in the UK and British Council in Canada to produce a climate blueprint.  This blueprint is a resource for schools, allowing individual schools to develop their own creative climate change activities. The blueprint follows the experience of the 2007 youth expedition and what happened prior to, during and after the expedition to ensure that each voyager's journey has a lasting impact on their schools and communities. Contact us or check back soon for further details.

In 2008 we will be working with the British Council, Canada to deliver the second youth expedition.