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Tag: arts

Show the light: Arts centre launches community-building film festival

8 February 2016 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

This year, a key feature on the annual Geelong Sustainable Living Festival is the inaugural Geelong Environmental Film Festival (GEFF), which will be held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th of February at GPAC in Geelong. Our guests in the

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The climate fight in a nutshell

3 May 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

…or rather, in the shell of a caravan. In a caravan camouflaged as an island, that is. A Maldivian island, threatened by rising sea water levels. Currently placed on Federation Square, the pumping heart of Melbourne. By a Dane. Confused?

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Musician speaks up for her region: “Voters want clean energy”

25 November 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Mia Dyson joins local community leaders calling for clean energy. Local Geelong musician Mia Dyson has joined a long list of local leaders and celebrities in an open letter published in the Geelong Advertiser on 25 November 2014 calling on

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Change will come from the ground up

10 November 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On 29 November 2014, residents in Victoria will be voting on who should be their leaders in government. In this and the following Sustainable Hours, we look into what this means. Today we talk with two artists about the topic:

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Adelaide art prize and exhibition to promote climate awareness

3 May 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters

In Adelaide, Australia’s fifth-largest city with 1.3 million residents, 51 artists submitted 66 different works for the fifth Solar Art Prize which offered a first prize of AUS$ 8,000 worth of solar panels, along with four minor prizes of AUS$

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Responding to climate change: introducing the ‘nanooks’ of Geelong

2 April 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Okay. So the news is out. ‘Climate change – it’s here’. Front cover headlines. ‘UN: Climate change threatens billions of people’. For a day, the release of the latest UN-report gave climate change a comeback on the front pages of

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The role of arts and icons in times of crisis

20 February 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On 19 February 2013, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse looked into what the role of arts and icons could in times of crisis – the climate change crisis as well as the employment crisis which Geelong’s residents are

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Uprise among artists against ‘dirty oil money’

30 August 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs One comment

Art and oil. More and more artists are starting to speak up against the fossil fuel industry. While students are putting pressure on their colleges and universities to divest – dis-invest – in fossil fuel projects, others are putting pressure

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Authors and global warming: why don’t they care?

26 February 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Recommendation One comment

Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder is out with a new book, ‘Anna – A fable about the Earth’s climate and environment’. Fiction, in other words, about climate change. Something we haven’t seen much of among international bestsellers til this date. But,

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Maldives enters art space

18 February 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs

Disappearance as ‘work in progress’: The Maldives is estimated to disappear under the ocean in the year 2080. Think about it. Here is this beautiful island country – the planet’s lowest country, rising an average of 1.5 meter above the

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