Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics In brief Title - Green Tease: Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics Venue - Edinburgh Climate Change Institute Speakers - Alec Finlay (poet and artist), Yulia Kovanova (artist and filmmaker), Patrick James Errington (poet, translator, and researcher), Jessica Gaitán Johannesson (writer and climate justice activist) and Martin Schauss (University of Edinburgh) Book your free ticket on Eventbrite About the event Ecopoetics is not limited to the written word; it embraces performance, visual arts, and digital media. As activists and scientists continue to highlight human and non-human problems around climate resilience and environmental justice, ecopoetic storytellers can show us how our experience of art is also about energy, managing resources, and ethical responsibility. Bringing together poets, artists and researchers, this Green Tease event will provide an interactive and inclusive space for discussion and creative expression on how we might use ecopoetics to cultivate everyday resilience in the face of climate crisis. It invites a discussion on the importance of experimental environmental storytelling and ecopoetic practices that can help build climate resilience. Together, we explore how ecopoets are creating innovative and immersive storytelling that push audiences to reflect and react to ecological issues by transforming our ways of thinking and living. This event is created in collaboration between Martin Schauss, a researcher in literature and ecology at the University of Edinburgh and Creative Carbon Scotland, and is a part of the Green Tease programme that promotes how the arts and culture can transform society in response to climate change. On the day, Lighthouse Bookshop will be selling books within the theme of ecopoetics and environmental storytelling. Find out more about Green Tease events About the speakers Alec Finlay Alec Finlay is a poet and artist based in Edinburgh. Since 2005 he has specialised in the relationship between renewable energy and ecopoetics, creating some of the UK’s first renewable artworks, including poem-windmill turbines. He has published three books mapping energy landscapes and tidal-poetics, ebban an flowan, minnmouth (tide-songs), and broken flowers. His talk will relfect upon place-awareness and ecopoetics as approaches to the mapping and meanings of ancient and contemporary energy resources. Yulia Kovanova and Patrick James Errington Yulia Kovanova is a Scotland-based artist and BAFTA Scotland-nominated filmmaker working across a range of media, including sculpture, installation and film. Patrick James Errington is a multi-award-winning poet, translator, and researcher. His most recent poetry collection, the swailing, came out in April 2023. Yulia and Patrick will introduce work from their mixed media collaborations, focusing on ecological precarity, resilience, and multispecies relationships. Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Jessica Gaitán Johannesson is a Swedish/Colombian writer and climate justice organiser based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel How We Are Translated (2021) was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. She works as Digital Campaigns Manager for Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop and currently organises with Climate Camp Scotland Jessica will speak about the sometimes conflicted relationship between storytelling and activism, and how they can nurture each other. Martin Schauss Martin Schauss is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and focuses on literature and ecology, asking how we read and represent materiality, human and nonhuman environments, waste, energy and resources. He will introduce his current research project, “Intermedial Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Ecological Imaginaries and Place-making in ‘the North’”. With the project, Martin looks at how ecopoetic storytelling combines different media, from poetry to visual arts, digital platforms and more, to try and connect issues like environmental justice, climate activism, energy transition, and decolonisation. At the centre of the project lies the question of how we communicate with public audiences to transform ways of thinking and living. Read Martin's staff profile How to attend This is an in-person event held at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute. It is free to attend and open to all. You will need to reserve your space by booking a free ticket on Eventbrite. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite Related links Visit Creative Carbon Scotland's website Visit Lighthouse Bookshop's website May 31 2023 14.00 - 17.00 Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics Join us for this in-person event as part of the Green Tease programme to invite a discussion on the importance of innovative and experimental environmental storytelling. Edinburgh Climate Change Institute High School Yards Infirmary Street University of Edinburgh EH1 1LZ Find the venue Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics In brief Title - Green Tease: Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics Venue - Edinburgh Climate Change Institute Speakers - Alec Finlay (poet and artist), Yulia Kovanova (artist and filmmaker), Patrick James Errington (poet, translator, and researcher), Jessica Gaitán Johannesson (writer and climate justice activist) and Martin Schauss (University of Edinburgh) Book your free ticket on Eventbrite About the event Ecopoetics is not limited to the written word; it embraces performance, visual arts, and digital media. As activists and scientists continue to highlight human and non-human problems around climate resilience and environmental justice, ecopoetic storytellers can show us how our experience of art is also about energy, managing resources, and ethical responsibility. Bringing together poets, artists and researchers, this Green Tease event will provide an interactive and inclusive space for discussion and creative expression on how we might use ecopoetics to cultivate everyday resilience in the face of climate crisis. It invites a discussion on the importance of experimental environmental storytelling and ecopoetic practices that can help build climate resilience. Together, we explore how ecopoets are creating innovative and immersive storytelling that push audiences to reflect and react to ecological issues by transforming our ways of thinking and living. This event is created in collaboration between Martin Schauss, a researcher in literature and ecology at the University of Edinburgh and Creative Carbon Scotland, and is a part of the Green Tease programme that promotes how the arts and culture can transform society in response to climate change. On the day, Lighthouse Bookshop will be selling books within the theme of ecopoetics and environmental storytelling. Find out more about Green Tease events About the speakers Alec Finlay Alec Finlay is a poet and artist based in Edinburgh. Since 2005 he has specialised in the relationship between renewable energy and ecopoetics, creating some of the UK’s first renewable artworks, including poem-windmill turbines. He has published three books mapping energy landscapes and tidal-poetics, ebban an flowan, minnmouth (tide-songs), and broken flowers. His talk will relfect upon place-awareness and ecopoetics as approaches to the mapping and meanings of ancient and contemporary energy resources. Yulia Kovanova and Patrick James Errington Yulia Kovanova is a Scotland-based artist and BAFTA Scotland-nominated filmmaker working across a range of media, including sculpture, installation and film. Patrick James Errington is a multi-award-winning poet, translator, and researcher. His most recent poetry collection, the swailing, came out in April 2023. Yulia and Patrick will introduce work from their mixed media collaborations, focusing on ecological precarity, resilience, and multispecies relationships. Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Jessica Gaitán Johannesson is a Swedish/Colombian writer and climate justice organiser based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel How We Are Translated (2021) was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. She works as Digital Campaigns Manager for Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop and currently organises with Climate Camp Scotland Jessica will speak about the sometimes conflicted relationship between storytelling and activism, and how they can nurture each other. Martin Schauss Martin Schauss is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and focuses on literature and ecology, asking how we read and represent materiality, human and nonhuman environments, waste, energy and resources. He will introduce his current research project, “Intermedial Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Ecological Imaginaries and Place-making in ‘the North’”. With the project, Martin looks at how ecopoetic storytelling combines different media, from poetry to visual arts, digital platforms and more, to try and connect issues like environmental justice, climate activism, energy transition, and decolonisation. At the centre of the project lies the question of how we communicate with public audiences to transform ways of thinking and living. Read Martin's staff profile How to attend This is an in-person event held at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute. It is free to attend and open to all. You will need to reserve your space by booking a free ticket on Eventbrite. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite Related links Visit Creative Carbon Scotland's website Visit Lighthouse Bookshop's website May 31 2023 14.00 - 17.00 Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics Join us for this in-person event as part of the Green Tease programme to invite a discussion on the importance of innovative and experimental environmental storytelling. Edinburgh Climate Change Institute High School Yards Infirmary Street University of Edinburgh EH1 1LZ Find the venue Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
May 31 2023 14.00 - 17.00 Reimagining Climate Resilience through Ecopoetics Join us for this in-person event as part of the Green Tease programme to invite a discussion on the importance of innovative and experimental environmental storytelling.
