Bindarri Australian Creatives for Positive Change

Thursday November 24th at 5pm-7.30pm
Supper Room
Melbourne Town Hall
(light refreshments provided)
FREE ENTRY
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TippingPoint Australia and Melbourne Conversations, the City of Melbourne’s free conversation programinvite you to join with some of Melbourne and Copenhagen’s most exciting cultural innovators as they discuss how they see the artists in their cities respond to the challenge of environmental sustainability. Contribute to the Café Conversations style evening and have interactive creative conversations on the issues they raise. 
The speakers:
Miyuki Jokiranta is Founding Director of the art and sustainability festival ‘seven thousand oaks’, and is a radio maker, linguist and cultural researcher.
Martin Mulligan  is Director at RMIT Globalism Research Centre. In conducting research on the challenges facing local communities from Australia to Sri Lanka and India, he has  developed new ways of thinking about the sociology of community in the contemporary world and cultural adaptation to climate change at the level of local communities.
Katrine Vejby is Founding Festival director of co2penhagen, which began in 2010 and was powered entirely by pedal power. Prior to this she was a radio producer (BBC) and journalist.
Karen Blincoe is a graphic designer, environmentalist and educationalist. She is the founder and director of the ICIS Centre in Denmark, the recently established international centre for creativity, innovation and sustainability.  Karen is interested in human and environmental issues both professionally and privately (participating via skype).
 
facilitated by Angharad Wynne-Jones, Director of TippingPoint Australia.
 
 
Following short presentations by our 4 speakers you are invited to participate in a series of lively interactive round tables discussing questions such as:

in a world where we are required to reimagine all of our relationships what is the new role for artists?
what is the potential for relationships between artists and urban communities in rehearsing  and creating a sustainable future?
are there critical points in our cultural, social and economic systems that can be activated to enable systemic change? 
what can artists do that politicians can’t or won’t do?
how important is art and culture in motivating and activating behavior change?
This event is supported by the Danish Arts Agency and is part of a larger Danish Australian event: ‘State of Green. Join the Future. Think Denmark, Sydney and Melbourne 20-24 November 2011′.