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Last chance to see Carbon 12
Category: News Posted: 22 August 2012
Don't miss Cape Farewell's Carbon 12, an exciting mix of art commissions encompassing biodiversity, atmospherics and oceanography — earth, wind and sea. Five artists who have worked with climate scientists exhibit their artworks alongside the scientific enquiry. The exhibition runs until 16 Sept 2012 at the Espace Foundation EDF, Paris.
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Lates with MasterCard at the Science Museum, London
Category: News Posted: 20 August 2012
Cape Farewell joins the Lates at the Science Museum. Join us on Wednesday 26 September, from 6.45-10pm, for a night of entertainment, knowledge and exploration on the topic of 'Climate Science'.
‘Particle’ (Things Unseen)
Category: News Posted: 03 August 2012
Solo exhibition by Anne Bevan with Shetland Arts (Bonhoga Gallery) and the Shetland Museum and Archive (Pier Store). Exhibition runs 3 August - 16 September 2012. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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Talk on 'Climate is Culture'
Category: News Posted: 02 August 2012
David Buckland speaks on 20 September about climate and culture at the University of East Anglia. 
Ditty Boxes
Category: News Posted: 01 August 2012
Shetland/Orkney sculptor John Cumming and Shetland furniture maker Cecil Tait collaborate on Ditty Boxes, an installation based on the hand-made sailors’ boxes designed to hold treasured possessions on hazardous ocean voyages. Showing at Shetland Museum and Archives, 7 – 28 Aug 2012. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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Topologies of Air / Ruith Na Gaoithe
Category: News Posted: 01 August 2012
Exhibition by Shona Illingworth at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist, showing throughout August 2012. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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ADRIFT at The Developing City
Category: News Posted: 01 August 2012
See Cape Farewell's Climate Poet in residence Tom Chivers on 24 & 25 August at The Walbrook Building, London EC4. 
Bird Yarns
Category: Events Posted: 27 July 2012
Bird Yarns comes to Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, 26-27 September 2012. Followed by a showing at the Luminate Festival, Glasgow, 5-28 October. The project brings knitters from Mull and across the UK together with textile artist Deirdre Nelson in response to the changing migration patterns of seabirds across Scotland’s islands. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds)
Category: Events Posted: 16 July 2012
Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds), a performance for multiple voices by composer and artist Hanna Tuulikki, to be presented at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, 2, 6 September and 17 November 2012. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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It’s the Skin You’re Living In
Category: Events Posted: 10 July 2012
A multi-format film project by David Harradine / Fevered Sleep, 'It's the Skin You're Living in', is to be seen in Glasgow, 20-25 November at Tramway. The work is exploring and challenging existing images of climate change. A miniature multi-screen installation version will be travelling the UK from late 2012. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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Mapping the Sea: Barra
Category: News Posted: 10 July 2012
A project by Glasgow artist Stephen Hurrel, in collaboration with Barra fishermen. Drawing on local knowledge of uncharted coastal and maritime topography, this project explore the relationship between language and landforms, and the intimate relationship between people and place. Stephen is also collaborating on a project with social ecologist Ruth Brennan (SAMS) and Iain Mackinnon (Scottish Crofting Federation). As part of this, a free publication Dùthchas na Mara/Dúchas na Mara/Belonging to the Sea, was launched at Barra Community Hall on 15 August 2012. Both projects are part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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360° film at the Cultural Olympia Maritime Mix
Category: News Posted: 06 July 2012
Footage from the sea makes it onto a 360 degree screen as part of the Cultural Olympia from 26 July to 9 September. 
ADRIFT at Eden Project
Category: News Posted: 05 July 2012
City poet Tom Chivers carries out a personal interrogation of climate through poetry. 
Living in a disappearing place?
Category: News Posted: 26 June 2012
Please add to the work 'A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting' by Amy Balkin. 
Season of events: Sea Change 2012
Category: Events Posted: 06 June 2012
Cape Farewell’s Sea Change is a four-year programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles. In 2012-13, artists will work with local communities and scientists across the islands and on the mainland to produce workshops, work-in-progress presentations and exhibitions of new work across all art forms. Click to view featured Sea Change 2012 projects and events.
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Oliver Rowe - pop-up café
Category: News Posted: 01 June 2012
Celebrity chef Oliver Rowe cooks local produce in a pop-up café on Tobermory Beach this summer. Look out for him on Friday 22 June, from 12pm until the tide comes in. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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The Walk from the Garden
Category: News Posted: 22 May 2012
Jonathan Dove presents his new church opera at the Salisbury International Arts Festival. 
RPS Awards Shortlist
Category: News Posted: 02 May 2012
Tim Sutton’s Unplugged, Winning the Clay has been shortlisted for an RPS Award
Poetry by Nick Drake
Category: News Posted: 29 March 2012
Acclaimed author and Cape Farwell voyagers Nick Drake, launches his new collection of poetry, The Farewell Glacier. The poems grew out of his journey to the Arctic. 
Na Fir Chlis / Aurora Borealis
Category: News Posted: 01 March 2012
Rody Gorman presents Na Fir Chlis (Aurora Borealis): Port nan Ròn, a collection of Gaelic poems inspired by Cape Farewell’s Scottish Islands Expedition at SAMS Festival of the Sea, Oban, 21 May. Or if you miss the festival see them at An Tobar, Mull, 21 - 24 June 2012. Part of Cape Farewell's Sea Change programme.
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