University of the Trees [UOT]
Up and coming events July, August, September 2015
UOT-KASSEL Microlab for New Thinking and an Eco-Social Future
a/ Earth Forum and Field of Commitment
Fritzlaw -Kassel Region
31 July [for local community group]
b/ Earth Forum – Lutherplatz
Saturday 1 August: Contact Karsten Winnemuth
c/ University of the Trees – Field of Commitment
Forsfeldgarten
Sunday 2 August Contact Karsten Winnemuth
d/University of the Trees – Field of Commitment
Thomas Hoeffer/Kunstwerkstatt-Kassel
Monday 3 August 10 am
UOT-BERLIN
a/ Collaboration with Citizen Art Days
28/29/30 August 2015
See Program details and booking
b/ Earth Forum for Citizen Art Days
Monday 31 August 2015
For details and booking
c/ Reflections on Earth Forum and UOT
Wed 2 September 2015
Meeting with Earth Forum ‘Responsible Participants’ 19.00 – 22.00
With Shelley Sacks, Markus Stefan and Annelinde Kirchgaesser
Venue: Freies Museum, Berlin
d/ Introducing new UOT collaborative reflection process to Berlin group
Tuesday 1 Sept and Wednesday 2 Sept 2015
Working with new UOT handbooks for Earth Forum and UOT participants
With Markus Stefan, Annelinde Kirchgaesser and Shelley Sacks
Individual and small group meetings to be arranged with individuals and small groups
UOT-DRESDEN
Earth Forum and Training team of Earth Forum ‘Responsible Participants’
4-6 Sept 2015
In preparation for the UMUNDU Festival 16 -24 October 2015
http://www.umundu.de/
See below
Sarah Thorne – facilitator of the Oxford Unconditional Basic Income Group invites you all to an open meeting.
Barb Jacobson, chair of the Unconditional Basic Income EU group will join us to give a talk about her experiences in the last year and why she thinks the idea has gained so much interest in Europe in the past months.
We will be discussing a number of events, projects and plans to get involved with in the coming months.
All are welcome!
2014 May – June, Berlin [Dates to be confirmed]
Intensive Training – Earth Forum and University of the Trees ‘camp’ in Berlin
For all current ‘responsible participants’ and those who want to become involved.
Shelley Sacks in collaboration with Citizen Art Days
Full details to be announced by March
2014 May 10, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Venue: Richard Hamilton Building, MA Studio
Time: 10 – 6
All welcome. Please let us know if you’d like to come.
Email: markus.stefan@hotmail.com
2014 May 14 -16, Weekend Workshop, Emerson College, Forest Row, UK
‘Social Art: Listening to the Future and Connective Practice’
Shelley Sacks and Wolfgang Zumdick will run a social sculpture – connective practices programme at Emerson College. It includes two lectures: one on Friday evening by Shelley Sacks – and one on Saturday evening by Wolfgang Zumdick. Shelley will introduce the field of Social Sculpture with her lecture ‘Social Art: Listening to the Future and Connective Practice’. Wolfgang will speak on the connections between Steiner and Beuys – and how their ideas inform the field of social sculpture now.
On Saturday during the day, Shelley and Wolfgang will involve all workshop participants in a number of ‘connective, social sculpture practices’. Past and current Emerson students will participate and assist them with this.
These practices will highlight connections between Steiner and Joseph Beuys and how their vision of ‘social art’ or ‘social sculpture’ is being taken forward and explored through projects like University of the Trees and in the teaching programmes of the Social Sculpture Research Unit.
Wolfgang Zumdick’s lecture on Saturday night will be followed by a one hour reading from Shelley and Wolfgang’s new book – ATLAS of the Poetic Continent: Pathways to Ecological Citizenship published by Temple Lodge. (See www.social-sculpture.org/publications)
Following the reading, Shelley and Wolfgang will be available to participate in discussion about aspects of the book.
On Sunday morning from 9:30 – 12:30 we will continue our exploration of the field of social sculpture through University of the Trees and its practices, with another ‘connective practice’.
An aim of this weekend programme is to introduce contemporary developments in ‘social art’ or ‘social sculpture’ that enhance each individual’s current practice and stimulate impulses for new ways forward and some understanding of ‘connective practices’.
The programme fee for the weekend is £100 / 75 for alumni.
Accommodation and meals are available on request for an additional amount.
The course takes place in the beautiful grounds and buildings of Emerson College in Forest Row, Sussex.
The programme is open to the public as well as to Emerson students.
Enquiries
Email: yvette@emersonvisualarts.com
Phone: +44 (0)1342 822238
The booking form can be downloaded from www.emersonvisualarts.com
