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A Simple Response to an Elemental Message

30 Nov - 31 Dec 2015 · Tags: action, COP21, events, family, public art

Paul Quast (artist) & numerous international scientific collaborators. · This is an online, global project open to public participation via the interface/website. Project office is based within Edinburgh. · Midlothian, Scotland.
A Simple Response is a non-for-profit, culturally-inspired, Interstellar Radio Message due to be transmitted from Earth in 2016. The transmissions content will be comprised of global public participation/ responses to the simple question; "How will our present, collective environmental interactions shape the future?"

South Pole Communion

06 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, Faith, family, music

Bishop Peter Eaton · Milander Center for Arts and Entertainment · FL
The Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida will host several events as a faith-based response to environmental issues by the Paris Talks.

The Blue Whale

30 Nov - 11 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, events, exhibition, family, installation, Paris, talks, workshop

Installation · Port du Gros Caillou · Paris
On the occasion of COP21 and to raise public awareness of biodiversity issues and the protection of species, the association "A gift for the Earth" exhibit a blue whale 33.60 meters in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015.

The White Wood Story

03 Nov 2015 - 27 Jan 2016 · Tags: COP21, family, performance, theater

Ben Macfadyen and Deveron Arts · Deveron Arts · Aberdeenshire
The tale of a town, a wood and a journey for peace and climate action. The White Wood Story is a project to tell the myth of a newly planted peace wood; a conference to connect the community of Huntly with COP21; and a cycling journey of an oak sapling to be planted in Paris...

This afternoon, we improvise…

12 - 13 Dec 2015 · Tags: Centre Pompidou, family, performance, workshop

Performance · Centre Pompidou · France
THE CASE OF THE BAG!

Telling the Bees

14 Nov 2015 · Tags: COP21, events, family, performance, public art, workshop

Shadow theater · Mülikoasahof · Haag am Hausruck
Telling the Bees is an environmental theater art project, conceived and developed by Sina Heiss and Gabrielle Sinclair. The structure of the project invites for creative synergies between artists and audience to raise awareness about environmental issues.

Digital Workshop for Children: Audio and Sensory Immersion

17 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, digital, family, Paris

Mixage Fou / Francoise Anger · Médiathèque Goutte d'or · Ile de France
Digital workshop for children / sea ice

NUMOK Workshop sound immersion Festival

Media Goutte d'Or Paris 75018

Saturday, October 17 10h30-11h children 1 to 2 years

11h15 - 12h children 2-3 years

Free / booking advisable

INVITATION: Walking the Solar System

28 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, performance, public art

John Reid, with 516 ARTS & University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts · Albuquerque Civic Plaza · NM
Join visiting artist John Reid (Emeritus Fellow of The Australian National University), UNM Land Arts of the American West students and community members to create Walk the Solar System on Civic Plaza in Downtown Albuquerque.

7 squares in…

17 Oct - 06 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, performance, public art, theater

Performance · 7 praças em São João del Rei e Rio de Janeiro · Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro
Community-based artivist performance action designed to raise people’s awareness about sustainability and the climate change taking place in seven squares of the cities of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Nuit Blanche

03 - 04 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, events, family, festival, Paris, public art, visual art

Festival · Nord parisien · Paris
Each year, "Nuit Blanche" celebrates contemporary art by bringing together, from dusk to dawn, dozens of artists and hundreds of thousands of visitors. In 2015, the artistic director José Manuel Gonçalves, promises to organise an exciting edition entitled "Atmosphere ? Atmosphere...!"

Building a Different Story

30 - 31 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, education, events, family, talks, workshop

Leeds Tidal · Woodhouse Community Centre · Leeds
Building a Different Story for Global Justice
Shared lunch, workshops, speakers, art, kids space

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Performance

Waves

01 Nov 2015 · Tags: COP21, events, family, performance, theater

Theater · Theatre Laboratory 5D14, Massey Wellington · Wellington
Provocative new short plays by international and local playwrights for Climate Change Theatre Action (#‎ClimateChangeTheatreAction‬). 1pm to 2pm in Theatre Lab 5D14, Massey University Wellington. Free: all welcome.

Futures for Sale

05 Dec 2015 · Tags: Cambridge, COP21, events, family, poetry, theater, visual art

Festival · Mill Road Winter Fair · Cambridgeshire
5 Actors. 5 Futures. Which will you buy? Engage with our future characters - Altec Solutions, Big Carbon, 10StepsBack, WildCard and Mother Gaia at the Mill Road Winter Fair as they sell possible futures. Does what you do and buy affect the future?

Selamat Pagi

25 Oct - 25 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, talks, workshop, youth

Meeting · Kelanduan River · Sleman, Yogyakarta
Selamat Pagi will not be opening a ticketing for the event. Visitors will be asked to contribute through purchase of merchandise by JR Youth Coop. The contribution will be used for the sustainability of the event.

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Time To Cycle

06 - 11 Dec 2015 · Tags: action, activism, COP21, events, family

Action · Trafalgar Square · London
Go by bike to the COP21 summit in Paris this December!

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Mini Green Parade

23 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, festival, Paris, workshop

Parade · Berges de Seine · Paris
As part of the third off of the Paris edition of the Electronic Week, a festive parade is organized to educate children in waste sorting.

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Family

Prêt à Pousser / City lab #11

24 - 27 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, education, events, family, Paris, public art, talks

City hub · Berges de Seine · Paris
From 24 to 27 September, the best place to pick mushrooms is the Berges de Seine!

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Family

The Impromptus Family

08 Nov 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, Paris, workshop

Workshop for children · Centre Pompidou / Atelier des enfants · Paris
On the first Sunday of every month the museum and the exhibition of the Children's Gallery is free, the opportunity to discover with family or friends contemporary creations in all its forms around a participatory children's workshop.

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Family

Planet Zoom

19 Dec 2015 - 02 Jan 2016 · Tags: COP21, family, Paris, workshop

Workshop · Centre Pompidou / Atelier des enfants · Paris
The Centre Pompidou joins COAL (Coalition for art and sustainable development) and invites artists to design creative workshops around the climate challenge.

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Meet COP21

26 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, events, family, Paris, public art, talks

Meetings · Berges de Seine · Paris
Throughout 2015, a series of meetings, debates and developed action on Berges de Seine around the COP 21 (housing, move, innovate, recycling ...)

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Visual Arts

Cétacé

06 Jun - 01 Nov 2015 · Tags: COP21, exhibition, family, installation, Paris, public art

Installation by The Saprophytes · Berges de Seine / Pont de la Concorde · Paris
New installation under the Sound Shower!

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People’s Climate March

29 Nov 2015 · Tags: activism, COP21, family, London

March · Trafalgar Square · London
On 29 November 2015, the day before world leaders converge in Paris, people will come together again in the streets for the global People’s Climate March – the aim being to break last year’s record for the largest climate change mobilisation in history.

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Performance

Participatory Construction Site

21 Sep - 08 Oct 2015 · Tags: architecture, COP21, family, Paris, workshop

Participatory project by Bellastock · Nanterre-préfecture · Paris
Bellastock is a collective of architects that offers a participative site for the realization of street furniture from the materials of an ephemeral work, that of Krijn de Koning, Axes, 2014.

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Film

Mobile Film Festival : Act on Climate Change

03 Nov - 07 Dec 2015 · Tags: competition, COP21, family, festival, talks, visual art

Festival · Different venues · Paris
International edition of the Mobile Film Festival in partnership with the United Nations ahead the COP21. 1 rule : 1 Mobile, 1 Minute, 1 Film. 1 theme : Act on Climate Change

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Performance

Gaia Global Circus

01 - 04 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, Paris, performance, theater

Theatre - Company AccenT · Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne CDN · Dijon
Speaking of climate change through theater, to engage the public with the great questions of the COP 21, not to mention a touch of humor - that is the objective of Gaia Global Circus.

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Readings from “A Change is Coming” Children’s Storybooks

21 - 26 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, education, events, family, literature, performance, Reading

Readings · Global Village Google+ Hangout · Global Village
Live online readings from the first five Climate Adapt Abilities series where Young children from 5 - 8 years of age can read about 5 Animal Adaptables who are seeking new places to live and play. Interpreted in 7 Major Languages for Free distribution to schools and community groups.

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Extreme Whether: A New American Climate Drama

10 - 12 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, Paris, performance, theater

Theater Three Collaborative, USA, & Cie De Facto, Switzerland · Le Pave d'Orsay & Les Fondation des Etats-Unis · Paris
“Extreme Whether” a new American climate drama based on the lives and work of major climate scientists called “provocative and brave,” “laced with humor and danger” in the New York Times will have 3 staged readings in French and English, Dec. 10, 11,12.

For EartH’s sake!

For EartH’s sake!

06 - 08 Nov 2015 · Tags: China, COP21, events, exhibition, family, festival, film, performance, public art, theater, visual art, workshop

Exhibitions, screenings, workshops · Centre international des arts 403 · Wuhan
With exhibitions, movie projections, testimonies, training workshops and artistic exchanges and experimentations, this exceptional event will be open to all and offer new ways to understand the complexity of the climate challenge. It will help us to prepare together for our common future by presenting a multitude of views and innovative creative methods.

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The Apocalypse Project: House of Futures

21 Sep 2015 - 15 Apr 2016 · Tags: COP21, digital, exhibition, family, fashion, installation, Palo Alto

Exhibition by Catherine Young · Future Gallery · Palo Alto
What does the future look like under climate change? The Apocalypse Project: House of Futures is a 7-month exhibition at the Future Gallery of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto that explores our environmental futures through the lens of high fashion.

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Lets Join Up and Speak Out about Climate Change!

14 Aug 2015 - 15 Jun 2016 · Tags: community, COP21, events, family, public art

Patchwork · Waking Up to Climate Change · Darlington
Help make a giant patchwork quilt to raise awareness of climate change. Get creative with fabric pens, crayons, paints, glue, & sewing! Or look after a blanket and help tell its story! Open to anyone, any age, anywhere!

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FutureCoast

26 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, digital, exhibition, family, game, installation, performance, public art

Project · Onca Centre for Arts and Ecology · Brighton
FutureCoast project launch : We're trying to hear our futures and we need your help.

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Performance

Science in The Sky

21 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, imagination, immersive, performance, theater

Theater by the Drawn to Stars Theatre Company · Baptist Church · Tring
A theatrical performance that combines storytelling, comedy and drama to explore our relationship to climate change.

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The Oxygen Travelling Sales Team

08 - 22 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, immersive, interventions, performance, public art

Theatre · The Banks of the River Yarra · Melbourne
The Oxygen Travelling Sales Team are on the banks of the River Yarra. They’ve brought the fax machine, the water cooler and the office intern, a polar bear. Buy! Sell! Breathe! Resources are limited!

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Sustainica

02 Jun - 21 Aug 2016 · Tags: COP21, exhibition, family, festival, showcase, workshop

Art Fair · NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft · Düsseldorf
International Consumer Fair & Art Exhibition for Sustainable Lifestyle and Innovation

2-5 June 2016 DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY

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Turn off the light… Switch on Life

24 - 31 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, Uraguay, workshop

Workshops · La Foire des Lumières · San José de Mayo
Workshops for children and adults

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Harvest Festival

07 - 11 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, events, family, festival, Paris, public art, visual art

Festival · La REcyclerie · Paris
La Recyclerie joins the FDVM and offers a special program to celebrate the harvest festival

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Visual Arts

Green Memory

15 Jul - 18 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, exhibition, family, installation, Paris, public art, visual art

A work by Pascale Peyret · Eglise Saint-Merry · Paris
A futuristic model city made of memory cards at eye level, based on underground grids, from which arise the wheat growing under the effect of a sodium, light and a constant supply of water by visitors.

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The Bear

31 Aug 2015 - 30 Jun 2016 · Tags: COP21, family, Paris, performance, theater

Show by Company Reko · France · Caen
A bear wanders the ocean in search for its first love, the ice cap. Yvann (or Ivan) is an explorer, and his story will be revealed in a garden, a courtyard.

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Telling the Bees

27 Sep 2015 · Tags: community, COP21, family, performance, theater

Theater · Kinderkulturzentrum Kuddelmuddel · Linz
Telling the Bees is an environmental theater art project that deals with the vanishing of the honey bee and Colony Collapse Disorder. In a 20 minute shadow theatre excerpt, Sina Heiss and Martyna Grydlik tell a story about love, loss and bees in a joyful and meditative way. An event for the whole family!

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Visual Arts

Art Jumble of Rio de Janeiro

11 - 12 Dec 2015 · Tags: community, COP21, education, events, exhibition, family, festival, installation, visual art

Participatory event · Brésil · Rio de Janeiro
This years Art Jumble will be held in Rio de Janeiro.

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The Forest Republic

04 Nov - 20 Dec 2015 · Tags: activism, community, COP21, family, installation, Paris, public art

Urban reforestation · Zone Sensible · Paris
In continuation of its project at the Honey Bank, the collective of French artists le Parti Poétique initiates the urban reforestation program: the Forest Republic.

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Performance

Of Course Everything Goes Wrong!

09 - 10 Oct 2015 · Tags: COP21, dance, family, Paris, theater

Dance performance · CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson · Paris
"Bien sûr, les choses tournent mal". Of course everything goes wrong. With this performance for 9 dancers and musicians, Frank Micheletti translates into an artistic language the emergency of environment protection.

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Performance

It will heat

19 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, Paris, theater

Theatre - Company Naje · Base de loisirs de Cergy-Pontoise · Paris
'Ça va chauffer', a theatre show on climate change, will be performed on September 19th at 5pm at the Base de loisirs of Cergy-Pontoise.

The play is an opportunity to understand the issues and to try to make things change in every day life.

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Nature’s Way – Skördefest ! Harvest Festival, Swedish Style

26 Sep 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, nature, Paris

Festival · Institut suédois · Paris
The Swedish Institute and Museum of Hunting and Nature invite you to an afternoon and an evening devoted to nature : Participatory harvest, children's workshops , visit to the exhibition , round table discussions and tasting. A cultural program and sensory delight for the whole family !

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Andrea Polli’s Particle Falls

06 Nov - 13 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, family, immersive, installation, Paris

Installation · Mona Bismarck American Center · Paris
While the world will turn its attention to Paris in December 2015, for the 21st UN Conference on Climate Change, COP21, the Mona Bismarck American Center presents Particle Falls Andrea Polli, a reactive projection quality based on air pollution levels.

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Visual Arts

In the “Green” Museum

03 Dec 2015 · Tags: exhibition, family, museum, Paris, Tour

Visit · Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature · Paris
At a time when the museum is closed, a group of privileged visitors (re)discover places through a VIP visit, off the beaten track.

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Wild Shadows

04 Nov - 16 Dec 2015 · Tags: COP21, exhibition, family, Paris, theater

Workshop · Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature · Paris
Two workshops for children to discover biodiversity through the art of shadow theater.

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Visual Arts

Animals of the Winter

05 Dec 2015 · Tags: exhibition, family, museum, Paris

Visit · Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature · Paris
A story visit to the permanent collections of the Museum of Hunting and Nature

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TEZA

20 - 29 Nov 2015 · Tags: community, COP21, digital, events, family, performance, programme

Project · Letting Space · Wellington
TEZA (the Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa), commissioned and curated by Letting Space is an artist led project community week-long project in Poprirua, Aoteaora/New Zealand involving a selection of NZ artists such as Kim Paton, Mark Harvey, David Cooke, Tim Barlow, aiming to change our ideas about what wealth is, under the current context of climate change and mass inequality.