COP15 DISPATCH
SEA Change co-curators Alec Neal and Katherine Ball went to Copenhagen from Dec. 9-17 to participate in actions surrounding the UN Climate Change Conference COP15. This page is a dispatch about their experiences: hosting the Climate Change March banner making workshop at Klimaforum09, helping build the Bike Bloc, activities at the Yes Men’s headquarters, and learning from broadcasts on Democracy Now.
[[[[[[[[ BANNER MAKING WORKSHOP ]]]]]]]
>ORGANIZERS: SEA CHANGE
>LOCATION: KLIMAFORUM09
>WWW.KLIMAFORUM09.ORG
> MARCH: 100,000 PEOPLE ON 12.DEC.09
> note: this video will not run smoothly on slow internet connections.
[[[[[[[ THE BIKE BLOC ]]]]]]]]]]
>LOCATION: THE CANDY FACTORY
>ORGANIZERS: CLIMATE CAMP
>WWW.FUNBETWEENYOURLEGS.INFO
>The Bike Bloc’s “strategic aim was to be totally decentralised and swarming ( 200 people in 20 swarms) and to draw police forces AWAY from the main blue bloc at the Reclaim Power demo on Dec. 16. The central aesthetic concern is building convivial collective creative communities around forms of disobedience – ie process is as important as product, because its from these processes that we can build movements…” – John Jordan, organizer
[[[[[[THE YES MEN]]]]]]]
>LOCATION: *HQ – PERFORMANCE ACTIVISM HEADQUARTERS
>WWW.THEYESMEN.ORG
[[[[[[DEMOCRACY NOW]]]]]]
>WWW.DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG
> Democracy Now was the only daily global broadcast from inside the Bella Center, the official location for COP15. They covered the official proceedings as well as the events outside. <
[[[[[[[[[ ABOUT COP15]]]]]]]]]
> The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009. Delegates from 192 countries were in attendance.
> Tens of thousands of global citizens, environmentalists and activists from around the world also converged in Copenhagen, in what has been described as the biggest gathering on climate change in history.
> Official Site: www.cop15.dk
> (summary courtesty of Democracy Now: www.democracynow.org/tags/copenhagen_climate_summit)
SEA Change is hosting banner making workshops for the Climate Change March in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the workshops, participants will decide what the banners should say by selecting handmade letters from a preprinted stockpile and sewing them together. This December, the UN will be meeting in Copenhagen to discuss climate change. These banners will be carried in the Dec. 12 Climate Change March and Reclaim Power, a peaceful takeover of the UN Climate Change Summit. A multitude of community organizations, concerned citizens, and activists are meeting in Copenhagen to demonstrate strong support for progressive, scientifically based climate change legislation. Letters for the banners were printed in Portland, Oregon by Heather McLaughlin of Flight64, Roger Peet of Justseeds, and Katherine Ball of SEA Change. The letters will be sewn into banners at Betonsalon in Paris, France, Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, and at the Yes Men’s Copenhagen Headquarters: Gallery Poulsen. If you have a phrase in mind, please email it to katherine@seachangegallery.org or post it as a comment to the bottom of this page. In January, the banners will be displayed at Apex Art in New York City as part of the Incidental Person exhibit. A presentation will also be given in Portland.
——–Post: December 2, 2009——–
Good News! The letters for the banners are printed! Come help sew the letters into banners!
We’ll be making banners at SEA Change on Wednesday, December 3 from 6-10pm as well as hanging the Beehive Collective show. Everyone is invited to help! Bring ideas for phrases to spell out on the banners (or make one up when you get here!). Bring an old sheet or lightweight fabric for the banner backing if you have one!
Check out the video of Heather McLaughlin of Flight64 and Roger Peet of Justseeds printing the letters! 800 in all!
———-Post: Dec. 1, 2009———
SEA Change is hosting banner making workshops for the Climate Change March in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the workshops, participants will decide what the banners should say by selecting handmade letters from a preprinted stockpile and sewing them together.
This December, the UN will be meeting in Copenhagen to discuss climate change. These banners will be carried in the Dec. 12 Climate Change March and Reclaim Power, a peaceful takeover of the UN Climate Change Summit. A multitude of community organizations, concerned citizens, and activists are meeting in Copenhagen to demonstrate strong support for progressive, scientifically based climate change legislation. Letters for the banners were printed in Portland, Oregon by Heather McLaughlin of Flight64, Roger Peet of Justseeds, and Katherine Ball of SEA Change. The letters will be sewn into banners at Betonsalon in Paris, France, Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, and at the Yes Men’s Copenhagen Headquarters: Gallery Poulsen. If you have a phrase in mind, please email it to katherine@seachangegallery.org or post it as a comment to the bottom of this page. In January, the banners will be displayed at Apex Art in New York City as part of the Incidental Person exhibit. A presentation will also be given in Portland.
——–Post: November 24, 2009——–
Help make banners for the Copenhagen Climate Change March!
an example of the banners you can help make!
an example of the font you can help print
A Beehive Collective poster that SEA Change will distribute in Copenhagen
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————Post: Oct. 30, 2009——-
SEA Change co-curators Alec Neal and Katherine Ball will be featured at Betonsalon Artist Residency in Paris, France and the People’s Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark this December!
Join us, Alec and Katherine, at the People’s Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark this December during the UN’s Climate Change Conference COP15! Or follow our blog about our travels here and the Heartland Network. We will be hosting an eco-activist art workshop at the summit as climate change emissaries of SEA Change and the HN. Our month at the Betonsalon residency will be spent working with members of the Betonsalon neighborhood to make banners to carry in the Climate Change March in Copenhagen on December 12!
Follow our regular blog posts of this experience on SEA Change and the Heartland Network.
If you have a suggestion for a banner phrase, please enter it in the comment box below! If you leave us your email, we’ll send you a picture of it on a banner!
idea for banner phrase: tck tck tck
from: Paul Thompson of Cool Planet- connecting people with nature, energy use, and a changing climate.
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