Events

« Sunday October 16, 2011 »
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HALIKONLAHTI - FOOD CHAINS Start: 12:00 End: 18:00 Halikonlahti Green Art is a collection of art exhibits which winds round the Bay of Halikko. The 2011 festival is the third of a series of 3 exhibitions exploring Art and Ecology in the Baltic Sea Region, focusing mainly on the aspects of landuse, energy, production, nutrition, waste and politics. FoAM is participating with 2 art-works and 1 worklab. Rainforest Etiquette Start: 00:00 FoAM is organising and hosting a lecture by Suprabha Seshan. She is the spokesperson of the Gurukula Botanic Sanctuary in Kerala India. At the rainforest sanctuary local tribal women are trained to become parataxonomists and ecosystem gardeners. Through their work over 20 years Suprabha and the team have seen human pressure, demands and damage on the rainforest increase. She will speak on several topics including the failure of environmental education. The forest needs a particular type of support if it is to survive at all.

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