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EarthlingEarthling Environmental Activist Forum 29th September -- 1st October, 2006 Newcastle (Carbon Capital of Australia) The annual This Is Not Art festival in Newcastle will this year include Earthling: A National Environmental Activist Forum. Earthling will bring together activists from around the country (and some from overseas) to talk about the big issues facing environmentalists. Features include: Panels on climate change, the future of biodiversity conservation, the role of image, media and messaging in activism, and the how and why of green-black alliances. Workshops on DIY media-making for activists and current issues: Environmentalism at the Club will discuss the silencing of dissent: The Lake Cowal benefit gig will wind things up on Sunday night to raise money for and awareness of this unfolding cultural and ecological tragety being ignored by the mainstream environment movement.
9:00pm-10:00pm Radio National AM radio National broadcast of an audio collage of all things earthling in conjunction with IONIC (electronic sound artists). earthling program Thursday 28th September: From 6:00pm at Festival Club Friday 29th September: 12:00pm - 1:00pm at Playhouse Theatrette.Wilderness, old growth and ancient rainforest - Tasmania's Southern Forests are still wild and still threatened at the hands of the woodchip industry. Find out more ...
3:00pm – 4:00pm 100.5 FM and streaming online at www.tin.org.au . If you don’t want to miss out on anything, tune into radio earthling for updates, interviews, shot-takes and the latest indimusic. 2:00pm - 3:00pm at City Hall: Newcastle Room.Cape York is one of the three most unspoiled wilderness areas left on Earth. Until now, these diverse landscapes have largely escaped the environmental damage so common in southern Australia. A mosaic of rainforests, woodlands, wild rivers, heath lands, and wetlands remain intact - but the companies are lining up... 5:00pm - 7:00pm at the Shopfront, 376 King St.Be part of the Alternative Futures Quilt Project, which will show all the amazing progressive visions that people hold. Join in on creating panels to be sent to Melbourne and sewn into a MASSIVE QUILT that articulates a better world than the bleak future vision that the G20 is trying to impose.
7:00pm - 10:00pm at City Hall: Newcastle Room.Special guest Auntie Ellie will introduce a film about Lake Cowal, cyanide threatened wetlands in Wiradjuri country. Then, from Tassie’s forests, a global treasure, a pirate ship, bugs, & clearfells. Plus films on the Manhattan Project, Cape York, the clandestine insurgent rebel clown army, emissions statement, and more. Saturday 30th September: 10:30am - 12:30pm, Banquet Room Newcastle City Hall.Some alliances between environmentalists and Aboriginal activists have been hugely successful, as are some Aboriginal conservation areas. Others have raised questions about where Aboriginal and environmental interests diverge. Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal panelists and audience members reflect on their experiences in green-black alliances. What works, and what needs to be improved?
1:00pm - 3:00pm, Playhouse Rehearsal Room.‘Dwelling no place but being everywhere as home, as the only way to truly experience the dimensions of reality, time and space.’ Franco Rella, ‘Atrophy of the Modern’. Exploring the nature of the urban, through physically mapping the elements of place. Drawing on psychogeography and Body Weather practices, a series of walking tasks will focus on bodytuning and site mapping to encourage a sense of intimacy with place. Everywhere as home.
3:00pm – 4:00pm 100.5 FM and streaming online at www.tin.org.au . If you don’t want to miss out on anything, tune into radio earthling for updates, interviews, shot-takes and the latest indimusic.
2:00pm – 4:00pm, TAFE computer labs.Online Video Publishing for Independent Doco Makers and Campaigners – how to use new web video tools to distribute your film and get your message out there, hosted by the EngageMedia team. 4:30pm - 6:30pm, Banquet Room, Newcastle Town Hall.What gains has the "movement" made by becoming more sophisticated in terms of messaging and marketing? And what, if anything is lost by focus-grouping environmental awareness? Environmental groups, especially those with extensive resources, have becomw increasingly interested in notions of "framing" "messaging" and how to attract media attention. Is this media-consciousness serving short-term "outcome-based" campaigns at the expense of longer-viewed consciousness shifts.
7:30pm – 11:00pm, Newcastle Leagues Club. the Band Room. In 2005, 'anti-terror' laws were used to deport US peace activist Scott Parkin, and Tasmanian timber giant Gunns Ltd. served a $6 million writ against 17 individuals and 3 organisations for defending Tassie forests. Come along, eat drink and talk about how dissent is being silenced in contemporary Australia.
12:00pm – 2:00pm Banquet Room, Newcastle Town Hall.Australia leads the world in species extinction and we face a biodiversity crisis. What have we done wrong? New responses are being developed across the country, from Gondwana Link in WA to Biobanking in NSW. Panelists and audience discuss whether new directions in conservation can halt the looming crisis.
12pm to 5pm, Sunday Street Fair, Auckland St.Come to the activist tea party at the fire truck (child friendly space).
3:00pm – 4:00pm 100.5 FM and streaming online at www.tin.org.au . If you don’t want to miss out on anything, tune into radio earthling for updates, interviews, shot-takes and the latest indimusic. 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Banquet Room, Newcastle Hall.While the preliminary effects of climate change are already being felt, the potential effects are enormous. If the effects of climate change are unprecedented and profound, so are the implications of solving it, because civilisation as we know it is founded on fossil fuels – the root cause of the problem. The growing global economy demands cheap energy, and lots of it. How does this expectation fit with the challenge of climate change? Can consumer-capitalism and the growth economy exist in a zero-emissions world? And if dealing with climate change really does require radical social change, do we really have time to achieve that?
7:30pm onwards, Festival Club.Going for Gold is an awareness night to experience words, music, film and dance inspired by a spectacular seasonal wetland in Wiradjuri Country that is threatened with gold mining. Dance and chill out, see the latest documentary and meet Traditional Owners, grassroots campaigners and activists involved in the struggle.
9:00pm-10:00pm Radio National AM radio. National broadcast of an audio collage of all things earthling in conjunction with IONIC (electronic sound artists). To subscribe to an announcement email list for Earthling, please email the moderator: sphilli8@yahoo.com.au >>To find out more about TINA, go to http://www.thisisnotart.org/ >> The Earthling website can be found at http://earthling.thisisnotart.org 
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