Reimagining Landscapes Conference - Two Day Conference Tickets

Reimaging Landscapes Conference: The Rights of Nature

The second Reimagining Landscapes conference is called to continue the locating of new narratives that reappraise our relationship with the natural world. At this time of unprecedented ecosystem upheaval and species loss, we also have the knowledge of how to enact repair. Part of this process of repair is the paying of deep attention to what landscapes, wildlife, habitats and communities of all kinds are telling us. Our speakers therefore represent a broad range of interests and specialisms, including writers, artists, activists, ecologists, musicians, performers, farmers and land managers. From species restoration experts to animal rights activists and from farmer-led carbon conversations to nature restoration in cities, together they evidence how as a concept reimagining landscape is now embedded across mainstream dialogues as a way of provoking and maintaining progressive change.

Keynote speaker: Christiane Bosman, Embassy of the North Sea.

Speakers include, Richard Scott and Polly Mosely, Scouse Flowerhouse; John Tweddle, Natural History Museum Urban Nature Project; visual artist Patricia Townshend; Cairngorms Connect and Cumbria Connect landscape restoration projects (Endangered Landscapes Programme) Nic Renison, farmer-led Carbon Calling advisory group; Paperboats.org; author and naturalist Mark Cocker and young people’s voices on nature and the environment.

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£30.00 per day for general admission, and free for unwaged, students and Lancaster University Staff

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Tickets include refreshments and lunch.

Waste Paper Opera Performance - 4th July, Evening Performance
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Funded by the EPSRC through Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre, Lancaster Arts presents the world premiere of Waste Paper Opera’s newest project, 'abstracts, with love', at the Nuffield Theatre. Commissioned by Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre, this multimedia performance combines music, sound design, film, and narration.

This captivating production integrates the ordinary and human with the enigmatic, evolving landscapes of data, technology, and nature. ‘abstracts, with love’ blurs the lines between the familiar and the foreign, the local and the global. Inspiration is drawn from the ancient seaside, the relentless movement of ocean tides and the surprising beauty of the nuclear power plant. 'abstracts, with love' amplifies the tensions between human and non-human ecologies, with the strange sense of the past haunting the present, simulating a future.

Waste Paper Opera is a collective of artists, makers and musicians, run by artist and writer Klara Kofen, and composer and performer James Oldham. They have performed live at Somerset House, Cafe OTO, Glasgow International, Eastside Projects and Medialab Matadero (Madrid). Their most recent work, Free to Choose, made in collaboration with Bahar Noorizadeh, has been screened internationally at SculptureCenter (New York), Beirut Art Center, Taipei Biennial, and Singapore Art Museum. In this new production, they are collaborating with composer and drummer Cameron Graham and sound artist and violinist Chihiro Ono.

"A supremely creative production, at once exhilaratingly, wildly original and immaculately stylised"Charlotte Valori (Operissima)