Posts tagged ‘Pestival2009’
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Pestival winds up for another year
Pestival 2009 is over now – many thanks to all our collaborators, and to everyone who came along.
Please check this website for news on the journey of the Termite Pavilion, which is now heading from the Southbank to London Zoo and will be on display there from September 25th. Also, look out for further artist films on our Youtube channel, and watch as the Pestival gallery fills up with photos of this year’s projects.
Here’s a memorable moment from this year’s Pestival: Noboru Tsubaki in performance as Moonwalker vegetable wasp
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Pestival Symposium – Last chance to buy tickets
Pestival gets off to a flying start with its opening event How Insect Are We?, hosted by ZSL London Zoo, on 3rd September 2009. Join leading scientists, artists and thinkers to discover how the most despised creatures on earth, insects, bite back and reclaim their central place in our lives at Pestival’s cutting-edge symposium.Eighty percent of creatures on earth are insects, the ‘pests’ without whom humans wouldn’t survive. Pestival opens on September 3rd in partnership with ZSL with a cutting edge symposium at London Zoo and celebrates the 100’s of millions of years of evolution, which places insects at the heart of human existence.
Four leading thinkers from four different disciplines discuss how close to insects mankind really is and what contributions they make in all our lives. From swarm theory to architecture to extending life and political thinking to insect as muse, great minds get to grips with the insect contributions of everything from social insects to solitary wasps.
The speakers are:
- Stanford University biologist Deborah Gordon, the world’s leading ant specialists and TED speaker
- Engineer and designer Natalie Jeremijenko, who has been described as one of the most original creative minds of the 21st century
- The cultural theorist and literary critic Professor Steve Connor
- Simon Laughlin, Professor of Neurobiology in the department of zoology, Cambridge, who specializes in insect brain and vision
The Symposium will be chaired by Roger Highfield, the editor of New Scientist magazine.
Bridget Nicholls is Pestival Director and Founder. Bridget presents and contributes to programmes on BBC radio and presents Creature Curious for Resonance FM.
Tickets are on sale now – go to the Symposium page to order yours.
Date: 3rd September 2009
Time: Doors 7pm for 7:30pm -
Pestival Goes Mobile
You can now get Pestival listings on your mobile phone. Just point your phone’s browser to this address: http://pestival.bxs.mobi
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Call for Pestival 2009 volunteers from September 3rd -6th.
Calling all insect workers, educationalists, artists and budding naturalists. We need enthusiastic and sociable people to help out at Pestival 2009 . Reasonable out of pocket expenses paid.We need explainers, marshals, humpers and all round good eggs!
Pestival 2009 is a rare creature: an international, inter-disciplinary, community-led festival which involves science, art, film and music. Pestival will have a wide appeal (on multiple audience levels) – to the culture-vulture, to families, to schools and to the nature-curious. Pestival seeks to exist to initiate ideas, through a hybrid event entailing both cultural and scientific investigations, which are of both social and ecological significance. It will reconnect people with the insect world by challenging and changing their perceptions.
Do you wish to help revolutionise public understanding of art and the environment and help build awareness of current insect interactions with both the natural world and humankind. Come and take part in a unique event this September by volunteering time and energy. Meet other like minded people and have fun by joining this energetic and innovative community of cutting edge scientists and artists.
Artists and activities include insect ID walks and talks; insect fashion shows with internationally renowned artist in residence Noboru Tsubaki; artist Bob and Roberta Smith’s mobile Brownfield site; insect Comedy with Robin Ince; A termite Pavilion and a insect music with Robyn Hitchcock.
If you would like to volunteer at the event please contact pestivalteam@google.com with VOLUNTEER in the subject and your name and contact details and area of interest in the mail. You can volunteer for a 4 hour day or night shift or for the entire weekend. If you had any other ideas for volunteering just let us know, we’d love to hear form you.
You would have to attend a volunteer training day in August and would be invited to a volunteer meeting in June to get to know each other. Applicants maybe required to be CRB checked. We look forward to meeting you.
