Second Nature: imagining climate futures
Stay grounded, be earthbound. Join us for Second Nature, a focused week of events on sustainable practices, reparative habits, and imagining climate futures.
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Live talks / Performances
Ongoing
Green Lions x Bow Arts takeover
To mark the end of Second Nature: imagining climate futures, East and Southeast (ESEA) climate organising group Green Lions are taking over our Bow Road site with a day’s worth of pop-up makers stalls, talks, workshops, and music, to celebrate and give voice to the ESEA community as we resist and push against the climate crisis.
Free
Talk: Dr Kerry McInerney on the entanglement of AI narratives, Asian diasporic science fiction, and environmental catastrophe
Bow Arts Trust Courtyard Room 183 Bow Road, LondonJoin Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics researcher Dr Kerry McInerney as she traces the liberatory potential of Asian American and diasporic writing and artwork to offer us different ways of thinking about environmental catastrophes caused by AI.
Free
Group discussion: New Dawn – Invocations for the Planetary with Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Bow Arts Trust Courtyard Room 183 Bow Road, LondonJoin interdisciplinary practitioner Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee in a gentle, exploratory group discussion teasing apart what moving towards the end of the Anthropocene could mean for planetary wellbeing and the multiplicity of knowledges available to us now that we can use to imagine more radical, equitable ecological futures.
Free
Workshop: Cli-fi Writing with Taey Iohe – when Asian queers are writing cli-fi, saving humans isn’t the priority
Bow Arts Trust Courtyard Room 183 Bow Road, LondonUnleash your imagination with artist and writer Taey Iohe in a thoughtful workshop to envision a future that goes beyond conventional climate narratives and fosters a deeper understanding of our interconnectedness with the environment.
Free