2 DEGREES FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Artsadmin’s biennial festival of art, environment and action returns for the sixth time, taking place in east London, the City and Toynbee Studios.
Performance CURIOUS WILD LONGINGS Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 June, 11.30am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm, £10/£8 concessions Secret garden in the City of London
2 Degrees Festival invites you to take the future into your own hands with a programme of performance, discussion, an exhibition and events. Join diverse voices, including primary school children, activist groups and queer artists, to explore climate justice, migration, conservation, gender, activism, the ethics of arts funding and how we can work together for a more sustainable future. Follow #2DegreesFestival Twitter | Instagram @artsadm facebook.com/artsadmin
2 DEGREES FESTIVAL 1-9 JUNE 2019
Artsadmin and the environment We believe that artists and arts organisations have an important role to play in exploring, communicating and taking practical action on issues around climate change and the environment. 2 Degrees Festival is just one of Artsadmin’s environment-focused artistic projects and it is also part of an EU-funded collaborative project called Imagine 2020 exploring art and ecology. Find out how we make our projects and building, Toynbee Studios, more sustainable: artsadmin.co.uk
Join this luscious garden tour sown with stories of transformation, foraged foods, conservation tips and songs, rooted with a desire to provide succour to each other and the environment. Wild Longings invites you to unearth your passions in a sensuous horticultural journey that celebrates conservation, migration and gender.
On-site Reading Room AMA JOSEPHINE BUDGE APOCALYPSE READING ROOM Monday 3 – Sunday 9 June, 9am-6pm and during evening events, Free Toynbee Studios Open in the Arts Bar & Café throughout the festival, this travelling library of n ovels, non-fiction, poetry, children’s books and zines opens up new discussions about the importance of growth through reading, reflection and conversation in a time of many social, political and environmental apocalypses.
Exhibition CANON BARNETT PRIMARY SCHOOL AND TIM SPOONER MONUMENTS OF TOWER HAMLETS Tuesday 4 June – Sunday 9 June, 12-8pm, 12-6pm on Thursday and Sunday. Community event, Friday 7 June, 4-6pm, Free Toynbee Studios Artist Tim Spooner and Year 2 students from Canon Barnett Primary School in Aldgate East have transformed forgotten materials, such as fluff, discarded scraps and pieces of broken toys collected from local buildings and shops, into an exhibition of miniature sculptures that present an alternative view of Tower Hamlets.
Performance SILKE HUYSMANS AND HANNES DEREERE MINING STORIES Tuesday 4 June, 8pm, £10/£8 concessions Toynbee Studios This documentary theatre performance follows a mining disaster in the region of Minas Gerais, Brazil where Silke grew up as a child. Through interviews collected in Brazil and Europe, a journey unfolds, exploring memory, politics, religion and storytelling.
Workshop TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN? HOW TO HOLD ON TO YOUR ETHICS Wednesday 5 June, 3-6pm, Free Toynbee Studios
Discussion & Residency XAVIER DE SOUSA AND ANDRE NEELY IN DISCUSSION Wednesday 5 June, 7.30pm, Free Toynbee Studios
How can we fund art without compromising our values? In this discussion and workshop facilitated by Culture Unstained and Platform, artists are invited to explore how they can take a stand when faced with an offer from an unethical funder. The workshop uses real-life examples to highlight dilemmas, suggest strategies and explore opportunities for collective action.
Xavier and Andre’s residency explores how climate protest and performative action can lead to domino effect replications. Throughout the festival, the artists invite audiences and experts alike to contribute to their research. Join this discussion with special guests and hear more about climate action and the different ways we can all tackle its urgency.
Film BANK JOB Thursday 6 June, 7.30pm, Free HSCB – Hoe Street Central Bank, 151-155 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London E17 3AN 2 Degrees Festival visits Walthamstow where Bank Job, a feature film and art project pushing for economic change, operate out of a former Co-op Bank. Come together for an evening in the bank, in front of an exploded van, to look at ways of moving the economy rapidly away from fossil fuels and financial speculation.
Film & Discussion THE LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION Friday 7 June, 7.30pm, Free Toynbee Studios
Performance VIRTUAL MIGRANTS AND NUMBI BREATHE! Sunday 9 June, see website for time and location
This illustrated talk explores the art of direct action in Notre Dame des Landes, France, where a 50 year long struggle against the building of an international airport is ongoing. You are invited to hear the stories of creative resistance from local farmers and villagers, activists and naturalists, squatters, artists and trade unionists as they continue to occupy the ZAD (the zone to defend).
The history of struggle, resistance and community in east London is rich and vibrant. Yet perhaps now more than ever, our communal spaces are under pressure. Breathe! uses protest performance to explore the privatisation and commodification of these internal and external spaces.
2 DEGREES FESTIVAL 1-9 JUNE 2019
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Toynbee Studios
Offsite
9am-10pm 11am-8pm 12pm-6pm
1 June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June
9am-6pm
Event
9am-10pm 9am-10pm
11.30am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm
9am-6pm
8pm
Open studio: 12-5pm
12pm-8pm 12pm-8pm 12pm-8pm 12pm-6pm Community 12pm-8pm 12pm-6pm event: 4pm-6pm
3pm-6pm
In discussion: 7.30pm 7.30pm
Wild Longings
Apocalypse Reading Room
Mining Stories
Monuments of Tower Hamlets
Take the Money and Run
Xavier de Sousa and Andre Neely
Bank Job
7.30pm
2 DEGREES FESTIVAL 1-9 JUNE 2019
11am-8pm
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PHOTO CREDITS: WILD LONGINGS. PHOTO BY HUGO GLENDINNING APOCALYPSE READING ROOM. PHOTO BY AMA JOSEPHINE BUDGE MONUMENTS OF TOWER HAMLETS. PHOTO BY ROB HARRIS MINING STORIES. PHOTO BY TOM CALLEMIN TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN? PHOTO BY SHEILA MENON XAVIER DE SOUSA AND ANDRE NEELY. PHOTO BY ROWAN BRISCOE BANK JOB. PHOTO BY TONY O’BRIEN LABOFFI. PHOTO BY NINA BREATHE! PHOTO BY LIQUORICE FISH EDYTHE WOOLLEY. PHOTO BY MANUEL VASON
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Xavier de Sousa and Andre Neely: Open Studio An open studio research sharing and discussion into climate protest and performative action. Ama Josephine Budge: Speculative Fabulations – Resisting Climate Colonialism This performative reading transposes you into a time-space-glitch where the colonial anchors of climate change are held to account. Followed by a conversation with Selina Nwulu and others. See the full line-up online.
Bodies in the Way
2 Degrees Festival takes over Toynbee Studios with a day of performance, film and discussion by queer artists. Join us to amplify voices less heard in the climate conversation as we empower ourselves to change our future together.
Including: Edythe Woolley: FISHY A visually mesmerising postpunk performance using the grotesque to create a dreamy turned nightmarish queer underworld that explores the altered ecosystems of our impending future. Ania Varez: Guayabo An exchange of celebration and grief told through storytelling and film, inviting you to connect to Ania’s family in Venezuela who are living through a severe humanitarian crisis.
Breathe!
Performance, film and discussion BODIES IN THE WAY Saturday 8 June, 11am-8pm, tickets for Edythe Woolley and Ania Varez: £10/£8 concessions. Buy tickets for both shows and receive 20% off. Other events are free. Toynbee Studios
EVENTS CALENDAR
OTHER INFORMATION MAIN 2 DEGREES FESTIVAL VENUE Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street London E1 6AB Nearest tube: Aldgate East artsadmin.co.uk /toynbeestudios @ artsadm @toynbeestudios @artsadm facebook.com/ artsadmin BOOK TICKETS Our telephone box office is open Monday to Friday 10am-6pm: 020 7650 2350 Other enquiries: boxoffice@ artsadmin.co.uk Registered company in the UK no. 2979487. Registered charity no.1044645.
VISIT OUR CAFÉ Join us for drinks and freshly prepared, vegetarian food at the child and dog-friendly Arts Bar & Café. Open throughout the festival from 3-9 June. ACCESS Toynbee Studios is wheelchair accessible with fully accessible toilets. Some events are off-site so please visit our website for full information about each event’s access provision. You can also let us know your access needs ahead of time by emailing access@ artsadmin.co.uk.
2 Degrees Festival is supported by Arts Council England and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union as part of Imagine 2020 (2.0). Wild Longings is supported by the City of London Corporation and Monuments of Tower Hamlets by Tower Hamlets Council. Artsadmin is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Artsadmin adopts greener ways of working, so this brochure is printed on FSC accredited paper, using waterless presses, vegetablebased inks and machinery powered by 100% renewable energy sources.
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