Plan Your Night! Northern Spark is June 11, 2016
Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 6:54PM
Northern Spark, presented by Northern Lights.mn, returns for a 6th year on June 11 from 9:00pm - 5:26am.
For the 2016 and 2017 festivals, the theme Climate Chaos | Climate Rising will explore the interconnected, evolving, long-term consequences from climate change, giving local and national artists a platform to help turn a sense of overwhelmment into concrete actions anchored in a realistic and hopeful map for the future.
Here are a few more things to consider as you plan your night!
Seed Saving Bingo. Photo: NorthernLights.mn
Join artists Rachel Breen and Koby Jeschkeit-Hagen for Seed Saving Bingo. Come play bingo and learn about what you can do in your own yard to save seeds and protect biodiversity! The practice of saving and passing down seeds allows humans to play a critical role in fighting climate change. The world’s heirloom seed heritage is irreplaceable and threatened by the rise of monoculture farming, the patenting of seeds, and the endangering of heirloom varieties by genetically modified crops.
Take a seat in the Guthrie Theater for some fast paced education at Nerd vs. Nerd, present by the U of MN's Institute for Advanced Study. It’s scholars vs. artists in a fast and furious throwdown of ideas and inspiration. Thirty scholars deliver five-minute presentations of their work, immediately followed by an on-the-spot creative response by community artists, with the audience voting on which interpretation – scholar or artist – helped them learn the most about the topic.
Future Drawing Near: Future Drawing Here enlists your creativity to imagine and draw alternate futures for our world. Artist Janet Lobberecht invites you to participate in four future designing stations: Rapid Futuring, Reflective Futuring, Systematic Futuring, and Shared Futuring and draw the future where everyone is an agent for change.
