Category Archives: Speakers


Ed Gillespie of Futerra asks “can art change the climate of opinion on climate change?”

“My hope is that art, culture and those ‘happy accidents’, in conjunction with the appropriate information, can engage the public emotionally as a precursor to action,” writes Ed Gillespie of Futerra Sustainablity Communications in his article “Melting Into The Mind” in Green Futures. “ Looking at ecologically minded art, in particular Cape Farewell, Gillespie says […]

Peter Sellars and Bill Viola collaborate on a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde

The Tristan Project, “visually reimagined for the 21st century” by Peter Sellars and Bill Viola, will make its U.S. premiere at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in mid-April. It will appear at New York’s Lincoln Center in the first week of May. Reviewing the performances at the Opera Bastille, in Paris, […]