Fwd: Fossil Free Fest is coming April 6-8, 2018!

[Stevie Lewis]

Hi all,

Save the date, Fossil Free Fest is coming up April 6-8th in New Orleans. They are also taking proposals:

"Fossil Free Fest's curators are issuing an open call for solutions––from the practical to the fantastical––that envision, encourage, and enable our societal transition away from extractive energy and that express a vision for a regenerative society and economy. We are seeking the submission of proposals, prototypes, sketches, digital works, and renderings that exist within the spheres of art, design, science, and social equity."

See below!

-Stevie

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From: Antenna <f...@antenna.works>
Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:00 AM
Subject: Fossil Free Fest is coming April 6-8, 2018!
To: ste...@publiclab.org

In New Orleans, we know that times of transition are best met with community and celebration. Our transition from the Fossil Fuel Era is no different.

As artists and educators, what is our role and responsibility and where is our agency in addressing climate change? For immediate release: Antenna is pleased to announce Fossil Free Fest, coming April 6-8, 2018! www.fossilfreefest.org In New Orleans, we know that times of transition are best met with community and celebration. Our society’s impending transition out of the Fossil Fuel Era is no different. Fossil Free Festival (FFF) is a three-day festival (free and open to the public) featuring film screenings, art, food, music, and roundtable discussions designed to carve out a dedicated and open space for us to dig deep into the ethics and complexities of funding art and education with fossil fuel money. We are currently organizing a powerful lineup of speakers, presenters, and facilitators to inspire, inquire and inform! Our full schedule at the Broad Theater, Joan Mitchell Center, and Grow Dat Youth Farm will be announced and registration will open in February 2018. For now, check out our open call for Fossil Free Solutions! Accepting proposals through February 16, 2018. Apply now! For more information, to volunteer, or to join our mailing list, visit http://fossilfreefest.org For inquiries, email f...@antenna.works Presented by Antenna in partnership with 350.org, Another Gulf is Possible, Blights Out, the Broad Theater, Gulf Restoration Network, Hidden History Tours, Joan Mitchell Center, LA Bucket Brigade, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Public Lab, Story Shift, and Working Films. Why Fossil Free Fest? In an era of massive defunding of the public sector, non-profit arts and educational institutions are struggling. Oftentimes, our search for support for our work leads us to accept funding from sources we may consider contentious, such as petrochemical corporations. We accept this money with some discomfort but without hesitation; after all, we tell ourselves, all money is questionable, the world needs our work, and we need to pay our rent. According to BP Executive Vice President Dev Sanyal, companies cannot operate “sustainably” without the support of society. This support is termed by the industry as a “social license to operate,” a metaphorical concept that indicates that society has approved the actions of the company, trusting that the benefits of its operations outweigh the costs to society. By accepting the financial support and, as an imperative, the branding of fossil fuel corporations, are we granting these companies a social license to operate? Rarely do we create the time and space to deeply examine as individuals and institutions the connection between our work, the operations of our funders, and the challenges facing society. Does petrochemical funding affect the tone, quality, or content of public dialogue about climate change or even engender overt censorship? As society moves away from reliance on fossil fuels, how can we build equitable and sustainable lives and practices, economically, ecologically, and socially? How can we create solidarity across occupational divides and unite as workers of arts, education, and industry and, most importantly, as members of a shared Louisiana community? How can we redress the 300+ years of extraction that have instrumentalized and destroyed life, land, labor, culture––even the future––for the sake of development that we now know is fundamentally unsustainable? FFF invites everyone––arts workers, industry workers, educators, activists, scientists, funders, politicians, and the general public––to imagine and plan our Fossil Fuel Free Culture. #FossilFreeCulture   Join our mailing list Copyright © 2018 Antenna / Press Street, All rights reserved. You received this email because you opted to join the transition. Our mailing address is: Antenna / Press Street 3718 Saint Claude Ave New Orleans, La 70117 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

[Margie Vicknair-Pray]

Oil and gas isn't subsidized, right...

This was in today's Baton Rouge Business Report:

Sweet crude: A $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and several energy companies will help researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and four other institutions study the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. The grant will fund the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory, which will study ways to enable cost-efficient and environmentally-sound recovery of the shale play. About 7 billion barrels of light, sweet crude is estimated to reside there. The formation covers 28 parishes in central and south Louisiana and in southwestern Mississippi. The consortium also includes Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico; Missouri University of Science and Technology; the University of Oklahoma, Norman; and the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg.

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