Cape Farewell 2007 youth expedition

	Making the Invisible visible: Climate Change Education

Cape Farewell brings artists, scientists and educators together to bring about long-term change in cultural attitudes towards climate change.

Created by artist David Buckland in 2001, Cape Farewell has lead three expeditions to the High Arctic, the frontline of climate change. From these expeditions has sprung an extraordinary body of artwork, a film co-produced by the BBC, Cape Farewell's first major book title, The CD ARCTIC by Max Eastley, educational resources for GCSE Geography and Science and a UN award winning website. The project is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world.

This September Cape Farewell launches two new expeditions to the Arctic, its first ever Youth Expedition and its fourth Art Science Expedition. You can follow their progress live from the Arctic at voyage.capefarewell.com

Launch
The expedition launch - at Southbank Centre on Sunday 9 September - is a festive event hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke in the Royal Festival Hall with a special maritime send off for the students down the Thames. It also marks the departure in October of Cape Farewell 's fourth art and science expedition. Musicians, singers, the Cape Farewell youth team and artists past and present, including Vikram Seth, Marcus Brigstocke, Beth Derbyshire, William Hunt, Dan Harvey & Heather Ackroyd and Max Eastley join with David Buckland, founder and director of Cape Farewell, Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre and Professor Mark Maslin to celebrate the imminent voyages. The day is part of Southbank Centre's environment weekend Saving Paradise , beginning on Saturday 8 September with Paco Pena's Requiem For the Earth and Gamelan Wayang, an all-night session of traditional Javanese storytelling, shadow puppetry and music.

Youth
Expedition: 14-23 September

Voyaging from Longyearbyen – NyAlesund - Longyearbyen

During the first ever youth voyage, the team will be voyaging north of the 79 th parallel to the fragile extremes of Svalbard in the High Arctic with twelve students from Germany, Canada and the UK to investigate and raise awareness of the impacts of climate change.

In a landmark arts, science and media project the young people will work alongside artist Dan Harvey, Professor Mark Maslin of University College London's Environment Institute and others to develop scientific and creative projects.

The students will live, work and help sail the 100-year old sailing schooner The Noorderlicht , working on subjects such as changing weather patterns and retreating glaciers. Youth expedition leaders, teacher and filmmaker Colin Izod and science teacher and choreographer Suba Subramanian, together with onboard artists, scientists and educators will mentor and support the development of the projects. Daily video reports, blogs, webcams and message boards will be sent live from the boat to voyage.capefarewell.com and screens at Southbank Centre in London and the Eden Project, Cornwall . The projects that the young people develop, both at sea and with their schools, will become an international educational resource.

Cape Farewell in the future
Southbank Centre and the Eden Project are Cape Farewell's two major UK partners, 2007-10. Cape Farewell will present work at both sites over the next three years and play a vital part in the development of their creative and environmental agendas. Working with an expanding group of partners, including the British Council and Barbican Art Gallery , Cape Farewell is working to deliver its work to a national and international audience at this critical time for the planet.

Research and inspiration taken from the 2007 Greenland expedition will feed into Cape Farewell 's work with Southbank Centre and the Eden Project over the next three years. New and arresting artworks will be shown at both sites and will tour internationally in the US ( Chicago and New York) and in Canada (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Nunavut ). In 2006 Art from the Arctic was produced and broadcast to 476,000 in the UK. In 2007 it has been shown at film festivals across the World, twice on the Sundance Channel in the US and globally on BBC World to a collective global audience of over 10 million. The on board media team on the Greenland expedition will shoot footage to be developed into a feature film for theatrical release worldwide.

With British Council Canada, Cape Farewell is planning a sixth expedition for 2008. This voyage will circumnavigate Baffin Island and an even wider group of international students, educators, artists and scientists will be invited to join. Cape Farewell aims to involve as many as possible in the matter of climate change. It aims to inspire people to take a creative approach to developing the solutions necessary to tackle the issue.