September 3rd, Venice
Biennale of Architecture.Opening ceremony of the Danish Pavillion. Panel discussion moderated by Marianne Krogh, curator of the Danish Pavilion
Andri Snær Magnason, writer and documentary film director
Elke Krasny, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Nina Kovsted Helk, philanthropy director, Realdania
Erik Frandsen, partner, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
Lene Tranberg, partner and co-founder, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architect
September 3rd Poland:
Docs Against Gravity
Screening of The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole – a Bipolar Musical Documentary With Elephants.
Debate: How to cope with extreme emotions and bipolar disorder following the screening of the film. Partner: Można Zwariować Foundation.
September 4th Chiasso festival
https://chiassoletteraria.ch/eventi/andri-snaer-magnason/
September 5th Bellanzona
12:00 – 14:00 meeting with young group from Fridays for the Future Switzerland. Bellinzona in piazza Governo
September 6th Milano
Panel with the Italian writer Fabio Deotto, a novelist and environmental activist, Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen and the journalist Paolo Armelli as moderator. The importance of stories to communicate climate change.
https://iperborea.com/news/817/
https://www.facebook.com/events/268135541348118?ref=newsfeed
September 8th: TED BOOKCLUB
Online for TED Members Welcome to TED Book Club! Our first book On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason is a vivid exploration of the reality of climate change. Connect with fellow Members to discuss the overarching themes, challenges, possible steps forward and compelling questions raised in the book.
SEEKING A NEW CLIMATE SEMANTICS
(TED MEMBERS BOOK CLUB INAUGURAL MEETING)
The inaugural (virtual) meeting of the TED Members Book Club will take place in a week. I will be hosting it and we will be discussing “On Time and Water”, an important book by one of global literature’s most indispensable contemporary voices, Iceland’s Andri Magnason.
The book – a hopeful text – draws on science, family history and even mythology to explore a new climate semantics, one that would allow us to confront the (expanding) scale of the climate crisis without our comprehension of it being overwhelmed. Because right now, overwhelmed it is. We know the facts (see for instance this previous post: https://lnkd.in/dYzG8zkA) but the prevailing language that is associated with them describes changes so fundamental that they challenge the very foundations of our understanding of reality.
“We are accustomed to letting words like “global warming” pass by us while we respond to far less significant words. If we could perceive in granular details what the words “global warming” [or “ocean acidification” or “melting glaciers” or “rising seas” or “biodiversity collapse”] contain we should feel terror”, Magnason writes. “Anyone who understands what’s at stake would not prioritise anything else”, and yet “we read the news and watch documentaries, but for some reason we keep to our daily routines.” In other words, we know what each word says in a dictionary sense, but we don’t really understand their deep underlying meaning. The scale of the climate crisis is asking us in a way to leapfrog the current descriptive language (and associated power system) and find a new framing and a deeper kind of knowing. That’s what Magnason attempts in “On Time and Water”.
The TED Members Book Club meeting around his book is scheduled for Wednesday 8 September (12noon New York, 5pm London, 6pm Europe, 9:30pm Mumbai) and is open to TED Members. (Becoming a member is easy: https://lnkd.in/d9aXddt)
Further meetings will be around Kate Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics” (17 November) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” (19 January).
September 8th – Firenze – event with Folco Terzani
https://www.facebook.com/events/540995583822780?ref=newsfeed
September 9th – International Online Premier of Apausalypse,
by Andri Snær Magnason and Anni Ólafsdóttir via Emergence Magazine.
Register online here: https://emergencemagazine.org/event/apausalypse-online-premiere/
September 10th Belgrad
Beldocs – Belgrad – Serbian Premier of The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole – Beldocs. (Digitally attending)
https://www.kcb.org.rs/en-us/2021/09/23061/
September 12th Mantova Festival Litteratura
https://www.festivaletteratura.it/it/2021/eventi/156-dirti-natura-3336
September 14th Bologna –
Opening talk for FEDORA. The event is organized by the FEDORA partnership and is hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy “A. Righi” of the University of Bologna (Italy) as part of the program of storytelling in science titled “Officina di Narrazione della Scienza” (Laboratory for the Narrative of Science). The event will be held in English. The participation is free of charge after registering at this link. The event can be attended either remotely or face-to-face (Aula Magna, Department of Physics and Astronomy “A. Righi”, Via Irnerio 46, Bologna
4.30-6.30 pm CEST
https://www.fedora-project.eu/save-the-date-fedora-launches-event-with-writer-andri-snaer-magnason/
September 16th Literature House Göteborg – Sweden
https://goteborgslitteraturhus.se/event/internationellt-forfattarbesok-andri-snaer-magnason-island/
September 17th Högenas literatur festival
http://hsbookfest.se/medverkande/andri-snaer-magnason-hoppfull-skildring-av-klimatkrisen/
September 19th Hey Festival Segovia, Spain
September 22nd Budapest – Hungary –
Hungarian launch of On Time and Water.