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DescriptionShared Seas: Coastal Encounters Part of the "Can the Seas Survive Us?" Programme Date: Wednesday 4 June 2025 Time: 9:00am - 12:30 noon Location: East End Gallery, Sainsbury Centre Pay if and what you can. Ticket prices: £5, £15, £20 For Bursary places, please contact Ken Paranada: j.paranada@uea.ac.uk What role must museums play in the climate crisis? This urgent public gathering marks the opening event of Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters — a two-part programme hosted at the Sainsbury Centre, reawakening the radical ethos upon which the Centre was founded. Conceived in the 1970s as a rule-breaking experiment in what a museum could be, the Centre now reimagines its role as a civic force for climate action, justice, and collective care. As the 1.5°C threshold becomes a lived reality, museums stand at a crossroads. No longer neutral repositories of the past, they must step into the foreground — to convene, to challenge, and to lead.
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Additional ItemsContactPlease note that photography and video will be taking place. If you would prefer not to be photographed, kindly make yourself known to our press officer on the day. Please send any queries to scva.admin@uea.ac.uk More InformationProgramme Overview: Part 1: Water Rights: A Dialogic Approach Date: Wednesday 4 June 2025 Time: 9.00 – 11.20 Where: East End Gallery, Sainsbury Centre Led by the Sainsbury Centre Learning Team in collaboration with community partners, this participatory session explores the transformative potential of dialogic methodologies within the museum context. Through collective conversation and co-creation, participants will examine how shared knowledge and dialogue can shape institutional responses to water rights and environmental justice. This activity is facilitated by Kate Dunton, Nell Croose Myhill, Iokine Rodriguez, Bridget McKenzie, Johan Don-Daniel and Josh Hall. Part 2: Radical Museums: Catalysts for Climate Action Date: Wednesday 4 June 2025 Time: 11.35 – 12.30 Where: East End Gallery, Sainsbury Centre This public panel brings together leading voices in curatorial innovation and institutional change. Panellists Jago Cooper, Frances Morris, and Daisy Desrosiers will discuss how museums can evolve as agents of climate justice and social equity — becoming stewards not only of the past, but of transformative futures. Themes of radical pedagogy, museum innovation, and institutional accountability will guide this powerful exchange. It’s time for museums to stop reflecting the world as it is — and begin shaping the world as it must become. About the Gathering Shared Sea: Coastal Encounters is a three-day programme bringing together artists, curators, designers, scientists, activists, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to explore how art and culture can shape global climate action. The programme begins on Wednesday, 4 June at the Sainsbury Centre, from 9am to 12.30 noon, with afternoon sessions continuing at Norwich University of the Arts, followed by a film screening at Cinema City, hosted by the Norwich Green Film Festival. Thursday, 5 June will be held entirely at Norwich University of the Arts. The optional third day, Friday, 6 June, includes a coastal encounter in Great Yarmouth, hosted by originalprojects. Please arrange your own transportation. This event is organised by the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Green Film Festival, University of East Anglia, East Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts, in collaboration with originalprojects (Great Yarmouth) and Wolterton, with support from the Kingdon of the Netherlands Embassy, London.
Connect with our collaborative initiatives: Green Film Festival: https://www.ueagreenfilmfestival.co.uk/wildnorthsea originalprojects: https://originalprojects.co.uk/coastal-encouter-in-great-yarmouth/
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