We enjoyed spending time at the cinema shed

Three months ago Green Peace launched a campaign looking for a new, more appropriate than a shiny green sunflower logo for BP. The time has come to spread BP’s new logo far and wide. Put it up as your Facebook profile picture, or stick it somewhere in the real world. There was a few handy sticker-sized logos created, which you can print off,  really it’s down to you to decide where to put them. Get creative. Send us your pictures and we’ll share them on.

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/bp/rebranded/index.html

Designer: Brian David Braun and Tara Tomlinson

123 Bethnal Green Road is now home to a new sustainable fashion concept store

We like Kevin Cyr

Green Lens Studios are collaborating with Railway-fields on ART IN THE PARK. On Sunday the 18^th July we will be holding sculpture and photography workshops in Downhills park.

Art in the Park
Downhills Park, Philip Lane, N15
Sunday, 18th July, 1-6pm

All day – nature related arts & crafts

1pm – Summer nature hunt
2pm – Wildlife photography workshop – woodlands (Yev)
3pm – Sculpture decoration (Marianne)
4pm – Wildlife photography workshop – landscape (Yev)
5pm – Minibeast nature hunt, Completion and display of sculpture decoration
6pm – Close

All ages are welcome. The event is free to attend.

Looking forward to see you there!

Check out the musicvideo for 'She makes war' shot at Green Lens Studios http://alturl.com/3bvmg

TVIGA VASILYEVA SOLO EXHIBITION

We are inviting you to the opening of Tviga Vasilyeva’s solo exhibition ‘Vanished’ (forest studies) on Thursday the 24^th of June 7- 10PM

A lot of Tviga’s work is site-specific and cross disciplinary, involving collaboration with a range of organisations and individuals. Working with technology, sound, video and sculpture, She create work, exploring landscape, nature and environment, using photography as a means of visualising invisible.

Seliger Forest is a part of Volday State Nature Reserve and is located in the extreme Northern part of European Russia. Recently, this forest is being logged for its valuable timber. For this project Tviga worked on the area of Seliger forest, that was already scheduled for deforestation on the 26 of may with no future plans to replant. Having recorded and amplifIed 350 times the internal sounds of the trees  She has created an interactive sound – video piece, aiming to rase the awareness of the vanishing forests and to preserve the disappearing.

Interactive video technology is being used to attempt to collapse the distance between viewer and the forest. However, it is failing, because the distance is not physical, it is conceptual. The trees, that the viewer is listening to listen do not exist any more.

By listening to the internal vibrations of the trees one may be reminded that the world and oneself as a part is dissolving.

www.iratviga.com

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH DIEGO FERRARI
“space, body and emotion”

We had Central Saint Martin teacher Diego Ferrari, coming to Green Lens Studios for the first workshop in June during sustainability month.

Diego currently teaches the master’s degree course on Public Space at the Escola Elisava in Barcelona and the ‘Photography, Art and Architecture’ course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

The workshop was an intensive 4 hours long with both theoretical and practical experience where Diego went into the core of everybody’s individual practice and left a huge influence.

Green Lens Studios and Haringey Cycling Campaign worked together to celebrate Bike Week.

On Sunday 13th June, we met at 10.00am at the café in Finsbury Park. The ride went through, Finsbury Park, Chestnuts Park, Downhills Park, Lordship Rec, finally to Alexandra Palace where Alex from Haringey council organized a fantastic picnic for everyone to share.

‘CREATING MICROCLIMATES FOR PLANTING, USING WASTE HEAT FROM BUILDINGS’ with Bethany Wells

Bethany Wells is an allotment-holder, guerilla gardener and architecture student. She is interested in public space, local produce, permaculture and the design challenges Peak Oil presents within the community. She is currently studying MA Architecture at the Royal College of Art.

This workshop provided hands on experience on how to use waste heat from buildings in the most innovative and sustainable way.

Bethany Wells: http://bethanywells.com/

EXHIBITION Luxury Goods IV

Curated by Michael Bucknell, this biannual festival is an exploration and discovery journey throughout the role of art. During the 50 words festival, a diverse variety of artwork was showcased.

Performances, film screenings and artwork was shown at the main venues at the Courtyard Theatre (Hoxton), 45 Lavender Hill (Clapham) & Green Lens Studios (Harringay Village) throughout the weekend.

The program can be found here : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161304078081

And the complete collection of artwork + pictures can be found here : http://luxurygoods.freevar.com/The%20Role%20of%20Art.html

Today, we are pleased to announce that we have successfully secured four railings for the safe keeping of your bicycles.


Installment time – 2 days
Location: Green Lens Studios

Click here to see

Trichrome Blue from Lois van Baarle on Vimeo.

Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.
We all deserve to have a break – but having one shouldn’t involve taking a bite out of Indonesia’s precious rainforests. We’re asking Nestlé to give rainforests and orang-utans a break and stop buying palm oil from destroyed forests.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/kitkat

Submit you own 1 min long video before tuesdays workshop.