Lemn Sissay

What If

What If? is a powerful examination of the direction that ‘evolution’ has taken the human race in the 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species. Performed in a studio with musicians Gary Crosby and Peter Edwards and contrasting views of city life with shots of the fast disappearing Arctic regions, the film asks what if we got it wrong?

A film by Lemn Sissay
Musicians Gary Crosby and Peter Edwards
Camera David Scott
Sound Mick Ritchie
Arctic footage provided by Cape Farewell

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Still Life

Nick Cobbing

A sheaf of wheat pressed into Arctic snow.   Image credit: Nick Cobbing / Cape Farewell More ›

Drink

Carol Cotterill

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Nick Cobbing – Blosseville Coast Iceberg

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Clare Twomey – Blossom

Clare Twomey - Blossom

  Clare Twomey’s Blossom was a major Cape Farewell commission launched in 2007/08 at the Eden Project.  The vast and delicate work comprised thousands of fragile... More ›

David Buckland – Ice Texts

Buckland - Ice Text

David Buckland – Ice Texts, 2003 ‘Burning ice, The Cold Library of Ice, Sadness Melts: Texts projected on a glacier wall as the captain manoeuvres the... More ›

Leviathan

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Sunand Prasad – Greenhouse Gas

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This picture is taken from a project by the artist Sunand Prasad.  The red balloons represent C02 emissions.  Together the balloons mark out a cube representing... More ›

Leonid Tishkov – Private Moon

Tishkov - Private Moon

A photograph from the artist Leonid Tishkov’s ‘Private Moon’ series – with Cape Farewell’s expedition boat, the Noorderlicht, in the background. Credit: Leonid Tishkov / Cape... More ›

Rough Seas

Rough Sea

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Northern Lights

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The Aurora Borealis (or Northern Lights) is caused by the collision of charged particles, carried on solar winds, with the earth’s atmosphere.   Credit: Cape Farewell,... More ›

David Buckland – Messenger

David Buckland - Messenger

Photographer David Buckland projects the ‘shadowy form of a pregnant woman walk[ing] over black ice, her body serving to remind us of our responsibility to unborn... More ›

Splash

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Lemn Sissay

What If

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What If? is a powerful examination of the direction that ‘evolution’ has taken the human race in the 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of... More ›

SWITCH night at RIch Mix 2

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We also showcased the young poets and YPNers who rose to the SWITCH Challenge series at an evening event at Rich Mix, London, featuring newly commissioned... More ›

SWITCH night at Rich Mix 1

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Celebrating the first year of SWITCH, we made a short film to present an inspiring year of creative schools workshops – led by poets Karen McCarthy... More ›

Ian McEwan speaks to his fellow writers

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The renowned writer and Cape Farewell Patron Ian McEwan took big interest in the Switch competition and had addressed all his fellow writers at the final... More ›

A tough choice: the runners-up

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The decision on who is going to win was a difficult one there were quite a few excellent submissions. Well done to all! The runners-up for... More ›

Challenge winner: Jake Reynolds

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Jake Reynolds

The final challenge was to write a poem that contained the things you would put in a box to represent humanity if aliens landed in the... More ›

Challenge winner: Serena Cooke

Challenge 3

Serena Cooke

Challenge three was to write a collage poem that explores the causes and effects of climate change, using information gathered from notebooks and freewrites responding to... More ›

Challenge winner: Mary Anne Clark

Challenge 2

Mary Anne Clark

The prompt for the second challenge was to write a poem in the voice of an animal that has to leave its home. Mary Anne Clark... More ›

Challenge winner: Jamie Uy

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The Winner: Jamie Uy

The winner of the first challenge is Jamie Uy, a very promising young poet. The challenge was to take on the theme of consumerism responding to... More ›

Ana Cecilia Gonzales Vigil

Amazonian Butterflies

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Daro Montag 03/07/2009, 11:04am “Everything is carbon in motion. Even the butterfly is carbon in flight.” More ›

Hannah Tuulikki

Away With The Birds

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Hanna Tuulikki’s Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds in Gaelic) is a vocal piece investigating the relationship between the Scottish Gaelic tradition and... More ›

Geoff Sample

Away With the Birds

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From Geoff Sample’s Artist Diary from Away With The Birds, 2012: The deep throb of the ferry’s engines provides an accompaniment to the journey and transports... More ›

DJ Spooky

Dreams and Waking Life

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“I haven’t been able to sleep much, and some of the best thoughts I’ve had on this voyage have been in the place between dreams and... More ›

Deidre Nelson

Bird Yarns

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Bird Yarns brings together knitters from Mull and across the UK and beyond, with textile artist Deirdre Nelson in response to the changing migration patterns of... More ›

Yann Martel

Yann Martel
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Having just hiked for 3 weeks through the Peruvian Amazon, the author of Life of Pi Yann Martel reflects on how this experience and the acquired... More ›

Ana Cecilia Gonzales Vigil

The Amazon

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Clouds

Andes Expedition

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Filmed during Cape Farewell’s 2009 Andes Expedition. More ›

Karen McCarthy Woolf

XYZ Generation

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X, Y, Z Generation from Karen McCarthy Woolf on Vimeo. At some point every generation thinks it’s the last. This usually happens when people are young... More ›

Adriane Colburn

Forest for the Trees

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Forest for the Trees is a meditation on the complex relationship between nature and industry; sustained land vs commodified land; matter on the surface of the... More ›

Nathan Gallagher

Icebergs in Ilulissat

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Nathan Gallagher

Footprints in snow

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This snow was near where some fish had been caught and prepared for eating. More ›

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Figures in Uummannaq

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Nathan Gallagher

Fog over a Greenlandic glacier

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Nathan Gallagher

Ludvig, a native Greenlander, facing the cold

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Daro Montag

Festive Lima

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Carol Cotterill

The dangers of snow - showing Ben Jervey

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Dan Harvey

Arctic fox footprints

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Dan Harvey

Burning Snow

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Ackroyd & Harvey

The Floating Field

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Antony Gormley

'Marker One' - in making...

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Dan Harvey

Ice close up

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Greenpeace

Composite Image

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Greenpeace composite image showing the glacier Blomstrandbreen has retreated nearly 2 km since 1928, with an accelerated rate of 35 metres lost per year since 1960... More ›

Gautier Deblonde

Walruses

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Gautier Deblonde

Landscape with Petrol Pump

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Dan Harvey

Sea Creatures

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Daro Montag

Controlled burning in an Amazonian forest

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Anthony Gormley and Peter Clegg

Shelter 2005

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Rody Gorman

Sound Poem

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Loud noise, crust or hardness formed on the earth by the weather,             shower that comes suddenly, mountain torrent,             twisted or misshapen foot or ankle,... More ›