Borrowed Time:
on death, dying & change
October 31 – November 2, 2021
Postgraduate Forum, November 3
and at other times too
All events at Borrowed Time are ONLINE
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We’re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its every life system beginning to fray and unravel under civilisation’s weight. We witness its collapse every day now, in new stories of cataclysmic weather events, of lives lost, of flora and fauna weirded, disrupted, gone. However incipiently or unconsciously, we live at a time of collective grieving – no life exempt from the consequences of this relentless devastation and what it has set loose.
Borrowed Time, on death dying & change is nevertheless a celebration: a gathering of disparate voices from across the globe coming together online from October 31 to November 3. These voices use many registers and tones to delve into the depths of living with and dealing with death and dying with joy as well as with sadness. Borrowed Time is a space to explore questions pertaining to death, dying and change, and to ask what dying has to teach us about living well, and living sustainably.
Join us as we engage with musicians and composers, historians, doctors, carers, artists, poets and writers, dreamers, priests, philosophers, animal researchers, ecologists and more. Our keynote presenters include the international speaker and activist Bayo Akomolafe, choreographer Paul Michael Henry (who presents a new Butoh-inspired dance on film, and Canadian film Director Jennifer Abbott whose latest film The Magnitude of All Things is receiving accolades and awards with screenings at film festivals across the globe.
Above all, then, Borrowed Time is a celebration of life, one that sets out to embrace and welcome all of its messy joys and travails.
There are numerous ways to access Borrowed Time from registering as a full delegate to attending a single event. The platform is online so can be accessed from wherever you happen to be. General booking is open now until tickets run out at www.borrowed-time.info. Borrowed Time is produced by the acclaimed arts organisation art.earth and is supported by the newly-emergent Dartington Arts School and the re-vivified Schumacher College.
We look forward to joining you there.
Borrowed Time events programme (featured events)
Keynote: Bayo Akomolafe
Keynote: Paul Michael Henry
Paul Michael Henry is a Scottish performance artist, dancer and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock ... Read More
Keynote: Jennifer Abbott
A screening of Jennifer Abbott's acclaimed film The Magnitude of All Things will be followed by an interview and ... Read More
Postgraduate Forum: Extinction
In collaboration with our good colleagues at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School we are including a postgraduate forum ... Read More
Publication proposal form
We will be producing a printed publication coming from the Borrowed Time series.
If you wish your ... Read More
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Borrowed Time events archive/gallery
Event: A Celebratory Gathering
In conversation: Sophie Strand
In Conversation : Sophie Pierce
Sophie Pierce is a writer and broadcaster who worked as a reporter and producer for the BBC for over ... Read More
Keynote: Dr Rachel Clarke
Charlotte Ducann with Caroline Ross & Dom Bury
First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to ... Read More
In Conversation: Stephen Jenkinson with Christos Galanis
In Conversation: Yuli Somme with Richard Povall
In Conversation: Pascale Petit with Mat Osmond
News
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Publication proposal form
Borrowed Time and Covid: an important announcement
Oliver Burkeman on Death & Dying
Queer Death Society zine
Rachel Clarke keynote
Join the BT Facebook Group
Articles, related events and more…
Oliver Burkeman on Death & Dying
Queer Death Society zine
Mourning our pets
Goodness and acceptance
Ear plugs…
Sophie Pierce in The Observer
art.earth on Facebook
Facebook Posts
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‘Veering from sheer terror to anxiety to acceptance, almost akin to going through stages of grief…Paul Michael Henry’s new dance has the kind of quietude that unnerves and provokes in equal measure.’ @pmichaelhenry keynotes Borrowed on Oct 31 Book now at t.co/VMW73Hf44e t.co/L7untwyaN4
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“‘Veering from sheer terror to anxiety to acceptance, almost akin to going through stages of grief…Paul Michael Henry’s new dance has the kind of quietude that unnerves and provokes in equal m...
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As a body-based practitioner, Anna Kushnerova focuses her attention on kinetic & physical research skills: a xover of experiential anatomy, movement & improvisation, her performances blend dance, ceremony, sculpture & sound. Join us Friday Nov 5 at 13.00.https://t.co/JrTRA9gr1D t.co/R0oe9riLOt
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Oct 15, 2021
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“As a body-based practitioner, Anna Kushnerova focuses her attention on kinetic & physical research skills: a xover of experiential anatomy, movement & improvisation, her performances blend dance, c...
With the gently irony of malfeasance (for surely malfeasance is the only way we can describe our venal and dishonest treatment of the planet and the lives of others), the periods of lockdown we have all experienced over the past year or so have brought into sharp focus our own fragilities and opened our eyes and ears to the creatures we have so carelessly ignored for too long. Exhausted by the incessant noise of industry and urban culture, our ears were given some rest and quietude to let us hear once again the richness of bird song that surrounds; we finally had time to look afresh at the world around us. Many of us have lost friends to a virus long-predicted but quietly ignored until it would be ignores no longer. Friends and family may no longer be with us, but neither is our confidence to control and micro-manage this planet we inhabit. This pandemic has taught us all to beg for more time to correct our indolence and arrogance.
Join us as we engage with musicians and composers, historians, doctors, carers, artists, poets and writers, dreamers, priests, philosophers, animal researchers, ecologists and more. Our keynote presenters include the international speaker and activist Bayo Akomolafe, choreographer Paul Michael Henry (who presents a new Butoh-inspired dance on film, and Canadian film Director Jennifer Abbott whose latest film The Magnitude of All Things is receiving accolades and awards with screenings at film festivals across the globe.
Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. October 31 to November 3 online. Register now at borrowed-time.info
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Poetic thinker @BayoAkomolafe works to inspire a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry; he believes the crises of our time are not exterior to us who are a part of the problem. Bayo opens Borrowed Time symposium (Oct 31 to Nov 3) t.co/VMW73HwFsO t.co/EFdgurHHQn
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Oct 15, 2021
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“Poetic thinker @BayoAkomolafe works to inspire a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry; he believes the crises of our time are not exterior to us who are a part of the pro...
artdotearth
Help us explore how artists work with the viscera of their environments and materials. How does their work invite us into somatic relationships? We seek your proposal addressing these and other questions. @dartingtonarts @schumachercollege Deadline Nov15. t.co/LibbrDPkHv t.co/AgBIa77USN
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Oct 15, 2021
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“Help us explore how artists work with the viscera of their environments and materials. How does their work invite us into somatic relationships? We seek your proposal addressing these and other que...Borrowed Time FB Group
Borrowed Time is an online conference with a difference: it feels like a live gathering and brings together a wide array of voices exploring ideas of loss and dying from personal and planetary perspectives.
These themes are explored across the event which runs from October 31 to November 3. We proudly offer a screening of Jennifer Abbott’s The Magnitude of All Things, her feature-length documentary film which is not yet on general release. Jennifer will also be in conversation with Mat Osmond. Other keynote presentations come from the renowned thinker Bayo Akomolafe who asks us In what sense might we consider death – more than just a terminal point – a gift to this pandemic-inflected Anthropocene. And choreographer Paul Michael Henry whose searingly powerful work explores the ecological crisis from many human angles.
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything.
For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kicking down the front door. Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action.
Borrowed Time runs from October 31 to Nov 3 online. Book now at borrowed-time.info
We’re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its every life system beginning to fray and unravel under civilisation’s weight. We witness its collapse every day now, in new stories of cataclysmic weather events, of lives lost, of flora and fauna weirded, disrupted, gone. However incipiently or unconsciously, we live at a time of collective grieving - no life exempt from the consequences of this relentless devastation and what it has set loose.
Borrowed Time, on death dying & change is nevertheless a celebration: a gathering of disparate voices from across the globe coming together online from October 31 to November 3. These voices use many registers and tones to delve into the depths of living with and dealing with death and dying with joy as well as with sadness. Borrowed Time is a space to explore questions pertaining to death, dying and change, and to ask what dying has to teach us about living well, and living sustainably.
Above all Borrowed Time is a celebration of life, one that sets out to embrace and welcome all of its messy joys and travails.
October 31 to Nov 3 online. Book now at borrowed-time.info
Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change
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The deadline for proposals to Borrowed Time is Sunday December 13 at 23.00hrs.
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