Talks

Guy Abrahams, Presentation of Truth in Art Awards, Healthy Parks-Healthy People Congress, Melbourne, 16 April 2010

Recent and Forthcoming Talks, Lectures, Speaking Engagements, Panel Discussions

Sustainability and the Arts Workshop, presented by AbaF Australian Business Arts Foundation  and CLIMARTE, Melbourne, 22 November 2011

Climate Change, Sustainability and the Arts – A Call to Action, Greening the Canvas, Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association, Melbourne, 22 October, 2011

Climate Change, Sustainability and the Arts, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 17 September, 2011

Climate Change, Sustainability and the Arts, Chisholm Institute, Frankston, 31 August, 2011

Arts and Climate: a catalyst for change?,  Museum & Gallery Services Queensland State Conference, Plenary Session “Managing Our Carbon Footprint,” 11 August, 2011

Climate Change: Where are this generation’s protest songs? Splendour In The Grass music festival, Woodford, Queensland, 30 July, 2011

Hot Science Global Citizens: the Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Interventions, University of Western Sydney, 5-6 April 2011.

Eco- Conversation Hour: Careers in Art, Media and Communication, Office of Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, 1.00pm, 4 April 2011, 1888 Building.

‘Art and climate – A catalyst for change’, 2.00pm Saturday 26 February 2011,  Theatre, Ground Level, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne. Presented in conjunction with the Sustainable Living Festival and CLIMARTE: Arts for a Safe Climate.

‘Climate Change and the Arts: What’s the connection?’, Obscura Gallery, Caulfield, Tuesday 17 November 2010

‘Climate Change: Causes, Impacts, Solutions‘, Mount Scopus College, Melbourne, Monday 25 October 2010

‘Sustainability & Creativity: How art can help save our world‘, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park 390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin, Victoria, Friday 15 October 2010 Morning Tea 10.30am Talk 11am – 12noon, Bookings: 9789 1671

‘Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography‘, Opening Address, NGV Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne, 22 September, 2010

Guy Abrahams, Dr Isobel Crombie, Dr Gerard Vaughan, Jill Orr

‘Arts & Sustainability: Catalysts for Change‘,  CAST Gallery, 27 Tasma Street, North Hobart, Friday 10 September 2010

‘Propositions for an Uncertain Future: A conversation on art in the public domain and
the possibilities for art in a changing environment‘, Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Street, Melbourne, 2 August 2010

‘Warming Up: Environmental Impacts on Our World’ , Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, 56 Ovens Street, Wangaratta, 1.30 pm on Saturday 31 July 2010

‘What has art got to do with the environment?’, Bayside Climate Change Action Group,  Sandringham Uniting Church, Trentham Street, Sandringham, 7.30pm on 28 July 2010.

‘Sustainabile Creativity: left brain, right brain’,  Swinburne  University of Technology, Prahran, 27 July 2010

seven thousand oaks festival, opening address,  Guilford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, 6.00pm, 17 June 2010

Wesley College, Elsternwick Campus, Climate change: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 3 June 2010

Public Galleries Association of Victoria – Annual General Meeting,  “Towards Sustainable Galleries: Climate Change, Sustainability and the Arts”, TarraWarra Museum of Art 25 May 2010

Obscura Gallery, May Projects, Opening Address,  285 Carlisle Street East St Kilda, 16 May 2010

Monash Infectious Diseases Society, The Alfred Hospital, Infectious Diseases Unit, Melbourne, Contagion: Health Impacts of Climate Change, 23 April 2010

EkoEnergy, Climate Change: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 20 April 2010

Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress, Melbourne, Presentation of Truth in Art Awards, 16 April 2010

Monash Gallery of Art, Art and Sustainability, 27 March 2010

Auburn South Primary School, Climate Change: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 19 March 2010

Victoria University, Climate Change: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 10 March 2010

Mount Scopus College, Climate Change: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 23 February 2010

Heide Museum of Modern Art,  Art and Sustainability, 14 February 2010

City of Melbourne, Melbourne Conversations – From Melbourne to Copenhagen: What’s our responsibility for Climate change? 9 December 2009 BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

The King David School, Climate Change: causes, impacts and solutions, 30 November 2009

Methodist Ladies’ College, Educating for a Sustainable Future – Climate Change: causes, impacts and solutions, 16 November 2009

LUMA LaTrobe University Museum of Art, Climate Change and The Arts, 16 October 2009

RMIT Drawing Department, Climate Change and The Arts, 30 September 2009

Counihan Gallery, Climate Change and The Arts, 22 September 2009

Law Institute of Victoria, Green Practice Project Launch, Transforming to sustainability – Lessons from the arts and medical profession, 2 September 2009

Victorian College of the Arts Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Climate Change and The Arts, 19 August 2009

Winning Leadership Initiatives in Environmental Sustainability Freehills / Australian Business Arts Foundation Boardroom Presentation (September 2008)

University of Melbourne, Constructing Global Warming, First Year Climate Change Breadth Subject (August 2008)

Chair, Art & the Environment: Spheres of Influence, Melbourne Art Fair Forum with Senator Bob Brown, Kirsten Kerstin Thompson Kirsten Kerstin Thompson Architects, Geraldine Barlow, Curator Monash University Gallery of Art, Lyndall Jones, Artist and Director of Research, School of Creative Media, RMIT University (July 2008)

Jewish Museum of Australia Corporate Club Business Breakfast, Art: Our Cultural Capital (August 2007)

Australian Business Arts Foundation, Artists’ Business Lecture Series (2006 – 2008)