BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Algiers X-LIC-LOCATION:Africa/Algiers BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4009906:Event:97 DTSTAMP:20100312T205403Z SUMMARY:Ghost Forest - London DESCRIPTION:GHOST FOREST\nArt Installation\n\n‘The answer is simp le. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against Climate Change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lu ngs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.’\nMichael Somare, P rime Minister of Papua New Guinea\n\nGhost Forest is an original and a mbitious art installation which will dramatically raise public awarene ss of the connections between deforestation and climate change. A seri es of 10 primary rainforest tree stumps, most with their buttress root s still attached, will be presented as a 'ghost forest' firstly in Tra falgar Square in London in November, and then in Copenhagen to coincid e with the UN Climate Change Conference in December. The future of rai nforests will lead the agenda at the conference, which will be attende d by over 11,000 delegates from 192 countries. The Ghost Forest tree s tumps are being taken from a regulated, commercially logged tropical r ainforest in Ghana. Permission has been granted by theGreater London A uthority to stage Ghost Forest in Trafalgar Square from November 16 to 22. It will then move to Copenhagen for exhibition in Thorvaldsens Pl ads, a magnificent city centre square close to the National Museum and Parliament Square.\n\nThe negative space created by the missing trunk s will present a powerful metaphor for climate change – the absence representing the removal of the world‟s „lungs‟ through continue d deforestation. Both locations provide a powerful stage for the insta llation. Trafalgar Square is one of the world‟s most visited tourist sites and the epicentre of Western industrialisation over the past 20 0 years. Nelson‟s Column stands over 50 metres (169 feet) tall, the approximate height many of these trees would have stood at in the wild . In Copenhagen, the Ghost Forest tree stumps will stand as symbols of threatened rainforest trees throughout the world as the 11,000 delega tes debate their future. Eight indigenous species will be represented - Denya, Dahuma, Danta, Hyedua, Kyere, Mahogany, Celtis and Wawa - all with a rich and varied ecology and all with equally diverse uses by m an.\nWhile the trees should stand unadorned and impressive, there will be important opportunities to provide information to feed the publicâ €Ÿs curiosity. In addition to information boards in Trafalgar Square, further details about each species, the biodiversity they support, the ir proportions in the wild, the functions and products they provide on ce felled, will be available on the project‟s dedicated website www. ghostforest.org (going live end of September).\n\nFor more information visit http://www.arts4cop15.org/events/ghost-forest-london DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Algiers:20091116T000000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Algiers:20091122T235900 CATEGORIES:exhibition, public, spaces LOCATION:Trafalgar Square, London WEBSITE:http://angelaspalmer.com URL:http://angelaspalmer.com CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Angela Palmer ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/HOOdfrsMhfPfZ 5Ysq0mWnu8CK27c8IcX5H5HpTTtOM2oi5jfMyV*2l87k8SbjjkS/ghostforest.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="William Shaw":http://www.arts4cop15.org/profile/Will END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR