CONVERSATION 01: The Power Of Collective Story

Sharing our stories. Shaping our future.

What can we learn from new perspectives and different cultures about the way collective storytelling can help shape a better future? Join us in conversation with practicing artists, indigenous writers, change makers and creative communicators as they share their own stories, insights and theories of change.

This conversation will take place against the stunning backdrop of The Story Of Our Planet Unfolds, a photographic exhibition that explores one important story in time - our collective response to climate change. 

Join the conversation with...

• Lekki Maze, Exhibition Curator & Director of GLIDER (Conversation Host)

• Jodi Newcombe, Founder of Carbon Arts

• Deborah Hart, Founder of LIVE, Co-Founder of CLIMARTE & ClimActs

• Rebecca Lovitt, CEO of Be Collective 

• Nic Low, Writer, Installation Artist & Arts Organiser 

• Matt Wicking, Musician, Change Facilitator & Sustainability Expert 

10 SEP, 6.30-8.00PM
Library At The Dock
Gallery, Level 1
107 Victoria Harbour Promenade
Docklands VIC 3008

CHAPTER 02: MELBOURNE

The next chapter of the story has begun. Visit the exhibition's new home at Library At The Dock in Melbourne to take part in the unfolding story. 

Share with us the future you'd like to help create by posting to #ourplanetourstory.

This is our story. The future is in our hands.

The Story Of Our Planet Unfolds
Library At The Dock, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands
www.melbournelibraryservice.com.au

CHAPTER 01: SYDNEY

The exhibition was first conceived by Glider in partnership with City of Sydney, Customs House Sydney and The Climate Institute, with whom Michael Hall was a Creative Fellow for two years. The inaugural exhibition ran from JUL-SEP 2014 and was an overwhelming success, with over 85,000 visitors through the door and significant media coverage including major newspapers, ABC radio, Australian Geographic, Broadsheet and TimeOut.

Designed specifically for a library context as a space for learning, exploration, and collective story, the exhibition combines over 50 large scale photographic images curated into succinct and impactful narratives. It draws upon other library contexts so that visitors encounter the story in new ways. For instance, by jacketing a collection of climate-related books in exhibition photographs and leaving them around the library to be discovered or inserting photo essays printed onto newsprint into the library’s newspaper resource wall. The exhibition includes other physical and social media activations to allow visitors to contribute and co-create the unfolding story - with their own images and writing.

Visitors found the exhibition “memorable and hard to ignore," "powerful and important," "extremely sobering," "breathtaking in good ways and bad," “human and personal with a a powerful sense of story that struck home in a new way," “eye opening," "awe inspiring and thought provoking" and "a potent reminder of our responsibilities.”