Earth's Gravest Challenge - Profiles
Thursday, 7 July 2011 |
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Julian Cribb
Author, journalist and renowned science communicator Professor Julian Cribb’s The Coming Famine drew international attention to looming food shortages around the world. Last year in the New York Times he wrote: “Despite the global food crisis of 2007–8, the coming famine hasn’t happened yet. It is a looming planetary emergency whose interlocked causes and deeper ramifications the world has barely begun to absorb, let alone come to grips with. Experts predict that the crisis will peak by the middle of the twenty-first century; it is arriving even faster than climate change. Yet there is still time to forestall catastrophe.”
From 1996-2002 he was Director, National Awareness, for Australia's national science agency, CSIRO where he oversaw a 150 per cent growth in the organisation’s media profile. A journalist since 1969, he was editor of the "National Farmer" and "Sunday Independent" newspapers, editor-in-chief of the "Australian Rural Times", and chief of the Australian Agricultural News Bureau. For ten years he was agriculture correspondent, science and technology correspondent and scientific editor for "The Australian" and still writes a regular column for the national daily.
He has received 32 awards for journalism including the Order of Australia Association Media Prize, the inaugural Eureka Prize for environmental journalism, the inaugural AUSTRADE award for international business journalism, the Dalgety Award for rural journalism, two MBF Awards for medical journalism and five Michael Daley Awards for science journalism.
He was national foundation president of the Australian Science Communicators (ASC), president of the National Rural and Resources Press Club, a member of CSIRO advisory committees for agriculture, fisheries and entomology. He teaches science communication at ANU. |
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Tiny Ruins
Tiny Ruins is the project of New Zealand musician & songwriter Hollie Fullbrook. It sprang from writing music for theatre productions in Wellington, dabbling in four-track recording and playing at live music and poetry nights. Samuel Prutton committed the first Tiny Ruins songs to record, in the form of rough demos, which, by way of the internet, were able to reach many more ears.
After working with respected Auckland producer Djeisan Suskov on a yet-to-be-released EP, Tiny Ruins went a-roaming in May of 2010, embarking on a small but noble tour of Northern Spain with Barcelona-based musician ‘a Singer of Songs’. A collaborative EP - ‘Little Notes’ - was born, featuring three songs from each of the pair. Recorded in an old apartment in Barcelona, it was released on December the 6th, 2010, by HI54LOFI Records (Canada) and Underused Records UK.
2010 drew to a close with the first Tiny Ruins album, Some Were Meant For Sea, being recorded in the wildernesses of South Gippsland, Australia by J Walker (CW Stoneking, Holly Throsby, Machine Translations).
Earlier this year Tiny Ruins played a series of shows in Australia supporting acts such as Beach House, Joanna Newsom, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Holly Throsby & The Hello Tigers, The Middle East, Sonny & The Sunsets, Olof Arnalds and Grand Salvo. |
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Carolina Moon
Carolina Moon, one of Auckland's premier world music ensembles, will perform a spellbinding collection of songs from ancient sources, reflective of the spirit of 'Aqua' and the global community touched by the scope of this exhibition.
Vocalist Carolina Moon, weaves Eastern and Western blends into a program of exquisite melodies, charismatic klezmer feels and songs drawn from the surrounding tide of musical inspiration, where Greek, Arabic and Gaelic meet original groove and the contemporary jazz tinges of Mike Nock and Jan Garbarek.
Creative Team
Carolina Moon - vocals, bells, Nigel Gavin - guitar, glissantar, Roger Manins - soprano sax, clarinets and flute
Jessica Hinden – violin Kevin Field – piano Olivier Holland - acoustic bass Chris O'Connor - hand drums, drumset. |
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