Playing for Time : Making Art as if the World Mattered.

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Intro; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgement; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1: DRIVERS OF CHANGE; THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HUMAN BEINGS AND ENERGY | PAUL ALLEN; RELOCALISATION AND THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT | ROB HOPKINS; GROWN-UP ECONOMICS | BETH STRATFORD; ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE | HEATHER ACKROYD; RADICAL KINDNESS -- BEYOND RANDOM ACTS | PEOPLE UNITED; ART AND ACTIVISM | FARZANA KHAN, JAMES MARRIOTT, KEVIN SMITH AND JANE TROWELL OF PLATFORM; REDESIGNING OUR FOOD SYSTEMS | BONNIE HEWSON; RECLAIMING THE COMMONS | JONATHAN GORDON-FARLEIGH.

RESTORATION OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY | KATE RAWLESTHE PRACTICE; Transitional arts practice; THE PRINCIPLES; 1. Intention; 2. Ignition; 3. Frame; 4. Work with community; 5. Facilitate; 6. Hold space; 7. Connect; 8. Work from commonality; 9. Collaborate; 10. Change; FOUR PRACTICES; 1. Fabio Santos; 2. Ruth Ben-Tovim; 3. Hilary Jennings; 4. Maria Amidu; WHAT IS A TRANSITION INITIATIVE? | CHARLOTTE DU CANN; 2: THE PRACTICE; LAND: GOING TO GROUND; Introduction: Song by Waiata Telfer; Going To Ground; Between Body and Land by Nic Green; Emergence Land Journey by Fern Smith.

Beuysterous: Towards Planetary Sculpture? by Bridget McKenzieRannoch Wolf by Dougie Strang; HOME: BELONGING TO EARTH; Introduction: Art Should Be Like the Bread on the Kitchen Table by Eva Bakkeslett; Belonging To Earth; Singing in a Dark Time by Dougie Strang; The Whirl by Ruth Nutter; Away From Home! The Journey of Survival and Creativity in a New World by Cedoux Kadima; Florilegium: Honey Flow I, Ii, Iii, Iv by Amy Shelton; Diarykeepers by Anne-Marie Culhane; Loop: Betty, Pat, Diane, Ivy, Lyn, Bonney by Maria Amidu; Humility and the Superhumus by Lucy Neal.

RITES OF PASSAGE: SEEDING NEW MYTHOLOGIESIntroduction: The Sacred in the Everyday by Gilly Adams; Seeding New Mythologies; Coming of Age by Naomi Yeger; Transition Through Nature by Ruth Nutter; The Life Cairn by Andreas Kornevall; Liminal by Dougie Strang; For The Best by Anna Ledgard; Ulverston Lantern Parade: Ceremony And Celebration by Sue Gill; FOOD GROWING: FROM EMPTY PLOTS TO FULL PLATES; Introduction: Radical Roots by Josiah Meldrum; From Empty Plots to Full Plates; Eat 22: The Personal is Political by Ellie Harrison; The Edible Garden by Fabio Santos.

Grow Sheffield and Abundance by Anne-Marie CulhaneFruit Routes by Anne-Marie Culhane; Seeds by Azul-Valerie Thome; A Little Patch of Ground by Ruth Ben-Tovim; Memories of Mr Seel's Garden by Michelle Bastian; Feast on the Bridge by Clare Patey; ACTIVISM: CROSSING THE RIVER OF FIRE; Introduction: On The Tightrope Between Art and Activism: Five Promises by John Jordan; Graeae by Jenny Sealey; Creative Practice of Activism by Danielle Paffard; Work-A-Thon for the Self-Employed by Ellie Harrison; Crossing The River of Fire; Shake! -- Youth Voices on Art, Race, Media and Power by Farzana Khan.

Testing Transition by Zane Kreicberga.

This groundbreaking handbook is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to reach beyond the facts and figures of science and technology to harness their creativity to make change in the world. Playing for Time explores the pivotal role artists play in rethinking the future; reinventing and reimagining our world at a time of systemic change and uncertainty. Identifying collaborative arts practices emerging in response to planetary challenges, it reclaims a traditional role for artists in the community as truth-tellers and agents of change. 64 experienced artists and activists give voice to a new narrative ' shifting society's rules and values away from consumerism and commodity towards community and collaboration with imagination, humour, ingenuity, empathy and skill. Inspired by the grassroots Transition movement, modelling change in communities worldwide, Playing for Time joins the dots between key drivers of change ' in energy, finance, climate change, food and community resilience ' and provides 'recipes for action' for readers to take up and try.

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