WOMAD’s new festival – Earth Station – has announced further acts.
An opportunity to receive and transmit ideas, issues and solutions towards a more sustainable planet, this innovative event melds the intellectual and cultural energies of leading scientific minds with a performance program featuring some of the world’s most accomplished and diverse musicians. The festival audience will be inspired by a refreshing and rare combination of discussion and music during a weekend of forums, displays and performances.
The line-up for the performance program is –
- The Kronos Quartet (USA)
- Abdullah Ibrahim (SOUTH AFRICA)
- Rickie Lee Jones (USA)
- Zakir Hussain (INDIA)
- Toumani Diabate (MALI)
- Konono No. 1( DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
- The Tallest Man on Earth (SWEDEN)
- The Audreys (AUS)
- The catholics (AUS)
- Emma Donovan Band (AUS)
- Frank Yamma & David Bridie (AUS)
- Iwantja Band (AUS)
- Ellis Pearson – “Man Up a Tree” (SOUTH AFRICA – site artist)
- Mark Atkins (AUS)
- Mista Savona (AUS)
- Pacific Curls (NZ)
- Paris Wells (AUS)
- Shanghai Chinese Orchestra (CHINA)
- Stan’s Cafe “Of All the People in All the World” (UK – site piece)
- Vika & Linda Bull (AUS)
- Wu Man (CHINA)
- The Yearlings (AUS)
The Planet Talks program includes –
- Bruce Thom AM (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and Emeritus Professor University of Sydney)
- Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton (Sydney Theatre Company)
- Giselle Weybrecht (USA) (Author of The Sustainable MBA)
- Hunter Lovins (USA) (Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions)
- Samantha Mostyn (Founder of the ‘1 Million Women’ movement)
- Robyn Williams (ABC: The Science Show)
- Ian Lowe OA (President of Australian Conservation Foundation)
- John McTernan (UK) (Global expert on public service leadership, adviser to Tony Blair)
- Matthew Wright (Director, Beyond Zero Emissions)
- Rod Quantock (Australian Comedian)
- Mike Young (Director, Environment Institute Adelaide University)
- Mike Sandiford (Director, Melbourne Energy Institute & Professor of Geology Melbourne University)
- Paul Gilding (Author of The Great Disruption, former Head of Greenpeace International)
- Peter Cosier (Director, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists)
- Prof Lesley Hughes (Head of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University and Climate Change Commissioner)
- Roy Neel (USA) (Vice President Al Gore’s Chief of Staff)
- Paul Willis (Director, RiAus)
- Stephen Pekar (USA) (Assoc Professor School of Earth & Environmental Science, Queens College New York State)
- Tim Stubbs (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists)
- Bernie Hobbs ( ABC: The New Inventors)
- Associate Professor David Paton
- Dominic Skinner (Freshwater Ecology Expert)
- Associate Professor Keith Walker
- Dr Graham Turner (Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
- Fiona Heinrichs (Author, Sleepwalking to Catastrophe)
THE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM – is being developed in collaboration with the Environment Institute and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.
When: 21-23 October 2011
Where: Long Gully, Belair National Park
