As part of Creative Climate Fest ArtCan Green Team have curated and environmentally focussed exhibition
Growing Under One Sky

We strive to grow, judging progress, ambition and success by the increase of productivity and output. However, we have reached a stage where year on year economic growth as it stands, is beginning to suffocate us under unmanageable quantities of waste and residue. Our obsession with growth has also given us climate change, and an increase in weather anomalies.

We need to grow better habits and reconnect with our own importance. Every choice we make locally, has an impact globally. We cannot exist as individuals, as everything we do inextricably links us to people and the environment anywhere in the world. Water we pollute here, will affect the health of fish that migrate to other parts of the world. How we shop influences livelihoods and people we will never even meet.

Growing Under One Sky asks artists to examine what the act of growing means within this context. The work can focus on positive steps made over the last decade to fight climate change, or focus on ways we could or should change. Actions or concepts reflected, can be personal choices or crowd action. How can we inspire collaboration to mitigate the mistakes we’ve already made, and begin measuring success as having just what we need, measuring progress in how little we waste, and happiness in what we have done.

Catherine Fenton as well as being an exhibiting artist at Nearly Home, has worked as a performer, acting and singing, taught public speaking and interpreted at conferences live on stage. Catherine runs courses using acting skills and her own experience to lock in confidence and positivity in dealing with work or social situations. Nice to Meet You! is a short taster workshop focussing on the first step- the perfect introduction.

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Catherine and Catalina met in Madrid and found common links in their own artistic practice and experience as art curators. It was the discussions around living with the feeling of otherness that comes from having lived in, and been influenced by, more than one culture and country that lead to the upcoming exhibition Nearly Home.
Nearly Home asks us to consider how, beyond the obvious structures of shelter, do we personally define the often intangible quality that gives each of us a feeling of belonging? How do some fortunate enough to have had a happy childhood home, consolidate the feeling of nostalgia, with a need to grow new roots. Whether displaced by circumstance or choice, we navigate the world physically and spiritually in search of home, a place where we are in tune with who we are and comfortable to welcome in the people we love.
Catalina Aranguren Because of the diversity of cultures in which she grew up, and perhaps in spite of them, her photography explores the relationship between perception and cognition. Oftentimes in her work she captures an instant, which forces the viewer to come closer to explore for more detail, or to take a step back to understand the full picture.
Catherine Fenton Frequently dealing with issues surrounding the environment and human rights, her paintings use collaged material relating to the subject, drawing in the viewer with colour and texture with the intention of rousing further curiosity around the subject, the aim being to inform, engage and inspire.

7th November 20.00 As part of the exhibition there will be a reading by author Sam Tubito of Beneath a Borrowed Sky, an autobiographical account of being brought up as a third culture child and the circumstances and choices that lead her to bringing up her own third culture children.
14th November .1900-21.00 Nice to Meet You! Catherine’s introduction workshop uses acting skills for everyday life to practice the perfect introduction, finding the right tone for each occasion and discovering the confidence to make new connections whether moving country, moving job or just moving amongst different circles of friends.€10 via bizum 696199722
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