On 8 June the National Maritime Museum is celebrating World Oceans Day with a family festival designed to raise awareness of the ocean, connect people worldwide and inspire continuing action year-round to protect and restore our oceans.

The day-long festival will incorporate family friendly workshops, and talks from artists and academics as well as art installations and performances, encouraging and inspiring visitors to join together to help protect and conserve the world’s shared ocean. Celebrations will culminate in a World Oceans Day Parade led by performance artists and supported by visitors bearing placards with their own personal pledges to help save the ocean.

By marking World Oceans Day, NMM aims to educate visitors on the importance of the ocean and encourage individuals to think about what the ocean means to them with hopes of conserving it for present and the future generations.

Visitors will experience thought-provoking performances throughout the day. Designer and creator Anna Kompaniets will create three headpieces out of rubbish collected at the National Maritime Museum in order to highlight consumer waste issues. These will be the centrepiece of a parade lead by Anna and her troupe that visitors will be encouraged to support and join. Artist, Hector Dyer’s No Time to Waste performance will take its audience on the slow-moving journey of a turtle, aiming to raise awareness and spread positive action about waste, consumption and extinction.

Artist Peter Matthews will discuss how his works have been inspired by the ocean and a pioneering new work by Evan Roth will be displayed alongside accompanying objects from NMM collections. NMM will also host family friendly creative workshops and give visitors the chance to learn a new skill with Outrigger Canoes UK. Both adults and children will be able to try Kayak paddling training machines and learn about Polynesian calls for paddling in a virtual canoe.

“The Museum recognises the importance of highlighting issues related to maritime sustainability and good ocean stewardship.” says Laura Boon, Maritime Curator at NMM. “A healthy world ocean is critical to our survival as it generates much of the oxygen we breathe, helps feed us, and regulates our climate. Together we can and must protect and restore our ocean.”

The variety of events on offer at the NMM during World Oceans Day aims to encourage visitors to act as caretakers of the ocean, allowing participants of all ages to discover the wealth of diverse and beautiful ocean creatures and habitats, how our daily actions affect them, and how we are all interconnected.

For more information on World Oceans Day 2019 visit https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/world-oceans-day-0

Highlights Include:

  • Engaging art workshops for all ages using recycled materials
  • Art installations from Evan Roth and Peter Matthews
  • Thought-provoking Performance Art from Anna Kompaniets and Hector Dyer
  • Inspiring Slogan Workshop incorporating visitors’ pledges to the ocean

 

FAMILY EVENTS

 

Reviving Coral Reefs: Recycling Materials

Join us to create a giant coral reef out of recycled materials. Find out how important our coral reefs are and how we can stop them disappearing.

Location:          Propeller Space

Times:              Drop In 11.00-13.00 | 14.00-16.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Outrigger Canoes Workshop

Both adults and children will be able to try Kayak paddling training machines provided by Outrigger Canoes UK. Visitors can drop in and learn about Polynesian calls for paddling in a virtual canoe.

Location:          Museum lawn facing Greenwich Park

Times:              Drop In 10.00 – 16.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

World Oceans Day Parade

Join Anna Kompaniets and her troupe’s procession from the Great Map, through the National Maritime Museum, and out to Greenwich Park. Visitors will be encouraged to present banners, placards and slogans made in the World Oceans Day Slogan Workshop.

Location:          Great Map

Times:              15.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Slogan Workshop

Visitors can create slogans for pledge placards and write their pledges to the ocean. These can be used as part of the World Oceans Day Parade and posted in social media.

Location:          Great Map

Times:              10.00 – 16.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Hector Dyer: No Time to Waste

No Time to Waste is performance art which aims to raise awareness and spread positive action about waste, consumption and extinction. The performance takes shape as a procession where the focal point is a turtle ravaged by plastic pollution who is making their final crawl. The procession lasts until the turtle cannot crawl any further. This bizarre, surreal and tragically colourful funeral procession for the turtle interrogates how to support the turtle and engage in conversations for inspiration towards climate change.

Location:          The Great Map

Times:              11.00 – 14.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Seascape workshop

Join us to create a stunning oceanscape inspired by the National Maritime Museum’s collection using plastic-free hand printing.

Location:          Great Map

Times:              10.00 – 16.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

The Ocean Trawler

Inspired by Boyan Slat and the Ocean Clean Up, come and create a giant trawler net to sweep up all the plastic in our ocean and create sea creatures to restore the balance.

Location:          Learning Space

Times:              Drop In 11.00-13.00 | 14.00-16.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

ART AND LITERATURE TALKS AND WORKSHOPS

 

Artist at work: Anna Kompaniets

In order to raise awareness of consumer waste, performance artist Anna will create 3 headpieces out of rubbish collected at the National Maritime Museum in order to raise awareness of how without even thinking about it we create consumer waste which ends up in our oceans, and pollutes our Earth.

Location:          Great Map

Times:              11.00 – 15.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Peter Matthews: Paintings from the Atlantic Coast – Artist Talk

Peter Matthews’ painted canvas of the Atlantic coast will hang over the Great Map as part of our World Oceans Day festivities. Peter’s work embodies personal and experiential connections to the oceans, helping viewers connect with these important bodies of water covering our planet

Location:          Lecture Theatre

Times:              13.00 – 14.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Adult

 

Peter Matthews: Paintings from the Atlantic Coast – Poetry Workshop

Peter Matthews’ painted canvas of the Atlantic coast will hang over the Great Map as part of our World Oceans Day festivities. This poetry workshop will create works inspired by the sounds of the Ocean.

Location:          Baltic Glass

Times:              14.00 – 14.45 | 15.00 – 15.45

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Evan Roth: Red Lines

The National Maritime Museum presents new work by artist Evan Roth commissioned by Artangel. Red Lines is a network of mesmerising video landscapes streamed free to your home, workplace or public space in this pioneering new project.

Roth has travelled to coastal sites around the world where the cables that make the internet possible emerge from the sea. Filmed in infrared, the same spectrum in which data is transmitted online, the videos reveal another side of the internet, one that moves at the speed of weather, wind, and tide.

Location:          Propeller

Times:              10.00 – 16.00

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

Under the sea – Objects in focus

Nearly all transcontinental phone calls and internet traffic relies on under-sea cables. If you watch stream movies or songs, save data to the cloud or use social media this will all be using fibre optic submarine cables.  Join our curators Megan Barford and Laura Boon to learn more about the incredible project which revolutionised the world with the laying of the first submarine cables over 150 years ago. See real objects from our collection including historical maps and technology.

Location:          Beneath the figureheads

Times:              Drop In 11.30 – 15.30

Admission:       Free

Age:                 Suitable for all ages

 

THROUGHOUT WORLD OCEANS DAY 2019:

  • Enchanting performances from a singing mermaid
  • Art Installation outside Stanhope Entrance using green waste from Greenwich park and foraged foliage
  • ‘20 questions’ interactive game with prizes
  • Launch of new ships (including Empire Windrush and Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise) on the Great Map
  • Performances from The Metronomes Steel Orchestra

 

Information for visitors:

Venue:                         National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Dates:                           8 June 2019

Opening times:                        10.00 – 17.00

Visitor enquiries:          020 8858 4422 / https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/world-oceans-day-0

Website:                       https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/world-oceans-day-0

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