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Confluence of European Water Bodies short film released!
March 7 2024, coinciding with our book launch at SEXYLAND World, the Confluence of European Water Bodies short film had its world premiere! At the salt water lagoon the Mar Menor in Spain, the first European water body to be recognized as a legal entity in 2022, water bodies from all over Europe gathered for a …
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Assembly January 2025: Whose Ocean?
The Embassy of the North Sea is collaborating with Casco Art Institute and other partners on the multidisciplinary research project by the University of Utrecht, called Whose Ocean? When governing bodies such as the UN talk about ‘our oceans’, it is completely unclear who they are referring to with ‘our’. That’s why the ‘Whose Ocean?‘ …
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Trailer Confluence of European Water Bodies — Now released!
While we are busy preparing for the second edition of our Confluence of European Water Bodies, we are proud to present the trailer of the Confluence in September 2023. At the salt water lagoon the Mar Menor in Spain, the first European water body to be recognized as a legal entity in 2022, water bodies …
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Name Your River grassroots impact programme
This spring, the Embassy of the North Sea, together with ZINDOC, will launch the Name Your River grass roots impact programme for the film I Am The River, The River Is Me, a documentary about the Whanganui River in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Whanganui River is the first river in the world to be granted personhood rights in …
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Our new publication: Exercises in Watery Politics
Exercises in Watery Politics Embassy of the North Sea phase 1 / 2018-2023 listening November 15 2023, we will publish our new book: Exercises in Watery Politics. This book is an invitation to collectively listen to the North Sea and other ecosystems and recognise them as political, cultural and legal players. This is urgently needed, because while regulations on …
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Confluence of European Water Bodies launched!
Words fail to express the gratitude we feel for what we have experienced in the past three days at the Confluence of European Waters at the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe with legal personhood. We weaved connectivity and collectivity with waters from Poland to Italy, from Sweden to France, from Serbia to Montenegro, to …
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Proclamation European Waters to the people of Europe
Bruxelles, 18 September 2023 The Confluence of European Waters starts today with a collective and symbolic proclamation of the united water bodies in front of the European Parliament, introduced by Member of European Parliament Marie Toussaint. Prior to the proclamation, Erena Rhöse, a Māori woman native of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and living in Sweden, will perform …
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Confluence of European Water Bodies about to start at Mar Menor
From September 22 – 24 2023, the first Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place. During the conference, water bodies from all over Europe will meet for an intercultural exchange on the representation of water in Europe’s cultural, political and legal realm. The Confluence of European Waters will take place at the Mar Menor, …
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Conference of European Waters — early iterations, by Mekhala Dave
June 2023 Initiated as a multi-year project, the Conference of European Waters was launched in March 2023 to draw on fluid networks of active collaborations to situate rights of water bodies in European policy frameworks. As a milestone and to celebrate the Mar Menor’s legal personhood, the first iteration of the in-person gathering will be …
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Embassy of the North Sea research partner of Manifesta 15 | Barcelona!
Proud to announce that the Embassy of the North Sea is one of the research partners for Manifesta 15 | Barcelona! On invitation by Manifesta, the Embassy of the North Sea (artists Sheng Wen Lo & Leon Lapa Pereira) has been doing field research on the Llobregat Delta. The Llobregat Delta is suffering from drought …
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