Cape Farewell North America

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Cape Farewell Foundation (CFF) is a North American charity that promotes a cultural response to climate change. By connecting people with climate science through a human-scale vision of the future offered by artists, the organization fosters human and planetary resilience by facilitating new ways for creativity, science, technology and business to work together.

CFF serves North America, building on the successful vision of its parent organization, Cape Farewell (UK/Global), which has led eight expeditions to the Arctic and one to the Andes, curated and toured several large-scale exhibitions nationally and internationally, produced two feature-length documentaries and two books about the work of its artists and scientists. CFF comprises a small Toronto-based team which is at the centre of the North American program of activity, including staff, board of directors, partner organizations, and funders.

The Cape Farewell vision is grounded in establishing long-term collaborations with international artists, organizations, and scientists. Past artistic collaborators include Leslie Feist, Ian McEwan, KT Tunstall, Yann Martell and Antony Gormley; UK organizational partnerships include the National Oceanography Centre, University of the Arts, the Tate, Crafts Council, Eden Project, Arts Council England, and the South Bank Centre, and international scientists have involved such high-profile scientists as Drs. Simon Boxall, Valborg Byfield, Carol Cotterill, Deborah Iglesias-Rodriguez, Joy Guillemot and Tom Wakeford.

CFF extends the mandate of its parent organization into North America. CFF sees culture as a catalyst in promoting a behaviour shift towards sustainability, resilience, and technological innovation. With climate science at the core of its activity, CFF explores and communicates a narrative in which human culture can provide leadership and inspiration on how humanity can live and flourish within its ecological means.

Gretel Ehrlich 2001 / 78°N 11.2°E

“It also occurs to me that the real and the imagined have long since fused here. Truths are relative to the imagination that invents them. It's not the content of experience that we end up with, but the structure of how we know something.”

Feist photographed near Jakobshavn Glacier, one of Greenland's largest glaciers and one that is moving at a faster rate than ever before, losing 20 million tons of ice every day.