Dear friends and colleagues. May I please remind you that the deadline for proposals to participate in our 2021 programming strand, Borrowed Time, arrives this coming Sunday (December 13).

Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change has mutated from a physical gathering (that was to have taken place last month) to a year-long festival of thought around death, dying & change that will culminate in November 2021.

Borrowed Time is an art.earth event convened by poet/illustrator Mat Osmond; our academic partner is Falmouth University - details of the programme as it emerges can be found at borrowed-time.info

We welcome proposals from practitioners, thinkers and makers, from celebrants, scientists, and carers - inviting these and others to an assembly that will incline us all towards the unpredictable encounter, and towards apprehending death in ways that renew our understanding of what it means – and what it asks of us - to be alive. art.earth has a well-deserved reputation for the breadth and depth of its gatherings: at the darkening of the year in 2020 we’ll turn to the many ways in which the unsought visitations of dying and change bear upon and underpin our lives.