Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia – New affiliated SACC & Sustainability Committee Member
The SACC is very proud to announce our newly established partnership with Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia, whose CEO Andrew Petersen, also is a member of the SACC Sustainability Committee. We are looking forward to working together to advance and join in one voice of business for sustainability in Australia.
About BCSD Australia
BCSD Australia is an Australian business-led organization of over 60 philanthropic, private and public sector organizations, working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable Australia. We are part of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) which is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.
We help make our member companies more successful and sustainable by focusing on the maximum positive impact for shareholders, the environment and societies. Member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a global revenue of more than USD $8.5 trillion and over 19 million employees. Being part of a global network of almost 70 national business councils gives our members unparalleled reach across the globe.
Since 1991, BCSD Australia has been uniquely positioned to work with member organizations and companies along and across value chains. Together, we are the leading voice of business for sustainability: united by our vision of a world where more than 9 billion people are all living well and within the boundaries of our planet, by 2050.
Andrew Petersen, CEO
Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-council-for-sustainable-development-australia
Telephone: +61 2 8005 0780
Website: www.bcsda.org.au
Ambassador of Sweden to Australia, HE Henrik Cederin, visit to Perth WA April 2021
SACC Perth WA has the honour of hosting HE Henrik Cederin, Ambassador of Sweden to Australia, on his visit to Perth mid April 2021.
During these days we have arranged a program that will be partly open for SACC members.
We are very proud that the Swedish footprint in the mining space in Western Australia is so significant in a time where mining here is going towards a new boom era. We will have the opportunity to meet up with some of the largest Swedish companies in the field for an interesting update.
WA Mining Event 21 April
Finally an in person event with great content!
We will meet at one of Perth’s highest rooftop venues at Grant Thornton where Ambassador, Henrik Cederin with be our guest of honour. Sandvik will be presenting the latest with a focus on sustainability in mining and Grant Thornton will share their perspective on what they refer to as the ‘Mining Boom 3.0′ and “Being smarter not necessarily bigger’.
Register and find out more about this event here.
Onsite visit to SACC Premium Member Epiroc and Roy Hill “Mining more exciting than ever before”
Mining is moving fast from an industry that used to be dirty and at times slow on uptake of new technologies being at the absolute forefront of technical development and changes are happening fast.
We will visit SACC Premium Member Epiroc’s Australia headquarters great facilities in Perth together with the Ambassador followed by a visit to one of their biggest customers Roy Hill who will showcase their remote operations centre.
Curtin University
On-site visit with focus on Swedish connections. Curtin University arranges an interesting event with the professors with Swedish connection in some form.
Please contact SACC Perth WA for more information on perth@swedishchamber.com.au or sacc@swedishchamber.com.au
A national champion in our SACC YP network
The mix of Sweden and Australia has proven to be successful again. Simon Skoog (SACC YP) together with his Australian crew (Nick Reader) has recently won both the NSW Championship and the Australian Championship in the high performing sailing class; Formula 16 catamaran.
They are now preparing for the World Championship in Perth 2022 and they are looking for a sponsor that wants to be part of their journey. It’s an excellent chance for companies that want to gain brand awareness, doing sailing events with teams or customers and get the opportunity to have hundreds of sailors trying their products during events. See the sponsor proposal here.
Song Cycle Celebrating Daniel Solander 15 May 2021 Sydney
Experience the World Premiere of an exciting new Australian composition. SOLANDER, a musical celebration of the great Swedish botanist, Daniel Solander (1733-1782) who accompanied Cook on his first Pacific voyage. It will be performed by the Sydney Chamber Choir directed by Sam Allchurch. Composer Kate Reid, text and lyrics Rodney Fisher and Kate Reid, narrator John Gaden.
One performance only.
On Saturday 15 May 2021 at 7:30 PM to 8:45 PM Doors open 6.30PM
Tickets are $75 and parking is $12 paid at entry from Cleveland Street, Moore Park
LOCATION
The Governors Centre
556 Cleveland Street, Moore Park, NSW 2021
https://www.trybooking.com/BOWRG
Words from Composer Kate Reid
I was first drawn to the story of Daniel Solander, the highly acclaimed Swedish botanist and talented linguist, after many visits to Sweden, where I had the opportunity to appreciate the diversity of its people, the splendid landscape and the extreme winters – vastly different from the world that I was used to on the other side of the earth. This song cycle is written in celebration of Solander’s important contribution to scientific discovery and the great courage and commitment it demanded from him.
It begins with Solander’s childhood in the north of Sweden. It opens with a gentle reference to the indigenous people of northern Sweden, the Sami, singing a lullaby. It goes on to follow him on his two-year journey to Australia on the Endeavour as an assistant to Joseph Banks in 1768. It concludes with a farewell to Solander, where we hear the same Sami motif return in the final bars.
There are seven movements for a combination of voices, ranging from two soloists to a full SATB choir. The only instrument is a vibraphone. The movements are linked by a narrative spoken by John Gaden. Rodney Fisher has provided the beautiful narrative and many of the lyrics.
I have been moved to respond to Solander’s life story and to acknowledge, through my music, this extraordinary individual whose work, in spite of its significance and its relevance here, remains relatively unknown in Australia today.
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings coming to Australia and New Zealand 2021-2022
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings coming to Australia and New Zealand 2021-2022
12 Jun 2021, 12.00 AM
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings at the Art Gallery NSW 12 June-19 September 2021
Left to right: Hilma af Klint The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 5, Adulthood 1907 HAK106; Group IX/UW, The Dove No. 2 1915 HAK174. By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photos: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to announce Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, the first major survey in the Asia Pacific region of visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), whose remarkable body of abstract and mystical paintings bring new perspectives to the narratives of modern art and has become an international sensation.
Born in Stockholm in 1862, af Klint was one of the first women to study painting at the city’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, graduating with honours in 1887. She established herself as a respected painter in Stockholm and, like many of her contemporaries, became deeply engaged with spiritualism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy, which had a profound influence on her practice. In 1896, af Klint and four other like-minded women founded a spiritual group named The Five and studied esoteric texts, conducted séances, exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Following a traffic accident, Klint died in the autumn of 1944, aged almost 82, leaving behind more than 1,300 rarely seen works and 124 notebooks. Her works have since been displayed in major museums in New York, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the extraordinary artistic achievements of this trailblazing artist who stood for too long outside the accepted story of European modernism.
When af Klint began creating her ambitious new works in 1906, no one had seen paintings like hers before – so monumental in scale, with such radiant colour combinations, enigmatic symbols and other-worldly shapes. Influenced by the spiritualist practices of her time, af Klint believed that her paintings contained messages for humanity communicated to her through the visions she received from spirits.
Stored away and scarcely known for decades, the startling re-discovery of af Klint’s ‘secret paintings’ has captured the imagination of contemporary audiences, with a 2019 exhibition of her work at the Guggenheim Museum breaking attendance records and taking New York by storm.
Opening in June, Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings is a new exhibition, featuring more than 100 works, curated by Sue Cramer from Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, who collaborated with Art Gallery of NSW senior curator of modern and contemporary international art Nicholas Chambers for its presentation in Sydney.
Art Gallery of NSW director Dr Michael Brand said: “Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings is a once-in- a-lifetime opportunity to discover the extraordinary artistic achievements of this trailblazing artist who stood for too long outside the accepted story of European modernism.
“In an era of limited creative freedom for women, af Klint’s secret paintings became an outlet for her prodigious intelligence, spiritual quest and ground-breaking artistic vision,” said Brand.
“We are privileged to present this exhibition of af Klint’s remarkably forward-looking paintings. Very few of them were exhibited during her lifetime, and only in the last decade have these works started to receive the detailed attention they deserve. Af Klint is at last taking her place in the canon of truly imaginative and innovative twentieth century artists.”
A centrepiece of the exhibition is The Ten Largest 1907, ten huge exuberantly colourful paintings, brimming with wondrous arrangements of shapes and motifs, through which the artist explores the four stages of human development.
Other highlights include af Klint’s rarely seen early botanical watercolours; her experiments with the spiritualist group The Five; a large selection of works from the Paintings for the Temple cycle; more than 30 abstract watercolours from the last decades of the artist’s life, several of which have never before been placed on public exhibition; and a selection of notebooks, which give fascinating insights into her influences and processes.
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings is supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW and presented with the cooperation of The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm in association with Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings is presented at the Art Gallery of NSW from 12 June to 19 September 2021 with tickets on sale soon. Visit the AGNSW website for more information;
The exhibition will continue to New Zealand later in the year. More information to come.
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Gemini Rising: The Cinema of Mai Zetterling, 1 – 20 July 2021, Melbourne
Background
ACMI, Australia’s national museum of screen culture, has reopened after more than 18 months of building-wide redevelopment. The visionary $40m transformation has been delivered through the support of the Victorian Government, along with our generous corporate and philanthropic partners. ACMI has been transformed architecturally, programmatically, and technologically. Our renewal has enabled ACMI to continue to expand the impact of our museum in a changing world, enabling us to deliver rich experiences and educational opportunities both onsite and through our digital channels.
Film Program
As part of our film program in July 2021 we aim to celebrate one of the most unappreciated talents to emerge from a thriving, mid-century Swedish film industry, and her empowering transition from acting to directing. Mai Zetterling directed very progressive films for her time and often depicted taboos that are still relevant today, such as female objectification, reproductive rights, and sexual misconduct.
After a working-class upbringing, including growing up for a few years in Australia, Mai Zetterling carved out an unexpected acting career as a movie star and as a stage performer. By transitioning from acting to directing, Mai Zetterling reclaimed a power. Of being an actress, she said, “showing my legs and my cleavage, I had been no threat at all: men could fantasise about me”. When she became a director, that changed. Mai Zetterling is a feminist champion. Her feminist films in the 1960s were ahead of sweeping change as the second wave of feminism gathered momentum. Our program shines a spotlight on a strong female voice from the 1960s and asks at a relevant time in contemporary society why Mai Zetterling is not more widely recognised. When many people think of Swedish cinema, Ingmar Bergman will come to mind, but at the height of his career, another director was directing a fresh crop of films, sometimes banned, frequently ignored, often undervalued, that heralded a new wave of feminism.
After a working-class upbringing, including growing up for a few years in Australia, Mai Zetterling carved out an unexpected acting career as a movie star and as a stage performer. By transitioning from acting to directing, Mai Zetterling reclaimed a power. Of being an actress, she said, “showing my legs and my cleavage, I had been no threat at all: men could fantasise about me”. When she became a director, that changed. Mai Zetterling is a feminist champion. Her feminist films in the 1960s were ahead of sweeping change as the second wave of feminism gathered momentum. Our program shines a spotlight on a strong female voice from the 1960s and asks at a relevant time in contemporary society why Mai Zetterling is not more widely recognised. When many people think of Swedish cinema, Ingmar Bergman will come to mind, but at the height of his career, another director was directing a fresh crop of films, sometimes banned, frequently ignored, often undervalued, that heralded a new wave of feminism.
Film titles will include (subject to change):
- The War Game, dir. Mai Zetterling, UK
- Loving Couples (aka Älskande par), dir. Mai Zetterling, Sweden
- Night Games (aka Nattlek), dir. Mai Zetterling, Sweden
- Dr Glas, dir Mai Zetterling, Sweden & Denmark
- The Girls (aka Flickorna), dir. Mai Zetterling, Sweden
- Scrubbers, dir, Mai Zetterling, UK
- Amorosa, dir. Mai Zetterling, Sweden
Program title: Gemini Rising: The Cinema of Mai Zetterling
Dates: 1 – 20 July 2021
Location: ACMI Cinemas, Fed Square, Melbourne Background
