Art of awareness

Seven ‘TippingPoint’ commissions, which aim to develop a critical mass of performance-based work in response to climate change, have been announced. The largest of these, a £30,000 co-commission between TippingPoint and Without Walls, goes to Wired Aerial Theatre (pictured), for its new show ‘As The World Tipped’. It will have its premiere at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May and then appear at Without Walls festivals throughout the year. The other winning commissions are: ‘In the Beginning was the End’ by dreamthinkspeak (£20,000); ‘My Last Car’ by 509 Arts (£15,000); ‘A Beautiful Thing’ by Barnaby Stone (£15,000); ‘Found Voices’ by Joe Duddell and Craig Vear (£10,000); ‘Unplugged’ at The Eden Project (£9,000); and ‘The Funeral for Lost Species’ by Feral Theatre (£5,000). All seven winning projects will have the chance to work with scientists from the TippingPoint network to underpin the process of creating their new works.