International Environment and Climate
Forum on Water "Balkhash - 2024"
May 30-31, 2024, Balkhash City, Kazakhstan
Forum on Water "Balkhash - 2024"
May 30-31, 2024, Balkhash City, Kazakhstan
The International Environment and Climate Forum on Water "Balkhash - 2024" is aimed at uniting the efforts of civil society, scientists, cultural practitioners, government officials, business representatives, and the international community to collectively search for ways to preserve the ecosystem of Lake Balkhash and ensure sustainable development of the Ile-Balkhash transboundary basin under the conditions of climatic, environmental, social and economical challenges.
The program focuses on interdisciplinary interconnections of ecology, economy, history, and culture of the region to discuss collective actions of mitigating climate change and water scarcity, developing a green economy, and increasing investment and tourism potential of the region.
The program focuses on interdisciplinary interconnections of ecology, economy, history, and culture of the region to discuss collective actions of mitigating climate change and water scarcity, developing a green economy, and increasing investment and tourism potential of the region.
Representatives of local communities, public organizations, and media, academic experts, cultural practitioners, stakeholders, representatives of central and local government agencies, industrial enterprises, and businesses, as well as representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations, are invited to participate in the "Balkhash - 2024" forum.
Organizers:
Please contact us regarding partnership, cooperation, and participation in the International Ecological and Climate Forum "Balkhash - 2024" via email at artcom.platform@gmail.com, or by phone number +77017594853.
Organizers:
Care for Balkhash is an open initiative of caring for the ecosystems of Lake Balkhash;
Artcom Platform is a community-based contemporary art and public engagement platform.
ABOUT US
Balqashqa Qamqor
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an open initiative of care that aims to conserve the ecosystems of Lake Balkhash, which are facing scientifically proven environmental, social, economic, and climatic challenges due to anthropogenic impact.
ABOUT US
Balqashqa Qamqor
–
an open initiative of care that aims to conserve the ecosystems of Lake Balkhash, which are facing scientifically proven environmental, social, economic, and climatic challenges due to anthropogenic impact.
Our
mission
mission
is to engage communities and institutions in the collective care of the ecosystems of the Balkhash Lake Basin, researching history, culture, and ecology and producing local knowledge for sustainable futures of the region.
Care for Balkhash was initiated in 2020 by the community of women researchers, artists, and cultural activists of Artcom Platform, a platform for contemporary art and public engagement.
Our goals:
- 1Strengthen connections between local communities, experts, governmental, scientific and cultural institutions, businesses, and international organizations through partnerships and collaborative events;
- 2Engage local communities in the production of knowledge and the creation of social and environmental projects through the Art Collider School's interdisciplinary educational programs and innovation incubators in the region;
- 3Research the environment: biodiversity, waters, soils, and socio-cultural landscape of the region through research, conferences, roundtables, expeditions, and walks around Lake Balkhash and the rivers of the basin;
- 4Raise public awareness about the challenges of Lake Balkhash through the organization of lectures, discussions, public and artistic events, art interventions, exhibitions, and performances;
- 5Inform the public about local cultural heritage and ecological situation through the collective creation and publication of journals, zines, articles, and production of films, videos, and artworks about ecosystems of the Balkhash Lake basin.
Our practices
Expeditions and Art Interventions 2020-2023
Balkhash - Priozersk - Bektau Ata - Bakanas - Karoi
Research by Aigerim Kapar, Secrets of Lake Balkhash: Community Narratives, Memory, Landscapes of the Past and Future
As you go… roads under your feet towards the new future, WCSCD, Mousse Publishing, Italy, 2022
Exhibitions and Visual Explorations
Balkhash: Keshe Bugin Erten 2022
Beine x Korshiler x Artcom
Beine x Korshiler x Artcom
Zine Our Balkash
Zine Our Bektau Ata
Zine Our Bektau Ata
Publications
Art Collider x Balqash Jastary 2023 School
Interdisciplinary school of art, science, and technology that brings communities together for collective practices of care for Lake Balkhash.
Balqashqa Qamqor exhibition
Shows how artists, researchers, and local communities care for the ecosystems of Lake Balkhash. Participants presented their projects and initiatives about local culture, history, citizens, and ecology in the form of comics, cartoons, drawings, photographs, and video works.
Expeditions and Art Interventions 2020-2023
Balkhash - Priozersk - Bektau Ata - Bakanas - Karoi
Research by Aigerim Kapar, Secrets of Lake Balkhash: Community Narratives, Memory, Landscapes of the Past and Future
As you go… roads under your feet towards the new future, WCSCD, Mousse Publishing, Italy, 2022
Exhibitions and Visual Explorations
Balkhash: Keshe Bugin Erten 2022
Beine x Korshiler x Artcom
Beine x Korshiler x Artcom
Zine Our Balkash
Zine Our Bektau Ata
Zine Our Bektau Ata
Publications
Art Collider x Balqash Jastary 2023 School
Interdisciplinary school of art, science, and technology that brings communities together for collective practices of care for Lake Balkhash.
Balqashqa Qamqor exhibition
Shows how artists, researchers, and local communities care for the ecosystems of Lake Balkhash. Participants presented their projects and initiatives about local culture, history, citizens, and ecology in the form of comics, cartoons, drawings, photographs, and video works.
