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Lecture in Boston

November 27, 2012
Bee Collective

The Bee collective is invited to give a lecture about our projects at the Festooning conference held at the Boston University’s 808 Gallery.

Urban Hex: Honeybees & Community in the Urban Landscape

Saturday // Feb 23, 2013 // 12-5pm

As troubling news of Colony Collapse Disorder sweeps the planet, there is not only a rise in environmental awareness, but an effort to encourage fewer hives in the care of more individuals. In an attempt to restore the potential for biodiversity and refocus beekeeping from a dominant industrial realm, urban beekeeping has taken the spotlight with an array of innovative solutions. Today you’ll hear about the importance of community, urban agricultural spaces, and mentorship in cities stretching from Massachusetts to the Netherlands!

SKY HIVE // SPECIAL GUESTS The Bee Collective

Hailing all the way from the Netherlands is a cooperation of beekeepers and designers searching for new ways to stimulate and enable beekeeping in a contemporary living environment. This collective, hailing from the Netherlands works for a broader understanding of the function and functioning of bees, brings together next generation beekeepers in a network and invites people to become a beekeeper. One of their products, the Sky Hive, enables beekeeping legally in urban, public spaces throughout Europe.

For more information about the program: http://festooning.wordpress.com/events/

Urbane bikuber

October 25, 2012
Bee Collective, Bee The Next

Aftenposten, one of the mayor newspapers in Norway, placed an article on two architects who integrate beekeeping into their urban planning. Specifically by placing bee hives in the new public park along the Aker River in Oslo. The park lays central in an old industrial area in the process of turning into the new ‘place to be’ in the norwegian capital. In this urban environment, with a history of immigrants and poverty the architects started a project enabling ex-addicts and people struggling with a longterm unemployment to learn how to keep bees and using this knowledge to create a source of income while working on a better environment. The first bees should be placed by spring 2013.

Keen on getting the European Network of urban beekeepers growing, two of the members of the Bee collective visited Arild and Joakim in their new office in Oslo. The Bee collective hopes to welcome them in Maastricht in 2013 to share our experiences!

www.nrk.no
www.eriksenskajaa.no

Sphinxpark honey for sale

August 25, 2012
Bee Collective, Sky Hive

The Spinxpark honey is from next wednesday available at Marres Books. The honey will also be for sale during de public screening of QUEEN OF THE SUN in the Sphinxpark, next thursday at 20.30h.

large jar, 490gr: 8,- euro
small jar, 150gr: 4,- euro

All the honey is harvested from the Sky Hive.
The profits will be invested in upcoming bee projects!

Marres
Centre for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98
Maastricht (NL)

Sphinxpark
Boschstraat 24
Maastricht (NL)

Queen Of The Sun – public screening

August 17, 2012
Bee Collective


Public screening of the film “Queen of the Sun: what are the bees telling us?”.
30th of August, 20.30h, Sphinxpark Maastricht

About the Film
QUEEN OF THE SUN: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis from Taggart Siegel, director of THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.

The Characters
Queen of the Sun follows colorful, alternative and inspiring beekeepers from all around the globe as they keep bees in natural and holistic ways. From Gunther Hauk in the United States to Massimo Carpinteri in Italy, each has unique philosophical and spiritual insights into their bees and is striving to keep their bees safe from pesticides, and the other causes behind Colony Collapse Disorder. Click here to meet the beekeepers filmed in Queen of the Sun.

The Bee Crisis
In the fall of 2006, newspapers around the United States began to publicize a unnerving phenomenon. Honeybees were a mysteriously disappearing from beehives all around the nation. Dave Hackenburg, a outspoken beekeeper, and the first to raise a stir about the crisis, reported that bees were simply vanishing from his hives. That fall, beekeepers and commercial beekeeping enterprises around the country reported losses of 30% with some beekeepers reporting losses up to 90% of all of their colonies.

www.queenofthesun.com

Made possible by Sphinxpark Maastricht and Lumiere Cinema