When we sat down together to write our first song in the summer of 2006, “Why does the rain fall?” fell out in its entirety very quickly: an attempt to explain the root causes of destructive human behavior, and where hope lies in the infinite resource of love and creativity. It surprised us both, [...]
Chapter 2: Environment Week on the Airwaves, EcoFest. In which ART takes on the Federal Government, and wins…sort of.
We knew we had to raise money, so we got busy creating the most kick-ass proposals you ever saw, with the help of our trusty Imagewriter dot-matrix printer, and colour photocopiers at Kinko’s. We did it [...]
The History of the Artist Response Team (ART)
Chapter 1. The Artist Response Team was born in 1989 on the decks of a 20-foot sailboat. We had been invited to join a Greenpeace flotilla that was circling a massive US nuclear-armed warship lurking in Vancouver harbour. Bill Henderson was there. Stephen and I had [...]
