{"id":21464,"date":"2025-10-13T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finncult.be\/?p=21464"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:12:09","slug":"the-green-train-riding-the-night-planting-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finncult.be\/fr\/the-green-train-riding-the-night-planting-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Train: Riding the night, planting the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Green Train<\/em> in collaboration with European Sleeper<br \/>\n21\u201323 October 2025<br \/>\nBerlin \u2013 Amsterdam \u2013 Berlin<\/p>\n<p><em>The Green Train<\/em> is an interdisciplinary contemporary art programme designed to deepen public awareness of, and engagement with, European landscapes. It highlights the environmental advantages of train travel, using one of Europe\u2019s most iconic international train lines as its conceptual foundation and starting point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Travel more slowly, listen more deeply, and act more boldly for the planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project brings together<strong> Nina Backman<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Silence Project<\/em> and her environmental grassroots initiative A Million Trees to Finland, with European Sleeper and a network of environmental partners such as ARTE, ARTPRESS-Ute Weingarten, Podcast die Leichtigkeit der Kunst , The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Life Terra, Thinking Forest Foundation, Mediamatic, Welna Estate, The Finnish Enviromental Institute (Syke), and The Finnland-Institut in Berlin to create a unique, art-driven international journey.<\/p>\n<p>At its heart, <em>The Green Train<\/em> is a simple idea: travel more slowly, listen more deeply, and act more boldly for the planet by living more ecologically \u2013 and by planting trees. <em>The Green Train<\/em> becomes a moving venue for reflection, conversation, and creativity, with tree planting along the route and a dedicated \u201cTree Wagon\u201d inside the train, gifted to all traveling passengers. This collaboration blends sustainable transport, ecological restoration, and cultural engagement into a single experience \u2014 one that connects people to landscapes, to communities, and to the quiet urgency of climate action.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Green Train<\/em> introduces a new and innovative way of connecting diverse partners through train lines, sharing environmental knowledge, fostering community tree planting, and showcasing contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silenceproject.fi\/the-green-train.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about The Green Train.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Community event at Mediamatic<\/h2>\n<p><em>The Green Train with European Sleeper: Riding the night, planting the future<br \/>\n<\/em>22.10.2025, 10:00 -14:00<br \/>\nMediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dijkspark 6, 1019BS Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Programme:<br \/>\n10:00\u201312:00: Seedling event at Mediamatic.<br \/>\n12:30\u201313:30: Join us for a bowl of warm soup.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place in our Tuinkamer &amp; Hydroponics Greenhouse. The event will be filmed by ARTE tv.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatic.net\/en\/en\/page\/392627\/the-green-train-with-european-sleeper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More info and tickets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>About Nina Backman<\/h2>\n<p>Nina Backman is a Finnish-born, Berlin-based artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, installation, and socially engaged art. She is the founder of <em>The Silence Project<\/em>, which explores the intersections of silence, communication, and shared human experience. She graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Backman\u2019s practice also extends into ecological interventions, most notably her ongoing tree-planting initiative, <em>A Million Trees to Finland<\/em>, which merges art, community participation, and environmental restoration. By combining contemplative social rituals with tangible acts of ecological care, her work invites audiences to slow down, listen, and engage with both one another and the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>Her work is held in both public and private collections, including the Roosen Trinks Collection in Germany and the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki. She has exhibited internationally at venues such as Nordic House in Iceland, West Bund Art Center in Shanghai, Punkt \u00d8 Galleri F 15 in Norway, and Malm\u00f6 Museum in Sweden. Her performative work has been shown in venues such the Berliner Festspiele, Flagey in Brussels, Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, and Gallen-Kallela Museum in Finland. Her environmental tree events have been featured in leading Finnish museums, including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Amos Rex, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Turku Art Museum, EMMA &#8211; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, and the Serlachius Museums, among others. In 2023, the<em> Silence Project<\/em> was awarded the title of Most Innovative Social Art Initiative in Europe by the European Enterprise Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/backman_nina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow Nina Backman on instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Train in collaboration with European Sleeper brings art, sustainability, and ecological action on a unique cross-border journey with Nina Backman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-121"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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