The Open University has collaborated with the artist Olivia Plender in her current solo show at Milton Keynes Gallery, providing archived TV programmes from the Art and Environment course, first presented in the late 1970s. These are shown on television screens as part of Plender’s installation in the Long Gallery which explores the use of television as an educational resource (see below). Over the course of 2012 the exhibition will be travelling to the Arnolfini Gallery Bristol and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.

Paganism is a new religion with ancient roots. In this talk Graham Harvey introduces the influences and contexts of contemporary Pagan life. He examines the dynamic tension between esoteric and animistic sources that influence different kinds of Paganism. This talk introduced a film by Olivia Plender about intentional communities celebrating nature.