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Tribute to Nick Reeves, CIWEM – artist, environmentalist, activist
“BP, Shell and all other petrochemical corporations must be denied control of our arts and cultural institutions, right now.” Nick Reeves Earlier in the summer, we heard the shocking news that Nick Reeves, the vigorous Executive Director of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Managers, died after a severe stroke. He was only 60.…
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‘Art & Activism, Water & Oil, Then & Now’
2 articles by Platform in ‘The Environment’ magazine, Sept 2013 (CIWEM) 1st by Jane Trowell on 30 years of Platform, 2nd by Kevin Smith ‘The arts must not be used to cleanse the reputations of dirty business’ on oil sponsorship of the arts
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The arts must not be used to cleanse the reputations of dirty businesses
Kevin Smith writing in the September 2013 issue of CIWEM’s ‘The Environment’ magazine says oil companies are sponsoring our most respected cultural institutions as part of a cynical PR campaign. You can download the pdf here or browse the article online below.
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Margaret Atwood talk at the Southbank Centre – sponsorship, Shell & dystopias
Chris Garrard is an activist and composer who was lucky enough to have a ticket to the sold out Margaret Atwood talk last night at the Southbank Centre. You can read Chris’ blog here and an interview with him about his chamber-opera version of The Handmaid’s Tale here. Last night, I went along to see…
28 Aug 2013 Kevin -
Margaret Atwood says “we must talk” about Southbank Centre and Shell
The wonderful author Margaret Atwood is speaking tonight at the Southbank Centre about her new book MaddAdam, the highly anticipated trilogy, coming after Oryx and Crake, and After The Flood. The trilogy is an important work in the emerging field of climate change literature, with a dark, specualtive look at a dystopian future where the…
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And …Where Do You and I Fit In?- Reflections on Coordinating Shake!
Some 9 months since joining Platform, I wanted to offer some reflections on working on Shake!, which is the project I co-ordinate and what I largely work on. This piece is extracted from my concluding remarks at our last Shake! Showcase , slightly paraphrased for the blog reader. Shake! is a project that brings together…
16 Jul 2013 Farzana -
Calling students and HE staff – how fossil fueled is your university?
Last week we took part in a hugely inspiring meeting of more than 500 international climate activists at Global Power Shift in Istanbul, with people networking and learning the skills that they need to shift power away from fossil fuel companies and to communities working for justice-based solutions to the climate crisis. The meeting was…
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Official: Shake! Showcase at least 18% better than Glastonbury
BLOG from Platform’s youth project Shake!, first posted 28.6.13. Gender issues get a lot of discussion here at Shake! so it was with interest that we saw this article today on the representation of women on the line-up at festivals. We thought it only fair that we checked ourselves and with a hasty count-up and…
1 Jul 2013 jane
