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  • Strength in collective action

    The Oil Machine in Dumfries A sudden burst of clapping from a couple at the back of the café and a ripple of laughter through the audience. This is the first response of the evening and the humour is ironic. It is in response to comments from the panel about the challenge of getting to…

    Strength in collective action

  • 26 May 2022 james

    The Cardinal’s Song

    In honour of Suzi Gablik and her bright bold inspiring words

    The Cardinal’s Song

  • #ShakeTheSystem: Legacies & futures with Voices that Shake!

    [From the #ShakeTheSystem team] It’s 2020 and we’re celebrating 10 years of Voices that Shake! with an anthology, toolkits, workshops, showcases and more. This is #ShakeTheSystem: A Decade of Shaping Change Over 200 marginalised and underrepresented young people have directly been part of the deep personal and community transformation that the unique space of Shake!…

    #ShakeTheSystem: Legacies & futures with Voices that Shake!

  • 25 May 2019 james

    Singing Planet

    Everywhere is the city. And everywhere is not the city. A small congregation, just a dozen of us, are guided in careful-footed silence along the central path through the cathedral of Russia Dock Woodland in London’s former Docklands. It is 04.30 am on 5th May. Our guides, John Cadera and Richard Page-Jones, draw our attention…

    Singing Planet

  • 10 May 2019 jane

    Compelled to Be Wise in the Tent that Can Hear

    This is a Guest Blog by Will Essilfie, educator and researcher, on Platform’s event ‘The Tent that Can Hear‘. In this event, Platform looked back at ecological issues in London in 1989 when we made the ‘Tree of Life, City of Life’ project, and forward to 2049. This was a 30th anniversary return as the…

    Compelled to Be Wise in the Tent that Can Hear

  • 24 Jan 2019 james
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    ‘The Knowledge Quarter’ – resistance to capture and divestment from capital

    In the Autumn I attended an utterly inspiring Shake! & Stuart Hall Foundation event – the launch of the Black Cultural Activism Map. It was held at the Platform theatre space in the Central Saint Martin’s art school – CSM – part of University of the Arts London. This new premises is a vast warehouse of…

    ‘The Knowledge Quarter’ – resistance to capture and divestment from capital

  • 20 Nov 2018 james

    When we ask them they say ‘Don’t stop!’ – Knowledge as resistance to erasure at the launch of Black Cultural Activism Map

    We watch in wonder as dancer Akeim Toussaint Buck moves his body as fluid as water across the black box of the stage. Our eyes are transfixed as the voice of activist Max Farrar intones the words of Sai Murray’s poem ‘Stop Signs’ over the sound system. And in Lane number 1 from Nigeria, wearing 1969,…

    When we ask them they say ‘Don’t stop!’ – Knowledge as resistance to erasure at the launch of Black Cultural Activism Map

  • 25 Sep 2018 jane

    #FromNopeToHope – Salon des Réfuseurs for our time

    Heads up everybody interested in powerful political art and graphics. The exhibition From Nope To Hope – Art vs Arms, Oil and Injustice is running for an extra week, in Brixton Rec, London. Come and get inspired by the artwork of political artists, designers and activists who demanded their works were withdrawn from the Design…

    #FromNopeToHope – Salon des Réfuseurs for our time

  • La Zad puts down roots – sensing the future

    We’re in the middle of the crowd. Standing some way back from the stage, watching transfixed and elated at the performance of Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp. Two trombones, two drummers, two marimbas, two electric guitars, two cellos and five other musicians blast out such a blissful riot of sound that our souls sail above…

    La Zad puts down roots – sensing the future

  • 5 Dec 2016 james

    ‘Art – Possibility – Action’ – creating spaces that are equal, democratic, free and luminous.

    The storm of political events tosses us this way and that – first the election of Trump in the wake of Brexit, then the rejection of the far right Presidential candidate in the Austrian elections and the inspiring victory at Standing Rock in Dakota. Somewhat becalmed in the midst of the roaring gale, my mind…

    ‘Art – Possibility – Action’ – creating spaces that are equal, democratic, free and luminous.