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Showcase#3: Propaganda! Perception! & Power! Tuesday 29th October
Oct 14, 2013
Shake! Showcase#3: Propaganda! Perception! & Power! is the explosive showcase from the participants of the third Shake! course. Featuring freshly created poetic, filmic and musical responses to injustice, the showcase will present an original and inspiring mix of political creativity. So get on down to the Free Word Centre in Farringdon on Tuesday 29th October,...
A Night at the Museum – the Shell sponsored Fracking Quiz
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Oct 14, 2013
Last week I joined Science Unstained for a trip to the Science Museum. Science Unstained worries about the corporate sponsorship of science communication – everything from BAE’s sponsorship of the unfortunately titled Big Bang Fair – an event for young scientists and engineers – to Atos designed degree courses. When they’ve had enough of worrying...
‘Art & Activism, Water & Oil, Then & Now’
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Sep 19, 2013
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
The Oil Road in York, 25th July
Jul 16, 2013
THE OIL ROAD: JOURNEYS FROM THE CASPIAN SEA TO THE CITY OF LONDON Platform, with the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, presents a free multimedia event on pipelines, fossil fuel dictators and the book The Oil Road (published in paperback by Verso in September 2013). Includes an extract from the new Oil Road afterword which won’t...
Oil City begins
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Jun 10, 2013
Oil City’s first performances took place today, the start of its two week run. We don’t want to give too much away about this new work by Platform, but let’s just say this spy thriller is bringing out the spook in us all! Part of Artsadmin’s Two Degrees festival, Oil City is a piece of...
Nazim Hikmet: “The Oil Road” meets “The Ballad of those who drink the Sun”
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Jun 16, 2012
To mark Sunday’s performance of “The Ballad of Those tho Drink the Sun” celebrating the life and work of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, Platform is publishing a book excerpt on Nazim Hikmet, poetry & technology, the Euphrates versus BP’s Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. This is an edited excerpt from our upcoming book “The Oil Road: A Journey...
Fossil Fuel Finance – Divest/Invest
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Sep 13, 2011
The climate transition changes everything. The next decade will require a wholesale recalibration of how our society and economy function. This creates opportunities to place democracy and social justice at the heart of our future political and economic structures. Platform data research and analysis shows that UK local government pensions are worth nearly £300 bn...
