The 28th Annual Arts & Business Awards gala ceremony was held at the (BP-sponsored) Barbican Centre in London on Monday April 3rd 2006. It consisted of free drinks, schmoozing, mutual pat-on-the-backs concerning the 21st Century snake oil that is 'Corporate Social Responsibility', followed by an vain attempt to raise the tone with a performance by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).
The Greenwish Guerrillas struck again yesterday at the opening of the BP-sponsored ‘Michelangelo Drawings - Closer to the Master’ exhibition.
This is what the poster for the exhibition became after it had spent a few hurried moments in the hands of the Greenwash Guerillas' (very) ad hoc design department.
A small dedicated (hard core!) group of Sheffield (www.nowideningm1.org.uk) hit 3 Motor way bridges between junctions 30 and 32 of the M1 early this morning...
ART NOT OIL runs at Mono (12 Kings Court, Glasgow) from February 1st until February 28th, sorted by the Camcorder Guerillas (www.camcorderguerillas.net), who will be hosting an evening of short oily films including 'Grangemouth-Brazil Video Letters' from 7-9pm on Monday Feb 13th.
The new Art Not Oil 2006 - Call for Entries leaflet is now ready for your perusal. Contact us for copies...
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and here's the plain text of the new leaflet:
ART NOT OIL 2006
CALL FOR ENTRIES
First Prize: Justice
Second Prize: Survival
Saturday club present a month of workshops, activities and action around TRANSPORT
Sat 4th Feb meet 12pm at the basement: Cycle around town in boiler suits, gasmasks and skeleton outfits chasing urban 4x4s, ticketing them with leaflets, and basically highlighting transport and climate change issues - See http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/333231.html for story and pictures.
Thursday 16th Feb 7pm at The Basement: GET CLUED UP BOUT TRANSPORT.
Short films, spoken word, food, workshops and music.
All around transport issues.
“The future is unwritten, inaction is the tragedy.”
ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO SHUT DOWN THE UK’S LARGEST POWER STATION
Press Release, June 19th 2006
Thousands of climate change activists will converge on Drax power station - the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK (1) - for ten days of direct action this summer.
Alison Templeton from the Camp for Climate Action (2) said:
"The only solution to climate change is a drastic cut in our energy
consumption. Drax continues to belch out emissions while we are staring
catastrophe in the face. It has to go."
A 16 page comic explaining the science, causes, and complexities of climate change by award wining comic book artist Kate Evans. Black and white with colour cover.
It can be ordered from the resources section and is also available for download in Welsh.
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ART NOT OIL at The Bongo Club, 37 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8BA; 0131 558 7604; www.thebongoclub.co.uk
indignation – inspiration – creation…solution?
Exhibition runs from Thursday 15th December to Monday 16th January 2006.
FREE PUBLIC OPENING: Sunday 18th December, 3-6pm: art - music - food - film - talk
If you're in Montreal for the UN climate negotiations from Nov 27th to Dec 8th, you'll be able to hear the voices of those directly affected by climate change, the oil and coal industry and carbon trading.
