We are honoured to be presenting two leading figures in the world of creative activism.
A hands on screen-printing workshop, concluding with a exciting and in-depth talk from the activists themselves.
WORKSHOP | 1PM - 4PM
TALK | 6PM - 7:30PM
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EXTINCTION REBELLION
Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a global environmental movement with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018 with about one hundred academics signing a call to action in support in October 2018, and launched at the end of October by Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook, and other activists from the campaign group Rising Up!. In November 2018, five bridges across the River Thames in London were blockaded. In April 2019, Extinction Rebellion occupied five prominent sites in central London: Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Waterloo Bridge, and the area around Parliament Square.
Citing inspiration from grassroots movements such as Occupy, Satyagraha, the suffragette, Gene Sharp, and the civil rights movement, Extinction Rebellion wants to rally support worldwide around a common sense of urgency to tackle climate breakdown and the sixth mass extinction. A number of activists in the movement accept arrest and imprisonment, similar to the mass arrest tactics of the Committee of 100 in 1961.
The movement uses a circled hourglass, known as the extinction symbol, to serve as a warning that time is rapidly running out for many species.
www.rebellion.earth
PARIS68REDUX
Paris68Redux is the collective alias for a paste up project, conceived by two UK based artists; Dominic McGill and Michael Collins. The project aims both to re-present the graphic work of The Atelier Populaire , created during the Paris Student Uprising in 1968 and to continue in that agitprop tradition to address present day issues. Many of the issues from 1968 are still with us today, some in a more menacing form . Whilst we have seen many technological advancements underlying social issues remain the same,“Fifty Years and Nothing Has Changed”.
@paris68redux
We started Paris68Redux at the end of 2017 as a celebration of the work of The Atelier Populaire in parisin May 1968. We felt that many of the posters from 1968 were still as relevant today ,"fifty years and nothing has changed".We managed to contact Phillippe Vermes a photographer and joint author of the recent book on the work of The Atelier Populaire, and explained what we were doing . He was happy to hear we were reprinting the posters and pasting them up, his only stipulation was that we should have our own stamp on the posters hence the name Paris68redux .Since the beginning of 2018 we have been pasting posters on the street in Brighton , London, Great Yarmouth, Manchester, Berlin, New York and Oslo We have made placards for numerous protests ; Trump, Brexit, Google, Save the NHS and in the summer of 2019 we were asked to create several large scale Paste Ups for Shangri-la at Glastonbury Festival. Most recently we have been working alongside Extinction Rebellion. In October 2019 we set up a pop up print workshop to work with volunteers to print and pasteup posters in London We use a mixture of repurposed Political posters from numerous historical sources alongside our own original images to create a visual conversation through pasteup. We reissue anything that we feel still speaks to the present, a process we have likened to Visual DeeJaying. Sampling Text , Slogans and Imagery to create something between Collage and a Visual Soundtrack.