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Blackheath Bike & Kite Festival, Jun 2009. Spectators watching the kite displays. Attribution: Stephen Craven

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  • News "Our Future" is Grimsby celebrating its native resources, coming together as a community ready for the century's challenges, Daily Alternative (Nov 07, 2024)
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  • News Our 24-hour climate comic explores what a sustainable future could look like, theconversation.com (Sep 20, 2024)
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  • News SPRING: “We radically re-imagine the piano in today’s throw away culture”. Edinburgh’s Pianodrome is the essence of a circular economy, Daily Alternative (Aug 28, 2024)
  • News Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024)
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  • News Women’s football holds immense potential as a lever for climate action, Amy James-Turner, theguardian.com (Jun 11, 2024)
  • News How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet, Daily Alternative (Jun 05, 2024)
  • News Making an exhibition of yourself: the gallery where anyone can add to the walls, positive.news (Jun 04, 2024)
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  • News ‘This May Day is a Celebration of Work and Innovation’, Dave Proudlove, thestokemodel.com (May 01, 2024)
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  • News Five ways community is at the heart of Brighton Festival, positive.news (Apr 24, 2024)
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  • News ‘No drilling! No drilling!’: climate choir sings truth to power in Palace of Westminster, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2024)
  • News She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)
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  • News ‘A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing, theguardian.com (Feb 07, 2024)
  • News Green Football Weekend: Newark & Sherwood United - the vegan non-league club doing things differently, bbc.co.uk (Feb 03, 2024)
  • News Green Football Weekend: how to make a Premier League club truly ‘sustainable’, theconversation.com (Feb 01, 2024)
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2022-2023

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  • News ‘It reaches deep inside people’: the climate choirs singing for the planet, positive.news (Dec 06, 2023)
  • News Sport England tells its sports: funding will depend on fighting climate crisis, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
  • News Berlin spends nearly €1 billion on public arts & spaces for the city (twice as much as for all of England), The Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2023)
  • News The African choirs tackling loneliness in England’s care homes, positive.news (Apr 26, 2023)
  • News “Be fearless. You are just as entitled as anyone to have the life you want.” The Arts Emergency Manifesto should rouse more than just artists, The Daily Alternative (Jan 05, 2023)
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  • News How the women’s Euros 2022 beat the sceptics to breathe new life into football, The Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2022)
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2019-2020

  • UK arts' leading figures join call for green recovery from coronavirus crisis.[1] Jun 22, 2020
  • Royal Shakespeare Company to end BP sponsorship deal..[2] Oct 2, 2019.
  • Royal Shakespeare Company threatened with boycott over BP sponsor.[3] Sep 26, 2019.
  • Some highlights from the latest manifesto of The Movement for Cultural Democracy, Jan 8, 2019...[4]

References

2006-2018

"The mission is to remind people what they have in them already": Common Wealth are making movements from theatre, Sep 3, 2018...[1]

  • Arts and culture sector realises 'intrinsic' value of sustainability, Nov 25, 2016...[2]
  • Introducing… The Cantignorus Chorus! 2013...[3]
  • Idle thoughts[4] ; Idling benches and the Sheffield Riddle Trail,[5] 2006.

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