Strandliners CIC based in Rye facilitated an online screening of “The Story of Plastic” from Story of Stuff.
“It’s a shocking watch, but defintely rams home the point that the solution lies NOT in fooling ourselves about recycling but stopping the production of plastic and all downstream by products of oil and gas definitively, as well as major investment in recycling technology to render these products unharmful to our planet and all species.”
This film raises awareness that whilst individuals should still do what they can, and work to reduce and reuse – to lessen the consumer demand for plastic. It is the large (predominantly oil) corporations sending it out to us deeming it is our reliance that need to be stopped for the safety of the planet. We need awareness, but we also need legislation and action.
We also went to see the Waste Age exhibition at the Design Museum which felt like a physical companion piece to the film. The exhibition ended on the 20th Feb but there is a short films and images still available on their website. There is also a case study about how the museum are trying to cut the environmental costs of their exhibitions here
StrongBack’s friend Campbell X is curating the next edition of Transpose @ the Barbican
Aged 14-25 tickets are only £5! Expect live music, theatre, rap and unbelievable twerking from some of the UK’s most exciting trans artists.
We were very sorry to hear about the passing of Sarah White. An anti-racism activist and co-founder of New Beacon Books, Britain’s first specialist black bookshop and publishing company and a trustee and secretary, from 1991 onwards, of the George Padmore Institute, a home for documents relating to the black presence in Britain.
Read more from our Artistic Director Dominique about our upcoming programmes in Rye!
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THIS WEDNESDAY! Join the London Sea Shanty Collective, Hackney Voices and other singers to raise money for Medecins Sans Frontieres' life-saving work ..
StrongBack Productions is thrilled to have been awarded a grant from a private Estate Fund in support of their SongMaps Rye Programme.
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