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Network for Peace
Creative
Arts for Peace
Music, Art, Drama, Cinema, Photography
Diary
Here we have listed links to
organisations and individuals working for peace in artistic fields. If you
know of any more please tell us!
Also on this
page is a diary of artistic events. Let us know about plays, performances,
cinema, poetry readings, exhibitions and anything of an artistic nature
(“artistic” meaning what you want it to mean!).
For publications
click here.
Links
Artists
Against the War: http://www.artistsagainstthewar.org.uk/
“For anyone working in the Arts”
Art
not Oil: http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/
“designed in part to paint
a truer portrait of an oil company than the caring image manufactured by the
BP Portrait Award”
AZ
Theatre: http://www.aztheatre.org.uk
“creates
and produces theatre performances, presentations, workshops, meetings and encounters”.
Banner
Theatre: http://www.bannertheatre.co.uk/
Banner Theatre is one of Britain’s
longest established community theatre companies, they perform to community and
trade union audiences in pubs, clubs and community centres and at rallies,
festivals and conferences.
Concord Media: http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/
Distributor of thousands of films covering topics
such as bullying, child care, drama, ecology and the environment, race
relations, the third world, war and peace.
Demo Project: http://www.demoproject.co.uk/frames.html
Demo is a monthly event at Blueprint in Nottingham, with the proceeds going to different
charities.
European Creative Forum: http://www.europeancreativeforum.org/
The
ECF is still
embryonic and so is still being defined and probably will always be fluid.
The Foundry: http://www.foundry.tv/
Multi-media, exhibitions, music and bar: 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL
London
Rising Tide: http://londonrisingtide.org.uk/
5 Chalk Farm Road, London NW1. “Autonomous space
for the exhibition of resistance” with events including art exhibitions, gigs
and parties, performance art and meetings.
London
Socialist Film Co-op
OK, I know not all
peaceniks are socialists (and vice-versa) but you don’t need to be a
socialist to see any of the films they put on, usually at the Renoir Cinema, Brunswick
Square, London WC1 (020 7837 8402) on Sunday mornings. Contact details: 9 Hendry House, Wyvil Estate, London, SW8
2TF, 020 7978 1924.
Mark Thomas: http://www.mtcp.co.uk/
Meeting Ground Theatre Company: http://www.meetingground.org.uk
At the heart of the company's artistic policy and
vision is the theatrical exploration of "the politics of the
imagination". The controls on our imagination shape all our destinies.
Peace not War: http://www.peace-not-war.org/
Peace not
War raises funds for peace groups by producing and selling CDs and putting on
gigs etc. The website also features a useful search engine.
Peace Museum: http://www.peacemuseum.org.uk/
Permanent and travelling exhibitions. 10 Piece Hall Yard, Bradford, BD1 1PJ
Telephone: (01274) 434009 Fax: (01274) 432618
email
Reactor: http://www.reactorweb.com/homepage.htm
A Nottingham based collective who work
collaboratively on a variety of events and projects.
Rhythms of
Resistance: http://www.rhythmsofresistance.co.uk/
A drum band that plays at demonstrations and other events. Website has
some useful links.
Scary Little Girls: http://www.scarylittlegirls.co.uk/default.htm
A
theatre company which not only put on professional productions such as Maria
Stuart but also go “out into the community” (eg schools) offering
workshops on conflict resolution.
Seaside Tribe: http://www.seasidetribe.org/index.html
Hold parties, usually at the Brixton Telegraph, with
“talented artists,
musicians, DJ's, healers, jugglers, acrobats, dancers, pressure groups,
charities, and ethical green fair trade organisations to stimulate a new
interactive, aware, safe, atmospheric, party environment.”
Theatre of War: http://www.theatreofwar.org/
Theatre
of War “use giant puppets, very large presidents made of chicken wire, cheesy
props and mega-phones to raise awareness and support activists out there who
are opposing warmongers, arms dealers, nuclear power, environmental
destruction, and exploitation and control of people through bent trade rules
and fabricated debt.”
UHC Collective: http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk/
UHC Collective “exists to produce and promote quality art and graphics
concerned with the fundamental social phenomena of power relations, economics
and the environment.”
Overseas and
international sites:
Artists
Against War: http://www.9monkeys.org
Art for a
Change: http://www.art-for-a-change.com/
Atomic
Mirror: http://www.atomicmirror.org/
or http://www.earthways.org/atomicmirror/
“The purpose of the Atomic Mirror is to create a nuclear-free world. We use
the creative arts (film, music, images, performance, ceremony) to reveal the
secrets of the nuclear age, and to advocate for the abolition of nuclear
weapons and power.”
Jane Smith
Bernhardt: http://www.janebernhardt.com/
Multimedia art & performance including the Hibakusha Peace Project.
Jazz for
Peace: http://www.jazzforpeace.org/
Jenny Arnau:
http://www.jenniearnau.com/
Download
“Who will Come With Me” an anti-war song that written specifically
about the current situation in Iraq.
Joan Baez:
http://baez.woz.org/
Lion and
Lamb Music: http://www.lionandlambmusic.com/home.cfm
Download and print music for
singers.
The
Lysistrata Project: http://www.pecosdesign.com/lys/
Inspired by the comedy by Greek dramatist Aristophanes, which tells the
story of a group of women from opposing states who unite to end the
Peloponnesian War. Worldwide readings of the play took place in 2003. An
ongoing campaign/project of the same name can be found on: http://www.lysistrataproject.org/
Mark
Fiore: http://www.markfiore.com/index.html
Amusing and topical short animations.
Musicians
for Peace: http://www.musiciansforpeace.org/
Poets
against the War: http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
Ramallah
Underground: http://www.ramallahunderground.com/index2.html
Songs for
Peace: http://www.songs4peace.com/
Star
Poster Program: http://www.ursidaeenterprises.com/history.html
“Dedicated to changing the world one poster at a time” Has some useful
design tips for your posters, leaflets etc.
The One
Day in Peace Play: http://www.oneday.net/play/english.htm
suitable for under 11 year olds.
Transcend
Peace University is running on-line courses on
peace and the arts. Several courses start in September and more are being prepared.
See: http://www.transcend.org/
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