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08/05/2012
by Natasha

Closing night grand finale

EXCLUSIVE Live score of Eisenstein’s Strike. As part of the Bread and Roses Centennial celebrations, The Cabinet of Living Cinema will perform a live score to Sergei Eisenstein’s seminal …

04/05/2012
by Afshin

Performance at the Bandstand

Performance which includes the public dissemination and interaction with a small publication entitled ‘What do we want?’ on remembering protest. ‘What Do We Want?’ is a small …

04/05/2012
by Afshin

‘Carry Greenham Home’ + ‘Silo Walk’

‘Silo Walk’ is a silent moving image work that re-visits routes inhabited by female anti-nuclear protestors at Greenham Common’s American military airbase, since transformed into a nature walk …

04/05/2012
by Afshin

A Reflection: Free Labour in Art

‘A Reflection on the Idea of Free Labour in Art’ is a new performance work choreographed by Alice Tatge or a participatory protest event on the dependence of …

04/05/2012
by Afshin

Jordan Mckenzie is a performance/installation artist who has worked both nationally and internationally. His work is concerned with identity politics and Queer Theory and though new research his practice critical and …

04/05/2012
by Natasha

Political Karaoke by Joey Ryken

Chronotopic Invocation 1: Profane Articulations of the Autosarcophagic Orchestra (BZZHHHHJT!!!) A new participatory work to disorientate political sloganing through popular viewership and performance. “My work connects personal …

19/03/2012
by studioSTRIKE

What is Money?

Rosalie Allain, studioSTRIKE’s Researcher in Residence attends a discussion on….Money! Whitechapel Gallery recently held a series of discussions on capitalist cultures, the last of which explored the role …

17/03/2012
by Natasha

Manifesto for a New Public

The Freee Collective’s latest manifesto commissioned for the project Towards Common Ground. “You write Manifestos alone with imaginary allies in exotic locations; you write Manifestos alone but in …

11/03/2012
by Afshin

War on Want

100 years after the Bread & Roses strike, guest blogger, Murray Worthy, Sweatshops campaigner at War on Want examines treatment of today’s textile workers. It is now over 100 …

11/03/2012
by Afshin

Bread & Roses book awards

The inaugural Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2012. Radical publishing is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance, in part because of the growing scepticism towards capitalism, but …

09/03/2012
by Afshin

Thoughts from a TED fellow

Saeed Taji Farouky is a Palestinian / Egyptian / British documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer. His work combines investigative journalism with observational documentary and stresses transparency between subject, …

06/03/2012
by Natasha

Visual Visionaries

The Bread and Roses Centennial Festival design concept is being delivered by Studio Mothership. This independent design studio describes itself like a “mothership vessel that feeds and carries our …