24/01/2023
Pop in for a look around if you have 15 minutes spare this evening. It's fun!
www.fourthportal.com
Akleriah/Platform-7 explore the politics of ladies tights through re-appropriating the material to
Every week millions of pairs of ladies tights are consigned to the bottom drawer or the bin. A large number contain nylon, a non-biodegradable material that often ends up in landfill. The project considers the role tights play within society and look towards ways of re-imagining them so more are reused, repurposed or recycled. Initially commissioned by the London Borough of Lewisham in 2013 to rai
24/01/2023
Pop in for a look around if you have 15 minutes spare this evening. It's fun!
www.fourthportal.com
16/01/2023
Feeling blue?
Come and see our new virtual house
It's big and it's fun
Free entry and free to use
https://www.platform-7.com/discussion-festival/034
02/11/2021
What has the Tights Ball achieved?
Is there any point in Live Art Environmental interventions?
John Mc, one third of the Tights Ball project will be on Table 1 this evening at the COP26 Discussion Festival Special discussing public art interventions focused on climate change.
Discussion Festival 028
Tuesday, 2 Nov, from 18:00-22:00
https://www.platform-7.com/discussion-festival/028
Anna Kompaniets Lenka Horakova
COP26 Discussion Festival Special | 02 November 2021, 18:00-22:00 This week, a 15-year-old asks why business is not prioritising the planet (T6), a junior sister nurse asks what is her community prepared to do to tackle climate change (T5), a professor of health law asks whether there is a legal route (T4), a student of infectious disease epidemiology asks how wil...
Textiles are more polluting than flights, driving and shipping combined.
Really? Yes…
You are warmly invited to host a table at an extended Discussion Festival COP26 Special next Tuesday, 02 November 2021 between 6pm and 10pm, for 30-45mins, held online in the Fourth Portal lounge.
You are welcome to host your table in any way you choose, a presentation, artistic response, group meeting or workshop. Please set your table title as a question.
The intention is to develop a number of discussions around the issues associated with our changing climate and the challenges we face adapting our economic model.
I would like to urge you to invite friends and groups to your table for your discussion and to join other tables. Please share this email with anyone who might be interested.
I will be creating an ad on Facebook for this event and would like to share your table on social media as soon as possible.
With best wishes, John
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Your title needs to be in a question format, the more provocative the better. Please see below the details I require, please send your details in CAPITALS where shown and lower case where indicated.
01/06/2021
DISCUSSION FESTIVAL 015, (Tuesday, 01 June 21) tables will be covering...
> The new development and possible towers being proposed for the World Famous Truman Brewery, on London's Brick Lane. (T3)
> Britain's appalling health and the shocking death disparity between the wealthiest and poorest people. (T4)
> Following death, relationship breakdown or trauma, why do people find comfort in particular objects? (T5)
> Can art mediums be mixed and still have meaning? (T7)
> Creativity is more than an artistic process, it can be a salvation, quite literally. (T8)
> Free sound improvisation (T6) and jokes on T2.
Come along, free link available
https://www.platform-7.com/discussion-festival/015
DISCUSSION FESTIVAL 015, (Tuesday, 01 June 21) tables will be covering...
> The new development and possible towers being proposed for the World Famous Truman Brewery, on London's Brick Lane. (T3)
> Britain's appalling health and the shocking death disparity between the wealthiest and poorest people. (T4)
> Following death, relationship breakdown or trauma, why do people find comfort in particular objects? (T5)
> Can art mediums be mixed and still have meaning? (T7)
> Creativity is more than an artistic process, it can be a salvation, quite literally. (T8)
> Free sound improvisation (T6) and jokes on T2.
Come along, free link available