Happy summer solstice to all from Stonehenge 🌙✨🌞🌍 wishing you a magical season 💖
Anna Castleton Simmons
@anna-cs.bsky.social
Arts PR at Arts PR London, trustee, mentor, flower lover
A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how
A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how
Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab
theguardian.com
Wishing so much luck to the Nature’s Rights Bill, HUGE thanks to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social for introducing this vital move towards protecting the rights of Nature 🍀🌍🌳🏞️💚
Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is a historic moment: the first time the rights of Nature have entered the UK parliamentary process. The Bill recognises Nature as a legal subject, reorders the hierarchy of rights, creates a duty of care towards Nature and embeds Nature’s rights into UK decision-making across all sectors.
A blue plaque has been unveiled on the London home of Julia Margaret Cameron, celebrating the pioneering photographer who took up a camera at the age of 48. She went on to create iconic portraits of famous contemporaries including Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin and Thomas Carlyle. buff.ly/xud7eOG
For this year’s Tate Britain Commission, which opens today, Zineb Sedira has filled the Duveen Galleries with an expansive installation about migration and memory. In 2023 she spoke to Apollo about her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
‘You have to look into the past to move forward’ – an interview with Zineb Sedira
The French-Algerian artist explains her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
buff.ly
The UK #glyphosate licence expires on 15 Dec - and a 60-day public consultation is planned for June - at which time the government will decide whether to renew it. Sign & share our #petition to call on the government to ban this dangerous #pesticide 👉 www.gardenorganic.org.uk/glyphosate-campaign.
There’s been a significant change in politics after the recent elections, but what hasn’t shifted is the urgent need for bold action to combat the climate, nature and cost of living crises. 🧵👇
“20 YEARS OF ART REFUGE” OPENING TOMORROW WEDNESDAY MAY 13! We are delighted to invite you to our 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Workshops and Seminar in Hackney, east London. Entry is free. ***EXHIBITION*** 13-16 May, 12-6pm Yorkton Workshops 1-3, Yorkton St London, E2 8NH www.artrefuge.org.uk
‘With painting, the work insists, you can show, tell and shock without recourse to digital wizardry.’ Digby Warde-Aldam on the ambition of Hurvin Anderson
Hurvin Anderson makes voyeurs of us all
At Tate Britain, the artist’s ability to draw us in while keeping us at a distance – all in a single painting – is on full display, writes Digby Warde-Aldam
buff.ly
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
Eat well and exercise. That's the classic advice for living a long, healthy life. A new study suggests another habit to add to the list: Let your creative juices flow. n.pr/4eJhSw6
Engaging with the arts can slow biological aging, study shows
Eat well and exercise. That's the classic advice for living a long, healthy life. A new study suggests another habit to add to the list: Let your creative juices flow.
n.pr
🎂Happy 20th birthday @artrefuge.bsky.social! 🧡Read about the charity’s exhibition celebrating 20 years of serving refugees in UK & internationally in a brilliant piece @fadmagazine.com.web.brid.gy fadmagazine.com/2026/05/10/a... 🎊 + Art Refuge celebrates 10 years collaboration @medecinsdumonde.be
20 Years of Art Refuge 2006-2026
An exhibition celebrating two decades of a unique art and art therapy charity dedicated to serving people seeking refuge
fadmagazine.com
Happy May Day, Beltane and International Workers’ Day! ✌️🌞🌍 Sunrise next to Greenwich Park, London, England✨🌳🌸
The RSF’s capture of Darfur is a tragedy unfolding in silence. Thousands have been killed, millions displaced, a man-made famine, driven by foreign interference — and the world looks away. We must demand accountability, humanitarian aid, and an end to the violence in Sudan.
Do you know the ✨extraordinary story✨of visionary Newham artist Madge Gill?…
👋 Welcome to Bluesky, amazing @artrefuge.bsky.social! 🦋 🧡 Art Refuge is a really phenomenal charity that uses art and art therapy to support thousands of people every year, who have been displaced due to conflict, persecution, poverty & the climate emergency #RefugeesWelcome #TogetherWithRefugees
Art Refuge@artrefuge.bsky.social · 12mo agoArt Refuge uses art & art therapy to support the mental health & well-being of people displaced due to conflict, persecution, poverty & climate emergency, in the UK & internationally. With ongoing programmes in the UK & France, we also take part in projects, exhibitions, research & training.
Yesterday we joined over 200 organisations to stand in solidarity with those affected by the recent anti-refugee protests across the UK, many of whom have already fled unimaginable horrors to try to find safety. This must be a turning point. #togetherwithrefugees🧡 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
"It is time for you, our leaders, to take a strong and united stand." Thanks to the 200+ orgs that joined our call for communities & the country to be brought together for a different way forward – one that's compassionate & united 🧡 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
200 charities tell leaders to take 'strong stand' against anti-refugee protests
Demonstrations have been held outside hotels housing asylum seekers including the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, and in London and Newcastle. They have been met with counter-protests by anti-racism camp...
mirror.co.uk
The Big Butterfly Count is on! By taking part in a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies - and there's a handy app (and ID sheet) to help: buff.ly/Juy2MCp Photo: Paul Harris
Over the past six months, the headlines have been dominated by stories of fear, division and hatred. However, activists around the world are working away to ensure hope prevails. Here are 29 human rights wins we can be proud of 👇
29 human rights wins to be proud of
January Afghanistan In 2023, Amnesty International released a report on the Taliban’s war on women. Following its findings, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor filed a request for arrest warrants against the Taliban’s Supreme Leader and their Chief Justice, citing crimes against humanity. The request charged the Taliban’s Supreme Leader and their Chief Justice for gender persecution […]
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"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.
We have re-introduced #EllasLaw to Parliament. This Bill is about the right to breathe clean air, and the right to grow up and grow old without potentially lethal harm being done to our lungs, hearts and brains by preventable air pollution. It is also about a little girl. This is Ella's story 👇
🧡 Huge thanks to Dua Lipa’s Service95 for including @artrefuge.bsky.social in their roundup of amazing organisations supporting refugees on both sides of the Channel. www.service95.com/organisation...
Organisations Supporting Asylum Seekers in France and the UK
Dua’s Monthly Read for July is Small Boat, a powerful novel that fictionalises events around the real-life drown
service95.com
📣 Today, on World Environment Day, we want to celebrate some good news for people and the planet! 🌎 👏 Watch and share to help support local communities who are fighting to save their homes and our planet ⤵️
🚨The gov has just released their white paper on immigration. But their plan won’t fix our broken asylum system. Instead, we need a fair new plan for refugees. This👇is how it can be done. It’s going to take all of us to make them listen. Get involved now togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/fair-begins-...
Maya Angelou would have been 97 today. Nothing has given me more consolation in these unworlding times than her poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space to hold up cosmic mirror to the best in us and the worst in us and the possible in us
A Brave and Startling Truth: Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan
“Out of such chaos, of such contradiction / We learn that we are neither devils nor divines…”
themarginalian.org
“Our amendment is simple: children should have the same legal protections from assault as adults.” Proud to work with Jess Asato MP on a joint op-ed advocating for the abolition of the 'reasonable punishment' defence. Read our full piece here: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
End the legal loophole for physically punishing children
The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a vital piece of legislation that will help ensure all children get the best start in life, driving th...
politicshome.com
🚨As leaders gather for the Paris #AIActionSummit, they must confront a stark reality: rapid deployment of AI in the public sector is deepening inequality, expanding mass surveillance, & violating human rights. Our analysis in @techpolicypress.bsky.social 👇
AI as Double Speak for Austerity | TechPolicy.Press
Amnesty Tech's Likhita Banerji and Damini Satija say the Summit should prioritize people and communities over the whims of corporations.
techpolicy.press