ixia, with funding from Arts Council England is supporting Barnsley Council Darlington Borough Council & St Helens Borough Council with public art projects that form part of Levelling Up or Towns Fund programmes. Advisors Beam Hazel Colquhoun & Emma Underhill (Founder & Artistic Director UP Projects ) 1/3

Fantastic to see Gary Lineker & host of figures speaking out ahead of tomorrows parliamentary debate on the #RwandaPlan

Join a coalition of campaigners on Monday 18 Dec, 5.30pm at the Home office to say #RefugeesWelcome

#StopRwanda

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1/4. At #COP28 , the pledges to the #LossAndDamage Fund total only $700m or just 0.2% of the $400 billion needed each year to address #LossAndDamage . To show just how small these pledges are, here they are in comparison to the earnings of the highest paid footballers in 2023.

It's now several hours since the unforgivably weak #COP28 draft text came out - which made no reference to fossil fuel phase-out at all, & leaders from France, Germany, EU, US & small island states have all widely condemned - yet still utter silence from UK Govt. Where are they??

I have come back to #COP28 , because we are on the brink of climate disaster & this conference must mark a turning point.

I am here to renew my urgent appeal to leaders:

Recommit to the 1.5°C warming limit.

End the fossil fuel age.

Deliver climate justice.

Make #COP28 count.

The brass neck of Jeremy Hunt claiming Tories have lifted people out of poverty is breathtaking
This month UN said UK is ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels & Joseph Rowntree Foundation, say in 2022 3.8 million people experienced destitution #AutumnStatement

Thanks to Henry Broome for a great write up of our recent forum event with CVAN EM ixia public art Boseda Olawoye Cecilia Wee 'Diversity & Inclusion in the Public Art Sector'.

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We're heading towards nearly 3C of catastrophic temperature rises. In just 1 year, Sunak has greenlit a new coal mine, the biggest undeveloped oil field in North Sea, & 100+ new oil & gas licences. His Govt is adding fuel to the flames of this emergency.

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Today should be a day to celebrate the advancement of children’s rights across the globe, but those rights are under attack.

We must not be discouraged, but more resolved to ensure that the promise of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is fulfilled. #WorldChildrensDay

Wars, climate change, economic turmoil.

Crisis after crisis, children around the world are being robbed of their lives & their futures.

Children need peace, now.

#WorldChildrensDay

This nightmare for children must end NOW!

Film screening about impact of the #CostofLivingCrisis intro’d by Caroline Lucas on 7th dec Phoenix Art Space Brighton

Hospitals must be protected. Children must be protected.

We are calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

On behalf of all the children caught in this nightmare, we’re calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

We need unrestricted humanitarian access, immediate and safe release of all abducted children, and protection for all children.

Children seeking safety in schools and other locations must be provided with the protection they urgently need.

We have just launched a petition asking the government to ban domestic flights where there's a direct rail link of 4.5 hours or less. Please sign and share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6499…

3,195 children killed in #Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Tanks are rolling into Gaza, patients are stuck in hospitals & the death toll keeps rising.

Yet the UK Govt refused to back a UN resolution calling for a humanitarian truce, when 120 other countries did so.

How many more deaths will it take before this Govt acts?

#CeasefireNow

I condemn all violence and will not stand by while Palestinian and Israeli civilians pay the price for political failure. Please sign Oxfam's petition and make your voice heard. oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/c…

People in Gaza are dying in the darkness.

This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth.

Please, we need a ceasefire, now.