Nature's Words: Articles
On this page I include a selection of articles/essays that I have written or published, and some interesting pieces from other sources...
Click on the following titles to read them:
Between Black and White - our Stories about Ourselves
Heal Ourselves, Heal the Earth
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed - on globalisation and migrants
Reality TV - the Nation on the Couch
Review: This Poem is Sponsored By... (Corporate Watch)
The Big Ask - Friends of the Earth, creating a democratic demand for a new climate change law
Moving Toward a Sustainable Future -Meadows, Randers and Meadows
Nature's Words: Activism
"Clowns always speak of the same thing, they speak of hunger; hunger for food, hunger for sex, but also hunger for dignity, hunger for identity, hunger for power. In fact, they introduce questions about who commands, who protests." — Dario Fo (Italian playwright/fool)
I am very interested in the role of physical and street theatre in bringing creative colour and the carnivalesque to actions, in order to engage with people in a more imaginative and hopefully non-agressive manner. I draw on my years with the Beltane Fire Society www.beltane.org for much of my inspiration, and also acknowledge groups such as the Clandestine Insurgent Clown Rebel Army www.clownarmy.org and Women in Black www.womeninblack.net for other ways of bringing dramatic, consciousness-raising activity to the streets.
Below are images of some actions in which I have collaborated, conveying messages about a variety of issues affecting our world....
Public Mourning for species affected by climate change, Climate March, London, Dec 2007
Remember the children, 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, Bath, April 2006
Global warming and melting icecaps at the Climate March, London, November 2006
Green Christmas, Bath, December 2006
