Futurama - Shaping Britain's future via the arts

We have exclusive use of The Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury in November on Tuesday November 17th from 6.30-8.30 pm. Futurama – Re-Boot Britain is a multi-media arts event on the future of Britain and the World for our children. “Futurama” covers a range of future based issues for our children:

Climate Change, XR and environment
Brexit, Populism and Pop Art
BLM, racism and xenophobia
Social change, the future of work and living with COVID

All these will be expressed through different artforms. This extraordinary event will be live streamed and captured on film, so it will live beyond the event itself via You Tube etc. To be in the audience, get your free ticket here. To present your work at Futurama read on.

Themes

Media

Art meets the melting iceberg of politics.

To pitch your idea please e-mail me at reboot@brexitrage.com. We expect good media coverage for this event on TV / Radio and in the newspapers / social media. The outputs will last for all time, so your work will gain global coverage.

We will stage an art exhibition in the foyer. We plan the use of digital art / photography exhibition as part of the backdrop to the event in the theatre.

Constraints

There is a limit of seven people to be on stage at any one time, five backstage. We will manage this via a comprehensive risk assessment.

We can have an audience of up to 100 people, socially distanced in the Gulbenkian Theatre. This includes performers and any video crew.

I require a professional pitch from people wishing to stage a performance so that I may include in our COVID risk assessment. This will include a thumbnail sketch of what you intend to do, how many people will be involved, how much time is needed and any special considerations you will need to execute your plan (equipment and so on).

Futurama – Reboot Britain comes early to Kent.

Don’t miss it …

Inspiration for your own performances follow:

Diversity.

Music and Extinction.

Black Lives Matter and Musical Expression.

“If there ain’t no justice then there ain’t no peace” Prince

17 thoughts on “Futurama – Shaping Britain’s future via the arts”

Shock and Awe - Re-Boot Britain 30/01/2021 at 19:13

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Phil Jones 16/11/2020 at 23:34

Hi Peter, that was a great interview with Julie Ward, thank you. I was fascinated to hear that Julie is descended from Huguenot refugees who were lace-makers. I was struck by her comments on what a good man Michel Barnier is and why.

Because of what Julie said I checked the EU budget for 2014-2020 and for 2021-2027. The conventional budget is up a bit for 2021-2027 and in addition to that the European Commission is to borrow money for the first time. Until now, the EU’s publications on the budget have always said, “The budget is always balanced. There is no debt”. It’s a significant step… never before has the EU project ever borrowed, as far as I know.

I checked out the Iceland constitution and yes it was revised in 2013 after it was first ratified in 1944 . If only we had PR and six seats per electoral region in our own national parliament!

Julie said something about not liking being a “British subject”, well, according to an article reviewing the history of free movement in this country, the status of “British subject” was replaced in 1949. The article says,

“We often talk casually about “British citizens” but British citizenship is a relatively recent innovation. There has only been such a thing as a British citizen for just the last 34 years, since the British Nationality Act 1981 become law on 1 January 1983. Before that, there were Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies”.

Here’s the link: https://www.freemovement.org.uk/interregnum-11-years-without-free-movement-1962-1973/

More personally, I am married, but suppose I wasn’t. I am dismayed to learn that because I am a UK national, I wonder if I am to be ineligible to marry a citizen of an EU country in this country, because I fail to meet the earnings requirement. The article says, “The sponsor must earn at least £18,600 for a period of at least 6 months”.

That would be me, the sponsor, the would-be husband. What does “earn” mean? I run my own business. My business is a limited company that gives me an annual salary of less than £10k per year and the rest is in the form of dividends. Do dividends count? For immigration purposes do I qualify? Has my government shut my door on love?

Julie mentioned fish. I have been studying the subject. I have learned that mackerel are migratory. They go from near Spain to near Norway. There are three different migratory groups that travel all around the British Isles and Ireland on their way.

Tuna are highly migratory. Even flatfish, that I assumed spend most of their time lying on the bottom, migrate from deeper waters to shallow waters depending on the season.

It is true that Norway has some fishing areas which it keeps for its own boats. On the other hand, there is an EU-Norway fisheries partnership agreement which gives Greece a quota. It gave which EU member the largest quota for coastal waters cod in one of Norway’s regions? That’s right, the UK.

Julie said we are European – indeed some of the electricity this country uses and exports goes through an undersea interconnector cable across the Channel with France!

Now a question… I’d like to invite Julie to join us in our next Pulse of Europe meeting on Zoom on 6 Dec. But what’s her email? I’ve been trying to find it but I’m not sure which is the right one. Can you help?