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Extinction Rebellion comes to VAULT Festival as part of a packed programme of climate-related shows

XR programme at VAULT Festival. Image courtesty of Rebecca Boey
XR programme at VAULT Festival. Image courtesty of Rebecca Boey

VAULT Festival to be joined by Extinction Rebellion with an enormous focus on eco shows plays, talks and events.

Extinction Rebellion’s presence at VAULT festival includes a late-night multimedia experiential party event Extinction Underground, Saturday 22nd Feb 22.30 – 03.00 , a series of talks, podcast recordings, panel discussions and rehearsed readings on the climate and ecological emergency.

I-Don_t-Know-What-To-Do-at-Vault-Festival.-Courtesy-of-Creative-Destruction
I-Don_t-Know-What-To-Do-at-Vault-Festival.-Courtesy-of-Creative-Destruction

Kay Michael, Co-Founder of Culture Declares Emergency, said

“2020 is the year of action. We’re excited to host Extinction Underground at VAULT Festival – a celebration of the many artists and movements responding to the climate and ecological emergency. We invite everyone to get involved; to come together and build the world we know is possible. We have over 80 artists involved, including circus, dance, headlining music acts, cabaret and short films. It’s an evening not to be missed.”

Together with representatives from Culture Declares Emergency and Music Declares Emergency, Extinction Rebellion will host a late-night immersive party, Extinction Underground, taking over the venue with 80+ artists including award-winning Foals keyboardist Edwin Congreave.

Many companies are bringing sustainable theatre practices into their 2020 VAULT offerings, including PearShaped Theatre, Long Distance Theatre and Pigfoot Theatre – the recipient of the inaugural Staging Change VAULT Festival Award, whose lighting is powered by a bicycle cycled live on stage.
From Tuesday 28th January to 22nd March, London’s biggest, boldest and wildest arts festival – VAULT Festival – returns with an enormous focus on eco shows, plays, talks and events.

As part of their recognition of a Climate & Ecological Emergency, VAULT Festival has made steps to further improve their commitment to sustainability.

Extinction Rebellion join the festival with a late-night multimedia experiential party event, a series of talks, podcast recordings, panel discussions and rehearsed readings on the climate and ecological emergency, with a focus on decolonisation and climate justice. Extinction Rebellion, Restless Development and Staging Change will partner with VAULT Festival for a new ‘Time for Change’ venue, an installation open throughout the festival to inspire festival goers to demand change for people and the planet.

Other movements and artists adding their voice to the environmental programme include Culture Declares Emergency, Music Declares Emergency, activist Tamsin Omond, UCL environmental policy researcher and comedian Dr Matt Winning, and Brainchild Festival.

Paper-Straws-at-VAULT-Festival.-Image-courtesy-of-PearShaped
Paper-Straws-at-VAULT-Festival.-Image-courtesy-of-Pear Shaped

Andy George and Mat Burtcher, Co-Founders of VAULT Festival, said

“We are living in a time of crisis. There is great, impossible-to-ignore change needed everywhere. We’re confronting, at last, the stark fact that humankind is making its home uninhabitable at a rate we hadn’t imagined twenty years ago. Which is why we’re supporting the wider climate movement by recognising a climate & ecological emergency and taking immediate action combined with longer term planning.”

This is a Climate and Ecological Emergency and the artists are on it.

A selection of the most talented rebel artists and eco-warriors have joined forces with the VAULT festival for their 2020 festival. Below are the many creative ways they are responding to this emergency.

Extinction Underground, Saturday 22nd Feb 22.30 – 03.00

An interactive and immersive late night underground playground celebrating and showcasing the unstoppable creativity and community of Extinction Rebellion and the wider climate movement.

Beneath the streets of London over 80 artists, performers, radicals, headlining music acts, luminaries and gardeners of the human spirit will come together with vital acts of co-creation, artistic expression, connection to the planet and one another: acts of celebration, grief, love, transformation and resilience.

Dance, play, create and discover first hand the booming community behind the disruptive actions that draw attention to the climate and ecological emergency, and how artists and rebels are responding to our unprecedented times.

Lorenzo Belenguer, Extinction Rebellion Arts & Culture Media coordinator, said

“We are facing a major threat to mankind and artists are responding to this emergency in very imaginative ways. Extinction Rebellion is the inspiration to the biggest Art movement in the history of humanity not seen since the 60s, when many influential movements like Minimalism, Conceptualism, Land Art, etc, blossomed. XR is present in almost 200 countries and this Festival is an introduction to understand this historical moment.”

For more info on talks and events plus tickets go here: rebellion.earth

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