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Lucy Gavaghan

@lucygavaghan.bsky.social
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Ecological activist & organiser, growing the pollen project and coordinating Rights of Nature projects in the UK. www.pollenproject.org.uk

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Ella Hubbard @ella-hubbard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Brilliant night speaking at the Festival of Debate last night with @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social, @lucygavaghan.bsky.social and @riverdonproject.bsky.social (and a wonderful audience ❤️)
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Festival of Debate 2026 @festofdebate.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
💥BIG NEWS💥 Here's your full lineup for Festival of Debate 2025! 🎉 Join us in Sheffield for the UK's biggest politics festival, with more than 50 events exploring responses to some of the most urgent issues of our time. Discover the programme ➡️ festivalofdebate.com #FofD #Sheffield #Politics
A poster for the Festival of Debate, showing the logo of the festival, the dates 22 April – 30 May 2025, and dozens of names of people and groups hosting events. At the bottom of the festival are the logos of the sponsors: Learn Sheffield, Lankelly Chase, the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, Sheffield City Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
PEN International has launched an archive to commemorate the lives & work of the many writers so far killed in Gaza. It is a detailed honouring of each person. “I am Nour El Din Adnan Hajjaj, a Palestinian writer, I am 27 years old & I have many dreams...” www.pen-international.org/war-on-write...
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War on Writers: A look at writers killed in Gaza — PEN International
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Lucy Gavaghan @lucygavaghan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“I've been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life we are shut down.” Take a minute to listen to Jasleen Kaur.
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Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congratulations to Jasleen Kaur – the Glasgow artist won the Turner Prize last night for her solo show at Tramway, and used her acceptance speech to make a rousing stand in solidarity with Palestine www.theskinny.co.uk/art/news/gla... [story by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
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Glasgow artist Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize - The Skinny
While picking up the UK’s biggest arts prize, Jasleen Kaur spoke out for Palestinian people and urged arts institutions to listen to artists’ calls for an immediate ceasefire.
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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Minutes ago, activists unfurled a banner from the iconic Park Hill flats in #Sheffield calling for an end to UK arms sales to Israel. The banner, in the colours of the Palestinian flag, marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Here's an exclusive pic ⬇️
A photo of a brutalist building, showing three concrete bridges in the sky connecting two parts of the building. From the top of the three bridges hangs a huge banner in the shape of a Palestinian flag, with the words "STOP ARMING ISRAEL"
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Lucy Gavaghan @lucygavaghan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🌿 Grateful to Håkon Evjemo for sharing his imaginative, pactically-minded, article with the pollen project. Through a series of playful arguments, Håkon ponders the interconnection of lives and liberty, and the representation of more than human life in legal systems. Scroll for an excerpt.
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Lucy Gavaghan @lucygavaghan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🏔️ Proud to share George Hill's writing as part of the pollen project relaunch. Remaking the website, I've read this piece countless times. Again and again, I'm taken aback with how immersive and enchanting it is. Scroll through for a short snippet, and follow the route to read in full.
The words 'Out among the hills' sit above a square photograph of a snow covered mountain ridge. Profile photo of George Hill below the words 'Revisiting wild places, through the words of Nan Sheperd'.A quotation from the article with contour lines creeping in from opposite corners of a black background.A route to find the article online with contour lines creeping in from opposite corners of a black background.
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Lucy Gavaghan @lucygavaghan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
After a period of hibernation from public action, the pollen project is back. pollen is a storytelling initiative seeking more personal, creative explorations of nature-connectedness and climate breakdown. I'll be using blue sky to spotlight pollen articles and updates. Here's a first taste... 🪼
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About — pollen project
The evolution of pollen, told by Lucy Gavaghan. The idea of pollen started bubbling in the early June of 2022. I was in Sheffield, where I grew up, and sinking into a long summer. The goal was to crea...
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