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Sarah P Corbett was 'Craftivist in Residence' at Greenbelt Festival in August 2025.
Photos by Paul Chambers
Festival capacity 12,000. Kettering UK
Inviting festival-goers to slow down, reflect on how to be a loving activist and citizen, and hand-make healthy and strategic responses to injustices harming our world. Expect thoughtful provocation and threads of radical hope woven through every session across the weekend.
There were so many opportunities to find out more about – and take part in – Sarah’s gentle, quiet and creative campaigning.
A packed weekend for Sarah who wanted to do even more but there was no capacity:
1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Stitchable Changemakers' 90min workshop for 50 participants to learn how they could use their gifts, talents, content and power to be the most effective and compassionate gentle protesters on issues they care about
2. 1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Dream-Making ' 90min workshop for 50 participants to channel their anger and sadness at injustices they see into focusing on what utopian visions they want to see, hear, smell, touch and even taste as their dream
(e.g. save the bees changes to 'I dream of happy bees') which then helps each maker learn ways they can be part of the dream they wish to see - all based on neuroscience.
3. "Crafterthoughts' evening session where craftivists brought their own projects to Show and tell us about including the successes, challenges, learnings and answer any questions by others. Some people came with half formed ideas they wanted advice on from the group on how to deliver effectively and strategically. Some people came just to listen and learn. All made new connections and friends and you could feel the solidarity and encouragement in the room!
4. Sunday sunset last event was our climate craftivism performance: Craftivist Collective members joined members of Leena Norms’ Gumption Club wearing their upcycled 'Canary Craftivists' outfits to walk silently through the festival and sit as a flock to send photos and a handmade happy lifesized canary to the local MP and the owner of the festival grounds to encourage them to protest Greenbelt festival from the climate crisis and do what they can to act faster and bolder to create a healthier world
5. Planned pop-up appearance at The Caravan of Love for passersby to take part in a 10minute drop in craftivism workshop supporting Fashion Revolution to take home and 'shop drop'
6. Planned pop-up appearance under a free in the festival's mini forest area for passersby to take part in a 15minute drop in craftivism workshop choosing one of 5 Gentle Nudge messages on woven labels to sew into their clothes or accessories to encourage them as kind citizens and stewards of our planet
7. Overflowing tent of hundreds of people for Sarah interviewing Patrick Grant: BBC Great British Sewing Bee judge and fashion designer interviewing him about his work and book 'Less' whilst 3 craftivists sat on stage with us silently make Mini Fashion Statements during the session that Patrick then threw out into the audience encouraging them to 'shop-drop' these handwritten mini scrolls into fast fashion shop pockets or their friends pockets to encourage shoppers to ask 'who made these clothes' and be curious consumers
8. Sarah wrote and handstitched a prayer she was asked to read at the Sunday Communion on stage infront of thousands of attendees.
9. Throughout the festival Sarah was interviewed for social media teams for Greenbelt, Christian Aid and podcasts and had informal conversations with festival goers
A provocation and an affront to the Bosniak and Croat victims of the 1992-95 ethnic cleansing, this monument to fallen Serb soldiers is located in front of Trnopolje former concdntration camp, where Bosniaks were mistreated and killed.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
RUSSIA: repeatedly invades its neighbours for hundreds of years.
RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOURS: why can't you just leave us alone?
RUSSIA: WoW - sUcH rUsSoPhObIa!!!!!
RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOURS: let's join an alliance to protect ourselves from this evil....
RUSSIA: sToP pRoVoKiNg Me!!!!!
RUSSIA'S USEFUL IDIOTS: sToP bEiNg So MeAn To RuSsIa!!!!!
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the badminton court at Sabarmati Hostel are but two examples of the gang like activities of these lumpens targeting indiv1dual students and beating them by barging into their rooms. On the other hand these criminal etements being most anti-women never fail to pass a comment on girls passing before them. The height of their antfNomen activities was the filthy language that they used against the JNUSU Joint Secretary after the procession of JNUSU, in front of MahMandavi Hostel and again after their own procession culminating at Ganga Dhaba. Such derogatory language against a JNUSU office bearer, that too a woman is unprecedented in the history of our campus. We would like to warn these lumpens not to take the student community and their patience for granted. If they continue to indulge in such criminal and anti-women activities/ the day is not far when the democratic students will throw them out of this campus. .
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You get sound sleep. Rather sleeping any time is your weakness. You have short temperament. Sometimes under provocation, you are so short tempered by nature that you can be harsh of tongue and can misbehave. You are fond of high taste in all respect. You like to spend money purchasing expensive things as per your taste. Your chart indicates that you can receive great gains by female client and in your business female client are more helpful. You are an easy going person by Nature Report. You take things lightly and proceed in an easy manner. But if required, you can work for any no. of hours. You are one person whose beauty is appreciated by everyone. You are attractive and soft spoken in general
A very nice guy I met on the ISR message boards (goes by the name "comicbookshaman" or "alsocomicbookshaman") sent me these comic books in the mail without any type of provocation. The attached note says they are comic book published before I was born, which he has said is a unique genre of comic book he finds interesting and likes to give people comics that were published before they were born.
My favorites are the Little Lulu (gotta love her!), the Polly Pigtails magazine for girls (from the 40s I think), and the JLA that's subtitled "Man, Thy Name is Brother."
Thanks Don/comicbookshaman! This was an amazing thing to find in my mailbox and proved to be a lot more awesome than I would have imagined.
Group 1_
Cynthia Castillo, Moises Talavera, Amir Hanna, Guillermo Perez, Osvaldo Andrade
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Each year the Worlds Literature Festival features The Salon - a space in which a group of invited writers can talk in depth about issues relating to their own and others’ writing; a space in which the art and craft of writing can be debated, connections between writers made, discoveries shared and conversations begun.
Taking place around a large conference table in the UEA’s Council Chamber and chaired by Professor Jon Cook from UEA, each session begins with a commissioned provocation that lasts approximately fifteen minutes. After the provocation has been given, Jon opens the floor to the gathered writers and the discussions begin!
Photo by Martin Figura
A series presented by @performancepub on Twitter and Facebook; provocations, poems and presentations delivered on post its, from various theatre artists, every Thursday throughout August and September.
This first one was a gentle prod at the 'myspace angle' generation. Andy delivered a series of post its he invited Hannah Nicklin (who runs PitP) to respond to. Others are invited to post their own series too.
Minnie provoked Miffi.
Again.
And lost.
Again.
:-D
Miffi is not agressive, she just answers calmly to Minnies provocations^^
#CyberHarassment & Provocation Educational PSA by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC - #Cyberbullying #Cyberstalking #Cyberpsychology Website: www.ipredator.co/
I would say that a little bash to the head would provoke a response of some sort. Unfortunately I didn't take further photos of these two so can't say how it all turned out. I do remember that it all remained quite friendly. They appeared well acquainted with each other.
Group 1_
Cynthia Castillo, Moises Talavera, Amir Hanna, Guillermo Perez, Osvaldo Andrade
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
September 2021
Shot of my space at the group show
PUBLIC PROVOCATIONS '21
at COLAB GALLERY in Weil am Rhein
The only way to make democracy real is to begin a process of constant questioning, permanent provocation, and continuous public conversation between citizens and the State.
That conversation is quite different from the conversation between political parties. (Representing the views of rival political parties is what the mass media thinks of as "balanced" reporting.)
Patrolling the borders of our liberty is the only way we can guard against the snatching away of our freedoms. All over the world today, freedoms are being curbed in the name of protecting freedom. Once freedoms are surrendered by civil society, they cannot be retrieved without a struggle. It is so much easier to relinquish them than to recover them.
It is important to remember that our freedoms, such as they are, were never given to us by any government, they have been wrested by us. If we do not use them, if we do not test them from time to time, they atrophy. If we do not guard them constantly, they will be taken away from us. If we do not demand more and more, we will be left with less and less.
~ Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
Kevin Werbach, Denise Caruso, and Clay Shirky discussing innovation and love during the morning keynote session.
Sarah P Corbett was 'Craftivist in Residence' at Greenbelt Festival in August 2025.
Photos by Paul Chambers
Festival capacity 12,000. Kettering UK
Inviting festival-goers to slow down, reflect on how to be a loving activist and citizen, and hand-make healthy and strategic responses to injustices harming our world. Expect thoughtful provocation and threads of radical hope woven through every session across the weekend.
There were so many opportunities to find out more about – and take part in – Sarah’s gentle, quiet and creative campaigning.
A packed weekend for Sarah who wanted to do even more but there was no capacity:
1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Stitchable Changemakers' 90min workshop for 50 participants to learn how they could use their gifts, talents, content and power to be the most effective and compassionate gentle protesters on issues they care about
2. 1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Dream-Making ' 90min workshop for 50 participants to channel their anger and sadness at injustices they see into focusing on what utopian visions they want to see, hear, smell, touch and even taste as their dream
(e.g. save the bees changes to 'I dream of happy bees') which then helps each maker learn ways they can be part of the dream they wish to see - all based on neuroscience.
3. "Crafterthoughts' evening session where craftivists brought their own projects to Show and tell us about including the successes, challenges, learnings and answer any questions by others. Some people came with half formed ideas they wanted advice on from the group on how to deliver effectively and strategically. Some people came just to listen and learn. All made new connections and friends and you could feel the solidarity and encouragement in the room!
4. Sunday sunset last event was our climate craftivism performance: Craftivist Collective members joined members of Leena Norms’ Gumption Club wearing their upcycled 'Canary Craftivists' outfits to walk silently through the festival and sit as a flock to send photos and a handmade happy lifesized canary to the local MP and the owner of the festival grounds to encourage them to protest Greenbelt festival from the climate crisis and do what they can to act faster and bolder to create a healthier world
5. Planned pop-up appearance at The Caravan of Love for passersby to take part in a 10minute drop in craftivism workshop supporting Fashion Revolution to take home and 'shop drop'
6. Planned pop-up appearance under a free in the festival's mini forest area for passersby to take part in a 15minute drop in craftivism workshop choosing one of 5 Gentle Nudge messages on woven labels to sew into their clothes or accessories to encourage them as kind citizens and stewards of our planet
7. Overflowing tent of hundreds of people for Sarah interviewing Patrick Grant: BBC Great British Sewing Bee judge and fashion designer interviewing him about his work and book 'Less' whilst 3 craftivists sat on stage with us silently make Mini Fashion Statements during the session that Patrick then threw out into the audience encouraging them to 'shop-drop' these handwritten mini scrolls into fast fashion shop pockets or their friends pockets to encourage shoppers to ask 'who made these clothes' and be curious consumers
8. Sarah wrote and handstitched a prayer she was asked to read at the Sunday Communion on stage infront of thousands of attendees.
9. Throughout the festival Sarah was interviewed for social media teams for Greenbelt, Christian Aid and podcasts and had informal conversations with festival goers
Provocation ou tout simplement incivisme de rigueur ? Les cons sont légions...
Dirties front of a tin dedicated to dog dirties... Shame on France
A series presented by @performancepub on Twitter and Facebook; provocations, poems and presentations delivered on post its, from various theatre artists, every Thursday throughout August and September.
This first one was a gentle prod at the 'myspace angle' generation. Andy delivered a series of post its he invited Hannah Nicklin (who runs PitP) to respond to. Others are invited to post their own series too.