We’re well into 2007 — and everywhere interesting projects and initiatives on Oil, the Industry and its impact are well under way, or even completed, not to count the ones on climate change etc. etc. etc.
There are a few I’d like to mention here:
- Over a barrel is the launch of Variant magazine’s special issue devoted to the oil economy, live on Thursday 15th March, 7pm, at Aberdeen Trades Council, 13 Adelphi, Aberdeen. This is an open panel discussion, chaired by Terry Brotherstone, head of the Oil Lives oral history project at Aberdeen University. Guests include trade unionists, Kari Bukve from SAFE in Stavanger, Norway, & Jake Molloy, from OILC in Aberdeen (featured in our own tale of the tiger). Also speaking will be Femi Folorunso, who was closely involved in the democratic struggle in Nigeria; & co-editors & contributors for this issue: Owen Logan, Leigh French & Andy Cumbers. (The website at http://www.overabarrel.info/ not quite ready, but we hope to see it soon.)
- Offshore Culture, the planned contribution to Stavanger 2008, European Capital of Culture, being possibly postponed and realised as a miniature at the Stavanger Oil Museum (more on this soon)
- Ursula Biemann’s Black Sea Files on show at Bristol, Arnolfini, Sept-Nov.07
- Greasemonkeys Oil Standard Browser Plugin that converts any prices on website into their equivalents of barrels of oil
- Last not least, Platform London’s And While London Burns, a soundwalk through the City of London — the place where (some of) the Oil money is … laun..handled?
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