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2019

  • 2019 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical feature

    30 Sep 2019
    You & Yours, BBC Radio 4

  • 2019 Media

    A Real Moving Story: Fifty years of Greater Manchester transport policy On Wheels

    28 Sep 2019
    East of the M60

  • 2019 Performance / Events
    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at Manchester Art Gallery on 28 September 2019

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Greater Manchester)

    Inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’, this performance / event re-enacts the history of public transport provision in Greater Manchester from the post-war period to the present dayโ€ฆ on roller skates!

  • 2019 Media
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    Bus Regulation: The Musical preview

    27 Sep 2019
    North West Tonight, BBC One

  • 2019 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical preview

    27 Sep 2019
    North West Today, BBC One

  • 2019 Media

    Bus regulation proves just the ticket for a musical in Manchester

    27 Sep 2019
    The Guardian (p.26)

  • 2019 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical / Book Launch

    25 Sep 2019

  • 2019 Lecture

    Studio Jamming

    18 Sep 2019
    Cooper Gallery, Dundee

  • 2019 Lecture

    Privatisation & Outsourcing

    31 Aug 2019
    The Ferret Summer Gathering, University of Stirling

  • 2019 Lecture

    The Glasgow Effect: Social Mobility in Scotland – Ellie Harrison & Kenneth Calman

    22 Aug 2019
    ScotlandsFest, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

  • 2019 Media

    Glasgow Effect artist Ellie Harrison launches book in response to ‘social media ****storm’

    21 Aug 2019
    The Scotsman

  • 2019 Lecture

    A Tale of Two Cities – Ellie Harrison & Jemma Neville

    20 Aug 2019
    Edinburgh International Book Festival

  • 2019 Lecture

    Transforming Transport to address the Climate Emergency

    25 Jun 2019
    Climate Emergency Working Group, Glasgow City Council

  • 2019 Lecture

    Artistโ€™s Talk

    19 Mar 2019
    Creative Industries & Arts Organisation, Queen Margaret University, London

  • 2019 Lecture

    Artist’s Talk

    15 Mar 2019
    MFA Fine Art Media, The Slade, London

  • 2019 Media

    Luathโ€™s Safari continues on the back of prize-winning bestseller by rapper Loki

    1 Feb 2019
    The Bookseller

  • 2019 Lecture

    World-class Transport for Glasgow

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison presents a petition signed by 10,727 people calling for ‘World-class Transport for Glasgow‘ to Glasgow City Council’s Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community & Citizen Engagement Committee.

  • 2019 Lecture

    Chair’s Report

    8 Jan 2019
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM, Unite, Glasgow

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 โ€“ 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the ๐Ÿ˜น LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers

It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Published today! Check out The Artists Bonds 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
artistsbond.co.uk/14artistsbondreport2024.pdf

Published today! Check out The Artists' Bond's 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
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This ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐Ÿฒ ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ, ๐Ÿณ๐—ฝ๐—บ! ๐Ÿ“ฃ Don't miss our FREE Cultivating Community Activism: Learning from Cathy McCormackโ€™s โ€˜The Wee Yellow Butterflyโ€™ event as part of Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ Listen to my interview on Sunny Govan to find out more! @followers tune in from 1:04:09 ๐Ÿ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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I was delighted to be interviewed about the Bring Back British Rail campaign for 14-year-old Riku Fryderyk's brilliant new documentary about rail re-nationalisation ๐Ÿš‰ Well worth a watch! ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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It was such an honour to be part of this wonderful event on Saturday, and to help launch the new freely-available audiobook of The Wee Yellow Butterfly by Cathy McCormack ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ“š Find out more at: glasgowenergy.coop/audiobook @followers

It was such an honour to be part of this wonderful event on Saturday, and to help launch the new freely-available audiobook of The Wee Yellow Butterfly by Cathy McCormack ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ“š Find out more at: glasgowenergy.coop/audiobook @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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