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    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at Manchester Art Gallery on 28 September 2019

    Bus Regulation: The Musical

    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 day… on roller skates!

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    Anti-Capitalist Aerobics

    Originally created as a disruption during Invisible Dust’s Ways of Seeing Climate Change conference on 30 October 2013, Anti-Capitalist Aerobics engages delegates in an energy intensive workout in order to expose some of the fundamental contradictions in the way we live our lives.

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    The Other Forecast

    Recorded LIVE in front of a green screen, Harrison’s The Other Forecast offers her summary of the absurd consequences of capitalism, as a warning about the future we are heading towards if the system continues unchecked. Broadcast on the Big Screen at MediaCityUK in November 2013 as part of The Other Forecast project – a collaboration between Harrison & John O’Shea.
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  • Installations
    Installation view at Castlefield Gallery

    Austerity & Anarchy

    An installation which employs a spotlight and smoke machine to visualise and explore the correlation between cuts in public spending and instances of mass rioting on the UK’s streets.

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    Desk Chair Parade

    On Sunday 2 August 2009, Ellie Harrison & Adele Prince (Sports Day) staged the inaugural Desk Chair Parade took place in Manchester as part of We are the Champions – Castlefield Gallery’s 25th Anniversary. A group of willing volunteers – office workers, shoppers and gallery goers alike – embarked on a magnificent adventure, freewheeling through the streets on ordinary office chairs.

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    Bath Time

    An interactive web-based artwork commissioned by the Transition art programme at Victoria Baths in Manchester.
    Project website

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). On Sunday 24 April 2022 she staged Bus Regulation: The Musical at the CCA Glasgow.
In autumn 2021, a new and updated 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. 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 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Photos from Bus Regulation: The Musical by Ellie Harrison at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022 πŸšπŸŽ΅πŸ›ΌπŸŒˆπŸŽ‰ Find out more and watch the short film at: ellieharrison.com/strathclyde πŸ“Έ Erika Stevenson

Photos from Bus Regulation: The Musical by Ellie Harrison at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022 πŸšπŸŽ΅πŸ›ΌπŸŒˆπŸŽ‰ Find out more and watch the short film at: ellieharrison.com/strathclyde πŸ“Έ Erika Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less

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Fabulous!πŸ’ͺπŸ₯³

Woah Ellie this looks amazing! Congratulations xx

So proud to know you!! Xx

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Missed the show? You can now watch the short film about Bus Regulation: The Musical here πŸ‘‡ www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/videos/455569263012255

Did you hear a clip from Bus Regulation: The Musical on BBC Radio Scotland this morning? πŸ“» You can listen again here πŸ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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03 May 2022: Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde) on Good Morning Scotland

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A short film of Bus Regulation: The Musical by Ellie Harrison staged at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022 in collaboration with the local Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign πŸšπŸŽ΅πŸ›Ό ... See MoreSee Less

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Ellie, is it possible to get more stickers? I've nearly used all the ones that I got at the CCA. Thanks in advance (I was the one with the bus hoodie and bus tattoo!).

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Public transport policy is worth making a song and dance about! πŸšπŸŽ‰πŸŽΆ A great review of Bus Regulation: The Musical at CCA Glasgow in todays The National Newspaper. Thanks to everyone who came along on Sunday! Please join the Get Glasgow Moving campaign ✊

Public transport policy is worth making a song and dance about! πŸšπŸŽ‰πŸŽΆ A great review of Bus Regulation: The Musical at CCA Glasgow in today's The National Newspaper. Thanks to everyone who came along on Sunday! Please join the Get Glasgow Moving campaign ✊ ... See MoreSee Less

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Missed the show? You can now watch the short film about Bus Regulation: The Musical here πŸ‘‡ www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/videos/455569263012255

Question for Ellie Harrison. See the old 1930 Monopoly boundary, that existed in Glasgow pre 1982? Did the same rules apply to outside operators, when entering Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen also?? Something else I wonder if you are aware of?? Did you know that the old monopoly boundary in Glasgow, wasn’t actually, at the official city council boundary?? It was much further in. E.G. coming in from Bishopbriggs on a bus. The monopoly boundary was at Hawthorn street /Springburn rd Police station., and not at Colston road, where the actual City Boundary is today. (Hence the old Boundary Bar being situated there, before it was demolished in the 1970s to make way for the Springburn bypass.) Reason for this discrepancy, was this was where the original boundary was in 1930, when the system was established. As Glasgow grew, the monopoly boundary didn’t. Hence Scottish Midland buses, serving Drumchapel, and Eastern buses serving Easterhouse. And Not Corporation/PTE buses. Hopefully, we can talk them into bringing that back in too. And it will mean, I can run past all the bus stops, after Springburn rd, and not stop till I get to the bus station. Ha ha!

Fabulous show. So factual too. I’ve worked in the bus industry since I passed my test in 1999, when I was 21. It really does show up the Privatised Deregulated bus industry in Glasgow for the total and complete profit driven shambles that it is. How we ever gave up the quality system we had is beyond me?? They’ve been talking about RE-Regulating the bus industry since I passed my test. But that’s all the politicians have done. Talk talk and more talk. No action! Hopefully this time, surely we’ll get this policy MOVING forward! I worked in the London transport (Tottenham Garage) on loan from Arriva Inchinnan for a year in 2000, when I was 22. That system down there WORKS, for ALL. The TFL regulated London bus industry, should be the model which every city in Britain adopts. Either that or the fully nationalised Edinburgh system. They WORK, Deregulation DOES’NT!!

Loved the show, got in off the wait list and so pleased I saw it. Couldn't believe that back in the 1980s before deregulation got going, we could buy a card that worked on both subway and buses!

That’s a good piece of publicity, Ellie, and might even get somewhere.

Paul Jones and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Brilliant!

Whoop! Congrats!

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