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  • 2025 Newsletter

    Life Raft at the Winter Sculpture Park in London

    7 Mar 2025

  • 2025 Newsletter

    Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion

    6 Feb 2025

  • 2024 Newsletter

    Talks in Acton, Dumbarton & Banchory!

    17 Sep 2024

  • 2023 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical – special artist’s talk at Manchester Art Gallery

    19 Sep 2023

  • 2023 Newsletter

    Don’t miss these free events in Liverpool & Glasgow this summer

    10 Jul 2023

  • 2023 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical – Don’t miss your last chance to see the show!

    12 Jun 2023

  • 2022 Newsletter

    New Merseyside production of Bus Regulation: The Musical!

    17 Oct 2022

  • 2021 Newsletter

    Book Launch and events during COP26

    1 Nov 2021

  • 2021 Newsletter

    Glasgow Community Energy / Bus Regulation: The Musical and more

    14 Jun 2021

  • 2020 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical Film / Book Tour

    17 Feb 2020

  • 2019 Newsletter

    Early Warning Signs / Book Launch

    31 Oct 2019

  • 2019 Newsletter

    Bus Regulation: The Musical / Book Launch

    25 Sep 2019

  • 2017 Newsletter

    The Glasgow Effect

    10 Feb 2017

  • 2016 Newsletter

    The Sustainability of a Sustainable Lifestyle

    22 Sep 2016

  • 2016 Newsletter

    RRAAF Founding Symposium (Centre for Contemporary Arts)

    20 Jun 2016

  • 2016 Newsletter

    The Artists’ Bond – Expanding our Membership in Scotland

    1 Jun 2016

  • 2016 Newsletter

    The Glasgow Effect

    11 Mar 2016

  • 2015 Newsletter

    RRAAF Kickstarter – Last Chance to Get Involved!

    2 Dec 2015

  • 2015 Newsletter

    Support the Shift from Aesthetics to Ethics

    4 Nov 2015

  • 2015 Newsletter

    Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund

    6 Oct 2015

  • 2015 Newsletter

    Early Warning Signs

    9 Sep 2015

  • 2015 Newsletter

    This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

    15 Jul 2015

  • 2015 Newsletter

    Democracy in London / Equality in Cardiff

    30 Jun 2015

  • 2015 Newsletter

    High Street Casualties: The Exhibition (and other news)

    28 Apr 2015

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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 – 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 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! 👇 You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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"We need The Scottish Government to support our transport authority, SPT, to bring the bus network back into public control, so they can deliver a fully-integrated, accessible and affordable public transport network across the region like Greater Manchester’s new ‘Bee Network’, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshire’s ‘People’s Network’" — Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸 👏 Read online here 👇
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm 🌍 Find out more 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Are you in Glasgow this evening? Come along to this free screening of the brilliant POWER Film at The Glasgow School of Art 👇 I'll be introducing the event, talking about my work with Glasgow Community Energy and chairing a Q&A with artist and filmmaker Hilary Powell 😊 @followersSave the date! 🌞 We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion 👇
🗓️ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
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It’s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning 😡 Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 for an essential public service as bankers in the City of London? Shame on The Scottish Government for presiding over this system for more than 25 years! @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Ten years ago today, I was just beginning my year-long durational performance #TheGlasgowEffect which was to become one of the most controversial publicly-funded artworks that Scotland had ever seen.

Part psychological experiment, part protest, part strike, for the whole of 2016, I vowed not to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike.

I described my experience of starting #TheGlasgowEffect, including being at the centre of the social media stooshie it provoked, in ‘When the Chips Hit the Fan’ – Chapter 5 of my book ‘The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint’ published by Luath Press 📚

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if you’d like to be transported back to that moment in January 2016... Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/book @followers
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It's been brilliant working with Metro Map Design to produce Get Glasgow Moving's new film setting out our vision for the new #ClydeMetro integrated public transport system 🤩 Check it out here 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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🚶🚲🚍🚇🚉 I was honoured to be invited to discuss my activism with Bring Back British Rail, Get Glasgow Moving & Better Buses for Strathclyde at ETF's 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 conference at KVS Brussels 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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