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CONEXIONES IMPROBABLES

The international call is open for artists and social scientists to collaborate with the following nine organisations located in the Basque Country and Salamanca, as part of the 2011 edition of Improbable Connections: DeustoTech (Institute of Technology at the University of Deusto), Fagor Electrodomésticos (household appliances cooperative group), Anesvad Foundation (cooperation NGO), Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation (dedicated to promoting reading), i68 Group (software engineering company), Lauaxeta Ikastola (school), Obe Hettich (furniture solutions company), Tknika (vocational training innovation centre) and Uribe Kosta (group of 10 City Councils in the Bilbao metropolitan area).

Deadline: 9am on 28 March 2011.

Collaboration period: May 2011 – January 2012.

Payment: 12,000 euros + VAT (including travel and accommodation).

More information: CONEXIONES IMPROBABLES.

Postlethwaite protest over Kingsnorth

Actor Pete Postlethwaite is considering handing back his OBE if the UK government gives the go-ahead to the Kingsnorth Power coal-fired power station, linking the Kingsnorth issue to the Iraq War protests, the largest in modern UK history. “We tried to stop Tony Blair going to war in Iraq. But this time we’re not having it.”

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