ColaLife plinth video now available
July 19, 2009 by Simon Berry · 2 Comments
These images are taken from the skyARTS video of Russell Tanner on the fourth plinth for ColaLife. Well done Russell - great commentary! View the whole video here.
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ColaLife Twittermob - the video!
July 18, 2009 by Simon Berry · 3 Comments
ColaLife Twittermob in Trafalgar Square. Thanks to David Wilcox for this video. David has kindly put others here on YouTube and Qik.
Do you have any photos or video from the event? Let us know where they are (by commenting) and we will link to them. If you’re tagging please use ‘colalife’.
>> More video (thanks to Richard and Laura from Community Links and Chain Reaction and others)
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Meet Farrai Mwamba - she’d be in Trafalgar Square if she could
July 16, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Image credit: Alison Pearon
This is Farrai Mwamba, one of the children from the N’gombe Compound in Lusaka, Zambia.
Her mother is a teachers’ aide at the school where this picture was taken and is delighted we are using this picture and says: “I am very pleased that Farrai is helping the ColaLife campaign.”
So it’s time for us to do our bit for Farrai and her friends. Let’s get down to Trafalgar Square at 3pm tomorrow (17/7) and show the world that this campaign has legs!
July 15, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
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Sarah Brown tweets for ColaLife!
July 14, 2009 by Simon Berry · 2 Comments
Tonight, Sarah Brown (yes, I know it might not actually be her) tweeted for ColaLife! Bless her (or her representative). She has 387,653 followers. We will fill Trafalgar Square yet! Can you come to support ColaLife this Friday at 3pm?
ColaLife Twittermob Rally! Join us in Trafalgar Square or online
July 11, 2009 by Simon Berry · 3 Comments
This Friday (17/7/09), 3pm Trafalgar Square, we will be gathering in Trafalgar to celebrate ColaLife and see the giant aidpod take its rightful place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square!
What is ColaLife?
You can buy a Coca-Cola virtually anywhere in developing countries and yet 1 in 5 children die before the age of 5 from largely preventable causes like dehydration from diarrhoea. ColaLife is a campaign to get Coca-Cola to open up its distribution networks in developing countries to carry ’social products’ such as oral rehydration salts, vitamin A tablets, condoms etc >>more
>> Bob Geldof wishes us luck
>> Sarah Brown tweets about us!
>> On the day media enquiries: Therese Bjorn, Global Tolerance on 07719 411817
Build-up
Please:
- Tweet like mad! Tell the world about it. Use the word colalife in your tweets so they come up on the Colalife Blog.
- Tweet like mad (Advanced)! You can use the hashtag #colalife and add the hashtag #oneandother so that tweets also go into the main plinth twitter stream
- Encourage your friends to come along on the day
- Follow us on Twitter - @colalife
- Become a fan on facebook.com/colalife
- If you’re a blogger please write about ColaLife - all the material you need is here. There’s a press page with pictures here.
- If you can help us with the organisation/ideas etc - please join our Google Group where all the organising is going on!
In Trafalgar Square
Venue: Trafalgar Square
Time: 3pm to 4pm (but get there earlier to help out if you can)
Dress: Anything you like but wear something red if you can
Options:
- Make a placard
- “colalife.org - 4 die every minute” (Download A4 poster, download A3 poster)
- “colalife.org - 1 in 5 die before 5″ (Download A4 poster, download A3 poster)
- Print leaflets to hand out (Download leaflets)
- MAKEAN AIDPOD and bring it along - the pattern and instructions are here
- Bring an instrument and play it
- Sing!
- Shout!
- Ask Russell questions (Russell will be the guy on the plinth)
- Take pictures and video
- Etc
ENJOY!
Online
Watch us live here: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/
Time: 3pm to 4pm (but get there earlier to help out if you can)
- Tweet like mad! Tell the world about it. Use the word colalife in your tweets so they come up on the Colalife Blog.
- Tweet like mad (Advanced)! You can use the hashtag #colalife and add the hashtag #oneandother so that tweets also go into the main plinth twitter stream
- Encourage your friends to come along on the day
- If you’re a blogger please write about ColaLife - all the material you need is here. There’s a press page with pictures here.
How to get there once in London (nearest tube is Charing Cross)
Trafalgar Square, Fourth Plinth ColaLife spokesperson in place
July 9, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
I am very grateful to long term ColaLife supporter Troy Kennedy for agreeing to be the spokesperson for ColaLife on 17/7/09 (Friday) as Russell Tanner takes to the Fourth Plinth. I first made contact the Troy nearly a year ago now via the Channel 4 Battlefront website. Troy runs Condoms for Africa. Here’s a video of Troy speaking at one of the few face-to-face ColaLife meeting hosted by Global Tolerance:
ColaLife headlines in NESTA guide
July 7, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
Yesterday (7/7/09), at Reboot Britain, NESTA launched ‘Social By Social - A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact’. ColaLife is one of the case studies featured in the online guide and headlines on the website.
Your plinth ideas please!
July 5, 2009 by Simon Berry · 2 Comments
In case you’ve missed all the Tweets . . . Russell Tanner has agreed to dedicate his slot on the fourth plinth on 17 July to ColaLife. This is incredibly generous of Russell.
We need design ideas on how to make the most of it. Here’s mine!
Just heard that Russell will be on the plinth for us on 17 July from 3pm to 4pm which is a great slot. I’ve ordered 25 ColaLife Tee shirts. Who can be there to spread the word in the crowd?
Any more ideas on what the ColaLife installation might look like?
But isn’t it Art?
July 1, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
Image credit: Christopher Fowler (permission pending)
My campaign to get a giant aidpod on to the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square has floundered before it really got started. Just got this reply from the Mayor’s Office:
from Mayor of London <mayor@london.gov.uk>
to simon@colalife.org
date 1 July 2009 12:02
subject RE: MGLA170609-2106 Idea for the fourth plinthDear Simon
Many thanks for your email regarding your proposal to install an ‘aidpod’ on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square to raise awareness for your Colalife campaign.
The Fourth Plinth’s use as the location for a rolling programme of specially commissioned contemporary artworks was, following public consultation, unanimously recommended by an independent committee set up on the Government’s instruction in 1998. When the Mayor of London took over the responsibility for Trafalgar Square in 1999, he endorsed the recommendation and set up the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group (FPCG).
The FPCG is a panel of visual art experts who invite artists to submit a proposal and then make recommendations on which artwork should be chosen, which the Mayor signs off. However, this process is by invitation only; it is not an open selection programme and the Mayor does not decide the artwork that is installed on the plinth.
At this stage, there are no plans for the current Fourth Plinth programme to cease.
We wish you the very best for your campaign.
Kind regards,
AbbieAbbie McGillivray
Mayor’s Office - Cultural Strategy
I need to get in contact with FPCG because it’s completely unused at the moment, it could be helping save lives in between commissions . . . I know, I cycle past it most days . . .
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