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November 18, 2021

Splanna – Trash Fashion – 18th Nov 2021

Splanna - Trash Fashion - 18th Nov 2021

This update from the ongoing Splanna workshops!

Today we tackled the fashion industry, creating a weird, wonderful, yet incredibly stylish outfit made entirely out of rubbish.

It was surprising to learn the millions of tonnes of clothes that we throw away every year, and that aid projects donating clothes to developing countries can sometimes just end up in “clothes mountains” selling us a false story that the clothes have done some good. There was a general consensus to buy second hand, and try to only buy new, the things we really need.

Tackling Identity-Based Harm

Following on from our Tackling Racism Restoratively programme, we have been talking with Cornwall’s creative communities about how active anti-racism can contribute to Cornwall’s culture of welcome.

May 11, 2022

Splanna at Cornwall’s Ecological Emergency Summit

In March 2022 some representatives of Splanna took a spoken word poem (rap) to Cornwall’s ecological emergence summit at Heartlands, please see their stunning performance!

April 28, 2022

Ramadan Craft Workshop

We had a wonderful morning at Truro Community Library where we ran a Ramadan craft workshop. We were joined by children and their parents from the Syrian and Ukrainian communities, and we made Ramadan themed suncatchers, played games and got to know each other.