The Olive Network
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
Now gathering
41 voices connected
Lead story · Charities
The hills surrounding Ahbohibary Kofay used to be filled with birdsong, says Lydia, who tends a small rice paddy outside the tiny village at the bottom of Bemolanga valley. That was until this area in Western Madagascar was laid to waste…
Education·22 November 2022
UNICEF/Kate Watson Pupils sing a song as part of a tolerance workshop at a school in Indonesia.
ON Network · 7 min read
Arts & Culture·10 March 2022
March 9, 2022, 11:46 AM · Violinists across the world have joined together to perform the Ukrainian folk song 'Verbovaya Doschechka' in support of Ukraine.
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·24 June 2019
The Worm is a one-worm-band comedy pastoralist artist making songs about nature, waste and everyday life.
Sol Force · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·21 April 2026
This week, I found this post on Instagram and it rang bells - ON Ed
ON Network · 2 min read
Education·18 December 2019
Adwoa Dickson (project director), Shamuna Rahman (choir support), Racheal Olawaniotogun, (choir member) Francesca Ojefua (choir support) and daughter, Anna Samant (facilitator) A choral singing project is harnessing the power of music to help heal the mental and emotional scars of women trafficked i
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Climate·17 May 2019
We have been warned. As I write, another report heralds catastrophe: this time, a UN global assessment reveals the threat to humanity, as one million species are now at risk of extinction. And yet the experience of climate change stretches…
ON Network · 7 min read
Uncategorized·2 January 2019
Playing for Change is a multimedia music project, created by the American producer and sound engineer Mark Johnson with his Timeless Media Group, that seeks to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. Playing For…
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·6 January 2025
ON Ed: saw this wonderful film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom recently. Here is a sweet little quote from the film “because teachers touch the future.”
BFI SIGHT AND SOUND · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·6 November 2023
It took a thunderstorm for Gordon Hempton to truly appreciate quiet. After a visit home to Seattle, Washington in 1980, the then-27-year-old graduate student found himself tiring of the 3,000km+ slog back to his university in Madison,…
ON Network · 19 min read
Climate·16 January 2022
The Geneva Ethnography Museum (MEG) mixes history, artistic expression and activism to retell the story of indigenous peoples’ struggle for their rights, with Geneva as one of the battlegrounds.
ON Network · 4 min read
New Museum·8 January 2019
People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews
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Climate·10 June 2026
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling…
ON Network · 3 min read
Systems Change·29 April 2026
Climate & Environment Climate Change News Published on April 28, 2026 10:47. / Updated on April 28, 2026 21:42. ON SOURCE: GENEVA SOLUTIONS Civil society demands action from governments at first fossil fuel-free conference in Colombia
5 min read
Climate·1 October 2025
Boats, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, sail off Koufonisi islet, Greece, on 26 September 2025.
THE NEW HUMANITARIAN · 10 min read
Arts & Culture·18 July 2025
With war ravaging their homeland, the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians has been scattered across the globe. But five years since the violence erupted, the group are reuniting for a cathartic tour – and opening Glastonbury
ON Network · 8 min read
Arts & Culture·28 June 2025
Film follows Radiohead guitarist and Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur recording alongside Indian musicians
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·8 May 2025
Steve McQueen, Bass , 2024. Installation view, Dia Beacon, New York, May 12, 2024–April 14, 2025. © Steve McQueen. Photograph by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York.
MUBI NOTEBOOK · 11 min read
Arts & Culture·15 August 2024
The character “集” depicts three birds perched on a single tree. As a verb, it encompasses meanings including to gather, converge, collect, or assemble. As a noun, “集” can be translated as “Atlas” — a collection of art, cultural relics, or…
ON Network · 1 min read
Arts & Culture·29 July 2024
The Mapping Journey Project, 2008–11 (installation view, Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale, 2024). Photo: Marco Zorzanello. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
ART REVIEW · 13 min read
Climate·14 April 2024
Recognizing the inspirational power that art can offer the global society, whether through great art experiences, agenda setting, or community mobilization, the time to create momentum for transformation is now. We depend on art as a…
ON Network · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·3 November 2023
Curators: Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation & Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, director of KADIST Paris
ON Network · 2 min read
Climate·29 October 2023
The Gallery of Ecological Art (formerly China gallery) at the British Museum of Decolonised Nature. Image courtesy John Zhang and Studio JZ, Author provided
ON Network · 15 min read
Arts & Culture·4 September 2023
In support of shared struggles for equality, social and ecological justice, Art of Internationalism builds from a place-based understanding of the world: one grounded in situated histories, rooted in communities and lands and intimately…
ON Network · 13 min read
Climate·21 September 2022
Art for Hope launched with The Hope Forum during the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale and is running through the 77th United Nations General Assembly and COP 27. The initiative explores how the art ecosystem can respond to the climate…
ON Network · 3 min read
Humanitarian·6 June 2022
A woman holding a placard reading 'I'm Russian, I stand with Ukraine' takes part with others in a protest of Russians living in Switzerland against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022.…
ON Network · 7 min read
Climate·2 January 2022
Responsible investing at Rathbone Investment Management. We see it as our responsibility to invest for everyone’s tomorrow. That means doing the right thing for our clients and for others too. Keeping the future in mind when we make…
ON Network · 6 min read
Climate·29 April 2021
How will you reboot the future? New campaign amplifies young voices ahead of major climate conference, COP-26 As the climate and social crises we face intensify, the voices of young people are rightly getting louder. Forum for the Future…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·31 March 2021
Lecturer in Japanese Studies (Japanese and Comparative Literature), University of Sheffield
ON Network · 4 min read
Education·1 September 2019
‘There should be a place for the arts in all schools.’ Students at the In Harmony school in West Everton, Liverpool. Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos/Antonio Olmos
ON Network · 5 min read
New Museum·31 July 2019
The curator of the Golden Lion-winning Lithuanian Pavilion in Venice is wedding art and environmentalism in new ways.
11 min read
Education·28 July 2019
Extinction Rebellion Published on Jul 26, 2019 We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic and political system. The way we relate to each other and to nature is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life. Unending economic growth and profits drawn from a planet with limited resour
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Arts & Culture·19 June 2019
Roger Thorp has collaborated with Jesse Leroy Smith extensively over the last few years, particularly on The Pantheist and Bardo 7.08 both of which are included in Smith's Force Majeure exhibition at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.
ON Network · 1 min read
Humanitarian·13 June 2019
Hiba, an eight-year old Syrian refugee, is the road to school success thanks to an Islamic Relief mobile education unit in Jordan.
ON Network · 3 min read
New Museum·28 December 2018
Anima-Mundi is proud to present Abbie Trayler-Smith’s ‘After Darkness’, an extraordinary exhibition of photography capturing the devastating effects of Isis on the landscape and people of the region.
3 min read
Feed · 21/12/2025
The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against it, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Feed · 29/12/2024
Our natural soundscapes are falling silent as bird populations decline. To improve our lives, we must invest in conservation
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Feed · 07/02/2024
Founded in Bristol in 2022, ‘the moderate flank of protest’ has 600 members in 11 choirs
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Feed · 19/10/2022
Because Dylan draws from songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But this view has been colored by a distorted understanding of the creative process.
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Feed · 11/07/2022
From songs on the Spanish revolution to others on American Imperialism, Strummer’s lyrics inspired a generation of music-lovers to action.
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