Exhibition
Vivienne Westwood: Don't Buy A Bomb
8 Apr 2021
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 20:23 – 20:26
Address
- Piccadilly Circus
- London
England - W1D 7ET
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus stops (14, 139, 176, 19, 38, 453) are located on or around Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue and Piccadilly.
- Charing Cross and Piccadilly Circus are the nearest tube and train stations.
Vivienne Westwood celebrates her 80th Birthday with CIRCA to present a video message to the world: STOP ARMS TRADE. STOP WAR. STOP CLIMATE CHANGE.
About
To mark her 80th Birthday, CIRCA will screen a short film by Vivienne Westwood on London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights screen.
The ten minute film ‘Do Not Buy A Bomb’ created especially by Westwood, depicts the punk icon performing a rewritten rendition of‘Without You’ from My Fair Lady. Offering a stark warning of societal indifference to the looming environmental catastrophes, a cry against the arms trade and its link to climate change. Westwood ponders an England without people and challenges audiences to ‘Tell the children the truth’. She sings: ‘What a fool I was, what a dominated fool / To think that you were the Earth and the sky…’
Vivienne Westwood, quote: ‘I have a plan 2 save the World. Capitalism is a war economy + war is the biggest polluter, therefore Stop War + change economy 2 fair distribution of wealth at the same time: NO MANS LAND.
Let’s be clear, U + I can’t stop war just like that. But we can stop arms production + that would halt climate change cc + financial Crash. Long term this will stop war.
April 8th is my 80th birthday. Please read the Manifesto + Diaries + follow the playing cards 2 find out how life changing the new economy will be. Read over + again 2 realize how simple + radical the plan is, then U will change your pattern of life + by talking U will support me in the fight. One day soon U will say the right thing 2 the right person at the right time make a difference. Put this in your features + columns, + on social media - as journalists U could become activists. I have always combined fashion with activism: the one helps the other. Maybe fashion can Stop War.
‘Buy Less Choose Well Make it Last’
Follow me on climaterevolution.co.uk. ‘Get a life!’.
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-based organisation working to end the international arms trade. We support CAAT: caat.org.uk’
A special limited-edition print titled ‘Do Not Buy A Bomb’ created especially by Vivienne Westwood in support of the #CIRCAECONOMY is available to buy for £100 (excl.VAT for UK customers) on the CIRCA website until 8 May 2021.