Red Rebel Brigade – Performance Art by Doug Francisco
The Building Centre 26 Store Street London WC1E 7BT
About this Event
✨ Part of KINDFIRE, the eco-artivist exhibition by GREENy bastARTs during London Climate Action Week 2026.
KINDFIRE is honoured to host a special appearance and artist talk with the Red Rebel Brigade, the internationally recognised performance artivist movement created by artist and activist Doug Francisco.
Known for their striking red robes, slow ritualistic movements, and silent public performances, the Red Rebel Brigade emerged during the early Extinction Rebellion actions in the UK and has since become an iconic visual symbol of climate grief, ecological loss, and collective resistance.
The colour red symbolises the shared blood connecting all living beings, while the Brigade’s silent choreography creates moments of reflection, mourning, beauty, and interruption within public space. Through performance, gesture, and presence, the Red Rebels invite audiences to emotionally engage with the climate and ecological crisis beyond words alone.
👤 ABOUT DOUG FRANCISCO
Doug Francisco is a Bristol-based artist, activist, performer, and creator of the Red Rebel Brigade.
Originally emerging from London’s underground rave and street performance culture of the 1990s, Doug has spent decades creating immersive art, circus theatre, and public performances exploring community, activism, and ecological awareness. He is also ringmaster of The Invisible Circus and a founding member of Bristol arts initiatives including The Loco Klub and Artspace Lifespace.
Working with recycled materials, sculpture, and performance, Doug’s practice invites audiences into moments of reflection, imagination, and collective connection in response to the climate crisis.
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🎤 ARTIST TALK WITH DOUG FRANCISCO
📅 Sunday 28 June 2026
🕧 12:20pm–12:50pm
Doug will discuss the origins of the Red Rebel Brigade, the relationship between activism and performance, and the emotional role of art in times of ecological crisis.
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🔥 ABOUT KINDFIRE
KINDFIRE is a 10-day eco-artivist exhibition and public programme created by GREENy bastARTs as part of London Climate Action Week 2026.
Positioned as an independent artistic hub for climate dialogue and collective action, KINDFIRE brings together artists, activists, researchers, filmmakers, designers, and communities through exhibitions, workshops, talks, screenings, performances, and participatory events.
🗓️ 18–28 June 2026
📍 The Building Centre
🕘 Mon–Fri • 9am–5pm
🎉 Preview Night: 18 June • 5–8pm
🌿 Finissage: 28 June • 4–6pm
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📸 CONTENT NOTICE
Photos and videos may be taken during the event for documentation and communication purposes.
GREENy bastARTs
We are an international eco-artivist collective bridging environmental understanding and transformative action across Europe. We create transformative artistic experiences that awaken ecological consciousness and inspire meaningful action. Rooted in marine conservation and expanding across the wider ecological web, we highlight how ocean health is inseparable from terrestrial environments, climate systems and all life forms.
We aim to build an interconnected ecosystem of artists, scientists, professionals, activists and communities who collaborate to protect and restore planetary health. Through expanding networks, innovative partnerships and continuous creative exploration, we foster a global community that sees environmental action as joyful, essential, creative work for the common good of all life.
Some may find our name provocative - and that is no accident. Its subversive ring is indeed intentional, yet wrapped in etymology, carrying a meaning far deeper and more symbiotic beyond the determined, activist spirit it proudly carries. GREEN and ART speak for themselves. BAST, however, is the strong inner fibre of plants (such as flax, hemp, jute and linden) - b fibres once essential to seafaring life. They formed ropes, nets, sails, …and maritime textiles. Bast was the material that held communities to the water, binding survival, exploration and connection. GREENy bastARTs revives that lineage under contemporary light.
We weave artists, scientists and citizens into a living network for planetary repair. As bast fibres once held ships afloat, bastARTs holds hope, action, and imagination together. In a world mistreated by greed and divided by fear, let us stand strong and united as free-thinkers, hope-bringers, and empathic re-connectors to our one, whole, wondrous ecosystem.
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