Radical Living in a Neoliberal City
Creating Boundaries, Breaking Borders. How does one live well in a city almost designed to make you feel isolated, tired, anxious and poor? Artists/activists/teachers/amateur thinkers Sam Siva and Sam Berkson lead a discussion on how to live radical lives in a neo-liberal city. How can we establish the boundaries that we need to feel secure, […]
Windrush, Migration & Reggae
Marking AntiUniversity Now 2019 & British Black Music Month 2019 History and music industry consultant Kwaku posits that there probably would not be the reggae genre or the global phenomenon that reggae has become, if it was not for the trafficking of Africans from African to the Caribbean, and the voluntary migration of Africans from […]
Reading Room Launch
Join Leonie Rousham, Ishwari Bhalerao, Bea Macdonald and Sally Plowman for the launch of Reading Room as a means of creating connections and opening dialogue about the function, aesthetic and user culture of library collections and small press production in the age of digital information, and their development in an austerity-stricken future. Primarily, Reading Room […]
Chav Solidarity
D Hunter presents his book Chav Solidarity, which is part autobiography, part meditation on trauma, class and identity, part one finger salute into the face of respectability politics, but mostly an articulation of the contradictory heart of Chavvy shit heads across the UK. Hunter will read excerpts from the book, as well as discussing it’s […]
Ending the War on Drugs – for Workers, for Justice
The so called ’war on drugs’ was built on shaky foundations. Now, countries around the world from Canada, to Uruguay, Portugal and many US states are beginning to dismantle it piece by piece. Its collapse is good news for people and communities around the world, providing us with the opportunity to build a new approach […]
Radical Spaceflight Group
The opening of the 21st century has seen widespread renewed interest in space exploration: commercial (NewSpace) groups promise to take humans to Mars and beyond; space agencies around the world are whipping up hype about returning to the Moon and; asteroids are set to become a precious resource for deep-space exploration. It remains to be […]
Art For The Not Yet Born (Pregnant Women Event)
*This event is for pregnant women* What would happen if we started consciously teaching our children from the very (VERY!) beginning? What if we start choosing the experiences we are going to have for the person who’s growing in the womb to enjoy? Would a mum make different choices? Being aware that the developing infants […]
Space to Play: A Workshop Led by Learning Disabled Artists
A workshop led by Spare Tyre/Fauve Alice exploring play, performance and the body in space led by learning disabled artists. We will guide you through how we make performances and create a space to play in. This workshop will be multi sensory; we will experiment with sounds, movements, touch, vibrations, colours. The aim of this […]
Trans and Queer Approaches to Prison Abolition
This panel will include members of London Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee, Community Action on Prison Expansion and Bent Bars, who will discuss prison abolition from a trans and queer perspective. This includes both how trans and queer people are particularly impacted by imprisonment and criminalisation, and what queer/trans movements can bring to prison abolitionism. The […]