Anti Racist Book Club for Applied Psychologists
The book club is primarily focused on raising consciousness and increasing the cross-racial skills of clinical, counselling, education and forensic psychologists. I hope this group will be a safe place for personal explorations and we can use each other to learn and grow.
Anti Racist Book Club for Applied Psychologists
The book club is primarily focused on raising consciousness and increasing the cross-racial skills of clinical, counselling, education and forensic psychologists. I hope this group will be a safe place for personal explorations and we can use each other to learn and grow.
Screening “Solidarity” by Lucy Parker
Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were labelled 'troublemakers' for speaking out and secretively denied employment. Activists uncovered alarming links between workplace blacklisting and undercover policing. Solidarity follows group discussions with activists and law students who examine the case and reveal an absolute determination to obtain justice. https://www.facebook.com/events/1887510794726902/ Trailer: https://vimeo.com/331182945 […]
Print Subversion in the Wapping Dispute
To celebrate Mayday 2021 and launch our online exhibition looking back at Wapping 35 years on, MayDay Rooms will be hosting a screening of Despite the Sun (1989) and a discussion with invited guests Roger Evans (Picket), Siôn Whellens (Picket), Cath Booth (NGA/Lesbians and Gays Support the Printworkers), Mark Saunders (Spectacle) and Kiran (Angry Workers). Throughout May 2021 […]
POSTPONED: Last Days of Mankind: Act 5 and Epilogue
A mass online read-through of Karl Kraus’s World War I epic! We had previously been running readthroughs of this amazing play. Since we have shut our premises, we are now going to skip straight to Act 5 and the Epilogue over the course of two or three nights. Join us on Zoom and we can […]
Collective Online Read-Through: The Last Days of Mankind, Act V
Last Days of Mankind: Act 5 and Epilogue We had previously been running readt-hroughs of this amazing play. Since we have shut our premises, we are now going to skip straight to Act 5 and the Epilogue over the course of two or three nights. Join us on Zoom and we can collectively perform to […]
Screening: The Year of the Beaver
Link for the screening here. Join us after the screening for a discussion with one of the filmmakers, Steve Sprung. A documentary about the strike at the Grunwick film processing factory in North London, 1976-78. A film about the modern "civilised" state. The predominantly migrant and female workforce at the photo processing plant began to strike in August 1976 against the […]
History Acts: Recording a Crisis
Those most affected by COVID-19 are often unable to speak. Who else is not being heard or listened to? Historians and archivists consider what needs to be done. History Acts is organising this online event and we are glad for having been invited to talk about our new Pandemic Notes project, militant archiving and more.. […]
Dario Fo and Franca Rame in translation: A collective reading of plays and monologues
In April- May 1983 Dario Fo and Franca Rame visited London and delivered 4 workshops at Riverside Studios. Red Notes published later a pamphlet with notes from the workshops, an interview with the two militant theatre makers and four plays (three of them previously untranslated). For this session we chose to collectively read Franca Rame’s […]
Screening: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist + Discussion
Last year MayDay Rooms received an archive of Ed Emery’s translations of dramas by Dario Fo. For this session in the Antiuniversity we want to screen Channel 4’s legendary production of Fo’s ‘The Accidental Death of an Anarchist’. A 1984 film adaptation of Dario Fo’s uncompromising militant left-wing dramatization of the suspicious circumstances of the […]
Audio Gutter Press with Mayday Radio
Hackney Gutter Press Issue 1 was published in April 1972 at Centerprise bookshop in Dalston. 1972: "Most people in Hackney don’t like the way their lives are controlled by work, rents, councillors, police, schools etc. A lot of us are organising to fight their control – but we feel we don’t know enough about each other. […]
Take over the City! with London Renters Union Library
As part of our archive log series we have teamed up with London Renters Union Library to create a collection of materials around rent strikes to help support LRU’s current campaign Can’t Pay Won’t Pay. To build this collection we will be running an online archival session where people can look through bits of the archive, read and discuss […]