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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Dario Fo and Franca Rame in translation: A collective reading of monologues w. Antiuniversity
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 […]