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Mute magazine editorial meeting (invite)
Mute magazine editorial meeting (invite)
Mute is a critical magazine exploring culture and politics after the net. We’ve been publishing regularly since 1994, latterly as an editorial collective. This group meets at MayDay Rooms on the last Monday of the month to discuss ideas and plan future articles and projects.
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Advisory Surgery for Workers
Advisory Surgery for Workers
Advisory Surgery for Workers organised by the Industrial Workers of the World Union. Get help with setting up and Organising a Union in your workplace, employment related problems, information & assistance with on the job casework and legal representation. Polish and Spanish interpreter and interpretation service provided on request. All workers welcome.
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Under The Moon
Under The Moon
Distant galaxies, cyborg lovers, re-written histories, genetically engineered babies, glass communes, intergalactic journeys. Homes without parents, planets without gender, cities without trees. UNDER THE MOON is a reading/screening/speaking group focused on the marginalised utopian impulse: we are interested in gathering together to think about alternative worlds, real and imagined, that undo the coordinates of white […]
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IWGB Language Exchange
IWGB Language Exchange
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a worker-run union organising the unorganised, the abandoned and the betrayed. MayDay Rooms has offered up its venue and facilities for: Spanish-English language exchange: 12-4pm English classes: 2-4pm Spanish classes: 2-4pm Contact: Office@iwgb.org.uk
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Schooling and Culture Journal reactivation.3
Schooling and Culture Journal reactivation.3
Schooling and Culture journal was a collaboration during the 70s and 80s between a group of radical left educationalists and young working class school students. This project is reactivating the journal with some of the original contributors and a new group of artists, educators and young people. More here.
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Activation: East London Big Flame, Poster Film Collective and Terry Dennett/Jo Spence historical material
Activation: East London Big Flame, Poster Film Collective and Terry Dennett/Jo Spence historical material
Over two consecutive days in early March (5th and 6th), MDR, along with invited guests from Munich, London and AND Publishing, will review material linked to 70s and 80s feminist struggle and cultural production in Britain. Taking in various places of female labour – the 'factories', institutions and homes – we will explore this material […]
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Artistic Strategy & Workers’ Struggle
Artistic Strategy & Workers’ Struggle
An exchange between Giovanni Rubino and Aria Spinelli with input from Migrant Workers Education Group and Proyecto Sur On 6th March, MayDay Rooms will host a discussion between the Milan-based Italian artist, Giovanni Rubino and independent curator and researcher, Aria Spinelli. This exchange will link a long-term collaborative research project investigating the history of radical […]
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IWGB Language Exchange
IWGB Language Exchange
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a worker-run union organising the unorganised, the abandoned and the betrayed. MayDay Rooms has offered up its venue and facilities for: Spanish-English language exchange: 12-4pm English classes: 2-4pm Spanish classes: 2-4pm Contact: Office@iwgb.org.uk
Different Skies meeting
Different Skies meeting
Different Skies publishes bold experiments in creative nonfiction, criticism, poetry and prose. We look for writing that pushes language to its limits, if necessary to breaking point. Our monthly writers meetings are an open forum to share work in progress and finished pieces; a friendly and critical space for discussing the wider political significance of […]
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In Search of UIQ – Screening and collective reading
In Search of UIQ – Screening and collective reading
In Search of UIQ, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson, 72 mns., 2013 Oscillating between fabulation, documentary, fiction and essay, In Search of UIQ unfolds the story of Félix Guattari’s science-fiction screenplay, Un Amour d’UIQ, tracing its links to prior cinema projects he developed around free radio and Autonomia, and uncovering the twisted trail of its […]
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MDR and A-rythmia activation meeting and dinner
MDR and A-rythmia activation meeting and dinner
A-rhythmia is a new zine which celebrates cultural production of the left, how art, culture, music etc has inspired and spurred on political movement. Initiated by a trip to Mayday Rooms and a reminder that people do more than just political organising, A-rythymia is in a setting-up phase where contributors and the editorial team can […]
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IWGB Language Exchange
IWGB Language Exchange
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a worker-run union organising the unorganised, the abandoned and the betrayed. MayDay Rooms has offered up its venue and facilities for: Spanish-English language exchange: 12-4pm English classes: 2-4pm Spanish classes: 2-4pm Contact: Office@iwgb.org.uk
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Under the Moon
Under the Moon
Our session on Wednesday 25th March will focus on the gendered history of computer programming. Come to MayDay Rooms at 6pm for a screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson's Conceiving Ada (1997): virtual Reality, history, gender and genetic engineering - a contemporary computer scientist taps into the undying information waves to communicate with 19th century maths genius Lady Ada Lovelace Suggested (but not […]
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IWGB Language Exchange
IWGB Language Exchange
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a worker-run union organising the unorganised, the abandoned and the betrayed. MayDay Rooms has offered up its venue and facilities for: Spanish-English language exchange: 12-4pm English classes: 2-4pm Spanish classes: 2-4pm Contact: Office@iwgb.org.uk
RROVER monthly event. 3/ CANCELLED (new date tbc)
RROVER monthly event. 3/ CANCELLED (new date tbc)
The CAFA Archival Resources Action Team (CARAT) will stage the 3rd in a series of events. ROOTSGROUNDING@Rendezvous of Victory Edutainment Ramparts (RROVER) will “connect us to the best trailblazing traditions of Roots (a la Nina Simone) + Grassroots (a la Victor Jara) + Groundings (a la Walter Rodney) + Rendezvous-of-Victory (a la Aimee Cesaire/CLR James). […]
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London Roots Collective
London Roots Collective
London Roots Collective is participating in a UK-wide programme delivering training in core campaign skills to local anti-fracking groups across the UK, with the aim of strengthening nationwide resistance to fracking. This meeting is to plan for our participation in the programme. This is a closed meeting.
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IWGB Language Exchange
IWGB Language Exchange
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a worker-run union organising the unorganised, the abandoned and the betrayed. MayDay Rooms has offered up its venue and facilities for: Spanish-English language exchange: 12-4pm English classes: 2-4pm Spanish classes: 2-4pm Contact: Office@iwgb.org.uk