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Under the Moon
Under the Moon
This month's session will be focused on the theme of incarceration. Eleanor Careless has kindly agreed to lead a discussion of Anna Mendelssohn's poetry. We will focus on three poems by A.M.: 'fusain', 'basalt' and 'the arrested poem', but we have also selected three excerpts from reflections on prison by Angela Davis, Nawal El Saadawi, […]
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May Day Dinner
May Day Dinner
In May 2011, we formally inaugurated MayDay Rooms with a two-day event culminating at St. Bride Institute - a stone's throw from our current home. After two years of building works, we opened at 88 Fleet St in August 2013. Since then we have hosted many meetings, talks and screenings linked to the historical material […]
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Scratch Orchestra activation: Nature Study Notes group
Scratch Orchestra activation: Nature Study Notes group
As an initial activation of the Scratch Orchestra materials donated by Stefan Szczelkun, MayDay Rooms hosted the Nature Study Notes group. This group, comprised of ex-members of the Scratch Orchestra and interested first time participants convened to reflect upon a four year project that saw them performing together many of the ‘scratch rites’ that were […]
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Two Days of Feminist Discussions: Day 1
Two Days of Feminist Discussions: Day 1
Two days of discussion organised through a reading group that has been meeting since Autumn 2012 to discuss materialist/Marxist feminist texts. Our motive has been the lack of alternative spaces to discuss issues of gender in the collective open way we have been doing in these past years. We also look forward to a situation […]
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“To Pose the Human Question”: Victor Serge, Anarchism and Translation
“To Pose the Human Question”: Victor Serge, Anarchism and Translation
Please join the Brooklyn-based translator Mitchell Abidor at MayDay Rooms on Friday May 15th. Mitch will prime a conversation about Victor Serge, and issues arising from the work of translation for Anarchists Never Surrender, an anthology that provides a complete picture of Serge's relationship to anarchism. Mitch Abidor is the principal French translator for the […]
The Banker: Master of the Universe (English subtitles) 2013. 80 mins
The Banker: Master of the Universe (English subtitles) 2013. 80 mins
Screening of 'The Banker: Master of the Universe' by Marc Bauder followed by a discussion hosted by the Occupy Economics Working Group around the theme of "Accurate research about those responsible for the misconduct leading to the banks failure". The Economics Working Group has met twice weekly since the St. Paul's Occupy movement, made its […]
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Two Days of Feminist Discussions: Day 2
Two Days of Feminist Discussions: Day 2
Two days of discussion organised through a reading group that has been meeting since Autumn 2012 to discuss materialist/Marxist feminist texts. Our motive has been the lack of alternative spaces to discuss issues of gender in the collective open way we have been doing in these past years. We also look forward to a situation […]
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London Courier Emergency Fund meeting
London Courier Emergency Fund meeting
The goal of the London Courier Emergency Fund is to provide support and financial help to those bicycle couriers who have suffered an accident whilst at work.Most bicycle couriers are classified as self-employed sub-contractors for tax purposes and as such are not entitled to any kind of sick pay. So when a messenger is injured, […]
Feminist Jam ‘lets stick together’
Feminist Jam ‘lets stick together’
Looking at establishing a collective to document the current feminist movement. This is an open meeting.
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Different Skies
Different Skies
Different Skies publishes experiments in creative non-fiction, criticism and poetry. We look for writing that pushes language to its limits, if necessary to breaking point, in an attempt to crack open the dead shell of readymade language and create a language capable of describing the shape of a broken world. While the search for a […]
The Kitchen Animation Research Group (Invite only)
The Kitchen Animation Research Group (Invite only)
A conversation between people who are interested in animation as an artform and as a media practice. These events are an attempt to gain more exposure for animated work that deserves to be more widely seen and to reinvigorate a discussion about animation that's more relevant to today's conditions. We eat, watch animated films and […]
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Under the Moon
Under the Moon
At the May meeting of Under the Moon we will be exploring the possibilities of militancy as a utopian strategy. Featuring- Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères, a work of prose-poetry about a revolutionary lesbian society in which gender relations are realigned... violently! "Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a […]
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Ditching the Fear – The Movement of Logistics Workers in Italy
Ditching the Fear – The Movement of Logistics Workers in Italy
The London Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) hosts an AngryWorkers of the World meeting at MayDay Rooms on 28th May, consisting of a film screening and discussion. The 70 minute film is a brand new documentary (with English subtitles) about logistic workers' struggles in Italy, made by friends of the AWW. […]
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FSJ Kultur/FSJ Ganztagsschule meets London Roots Collective: Art and Social Change Workshops
FSJ Kultur/FSJ Ganztagsschule meets London Roots Collective: Art and Social Change Workshops
Young people from Germany, who are doing their one year volunteer "Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr" (FSJ) in the cultural, political and school sector, are visiting London for a few days to deal with the subject "Reclaim the Streets" and "Who's the owner of the public space". They will meet different projects/groups who deal with the subject and learn how […]
Wealth Equality meeting
Wealth Equality meeting
A meeting to discuss organisational matters for Wealth Equality - an organisation which aims to understand and counter the extreme structural inequalities endemic in our society. For more info: http://www.wealthequality.org/
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Editing Occupy. An Experiment in Consensus-Based Film Editing
Editing Occupy. An Experiment in Consensus-Based Film Editing
MayDay Rooms would like to invite you to take part in the recovery and activation of a substantial archive of footage from Occupy London (October 2011-February 2012) that has been recently deposited at 88 Fleet Street. Over two sessions, the first on Friday 16th May, we would like to reconnect some of those directly involved […]
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