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Psychology Group
Psychology Group
We are a self-organised group of non-professionals aiming to work together in a non-hierarchical way to consider psychological aspects of being. Inspired by the writing of psychologist David Smail, we are interested in how emotional distress may be understood as a collective phenomenon, rooted in the social, ecological and historical, especially within power relations; as […]
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Channels – Feminist Scripting Group (closed)
Channels – Feminist Scripting Group (closed)
Channels is a scripting group exploring our feminisms through improvised character construction and scripting dramas. It is a process of experimentation that we perform collaboratively and without professional expertise. We aim to produce a public manifestation of these experiments monthly. We don't always succeed. We depend on May Day for the use of their space and […]
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Big Trouble in China
Big Trouble in China
The Year of the Monkey promises to be full of mischief. Immigrant workers in China's manufacturing cores strike for unpaid and higher (and higher) wages, as factories continue to close, and a sea of labour power drains from city to country to city again. Rural Chinese fight cadres and developers for a fairer payout as […]
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Fairy Tales – Under the Moon
Fairy Tales – Under the Moon
Once upon a time in a kingdom far far away... Join us on Wednesday 24th February for a session on FAIRY TALES. We'll be at May Day Rooms from 6pm and plan to read some tales aloud from Jack Zipes collection Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days and to watch some short silhouette animations by Lotte […]
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Feminist Jam
Feminist Jam
This is an initial meeting to meet the groups that might be interested in collaborating on a joint project looking at archiving grassroots feminist groups in London.
Futures Social
Futures Social
MDR Hosted Our speaker for Social Change discussion on Thursday 25th February will be Jerome Lewis. He is an anthropologist with a long experience of egalitarian societies. His talk will be on 'An enduring egalitarian civilisation' It is often argued that egalitarian societies are fragile and unstable. However, emerging evidence from a variety of disciplines suggests […]
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Film Screening: Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
Film Screening: Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
Screening of Thom Andersen's "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2004) at MDR, we haven't seen it yet, but Pirate Cinema in Berlin summed it up better than we could here. Meet 7pm, film will start 7.30pm. Bring along snacks and refreshments.
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We Recruit: Out of the archives and onto the streets
A textual and typographic workshop using archival material produced as a result of section 28, a law passed in 1988 refraining 'local authorities and schools from promoting homosexuality or the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretend family relationship'. The workshop, with a group of 16-25 year olds who identify as LGBTQ*, will seek to create and explore […]
Anarchist Research Group – Lisa Mckenzie on Class Inequality
Anarchist Research Group – Lisa Mckenzie on Class Inequality
Lisa Mckenzie, author of last year's widely accaimed account of council estate life, Getting By – which Donald MacLean calls "One of the most powerful celebrations of working-class and multi-cultural Britain I have ever read" – examines the sociology of inner-city council estates in terms of the oral history and ethnological research she has conducted in locations […]