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Endnotes Reading Group
Endnotes Reading Group
Plan C London is organising a reading of Endnotes 4: Unity in Separation, and we want you to join us. Everyone is welcome - no experience with communist theory necessary! As well as producing a workshop for the Antiuniversity Now festival in June, we want to follow their rubric: to "challenge academic and class hierarchy […]
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No Money
No Money
No Money is a regular, roaming night of radical theatre, film, poetry and performance for the impoverished and the terminally dissatisfied. This month's event will feature films about the police from Koshka Duff, talks about prisons and incarceration from Carl Cattermole and others, readings from Bruno Jasiensky's insurrectionary black comedy I Burn Paris; also some […]
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Schooling and Culture
Schooling and Culture
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. See http://www.7bridges.org/content/schooling-and-culture-magazine-1982
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NELMA Accompanying Scheme Training Session
NELMA Accompanying Scheme Training Session
Help us defend the rights of all migrants! NELMA works with partner organisations across London, providing solidarity to destitute migrant families who are approaching social services for support under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989. We're concerned about how difficult it is for people with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) to get the […]
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Ubele
Ubele
The Ubele Initiative is a new social enterprise focusing on the African Diaspora community in the UK. We aim to increase our community’s capacity to lead and create innovative and entrepreneurial social responses to some of our most stuck social issues. We have monthly meetings to engage with our community members as we work together to build […]
Poetry Reading: Verity Spott- Click Away Close Door Say
Poetry Reading: Verity Spott- Click Away Close Door Say
Verity Spott: insurrectionist, poet, "creative", organ grinder, unapologetic, and a few other things, will be reading the whole of her new collection of poems "Click Away Close Door Say." Please come along for a night of riotousness and fear! Verity Spott is and the author of Trans* Manifestos (Shit Valley, 2016) Gideon (Barque Press, 2014), […]
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Living Maps Network Reading Groups
Living Maps Network Reading Groups
A reading group on critical cartography set up to supplement the seminars. The group meets monthly on the second Wednesday of each month. Participants don’t have to know a whole lot about the field –indeed the point is to explore areas we don’t know much about, as well as to share information and engage in […]
IWW GMB and Feminist Fightback celebrating International Women’s Day
IWW GMB and Feminist Fightback celebrating International Women’s Day
Join London IWW GMB and Feminist Fightback to celebrate International Women's Day with a film sceening, discussion and some food and drink. We'll be talking about the past, present and future of women in the labour movement - on strike at work and in the home. Talk - Laura Schwartz from Feminist Fightback on the […]
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[SYMPOSIUM] Book Club- Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizome
[SYMPOSIUM] Book Club- Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizome
Chaired by Katie Tysoe and Sophia Kosmaoglou In March we're reading Rhizome, the introduction to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: A Thousand Plateaus (1980) by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Rhizome was first published in 1976 by Éditions de Minuit. With rhizome, Deleuze and Guattari propose a theory of knowledge that privileges connectivity, heterogeneity and multiplicity. The […]
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CAIWU Language Exchange
CAIWU Language Exchange
The Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), residents in MayDay Rooms, are organising English-Spanish Language Exchange sessions every second Saturday of the month at 2-4pm. Every session is based on different subjects, such as how to greet, immigration and legal rights, etc. Everyone is welcome. For more information please call Marlene on 079045552106.
THE UNIVERSE (Which Others Call The Library)…
THE UNIVERSE (Which Others Call The Library)…
"THE UNIVERSE (Which Others Call The Library)..." The British Library as a Pre-digital Data Institution. Presented by Richard Wright This event is an artists exposition of the British Library as one of the first institutions to tackle the problem of how to organise public access to potentially limitless amounts of information. It is inspired by […]
HI-VIS! Feminist Design Collective
HI-VIS! Feminist Design Collective
WOMEN! ARCHITECTS! DESIGNERS! Hi-VIS is an initiative open to all those who identify as women, and appreciate/understand/want to better understand/harness the latent agency and control that design (and the often dominant presence of able-bodied white middle class men within its constituent professions) brings to bear on our built environment. You do not need to have […]
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Risograph Group
Risograph Group
The risograph group at MayDay Rooms is running monthly workshops, on the second Sunday of every month. The workshop facilitates printing for groups or campaigns aligned or allied with May Day Rooms who otherwise do not have the resources to pay for print. For more information please visit http://maydayrooms.org/riso/ To attend the riso workshop please […]
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NELMA
NELMA
Please note this is a closed meeting! Help us defend the rights of all migrants! NELMA works with partner organisations across London, providing solidarity to destitute migrant families who are approaching social services for support under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989. We're concerned about how difficult it is for people with No […]
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Reclaim Our Spaces Coalition
Reclaim Our Spaces Coalition
The meeting is hosted by Just Space and The Ubele Initiative and will be about the Reclaim Our Spaces coalition, which is made of London wide community groups campaigning on protecting community spaces. Members of the network will meet and discuss further steps to influence the City Hall on community participation in the new London […]
Slack Pussy Session 5: The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson (2015). Recommended by Rebecca Brown
Slack Pussy Session 5: The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson (2015). Recommended by Rebecca Brown
Session 5: The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson (2015). Recommended by Rebecca Brown This is what Brown says: "I think you all should read Maggie Nelson's THE ARGONAUTS. This is such a smart, daring book and Nelson has not only read really widely and thoughtfully, but also lived (and lives) experientially with questions of language, identity, gender, […]
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Freethinkers for Animals
Freethinkers for Animals
We like ideas... and we want to make them work for animals (including the two-legged kind). Bring (non-animal) snacks to share as we explore and discuss biopics, dramas and even sci-fi flicks that depict the lives of other animals, and the relations that define our coexistence.
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New Research Group
New Research Group
The New Research Group – or to give a full title, the History Workshop Anarchist Research Group (Second Series) – is a monthly Saturday gathering of those with an abiding interest in left-libertarian ideas. Since 1985 we have met regularly to discuss ideas and share research: not just on issues of history, but equally on […]
HI-VIS! Feminist Design Collective
HI-VIS! Feminist Design Collective
WOMEN! ARCHITECTS! DESIGNERS! Hi-VIS is an initiative open to all those who identify as women, and appreciate/understand/want to better understand/harness the latent agency and control that design (and the often dominant presence of able-bodied white middle class men within its constituent professions) brings to bear on our built environment. You do not need to have […]
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Cuba: An African Odyssey + talk with filmaker Jihan El Tahari
Cuba: An African Odyssey + talk with filmaker Jihan El Tahari
Cuba: An African Odyssey + talk with filmaker Jihan El Tahari It is 10 years since Jihan El Tahari's seminal film Cuba: An African Odyssey, was made. A painstaking researched and crafted documentary packed with archive footage of this crucial period of struggle for independence from colonial powers, in the history of the African continent […]
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Radical Design in Action: The Suffragettes
Radical Design in Action: The Suffragettes
Radical Design in Action: The Suffragettes Protest design becomes more popular each day, more relevant to everybody and everyday life. Digital technology offers more creative kinds of protest with powerful graphic languages emerging as a response to current financial and political crises. This talk shows that many of the methods of modern protest design can […]
Asamblea de las Mujeres
Asamblea de las Mujeres
A Spanish speaking, female only meeting. We are going to talk about "identidad de género" (Gender identity). This is a feminist space for debate and reflection.
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MDR Social Fridays
MDR Social Fridays
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times In these times full of struggle, we think it’s important to try to foster a collective radical culture and to link up acts of resistance. Perhaps the best way to do this is for people to […]
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Risograph Group
Risograph Group
The risograph group at MayDay Rooms is running monthly workshops, on the second Sunday of every month. The workshop facilitates printing for groups or campaigns aligned or allied with May Day Rooms who otherwise do not have the resources to pay for print. For more information please visit http://maydayrooms.org/riso/ To attend the riso workshop please […]