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Poetry Reading: Danny Hayward, esw, Ed Luker
Poetry Reading: Danny Hayward, esw, Ed Luker
The second reading in the MayDay Rooms Poetry Archive Series. The evening will feature a new long poem by Danny Hayward, alongside readings by esw and Ed Luker.
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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 […]
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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Philosophy Seminar: Populism, freedom and self-determination Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. Students will […]
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Schooling and Culture Launch Vol.2
Schooling and Culture Launch Vol.2
Launching! SCHOOLING & CULTURE Volume 2, Issue 1 THE STATE WE’RE IN Education reforms have disfigured relationships and intentions built on care and learning by preferencing the data and competition inherent in neoliberalism. And yet, here we are, refusing to be intimidated by the precarity which typifies our time. SCHOOLING & CULTURE is a new, […]
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IMUK
IMUK
“FREE PROF. SAIBABA!” On 7 March 2017, Prof. G N Saibaba, Asst. Professor of English Literature at Delhi University and five others were sentenced to life imprisonment under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of India. Prof. Saibaba is a prominent social justice campaigner. He is one of India's leading voices speaking out against state […]
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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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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Seminar: The first rough draft of history Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. Students […]
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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 […]
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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Philosophy Seminar: Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. […]
Veer Books Launch of Will Rowe’s Collected Poems
Veer Books Launch of Will Rowe’s Collected Poems
Four poets will read from their new books of anti-capitalist poetry. Helen Dimos’s ‘No Realtor Was Compensated for This Sale’ takes readers out of socially controlled time into real time. Stephen Mooney’s ‘Ratzinger Solo’ mixes the voices of Trump, Pope Benedict XVI, and Han Solo in order to investigate crossovers of how they present themselves […]
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AltMFA
AltMFA
AltMFA is an alternative Master of Fine Art course established in 2010 by artists, for artists, as a free alternative to studying a university-based Masters in London. As part of our programme on The Future, supported by A-N, artist and activist Rosalie Schweiker will be leading a workshop/conversation on her current project: teaching for people […]
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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
History Seminar: Human rights Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. Students will gain an […]
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America First? – Transatlantic conversations on class reality and revolt
America First? – Transatlantic conversations on class reality and revolt
The going gets tough, but there is loads of inspiring stuff happening in the US at the moment. Things we want to understand and learn from. From prison organising, fightback against anti-abortionists, strikes for higher minimum wages, resistance against deportations and evictions, to struggles in the rural hinterland. Over the next year or so, we’ll […]
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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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 […]
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Propagate Collective presentation for the IWW
Propagate Collective presentation for the IWW
Propagate Collective intends to work with, and alongside to, the diversity of struggles that include, but are not limited to, housing justice, migrants rights, anti-cuts and anti-austerity policies, workers rights, equality, and LGTB rights. Our aim is to stimulate and contribute to collective action to reclaim our city. We know that when we share ideas, […]
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Slack Pussy
Slack Pussy
We are taking a break from the chain. We will be reading Laura Cottingham's "Lesbians Are So Chic". Written in 1996 before queerness hit the mainstream, it is a provocative, polemical essay on the mass-appropriation of lesbianism by the non-lesbian world. For a pdf, please email slackpuss.rg@gmail.com
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PUBLISHING—ART—COMMUNISM Symposium and Book Launch on the Materiality of Experimental Publishing
PUBLISHING—ART—COMMUNISM Symposium and Book Launch on the Materiality of Experimental Publishing
Symposium 12.30pm to 6pm. Book launch for Anti-Book 6.30pm to 8pm Confirmed speakers: NINA POWER, University of Roehampton; series editor at Book Works EVA WEINMAYR, AND Publishing NICK THURSTON, Artists’ Writings and Publications Centre, University of Leeds; Information as Material ANTHONY ILES, Mute Magazine; Anguish Language NICK THOBURN, University of Manchester; author of Anti-Book The […]