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Slack Pussy Session 10: Girl Meets Boy (2007) by Ali Smith
Slack Pussy Session 10: Girl Meets Boy (2007) by Ali Smith
Session 10: Wednesday 30 May 2018 Girl Meets Boy (2007) by Ali Smith. Chosen by Olivia Laing. This is what Laing says: 'Girl Meets Boy is a dazzling love story about corporate defiance and gender instability. A radical retelling of the myth of Iphis, it's like a modern day Orlando, if Orlando was Scottish and worked […]
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Claiming Space
Claiming Space
Claiming Space provides in-person and online training for lawyers working with vulnerable populations. Claiming Space provides a free monthly meet up for junior lawyers working with traumatised and vulnerable clients. A space to learn, share and reflect on our practice. More info on Claiming Space here To book a space here
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10 DAYS IN PORT-AU-PRINCE: film + discussion
10 DAYS IN PORT-AU-PRINCE: film + discussion
For this event filmmaker Alberto Danelli presents a documentary following Vodou artists from the collective Atis Rezistans and a traditional Haitian marching band, Forever Rara Fanm. Through the interplay of these two subjects the film portrays the value of music and art in the everyday life of two particular communities in Port-au-Prince, with glimpses into […]
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Antiuniversity: Rethinking Evaluation
Antiuniversity: Rethinking Evaluation
Rethinking Evaluation Evaluating... for people who prefer not to evaluate* This workshop will create a manual about evaluating and documenting art practices. Based on the issues: How can we measure art experiences? What actually is participation? We are inviting people who are interested to discuss what evaluation can be when it comes to creative practices […]
Antiuniversity: Artificial Intelligence Experience: A workshop to imagine algorithmic experience
Antiuniversity: Artificial Intelligence Experience: A workshop to imagine algorithmic experience
Artificial Intelligence is taking control of our lives in complex and profound ways. Robots are not walking the streets, but what we see online is being curated by algorithms. Similar algorithms may also decide if people are granted loans or even released from prison. This workshop asks questions about the nature and experience of these […]
Antiuniversity: PAY NO RENT
Antiuniversity: PAY NO RENT
PAY NO RENT. These words were scrawled across the walls of Stepney in 1938 as hundreds of people withdrew their rent and resisted violent evictions in the wake of high rents, callous evictions and lack of basic repairs. As part of a strike wave across the country the movement climatically ended with the introduction of […]
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Antiuniversity: Your Time is Political
Antiuniversity: Your Time is Political
Work structures our lives. It can give us a strong sense of identity and purpose, and can be a positive force that enables us to contribute to our local communities and to society at large. At the same time, the distinct effects of precarity on the one hand and presenteeism on the other can make […]
Antiuniversity: Experimental Architectural Writing
Antiuniversity: Experimental Architectural Writing
In this workshop, we will discuss the relationship of words to buildings and ways in which writing differently can expand our relationships with architecture, considering ideas and projects including writing about feelings through buildings, using words to form relationships with architecture, collaborating with physical structures on writing and artistic projects and forms of resistance to […]
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Antiuniversity: Radical Communities of Care
Antiuniversity: Radical Communities of Care
Care is a fundamental practice of human life, where vulnerability and interconnectedness has the potential to resist the dominance of neoliberalism. Care exists in different contexts manifesting in both personal and private realms, to broader institutional sources. In an age of austerity, state-provided care has diminished in all sectors, but does this material scarcity also […]
Antiuniversity: Fighting for Reproductive Justice
Antiuniversity: Fighting for Reproductive Justice
This event will feature talk and discussion from academics and activists on reproductive justice, looking at how reproductive rights intersect with race, workers' rights and women's agency over their own bodies. Nic Murray organised with London Irish Abortion Rights Campaign who fight for Free, Safe and Legal abortion access across the island of Ireland.
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Antiuniversity: Anarchism for Beginners
Antiuniversity: Anarchism for Beginners
Anarchism is often represented in the media as meaning chaos and disorder. But nothing could be further from the truth. This meeting, presented by a long-term active anarchist, will explain in simple terms what anarchism is, its different forms, what it wants to achieve, and how it might deal with difficult issues for a future […]
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Antiuniversity- Put A Pocket In It
Antiuniversity- Put A Pocket In It
How often to do you reply to a compliment about something you’re wearing with: ‘and it has good pockets!’ ? Not enough women’s clothing has functional pockets, but that doesn’t mean we have to live without them. Bring your clothes that you wish had pockets and we can provide the materials, tools or a helping […]
Antiuniversity: How to Maintain An Afro in The Wake of A Zombie Apocalypse
Antiuniversity: How to Maintain An Afro in The Wake of A Zombie Apocalypse
This lecture/workshop will on one level perform as a workshop for the maintenance of an afro, combs, what shampoos, to pre-poo or not to pre-poo, hair grease, hair oil, hair pomades and conditioners and how in moments of adversity i.e. a zombie apocalypse such a hairstyle could be maintained. This lecture also serves as an […]
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Antiuniversity: OTHER WAYS TO CARE- Beyond the Neoliberal Madness
Antiuniversity: OTHER WAYS TO CARE- Beyond the Neoliberal Madness
In recent years, it has become very clear that the mental cannot just be described from the psychiatric or psychological perspective: it has become a disputed and financialised object, constant prey to quantification, mapping and measurement, where diagnostic tools and clinical descriptions are increasingly influenced by the pressures to medicalise psychiatry, and are subject to […]
Antiuniversity: Anarchism and Class: Is it still Relevant?
Antiuniversity: Anarchism and Class: Is it still Relevant?
The division of society into two main classes, the ruling class and the working class, has always been fundamental to an anarchist analysis of capitalism. However, this basic division is now considered to be too simplistic and many now argue that there are other divisions in society that are more relevant. This meeting will consider […]
Antiuniversity- Archiving from Below: Countering Education
Antiuniversity- Archiving from Below: Countering Education
‘The schools and universities are dead. They must be destroyed and rebuilt in our own terms', Joseph Burke wrote in an in a introductory text about the AntiUniversity. Taking this idea as a starting point this workshop to will explore archival material from the MayDay Rooms collections to see how comrades from the past attempted […]
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Discussing ‘The Communalist Project’
Discussing ‘The Communalist Project’
Firstly, we will discuss readings from ‘The Communalist Project’. Secondly, we will discuss projects furthering Communalism in London. London Communalists
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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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Book Launch: Archive That, Comrade; by Phil Cohen
Book Launch: Archive That, Comrade; by Phil Cohen
Phil Cohen in discussion with Toby Butler, T J Clark, Anna Davin and Bill Schwarz. Chaired by Jacob from the Mayday Rooms Collective. A debate on the future of the radical archive and the changing nature of political memory fifty years on from 1968. To book please RSVP fani@maydayrooms.org The book explores issues of archival […]
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MDR Summer Social
MDR Summer Social
From 6pm onwards we will be cooking and eating and drinking, and generally celebrating being a whole month closer to the end of all work. We host these events every couple of months so all the people around MayDay and in movements connected to what we do can come together and get to know each […]
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MDR Summer Social
MDR Summer Social
From 6pm onwards we will be cooking and eating and drinking, and generally celebrating being a whole month closer to the end of all work. We host these events every couple of months so all the people around MayDay and in movements connected to what we do can come together and get to know each […]
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