During December and at the peak of the shopping season, The Common Place will be hosting a number of events for the city’s homeless. We invite you to an evening of films and discussion around homelessness in Britain.
Sunday 18 December, 5 pm – 9 pm
Free, all welcome @The Common Place, 23-25 Wharf
Street, Leeds (close to the market)
5 pm Shorts
‘On the Other Side of the Street’ (26mins, by Iñigo
Garrido and James Brown, a Noname Production)
Robert Bratton, a homeless person from Glasgow, takes a
journey to challenge public misconceptions about the nature of both homelessness and people who are homeless. While interviewing politicians, actual homeless were directly responsible for the film content and direction.
'Beggar's Belief' (1 min, Dir: Peter Devonald)
An affluent good looking man, dressed in immaculate suit and tie, begs on the street: a man, dressed in rags, admonishes him. But, who's life is richer?
‘Home and Dry?’ (8 min , 1987) Four women discuss their housing situations and although they've never slept out on the street, they begin to understand that homelessness is indeed something they've all experienced. The video analyses the inadequacies of housing policies and examines the political thinking that lies behind them.
The Director will be introducing his short film
A Man Without A Voice (5mins, Dir: A Whithington)
A WITHINGTON film-maker is making an impact after his
short was nominated for best film at this year's Salford Film Festival. The film was shot around the Ladybarn estate .The short details an incident between a white homeless man and an Asian member of public. Suddi wanted to reflect upon the issue of homelessness in south Manchester, as well as to illustrate how quickly community members, and the viewer of the film itself, can jump to conclusions based upon racial and
material prejudices.
Break The Common Place vegan café will be open.
6.30 pm Talk and discussion with Homeless charity workers, find out what charities are doing and how you can get involved.
7.30 pm Cathy come Home (80 min , Dir Ken Loach, 1966)
Cathy and Reg fall on hard times when Reg is injured at work. They begin a slide into poverty, debt and homelessness, until the authorities forcibly take Cathy's children away. The controversy generated by Cathy Come Home led to public outrage at the state of housing in Britain, and gave a welcome boost to the (coincidental) launch of the homelessness charity
Shelter a few days after the play was first broadcast, as part of the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand
Free, all welcome @The Common Place, 23-25 Wharf
Street, Leeds (close to the market)
5 pm Shorts
‘On the Other Side of the Street’ (26mins, by Iñigo
Garrido and James Brown, a Noname Production)
Robert Bratton, a homeless person from Glasgow, takes a
journey to challenge public misconceptions about the nature of both homelessness and people who are homeless. While interviewing politicians, actual homeless were directly responsible for the film content and direction.
'Beggar's Belief' (1 min, Dir: Peter Devonald)
An affluent good looking man, dressed in immaculate suit and tie, begs on the street: a man, dressed in rags, admonishes him. But, who's life is richer?
‘Home and Dry?’ (8 min , 1987) Four women discuss their housing situations and although they've never slept out on the street, they begin to understand that homelessness is indeed something they've all experienced. The video analyses the inadequacies of housing policies and examines the political thinking that lies behind them.
The Director will be introducing his short film
A Man Without A Voice (5mins, Dir: A Whithington)
A WITHINGTON film-maker is making an impact after his
short was nominated for best film at this year's Salford Film Festival. The film was shot around the Ladybarn estate .The short details an incident between a white homeless man and an Asian member of public. Suddi wanted to reflect upon the issue of homelessness in south Manchester, as well as to illustrate how quickly community members, and the viewer of the film itself, can jump to conclusions based upon racial and
material prejudices.
Break The Common Place vegan café will be open.
6.30 pm Talk and discussion with Homeless charity workers, find out what charities are doing and how you can get involved.
7.30 pm Cathy come Home (80 min , Dir Ken Loach, 1966)
Cathy and Reg fall on hard times when Reg is injured at work. They begin a slide into poverty, debt and homelessness, until the authorities forcibly take Cathy's children away. The controversy generated by Cathy Come Home led to public outrage at the state of housing in Britain, and gave a welcome boost to the (coincidental) launch of the homelessness charity
Shelter a few days after the play was first broadcast, as part of the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand
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Homeless Man Gets Life for Bin Arson
16.12.2005 16:28
This is seriously bizarre. You could get life imprisonment for smoking a cigarette or warming yourself around a fire.
Danny
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Solutions
16.12.2005 19:10
Because you can have one
You can have the other
But you can NOT have both
brendan
pissin in the snow
16.12.2005 22:03
By building more houses, and by stop selling public housing to the private sector 'housing associations'. Don't thank me, it's just nice to know I've helped you with one of lifes many puzzles. By the way, it's not really socially acceptable to 'own people' any more thanks to the politically correct brigade.
Danny
The BNP Won't Use Indymedia To Divide And Conquer
16.12.2005 23:35
Perhaps the mischevious racist poster's "own people" are Mark Collett's goosestepping twilight supporters, who linger like an evil stench, wherever there is the slightest hope to create racial tension.
You'll be surprised the disguises internet savvy Collett adopts, and which threa he appears under, to try and make race an issue.
Socialists won't become "national socialists", mate!, just because Collett thinks he can pit one issue against the other.
It reminds me of when racists jumped on the bandwagon about Halal meat, to try and turn radical animal rights activists into reactionary bigots.
We are not dumb!
You're the one with poo for brains.
Get a life Collett. You have got a small willy, which is why you've got no girlfriend......
"Your own people" know this is true.
You're busted, Hitler fetishist freak!!!
Solutions, solutions, solutions
17.12.2005 10:49
Given that this comment is, as usual, 'off topic' perhaps you should submit it to Indy as a new topic and then the rest of us can carry on with the topic at hand:-
The Common Place will be hosting a number of events for the city’s homeless.
And we can look at the real issues facing homeless (& vulnerably housed) people perhaps:-
Stock Transfer and the sale of council housing.
The imbalance in the opportunity for Housing associations to build, but not councils
That mythical 'Affordable' accomodation
Hundreds thousands of houses are unused, uninhabitable or lack basic provisions of sanitation and comfort; protection from wind and water penetration.
and many many more reasons
Combat combat 18 - in search of Max
thats it
17.12.2005 17:06
So we have had one who wants to comcrete the entire country ?
and one who doesn't like anyone he thinks is not "his own"
Brendan asked a sensible question, all he needs now is someone sensible who can answer it, but they can not, because Brendan is right, you can not have both !
greg
Jailbird
18.12.2005 03:33
Mis-spelling your own surname with an extra E at the end, doesn't pull the wool over no-one's eyes.
Nearly every neo-Nazi posting on here, is down to you.
Haven't you got something better to do - like prepare for jail, when your trial begins in earnest?
Armley Ahoy!!!
Solution
03.01.2006 17:53
open up the peoples kollective of the common Place and give shelter to the citys homless, all those empty floors and hundreds of square feet of floor space, a few meals from the cafe and hey presto
Leeds homless problem solved by the solidarity and collective use of resources for the good of the people.
Why not
Braz