The Synergy Project
Saturday February 28th 2003
SEOne, Weston Street, London SE1
10pm-8am
Tickets £15 (£10 concs door), £13 + booking fee in advance
Saturday February 28th 2003
SEOne, Weston Street, London SE1
10pm-8am
Tickets £15 (£10 concs door), £13 + booking fee in advance
Returning to SeOne in London Bridge - one of London’s most diverse and forward clubs, únow with friendly and chilled security, Synergy is a meeting of hearts and minds - a unique collaboration between leading artists, DJs, poets, performers and healers from London's creative underground and leading Non-Governmental Organizations. Turning the tide of commercialization and stagnation in dance culture, Synergy creates an authentic festival spirit deep in the heart of the city of London. 5 great halls filled with vibrant diversity, uplifting dance floors playing world beats, breaks, dub, reggae and uplifting positive trance. Live music and performance, healers, jugglers, a Gallery space, cinema, infoú-stalls from a wide range of NGOs, whole-food festival cafes plus one of the friendliest crowds in the capital.
Saturday 28th February is not only another opportunity for Synergy to continue to push back the frontiers of dance culture but also to celebrate a major advance in their efforts to harness the power of dance and festivals culture to promote meaningful social change, ethical and sustainable living. In its growing tradition each Synergy Project event changes and evolves, breaking through stagnation by facing new challenges – this time round with the collaboration of Indigenous People, Revelation Gogo Broadcasting, IDSpiral, Small World Stage, Liquid Connective, 491 Gallery, Vertigo Cinema, the Welcome Zone and many others.
The origins of the Synergy Project lie not only in the pioneering overground conscious clubbing projects such as Megatripolis, Return to the Source and the Warp Experience, in which many of the Synergy crew had a creative hand. Many members of the Synergy Community have also been closely involved in ground-breaking underground projects such as the Cooltan Arts Centre in Brixton, the Ecotrip DIY Cultural Caravan, the Kentish Town Rainbow Centre and the Liquid-Spiral Collective. Mindful of the sometimes antagonistic attitude of many squatters towards authority and a rejectionist attitude towards orthodox lifestyles, Synergy seeks to build bridges between the alienated, disaffected ranks of the ‘alternative’ movement and those working in policy areas of Neighbourhood Renewal and Regeneration by demonstrating how cutting edge ideas emerging from the movement for social and environmental justice can be harnessed to tackle contemporary social problems.
It is therefore with particular pleasure that Synergy is happy to announce the completion of negotiations with the Raising Our Sights Fund, which allocates Single Regeneration Budget funds in support of training and employment opportunities for young people in the London Borough of Lambeth, and the owner of a semi-derelict community centre in Brixton that had previously been squatted by leading members of the Synergy Project seven years ago. The building, in the heart of one of the countries most deprived communities, has lain empty ever since while local young people are starved of community space.
A 2.5 year lease has been signed and renovations will begin shortly. The Brixton Synergy Centre will provide training and work experience for young people in the skills and technologies associated with the Creative and Cultural Industries, identified by Lambeth Council and the London Development Agency as an important sector of the economy that can be harnessed to foster social and economic regeneration. In addition to running training courses in sound and video production, the Centre will provide on-going support and training in the area of arts management and marketing, insuring that local talent achieves the widest exposure.
The success of the Synergy Project in successfully building bridges between previously mutually distrustful communities represents a coming of age for London’s creative underground. The general trend away from rejectionism towards engagement is mirrored elsewhere in the capital, most notably with the success of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone and the Unity Works project in Hackney Wick, where cultural activists previously dismissed as squatters have managed to gain licenses to occupy and renovate derelict properties for community use. By bringing together a wide array of activist and campaigners, artists and healers from across the capital, the Synergy parties seek to consolidate and accelerate this process and hasten the Conscious Evolution that is necessary if solutions to the many social problems associated with rampant consumer capitalism are to be found and implemented.
We are looking forward to welcome you once again to yet another step in the evolution of the Synergy Project – Saturday the 28th of February at the SeOne club, London Bridge. For more details on lineups etc check the website
See you there!
Saturday 28th February is not only another opportunity for Synergy to continue to push back the frontiers of dance culture but also to celebrate a major advance in their efforts to harness the power of dance and festivals culture to promote meaningful social change, ethical and sustainable living. In its growing tradition each Synergy Project event changes and evolves, breaking through stagnation by facing new challenges – this time round with the collaboration of Indigenous People, Revelation Gogo Broadcasting, IDSpiral, Small World Stage, Liquid Connective, 491 Gallery, Vertigo Cinema, the Welcome Zone and many others.
The origins of the Synergy Project lie not only in the pioneering overground conscious clubbing projects such as Megatripolis, Return to the Source and the Warp Experience, in which many of the Synergy crew had a creative hand. Many members of the Synergy Community have also been closely involved in ground-breaking underground projects such as the Cooltan Arts Centre in Brixton, the Ecotrip DIY Cultural Caravan, the Kentish Town Rainbow Centre and the Liquid-Spiral Collective. Mindful of the sometimes antagonistic attitude of many squatters towards authority and a rejectionist attitude towards orthodox lifestyles, Synergy seeks to build bridges between the alienated, disaffected ranks of the ‘alternative’ movement and those working in policy areas of Neighbourhood Renewal and Regeneration by demonstrating how cutting edge ideas emerging from the movement for social and environmental justice can be harnessed to tackle contemporary social problems.
It is therefore with particular pleasure that Synergy is happy to announce the completion of negotiations with the Raising Our Sights Fund, which allocates Single Regeneration Budget funds in support of training and employment opportunities for young people in the London Borough of Lambeth, and the owner of a semi-derelict community centre in Brixton that had previously been squatted by leading members of the Synergy Project seven years ago. The building, in the heart of one of the countries most deprived communities, has lain empty ever since while local young people are starved of community space.
A 2.5 year lease has been signed and renovations will begin shortly. The Brixton Synergy Centre will provide training and work experience for young people in the skills and technologies associated with the Creative and Cultural Industries, identified by Lambeth Council and the London Development Agency as an important sector of the economy that can be harnessed to foster social and economic regeneration. In addition to running training courses in sound and video production, the Centre will provide on-going support and training in the area of arts management and marketing, insuring that local talent achieves the widest exposure.
The success of the Synergy Project in successfully building bridges between previously mutually distrustful communities represents a coming of age for London’s creative underground. The general trend away from rejectionism towards engagement is mirrored elsewhere in the capital, most notably with the success of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone and the Unity Works project in Hackney Wick, where cultural activists previously dismissed as squatters have managed to gain licenses to occupy and renovate derelict properties for community use. By bringing together a wide array of activist and campaigners, artists and healers from across the capital, the Synergy parties seek to consolidate and accelerate this process and hasten the Conscious Evolution that is necessary if solutions to the many social problems associated with rampant consumer capitalism are to be found and implemented.
We are looking forward to welcome you once again to yet another step in the evolution of the Synergy Project – Saturday the 28th of February at the SeOne club, London Bridge. For more details on lineups etc check the website
See you there!
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brilliant!!!!
10.02.2004 15:04
shame i'm not in the smoke...anymore
boo hooo
and good luck!!!
much love cw
Captain Wardrobe