Gigs, Films, Workshops, Radical Stuff: 6-18th August, London

In Arms Reach Collective | 28.07.2004 18:51 | Free Spaces | London | Oxford

In Arms Reach 6th - 14th August

Squatted central london (zone 1) building.

info@inarmsreach.org.uk | www.inarmsreach.org.uk (up soon, promise)

DIY punx n politix stuff in a central london squat...

All welcome to come and stay with us and help out as of now! e-mail us for the address, or check the website nearer the time! (experienced squatters espescially welcome...)

GIGS!
06th - Five Knuckle, Freaks Union, Twofold, Fireapple Red and Kill The Lights +1
more tbc (doors 6pm, end 11pm, £4)
07th - Candy Sniper, Silent Front, The Dakinis, Among The Missing +2 more tbc
(doors 6pm, end 11pm, £3)
08th - Jets Vs Sharks, Chillerton, Hey Colossus, When All Else Fails, Fucking
Big Monster, +2 more tbc (doors 6pm, end 11pm, £3)

COOL STUFF!
[workshops start 12pm, Food 6pm, Film start 7pm]
[all workshops/ films FREE/DONATION]

Mon 09th - Zine Making Day [everyone who comes helps make one big zine or a
collection of individual zines to hand out in the evening]
Radical Mainstream Film - e.g La Haine, Elephant etc

10th - Screen Printing [make your own patches/ shirts etc]
Punk Documentries [Afro Punk, Screams From The Underground etc]

11th - Punk Pizza [bring food to share ^^]
Zombie Horror Movies

12th - Grafitti/ stencilling workshops
Skateboarding documentries [stoked - the rise and fall of gator,dogtown,
thrashin' etc.]

13th - Info For Action [living for free, squatting, radical cheerleading etc]
Protest Documentries [Weather Underground, J18, Reclaim The Streets,
Guerillavision, WWIV etc

PARTY!
14th - Everyone's a DJ! Bring your two favourite tracks on CDr or tape, and
during the evening everyone's songs will get played. price tbc. 8pm - 2am

DAILY VEGAN CAFE

In Arms Reach Collective
e-mail: info@inarmsreach.org.uk
Homepage: http://www.inarmsreach.org.uk

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Me mammy's sister...

28.07.2004 21:04

"11th - Punk Pizza [bring food to share ^^]
Zombie Horror Movies"

...radical my aunt Fanny!!

Green Bert
mail e-mail: howlikewashewhen@hotmail.com

your aunt fanny?

29.07.2004 13:18

Like any project of this nature we're striking a balance between direct radical stuff like discussions/workshops on direct action and the process of squatting the building and showing people that there are ways to live a fun life outside of (and in opposition to) capitalism. We're not expecting or demanding that the people coming to this will necessarily be hardened activists or squatters; it's about reaching out, as much as anything. If anyone's got any better ideas for things we can do, or ways they can help, we'd be glad to hear them, but we don't see the point of criticism that isn't backed up be better suggestions.]

See you there...

In Arms Reach Collective
mail e-mail: info@inarmsreach.org.uk
Homepage: http://www.inarmsreach.org.uk

Me mammy's brother

29.07.2004 14:13

"...showing people that there are ways to live a fun life outside of (and in opposition to) capitalism"

A fun life 'outside'... which is called lifestylism, sometimes 'revoltionary cultism' (Huey P Newton). Innit.

Green Bert
mail e-mail: whatlikewashewhen@hotmail.com

lifestylism...

29.07.2004 14:29

... is a pejorative term when it relates to people who do nothing, but adopt the cultural signifiers of people who do. Clearly, we are doing something. Are you? The implication of the above isn't to pretend that we can live in a manner genuinely divorced from capitalism (can understand how that impression might have been conveyed), but that we should practice alternatives to it in every sphere of our lives: including the way we eat, organise places of residence etc. None of this is a replacement for direct action, but is a corollary of it.

In Arms Reach Collective
mail e-mail: info@inarmsreach.org.uk
Homepage: http://www.inarmsreach.org.uk

OK so...

29.07.2004 15:22

Ooh! Pejorative! Signifiers! Seriously though, I don't want this conversation to degenerate further as this has happened (to others) before. I don't like punks and I hope you can see the irony of punks watching zombie fillums. To point is to genuinely radicalise... something that really bugs me, for example, is the stereotyping of the sixties revolutionary period into a slight cultural upheaval where the doors released a couple LPs, everyone tried acid and middle-class white capitalist women won their rights. How about a screening of the Weather Underground movie? Reading groups around this? Where are you again? (scrolls up page...)

Green Bert
mail e-mail: whatlikewashe when@hotmail.com

David Gilbert speaks

29.07.2004 20:31

- video/quicktime 9.2M

...OK, I'll keep on checking your non-existent website then! Meantime, here's a 30-minute interview with former Weather Underground activist, and long-time US political prisoner David Gilbert. Well worth the download wait for 56k folks, honest!!

Green Bert
mail e-mail: whatlikewashewhen@hotmail.com

oo

07.08.2004 00:59

This sounds really, really interesting; let's hope I get to come along.

nicholas

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