UK Culture Newswire Archive
BEYOND TV Film Night in Sheffield
17-05-2005 19:26
NEWSWEEK'S 'KORAN IN THE TOILET' STORY
17-05-2005 15:59
Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post, and nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded...Cannabis March & Rally Video
17-05-2005 10:02
London May 15th: In beautiful sunshine, a 'cannabis education march' hit central London Sunday May 15th, as over 2000 people marched, danced and even floated their way through crowded streets to a rally of up to 5000 in Trafalgar Square.Report and pics: Levellers' Day, Burford, Oxfordshire
16-05-2005 12:05
The theme this year was ‘The Media as a Political Weapon’, and we had excellent speeches from people such as Greg Philo of the Glasgow Media Group, Anna Wagstaff of the Oxford NUJ and Judith Brown from Arab Media Watch.
The afternoon’s entertainment was astonishingly varied, including Geoff Berner and his friends from Canada, Attila the Stockbroker with both poems and songs, and many more (see www.levellers.org.uk). Delicious Indian vegetarian food was available all day.
We Indy types managed to get in a 2-minute plug for Oxford Indymedia, immediately after Anna Wagstaff’s speech, but there was no other mention of Indymedia and, as far as I could gather, just a nod in the direction of alternative media sources on the part of Greg Philo. This was disappointing for us as we consider that Indymedia, though still fairly small and immature, has great potential on several counts: by providing self-publishing facilities for all, it can in principle greatly extend the range of news available to people, so bypassing many of the problems associated with the corporate media. It can also have an empowering effect on those contributors who have hitherto felt themselves to be ‘voiceless’, and thereby reinforce democracy (etc., etc!!).
The Power Of Performance
16-05-2005 10:41
The Power of Performance"There is too much to learn from Acting, to keep it the sole reserve of Actors"
The link between Psychology and Drama is a barely visible, hugely underestimated and very powerful human resource. Augusto Boal knew this and developed exercises with this link in mind. Though they were still firmly rooted in the theatre, the psychological benefits cannot be ignored.
king's cross community conference
16-05-2005 07:27
"One of ways of empowering people is to increase their level of awareness of options they have... how they can shape decisions that affect their lives."
Anarchist Masquerade Ball!
15-05-2005 17:28
A posh fundraiser for the mobilisation against the G8 summit.Saturday June 4th, 12-9 pm
Cambridge (in the Green Area, Strawberry Fair)
Dancing, Music, Info-shop, Speakers, Frivolity
Bring masks, ball-gowns, jackets, costumes, friends
ecumenical day on spirituality
15-05-2005 16:19
Cadbury's 'eats' Green&Blacks...
14-05-2005 15:43
Green & Blacks, the organic choc etc co has 'sold out' tomegacorp Cadbury Sweppes.
World Leaders Run Out of Control in Oxford
14-05-2005 15:03
Tragic Iraqi film strikes Cannes
14-05-2005 14:05
rainbow circle camping in derbyshire help please
13-05-2005 13:34
rainbow circle are campingat kniveton
near ashbourne...
please come along
www.rainbowcircle.co.uk
The "Mental" Hospital Parties
13-05-2005 12:51
Free parties, the people and the meaning.Zapatista rebels woo Inter Milan
13-05-2005 10:08
The captain of Inter Milan football club says he would be willing to take up an invitation for the club to play a team of Mexican Zapatista rebels.The Italian club have received a letter from the indigenous movement, based in the southern state of Chiapas.
kick off time in uzbekistan
13-05-2005 00:38
it seems to be kick off time in uzbekistan, at least according to these two reports. the second of which is very interesting....months of peaceful protest followed by an armed uprising???
Action Resource Centre video - we report, you decide
12-05-2005 23:01
Something maybe beautiful...
12-05-2005 11:37
The rampART is one year old on 21st May...In 'Fences and Windows' (2001), - Naomi Klein wrote, "Social centres are abandoned buildings - warehouses, factories, military forts, schools - that have been occupied by squatters and transformed into cultural and political hubs, explicitly free from both the market, and from state control... Though it may be hard to tell at first, the social centres aren't ghettos, they are windows — not only into another way to live, disengaged from the state, but also into a new politics of engagement. And yes, it's something maybe beautiful."
festival dates at the cowley club
12-05-2005 10:50
Lots of free events happening this month at the brightons collectively owned social centreBeing Unemployed
11-05-2005 22:48
The developers and council are not interested in community, but they need to be able to say they have 'consulted' with local people, to sanction their plans.
Deep Ecology
10-05-2005 08:39
Persephone's Notes from
Facing Climate Change and Other Great Adventures
Joanna Macy's talk on 9th May 2005
Full transcript of talk plus audio/visual material to be published within two weeks.