Partners and Collaborators

Upcoming events

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Oct 5th – We’ll be taking part in the Fun Palace weekend at Ovalhouse, working with The Black Smock Band, as part o the development of our Radical History Project. Join us 2:30-4:30 to create new lyrics for protest songs and write some placards, then come along when we occupy the cafe at 5, for a gig-cum-demo!


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Oct 22 – The next meeting of the Radical Performance Reading Group. Next book: Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcommandante Marcos – drop us a line to be added to the Reading Group email list (separate from our main mailing list).


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Nov 7th – We’re very honoured that The East storytelling group will be part of The Season of Bangla Drama. We’ll performing at Queen Mary, University of London, at 7:30pm.

 

Hope to see you soon!

East on TV

Sdaed-topic-logo-easthamim Azad, the poet and storyteller who is one of the professional artists supporting our East storytelling project, will be talking about East‘s participation in the Tower Hamlets Season Of Bangla Drama, along with representatives from other participating groups. It’ll be on Channel One Europe at 7.30pm this evening. Tune in!

And here’s a blog post about SBD from Queen Mary, University of London, which will be the venue for East.

’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project

Here’s ’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project, a video by which re-imagines the community events organised in support of striking miners. Our regular collaborators The Black Smock Band appear as the in-house band. It’s a great piece; both thoughtful and powerful. And it’s a great inspiration for our upcoming collaboration with the band on The Radical History Project (working title), about which more soon…

’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project from Sean Yongxiang Li on Vimeo.

Three Rivers Celebration

The Black Smock Band, a regular partner for our sharing events, is playing is playing a party on FRIDAY JULY 11 to celebrate the end of the 2014 3 Rivers Clean Up events – a three week long Festival of Rivers in South London: The Quaggy, The Ravensbourne and The Pool. The party, which is a free public event, will take place at Ladywell Fields (north, by the cafe) – near to Ladywell Station (a 10-12 minute train journey from London Bridge). The event runs from 6.00-9.00 pm p the band will be on around 7.00.

3 Rivers Clean Up (3RCU) is organised by Thames 21 alongside a number of local volunteer organisations from the boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley. For more information about 3RCU check out: http://www.3riverscleanup.co.uk/ and follow @3RCU on Twitter