WOMBLES - Culture

London: July events at 56a Infoshop

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:26:49 +0000

from 56a, updated 18 July 2009: "56A Zine Library Launch and Benefit Weekend, Saturday 25th July - Launch Party Music & Distros at The Grosvenor in Stockwell 7.30pm. Music from: Jean Genet, Husbands, Chaps and Candy Panic Attack :: Sunday 26th July at 56a - Pancake breakfast from 12 noon. Workshops, discussions, exhibition, zine library browsing, general hanging out. Specific activities confirmed; self published comics discussion, practical squatting and bike fixing workshops..." more

Waving, not drowning: rampART 2009 and beyond

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:45:07 +0000

from email, 11 January 2009: "Despite rumours to the contrary, rampART Social Centre and Creative Space is very much alive, well and ready to connect. We’ve had our problems over the past year, not least because we’ve been preparing for an eviction that hasn’t happened. Bowl Court was amazing but, ultimately, devastating. In its short life it showed us what a social centre can potentially realise but it also took energy and resources away from rampART and left us with a building in dire need of renovation and an exhausted and dissipated collective. So much for the past. Now for the future….." more

London Zine Symposium 2008, 27 April

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:25:52 +0000

from email, 24 April 2008: This year the Zine Symposium has moved to a bigger location with more stalls, workshops and events happening during the day. There's over 35 stalls, spread across two large rooms, selling a wide variety of zines, comix, small press creations, and revolutionary literature. more

TAA: Location for Temporary Autonomous Art Brighton announced + events list

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:30:48 +0000

from email 3 April,2008: We are in the building, come on down to 105 Wellington Road, Portslade. THS building on the corner of Church Road and Seafront Road: bring your artwork early to grab a space. more

Space is The Place: Sidestepping The Property Ladder, 11-13 April London

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:54:42 +0000

from email, 19 March 2008: This is a one-off event in a new venue which will form part of the April days of international action in support of autonomous spaces. A weekend-long social centre in London in an occupied space to coincide with the Europe-wide days of action in defence of free spaces and for an anti-capitalist popular culture. more

Street Blitz: London, 1 - 15 May 2008

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:37:29 +0000

from email, 18 March 2008: London again becomes a canvas for your bleeding 'art as the 2 week open-festival of street art and creative subversion returns to the capital. Start preparing your artwork now because the organisers are planning for this to be the one that really kicks it off! The basic premise is that you install your art on the streets and then marks its location on the map on the Street Blitz website. more

Abolishing the Borders from Below #31 (February 2008) is out!

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:54:45 +0000

from Czytelnik CIA, 3 March 2008: International anarchists collective from Berlin published in last days of February 2008 next issue of its excitingly irregular magazine “Abolishing the Borders from Below - an anarchist journal from Eastern Europe”. The main chapters in this issue are militarisation in Eastern Europe, facing repression, labour struggles. more

Temporary Autonomous Art comes to Brighton in a derelict space near you: 2-5 April 2008

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:44:04 +0000

from email, 26 January 2008: TAAs are free, open access art exhibitions that take place in disused and reclaimed spaces throughout the UK. Next meeting at the [Brighton] Cowley Club on 5th March. Come along and find out a bit more about TAA's and offer your skills and experience. Get involved! more

MAYDAY Magazine launch weekend: Fri 26 & Sat 27 October 07

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:52:05 +0000

from email, 24 October 2007: MAYDAY Magazine is a newly published anarchist journal. It was formed out of the need to develop political and practical ideas around the movements we are involved in. From anti-fascism, social centres, migrant and no border struggles to the legacies and histories of class struggle in the UK . The intention is to bring together all our experiences and bring radical anti-capitalist and anarchist ideas to a wider audience. more

"Voices of Resistance from Occupied London" + G8 special

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:18:40 +0000

Autumn 2007, 48pp. Free! Themed "Urban Struggles and Revolts around the World" our new issue contains articles on Copenhagen's Ungdomshuset, the French riots of 2005, contributions by Georgy Katsiaficas and Richard Pithouse, a 20-page G8-special, illustrations by Leandros and much, much more. more

Manchester Temporary Autonomous Arts Exhibition, 24-27 October 2007

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:10:45 +0000

from email, 9 October 2007: Following the success of last years extravaganza in Manchester's Northern quarter... it's happening again! The 2nd annual Temporary Autonomous Arts festival in Manchester 24-28th October 2007. Once again Manchester is joining the tide of collective groups coming together to create a cultural, interactive autonomous space where people are free to be, free to create and free to express themselves. more

27th London Anarchist Bookfair - 27 October 2007

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:39:31 +0000

Saturday 27 October 2007, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1

Books, speakers, meetings, workshops, films, exhibitions, food, creche and much more. We've got space for stalls, meetings, film and cabaret. Crash space at Ramparts (25 minutes away).

As well as the creche there will be a space for older kids. Get in touch if you want a stall or to run a meeting - or just turn up on the day with thousands of others.

Annual unseemly scuffle with the police outside has yet to fully (dis)organised. more

Police station gets good spanking after interfering with party

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:48:15 +0000

Fifteen people have been arrested after a police station was attacked by a mob of around 100 people who hurled beer and wine bottles at the building... The siege in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, took place after three people had been arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle which had sound equipment on board, Norfolk Police said. more

'Europe: Communities of Resistance' @ Ramparts Thursday 12th July

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:27:10 +0000

Europe: Communities of Resistance, 7:30 pm 12th July @ Rampart: A night of debate and movies about the National Social Forum of the Banlieues with invited participants from London No Borders.

Between the 22, 23 and 24 june 2007 in St.Denis, Paris, there was a National Social Forum of the Banlieues. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements. more

Street Blitz London 1-15 July 2007

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:47:27 +0000

from email: "The London Street Blitz is 2 weeks of pro-active street art in the capital. Get out there and install your art then mark its location on the map on the Street Blitz website so all others can see your work." more