News this month
I’m going to be spending a bit of time on a different blog
http://48thparallelproject.ning.com/profile/CeriBuck
check it out!
(March 2008)
ENGAGED
Guerrilla Zoo is having an event in a toilet throughout October.
Full wind turbine ahead for the Climate Camp 14-21 August 2007 www.climatecamp.org.uk. The Slackers http://lambethbandofsolidarity.wordpress.com/we-are-slackers/will be there doing a workshop and encouragine the whole camp to sing its way to a cleaner, greener future of less diluvian proportions
Lots of great summery things happening: check out Benefit for Resonance FM at Area 10, Peckham (21 – 23 June) and make a donation to save London’s best radio station www.Resonancefm.com
And Girls Rock Camp UK! at the Lambeth Women’s Project 17th – 19th August
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A new 12-week series of SOMA is starting in April – introductory workshops in February and March.
SOMA – an experiment in anarchism
Introductory Workshop
Tuesday 27th February 2007
7 – 10 pm
(£7 full /£5 concession)
The Boxing Club
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road LONDON E14 7HA
Info: 07758224334 (Goia) – 07947596589 (Arthur)
By Tube
Limehouse DLR from Bank or Tower Gateway, then a 5 minute walk (see below).
By Bus
15 From Trafalgar Sq.
115 From Aldgate
D6 From Hackney
D3 From Bethnal Green
Walk/drive/cycle
Get onto Commercial Road and travel East from Aldgate or Whitechapel. Keep going until you pass Limehouse DLR on your right (under the DLR train bridge) and you’ll see a modern red brick church also on the right, lots of sickening property developments, then an ex-library with a statue of Clement Atlee in front of it, then you’ll see the Town Hall with St Anne’s (Hawksmoor) church behind it. If you need to park, there is a pay and display area behind the town hall (go right onto Three Colt Street after the church, and weave your way to the back of the hall), but there are no parking wardens on weekends.
This is an introductory workshop for SOMA – an experiment in anarchism. SOMA is a series of 12 sessions/experiences using body games to create a group dynamic, inspired by principles of self-organisation and solidarity. Working in groups is one of the biggest challenges in our competitive and individualistic society, even among activists fighting against it. How could we live in a more collaborative way? This course aims to use the SOMA process to create a group dynamic which will lead to organising and producing art and activism.
When Roberto Freire created SOMA – an anarchist therapy in Brazil, more than thirty years ago, he was looking for therapeutic methodologies that could help people emotionally who were fighting against the military dictatorship. Changing therapy into experiment, we have turned the SOMA (which means ‘totality of being’ in Greek) approach away from an emphasis on neurosis (we have something wrong) towards the gaining of skills (we can learn something new). In this sense, SOMA seeks to inspire skills to build horizontal relationships, skills that can transform the way we perceive the world, re-building the body, its dwelling and livelihood.
SOMA process creates an environment in which the consensus decision making process starts in each participant’s body, mind, emotions and feelings. This approach breaks the traditional rational way to develop skills, where the mind is split from the body, the individual removed from its surroundings. SOMA games are proposals to play in a group – sharing experiences of collaboration, trust and responsibility. It’s this group dynamic created by SOMA games that stimulate the whole being to engage with the world. After the games, the participants will feedback, talking about their perceptions and behaviour playing together. The games and talks will be the material to work with later, triggering the creative process for the final part of the course.
The body is the material to work with: movement, perception and contact with each other to dare to be creative in everyday life. Play is a way to rediscover the body, just as collaboration helps to rediscover relationships.
MORE NEWS
- Home of Ice Arts project out now – mail me for zine
- Tuesday 25th July Symbolic Die-in at Marks & Spencer, 173 Oxford Street 4.30pm and then Collective Scream against War, Trafalgar Square, 5pm in solidarity with the people of Lebanon
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Urgent appeal for solidarity with the people of Lebanon & an open letter from Naomi Klein
- Capoeira Roda to mark one year without Jean Charles de Menezes and protest against police killing – Sat 22nd July from 5.30 Stockwell tube
- Parliament square workshop: Writing into Performance, flying in the face of normality (date tbc)
https://openbracket.wordpress.com/2006/07/23/flying-in-the-face-of-normality-on-parliament-square/
- the Lambeth Band of Solidarity’s first gig at the South London Gallery: UTOPIA CRECHE – if you’re under 5, this is for you!
- I’m not here to prove your fundamental assumptions wrong: 3 women required for video piece on enlarging the space for women as political beings within art
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openbracket 
February 15, 2007 at 4:07 am
Bush goes ballistic about other countries being evil and dangerous, because they have weapons of mass destruction. But, he insists on building up even a more deadly supply of nuclear arms right here in the US. What do you think? Is killing thousands of innocent civilians okay when you are doing a little government makeover?
Are we safer today than we were before?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.