From our Radical History Project workshops at Ovalhouse, as part of Fun Palaces today. Photos: Andy Bannister
Tomorrow we’re at Ovalhouse as part of Fun Palaces. As part of our Radical History Project, we’re working with The Black Smock Band, inviting the public to join us 2:30-4:30 in updating protest songs and writing placards, before a gig/demo in the cafe at 5pm.
Info on Ovalhouse Fun Palaces weekend can be found here, or there’s a Facebook event for our workshop and gig/demo.
We hope to see you there!
Join our mailing list to be kept up-to-date (there’s a signup form on the right). But here’s a summary:
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!
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).
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!
Shamim 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.
The Daedalus Radical Performance Reading Group is currently reading Michael Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. There’s a downloadable online version of it here.
The reading group meets about every one-and-a-half months, normally at Studio 180 in Lambeth. If you want to come along (or just be kept in the loop) email us and we’ll add you to the email list.