This blog is a space for students, artists and cultural workers to display and align their ideas and actions against the cuts.
We are fighting back against the most significant governmental attack on the public sector in living memory. In the arts we are anticipating feeling the full weight of this socially irresponsible policy, especially in terms of funding for arts education. We are in solidarity with the other sectors fighting against the cuts and openly welcome co-ordinated action in creative and innovative ways.
For more information please contact artsagainstcuts@gmail.com
artsagainstcuts 
Great stuff! By the way, whatever happened to the Save the Arts campaign? Are they really thinking that getting big artworld names to sign a petition is enough??
To save our Art Schools we need to know exactly where the shift away from funding Arts and Humanities in the Browne review came from? Why should the Government dictate to Universities what to teach?
Has the shift of Higher Education out of the Department of Education into the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills had an effect on the Government’s commitment to Arts and Humanities?
At a time of widespread resistance to education cuts, let’s reflect on what we want our education to look like!
Making a London Radical Education Workbook
Saturday, 11 December 2010 11-5
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
Sunday, 16 January, 2011, 11-5
The Drawing Room
Tannery Arts, Brunswick Wharf, 55 Laburnum Street, London E2 8BD
020 7729 5333
The Radical Education Forum and sound art collective Ultra-red invite you to two days of presentation, discussion and reflection on radical education in the UK. The workshops will be broken into sessions in which radical educators in the UK will present histories and techniques of radical education, and facilitate discussion about their links to social movements and social change. Sessions will be recorded, transcribed and collaboratively edited to create a Radical Education Workbook to be published in 2011.
If you would like to present or attend, please RSVP to radicaleducationforum@gmail.com
The Radical Education Forum is a group of people working in a wide range of educational settings who meet monthly to discuss radical pedagogical theories and techniques, and contemporary issues of interest to those involved in education. We are interested in how these theories and questions can inform our practice. The Forum supports social justice in education, linking practitioners within mainstream educational institutions, community education initiatives, social movements, arts organisations and self-organised groups. Previous meetings have covered topics such as the pedagogy of educators such as Paolo Freire and Celestin Freinet; privatisation in education; ‘free schools’; and the teaching of citizenship. Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month at the Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street, London E1 4HU from 7-9pm and are open to all.
Sound art collective Ultra-red pursue a dynamic exchange between art and political organizing. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Ultra-red have over the years expanded to include artists, researchers and organisers from different social movements including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development, and the politics of HIV/AIDS.
Making a Radical Education Workbook is presented as part of the exhibition Best Laid Plans at The Drawing Room (11 November, 2010 – 23 January, 2011). Pages for the workbook will be added throughout the exhibition. The Drawing Room is located at Tannery Arts, Brunswick Wharf, 55 Laburnum Street London E2. For more information, see http://www.drawingroom.org.uk
hi all,
see below for invite to a film screening and discussion re: the impact of immigration raids and closures on Bengali schools in East London:
What is the Weight of the Moon?
Screening and discussion Nabil Ahmed: a response to the situation of over 50,000 Bengali students whose colleges are currently under investigation by the UK government to assess their legitimacy.
Wednesday 2 February 2011, 7-9pm
Free Cinema School Salon
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street London W1H 5BW
Free
Nabil Ahmed took the title for What is the Weight of the Moon? from The Middleman, a film by Satyajit Rai forming part of a cycle of films that reflects on the political implications of being a student in Calcutta during the 1970s. Ahmed’s project is a response to the situation of over 50,000 Bengali students whose colleges are currently under investigation by the UK government to assess their legitimacy. Through the medium of film, What is the Weight of the Moon? explores the low visibility of the colleges, which are often identified only by ambiguous-looking signboards in the east London area, and the near-invisibility of their students.
Originally conceived as a two-channel video installation consisting of a video essay and a set of edited interviews, Ahmed’s work places student interviewees outside the frame. The viewer is invited to become an active listener by controlling a three-channel audio mixer to hear field recordings and simultaneous translations of the interviews in Bengali and English.
For the Free Cinema School salon, the videos will be screened separately and will be accompanied by an artist-led presentation and discussion, mapping the various strands of the project, from the Bengali language movement to anti-documentary techniques and the neoliberalisation of education. Respondents will include student activists.
Nabil Ahmed is currently a PhD student at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. His practice involves working with people, software, video, spoken word and text to form critical responses to relevant political questions. He has collaborated with various galleries, project spaces and institutions, including the Victoria & Albert, no.w.here, Wet Sounds, Waterside Project Space, The Showroom and openvizor. He is the co-founder of Call & Response, London’s first multi-channel sound art gallery and project space.
http://callandresponse.org..uk
Big Society Entertainments presents ‘We’re All In This Together!’.
A night of music, comedy and short talks in preparation for March for the Alternative.
Featuring Josie Long, Chris T-T, UK Uncut, False Economy, Unite the Union.
Friday March 18, Bull and Gate, Kentish Town.
Info and Tickets@www.artuncut.org.uk
The TRANSMISSION CINEMA is open for the duration of the Pullit Group Art Show from 25th March to April 9th 2011. In this fully equipped facility we will be taking opposing elements of Art, popular culture and D.I.Y. filmmaking and accelerating them into a high speed collision which we hope will generate the conditions for an underground smash up. Bring yours films and we’ll show them.
And remember, a radical Artist is like a vegetarian butcher.
25 March – 9 April 2011 : Every Friday and Saturday night :
6 – 11pm : Screenings start at 7.30pm
Admission £5 entry /£4 Concs
Private View 25th March Admission FREE
Bring Your Own Booze
Bond House
20–32 Goodwood Road,
Newcross Gate, SE14 6BL
London, United Kingdom
Next to New Cross Gate Station – Overground/Tube/National rail
Friday 25th March
PRIVATE VIEW
Short Films and performance.
Free admission.
Saturday 26th March
FILMGATE
Spectacular Live video mixing mashup
by Ray Beam and the Shiners.
Friday 1st April
MYSTERY NIGHT
Surprise cult feature !
Saturday 2nd April
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your films on dvd, usb stick or mini dv tape.
First come first shown.
Big prizes ! Makers get in free.
Friday 8th April
MALDOROR
Rare screening of the cult D.I.Y. Super 8 feature film.
“…this is true underground cinema” Fortean Times.
Saturday 9th April
EXPLODING CINEMA
The legendary D.I.Y. collective presents a night of
no-budget cinema and stunning optics.
Here is a TUC leaflet for stewards, found online and can’t vouch for authenticity. It looks as though the stewards are instructed to call the police in certain situations.
Click to access March_Stewards_Dealing_with_situations.pdf
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Hi all!
If you want a decent theme song or inspiring link to a video ahead of J30, try this one.
There’s a singer called Steve Tilston who has been around since the early 1970s and his new CD has a great song on it called Nottamun Town Return, which is a nightmare vision of London from the perspective of the riots earlier on this year. There’s a movie on youtube here-
Here’s Nottamun Town return
Good luck from Ireland, where I live now- I’d be out supporting the strikes if I was still in Wales or England.
Best wishes and solidarity.
John