>Fools Festival for M1 In the leadup to M1 here in Brisbane the performance group I'm with is organising a Fools Festival on April Fools Day -- Sunday April 1. This will be an attempt to bring together lots of different cultural activists under an anti-corporate banner then organise them for ongoing work promoting the M1 blockade of the corporate "community" throughout the month of April. As part of this process we will most likely sponsor workshops/training sessions during the Easter break. Many people are taken with this approach and there may be a lot of support for such a project especially among young people. The festival will most likely be held in a park -- Kalinga Park -- on Brisbane's northside with a focus on percussion, dance, puppetry, theatre...and much else besides. Many people may not be familiar with the resources that are available for this form of cultural activism so we have established a web page (below) and hope to run with some interviews and reviews of various appoaches to this form of cultural intervention in the pages of Green Left Weekly ( http://www.greenleft.org.) Among these pending articles will be an interview with the extraordinary Super Sonic Samba School which has taken drumming in demonstrations to a fine art, a review of the standard DIY literature published by Wise Fool Puppet Intervention and an analysis of the work of such groups as Welfare State International and In The Heart of the Beast. These groups are leading a world wide resurgnance in democratic cultural intervention committed to street activism and social change. Anyone who is interested in liasing with us on this and swapping ideas or seeking advice and support is encouraged to subscribe to GRAFFITO (if you don't already that is!) -- an email discussion list -- by clicking on the line below and sending off a message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will also have a special Fools Festival web page up and running by the weekend detailing the strong satiric and protest tradition inherent in Fools Festivals before they were banned by the Church and State authorities. The page will also link to Fools Fests elsewhere and detail information on this ongoing cultural project here in Australia. People with particular expertise who would like to share their skills are encouraged to get in touch so we can put then in contact with folk who want to learn or would like to join a group project Dave Riley +++++++++++++++++++++++ Carnival of The Oppressed The anti-globalisation theatre project [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dhell/nwot2.htm PO Box 103 Northgate,QLD, AUSTRALIA 4013 -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
