STRUGGLES IN THE CITY - Public Discussions and Film Screenings OCTOBER 2008 Glasgow / Edinburgh
Eastwards Ho! A New Urban Frontier? A series of films addressing conflicts over urban space, regeneration and privatisation. market gallery - 334 Duke Street, Glasgow, G31 1QZ 10 - 18 October Gallery Open: Tues - Saturday 12 - 6pm Open by Appointment - Monday 13th October 12 - 6pm Introductory talk by Simon Yuill: Friday 10 October 7pm Given to the People (2008), Simon Yuill. "Pollok Estate was given to the people in 1939, once given it cannae be ungiven, it can only be stolen." Colin Macleod, Pollok Free State. http://www.giventothepeople.org The London Particular: The Occupation (2001). The sordid reconfiguration - through gentrification - of life, death, and work on the fringe of the city of London. http://thelondonparticular.org/items/video.html Five Ring Circus (2007). Scathing documentary about the false promises of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and the social, economic and environmental impacts of the event. http://www.thefiveringcircus.com Polly 2: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (2006), Anja Kirchner and David Panos. Mixing popular forms (Brecht, the Western), Kirchner and Panos pursue a dramatic canvas for their critical take on regeneration. http://www.anjakirschner.com/polly2/main.html The Spectacle. A series of community based films challenging the rhetoric of regeneration in the east end of London. http://www.spectacle.co.uk Organised by Variant collective http://www.marketgallery.org.uk/ ---------------------------- Glasgow Games : Genuine Legacy or Gentrification? market gallery - 334 Duke Street, Glasgow, G31 1QZ A Public Discussion convened by Libby Porter http://www.pnuk.org.uk/ Saturday 11 October 1pm Guest Speakers: Petra Biberbach and Jo Winterbottom Free Market : markets 324 gallery space will be open for use as a resource area with a book table and chairs and tea and coffee facilities. If you would like to arrange a group visit or if you are doing research or studying and have an interest in any of the events please call: 0141 556 7276 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marketgallery.org.uk/ ---------------------------- DOCUMENT 6 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow http://www.cca-glasgow.com Wednesday 15 - Sunday 19 October Document 6 brings films from around the world to inform, challenge and inspire a local audience, supporting film makers whose work has international resonance as an act of witness. Full details will be posted at: http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk ---------------------------- 'TRIAL OF THE SPIDER ' Transmission Gallery is pleased to present a screening of the film by Anja Kirschner and David Panos Followed by a discussion between the artists and Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt Transmission - Floor 4, 48 King Street Saturday 25th October 7pm Doors open 6.30pm Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American West (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western's portrayal of the 'Vanishing Frontier' , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of the present. Recreating the epic panoramas of the Western in Hackney Marshes, the Thames Gateway and Essex, on landfills, wastelands and gravel pits linked to the construction of the 2012 Olympic Park, the film allegorizes the shifting and shrinking space for collective social and political agency, self-determination and dissent in an urban reality increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations, private interests and the spectre of the Olympic gold rush. Working with a large cast of actors and non-actors (many of whom are themselves residents of East London), the film explores the compromises and ordeals of a population facing this new order. Many of the film's verbal exchanges are rooted both in historic sources and the collective experiences of the players and filmmakers (linked in many cases through political activism and friendship), opening up a discursive field in which past and present are held in an uneasy suspension. http://www.anjakirschner.com/trailofthespider.html http://www.transmissiongallery.org/ ---------------------------- Cities as Battlespace: the new military urbanism Professor Stephen Graham, University of Durham, will be speaking on the role of cities within the war on terror. Wednesday 29th October 3pm Room 5.10. Department of Geography and Sociology University of Strathclyde Graham Hills Building, 50 Richmond Street Glasgow G1 1XN Part of the seminar series at the Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde. ---------------------------- RESISTING REGENICIDE : STRUGGLES IN THE CITY "Our relationship to the built environment is perhaps the most crucial element to the quality of community life." 1.00-5.00pm Saturday 1 November CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow http://www.cca-glasgow.com and 7.00-9.30pm Sunday 2 November The Forum - ACE, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5HA http://forumcollective.wordpress.com Free discussions bringing together representatives of community & activist groups - including local groups from Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Manchester - to share their experiences of community-based engagement in the planning processes of urban regeneration and the built environment. A strong dimension connecting the diverse groups is their shared concerns for community video as a basis for connecting people. Mark Saunders The Spectacle, Martin Slavin Games Monitor, Nick Durie Glasgow Residents Network, Carl Taylor Hackney Independent, Libby Porter Planners Network UK, Neil Gray Variant, Jonathon Atkinson Open Manchester, Anthony Iles Mute. http://www.metamute.org http://www.spectacle.co.uk http://www.openmanchester.org.uk http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk http://www.pnuk.org.uk http://glasgowresidents.wordpress.com http://www.hackneyindependent.org http://www.variant.org.uk Organised by Variant collective ---------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Variant ...in-depth coverage in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues. 1/2 189b Maryhill Road Glasgow G20 7XJ t. +44 (0)141 333 9522 e. 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