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 Yuil. “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 London Particular’ (2004). 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/
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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: market@marketgallery.org.uk
http://www.marketgallery.org.uk/
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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
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'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/
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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
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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
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