So we’re just bunkering down, printing final files, getting tools and bits of wood into vans, ready to start installing tomorrow. The Opening is on Friday 13 at 6pm, Shop 14 is at the entrance of the Truman Brewery closest to Spitalfields market, nearest tube: Liverpool Street.
Just a reminder if you want to attend the ‘Festival of Radical Communication’ conference at the weekend you need to drop us an email at: show@signsofrevolt.net so we know numbers, as we are getting close to capacity.
10 years ago, in November 1999 an alliance of direct action activists, environmentalists and trade unionists shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle, stopping the next trade round of Capitalist Globalisation. In the process they sparked a Movement of Movements right across the globe its slogan became ‘Another World is Possible’.
This November exactly 10 years from that momentous demonstration, and with most of the predictions of the movements rapidly coming true what with the crisis of the economy, a permanent state of war and the collapse of our eco-system wrecking lives across the planet, the rich and powerful meet again in Copenhagen to discuss the next Climate treaty after Kyoto, yet again activists are preparing to challenge the idea that the Market can solve the problems of the world, and take another step toward that possible world after Capitalism.
Signs of Revolt is an exhibition that weaves together the story of the past decades social movements, drawing out the influences and connections between and across the movements against Capitalism, War and Climate Change. Using archive material and documentary photography and video from movement photographers and filmmakers. It reveals the story of how we got from Seattle to Copenhagen.
Interspersed in this narrative are works by artist and designer activists and collectives, produced during, within and for the movements, this is the first time such a collection has been brought together in the UK and it will be a chance to reflect upon and celebrate the new creative impulses that the movements spawned and the possibilties for developing the creative capacity of future movements, these issues will also be discussed in greater depth during a series of talks during the exhibition. (timetable here).
As Capitalism threatens our very existence, Signs of Revolt defiantly maps out possible routes to a future filled with hope…
London is Revolting!
More invitations to play!
Phew…what a weekend! Hundreds at the opening, hundreds more visiting over the weekend, the 500 in our initial consignment of catalogues gone, Over 100 registered for the talks, which will be put up online once we get a chance to edit them!
The screening of the superb, inspiring and deeply moving Big Noise film about the WTO protests in Seattle ten years ago, ‘This is What Democracy Looks Like‘, showed once again just how the right kind of mixture between spontaneity and organisation, between direct action activists and organised workers can be so explosive, Reel News finished the weekend with the double whammy of his own film of the G8 protests in Genoa in 2001, ‘Genova Libera‘ with all it’s up and downs and the simply awe inspiring struggles in South America potrayed in ‘Argentina in Revolt‘ and incredible footage of the enormous mass movements in Bolivia, the most advanced grassroots socialist and indigenous movement in the world today.
Tomorrow evening (Thursday) the Space Hijackers are going to be meeting in the space to plot and plan actions, all welcome.
This Sunday at 3pm Climate Camp host a presentation and discussion on Copenhagen this Sunday at the Signs of Revolt exhibition:
COPENHAGEN
What’s going on, what Climate Camp is up to and why you should come!
This will be followed by a some more Revolting Cinema from Reel News from 6pm, looking forward to Copenhagen, the inspiring struggle and occupation at Vestas this summer, and as it seems with are having some requests another showing of ‘This is What Democracy Looks Like’ and possibly more…who knows…just come on down! You can bring drinks and snacks, but not in drinks not in glass please!
PICS!
A First Flickr of pics show is up here: http://tinyurl.com/y44u4aq
…and another here: http://tinyurl.com/yfy5j5u
All Welcome