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Saturday, July 3
| Time: |
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Saturday Vegan Cafe |
| Description: |
Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre
Vegan food, tea & coffee, by donation
Free use of computers & wifi internet access. |
Sunday, July 4
| Time: |
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Summary: |
Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) |
| Description: |
A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!
Suitable for more experienced players; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.
Vieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes.
Ibro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher.
Vieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.
Booking Information
The workshop costs just £25 for the day.
Advanced booking is essential to guarantee a place, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541
or email: anna@ibrosoumah.com |
Monday, July 5
| Time: |
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Feminist Educational |
| Description: |
Informal feminist discussion group - women-led & women-centred, but feminists / womanists / pro-feminists / may-be-feminists of any sex are welcome. |
Tuesday, July 6
| Time: |
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Merseyside Animal Rights - monthly meeting (first Tues of the month) |
| Description: |
We are the campaigning body for animal rights in Liverpool. We campaign on a number of issues that involve the abuse and exploitation of animals. We hold regular fundraising stalls in the region and organise transport to national demonstrations. WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO GET INVOLVED?
Then come along to our friendly informal meetings and find out what's happening locally and nationally. |
Wednesday, July 7
| Time: |
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM |
| Summary: |
Liverpool Linux User Group (1st Wed of the month) |
| Description: |
Liverpool Linux User Group are a group of Linux and open source software users that meet on the first Wednesday of the month. If no talk is organised then we will usually organise a "open stage" for people to discuss projects, current news, or just to rant.
http://livlug.org.uk/ |
Thursday, July 8
| Time: |
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Documentary Night: The Age of Stupid |
| Description: |
Regular film night, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation
THE AGE OF STUPID (2009)
(89 mins)
A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why
humankind failed to address climate change. Starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man
living alone in the devastated world of 2055, focusing on stories of six individuals
whose lives in the early years of the 21st century seem to illustrate aspects of the
impending catastrophe. These six stories take the form of interweaving documentary
segments that report on the lives of real people in the present facing the effects
of our hunger for fossil fuels, and switch the film's narrative form from fiction to
fact.
The film begins in the year 2055 in a world ravaged by catastrophic climate change;
London is flooded, Sydney is burning, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by desert, the
Amazon rainforest has burnt up, snow has vanished from the Alps and nuclear war has
lain waste to India. An unnamed archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) is entrusted with the
safekeeping of humanity's surviving store of art and knowledge. Alone in his vast
repository off the coast of the largely ice-free Arctic, he reviews archive footage
from back ‘when we could have saved ourselves’, trying to discern where it all went
wrong. Archival news material and animated sequences are used to provide background
and context, but the focus is on documentary stories of real people.
As we explore the ageing archivist's question, we encounter ‘not in my back yard’
anti-wind farm protesters, committed climate change activists and an entrepreneur
who dreams of ending poverty by starting India's third budget airline. Blame is
ultimately laid at the feet of our culture of consumerism, and the implication is
that profound social changes will be required to survive the present age -
poignantly exemplified in a sequence involving Alvin DuVernay, a hurricane Katrina
survivor who, having lost all of his possessions, philosophically reflects on what
it took for him to realise what was actually important to him.
The Times called the film "the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the
institutional complacency shrouding the issue", saying, "The power of this shameless
campaigning film is that it gives dates and deadlines. It explores options and
ideas. It names culprits..." |
Saturday, July 10
| Time: |
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Saturday Vegan Cafe |
| Description: |
Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre
Vegan food, tea & coffee, by donation
Free use of computers & wifi internet access. |
Sunday, July 11
| Time: |
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Group meeting: Liverpool Roller Birds AGM |
| Time: |
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| Summary: |
NO FILM TODAY! moved to next Sunday |
| Description: |
Sorry, no film today because it clashes with the World Cup Final! We'll be showing Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" next Sunday instead. |
Tuesday, July 13
| Time: |
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Summary: |
L'pool Social Forum |
| Description: |
Monthly meeting of activists, groups & individuals. (Social Centre business may also be raised - but main Social Centre meeting is the 4th Tuesday of the month)
'The Liverpool Social Forum (LSF) is an anti-capitalist group. We exist to bring about a fair, free and sustainable society - without hierarchy, discrimination or the exploitation of people, animals and the planet for profit.'
Second Tuesday every month |
Wednesday, July 14
| Time: |
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
| Summary: |
Merseyside CND - group meeting (2nd Wed every month) |
| Description: |
Group meeting
Merseyside CND is part of the National and Worldwide Campaign to get rid of nuclear weapons and power.
http://www.mcnd.org.uk/ |
Thursday, July 15
| Time: |
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Merseyside Anarchists monthly meeting |
| Description: |
All anarchists or people interested in anarchism welcome.
Anarchism - or libertarian socialism - is an increasingly strong political
current within society and has for a long time been championing the case for
a fair, ecological and sustainable global community that may be our last
best hope for humanity.
What is it and what can it offer us all? Best of all, what can you do to
bring it about. begin the journey here. |
Saturday, July 17
| Time: |
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Saturday Vegan Cafe |
| Description: |
Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre
Vegan food, tea & coffee, by donation
Free use of computers & wifi internet access. |
Sunday, July 18
| Time: |
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Sunday Film & Food: "Bamboozled" |
| Description: |
Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6.
Please arrive well before 6 if you want food, so that film can start on time, thanks
BAMBOOZLED (2000, 135 mins)
Satire written and directed by Spike Lee about a black television writer who deliberately tries to get sacked by pitching the most offensive show he can: a modern day minstrel show featuring racist jokes & black actors donning blackface makeup to perform racist stereotypes. But not only does the network love the idea, the show becomes a horrifying success.
Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) is an uptight, Harvard-educated black man, working for a television network known as CNS. At work, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), a tactless, boorish white man. Not only does Dunwitty talk like an urban black male, and use the word "nigga" repeatedly in conversations, he also proudly proclaims that he is more black than Delacroix and that he can use the word "nigga" since he is married to a black woman. Dunwitty frequently rejects Delacroix's scripts for TV shows that portray black people in positive, intelligent scenarios, dismissing them as "Cosby clones".
Facing the necessity of either coming up with a hit black-centric show or being fired, Delacroix decides to aim for the latter. Delacroix would be in violation of his contract if he resigns, but getting fired would release him from it and allow him to seek work at another network. With help from his personal assistant Sloan Hopkins (Jada Pinkett Smith), Delacroix decides to pitch a minstrel show. Mantan: The New Millenium Minstrel Show is complete with black actors in blackface, extremely racist jokes and puns, and even offensively stereotyped CGI-animated cartoons that caricature the leading stars of the new show.
Delacroix and Hopkins decide to recruit two impoverished street performers, Manray (Savion Glover) and Womack (Tommy Davidson) -- homeless squatters who regularly perform outside CNS' headquarters building -- to star in the show. While Womack is horrified when Delacroix tells him about the show, Manray willfully agrees to star in the show, seeing it as his big chance to become rich and famous.
To Delacroix's horror, not only does Dunwitty enthusiastically endorse the show, it also becomes hugely successful. As soon as the show premieres on television, Manray and Womack end up becoming big stars while Delacroix, contrary to his original stated intent, defends the show as being satirical. Delacroix quickly embraces the show and his newfound fame; he even wins awards for creating and writing the show, while Sloan becomes horrified at the racist nightmare she has helped to unleash.
In the meantime an underground, militant rap group called the Mau Maus, led by Sloan's older brother Julius (Mos Def), becomes increasingly angry at the content of the show. Though they had earlier auditioned for the program's live band position and were rejected, the group plan to bring the show down using violence. |
Monday, July 19
| Time: |
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
| Summary: |
Climate Action Network - monthly meeting |
| Description: |
3rd Monday every month - discussing & organising actions to help prevent catastrophic climate change
All welcome.
Contact: LiverpoolCAN@riseup.net |
Thursday, July 22
| Time: |
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Documentary Night: "Stealing A Nation" |
| Description: |
A regular film night, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation
STEALING A NATION (2004)
(56 mins)
Between 1967 and 1973 the entire population of the Chagos Islands in the Indian
Ocean were forcibly removed by the British government of Harold Wilson to Mauritius,
1,000 miles away, so that the principal island, Diego Garcia, could be used as an
American airbase. From there, US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq.
No provision was made for the islanders and they were dumped on the dockside in
Mauritius, where they have lived in poverty and sickness for four decades of
poverty, fighting for the right to return to their homeland. Despite legal appeals
and British courts finding in their favour, the government have refused to allow
them to go back
A truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard-of population
of British citizens
There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind
its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for
the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe
of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears,
one need look no further than Diego Garcia
In this special report John Pilger tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In
the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked
into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the
Indian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony, Diego
Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. The story is told
by islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the
British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court
now describes as 'a crime against humanity'.
Anglo-American policy makers chose to so act due to their perception that the
islands would be strategically vital bases for controlling the Indian Ocean through
the projection of aerial and naval power. At a time during the Cold War when most
newly independent post-colonial states were moving away from the Western orbit, it
seems British and American officials rather felt that allowing the islanders to
decide the fate of the islands was not a viable option. Instead they chose to effect
the wholesale forcible removal of the native population. The displaced Chagossian
community fell into decades of poverty, and in these new circumstances, beset by
homesickness, they suffered substantially accelerated rates of death.
The story of Diego Garcia is shocking, almost incredible. A British colony lying
midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean, the island is one of 64 unique
coral islands that form the Chagos Archipelago, a phenomenon of natural beauty, and
once of peace. Newsreaders refer to it in passing: "American B-52 and Stealth
bombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to
bomb Iraq (or Afghanistan)." It is the word "uninhabited" that turns the key on the
horror of what was done there. In the 1970s, the Ministry of Defence in London
produced this epic lie: "There is nothing in our files about a population and an
evacuation." |
Saturday, July 24
| Time: |
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Saturday Vegan Cafe |
| Description: |
Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre
Vegan food, tea & coffee, by donation
Free use of computers & wifi internet access. |
Monday, July 26
| Time: |
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Sewing Club |
| Description: |
Want to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities, including show & tell, problem solving, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa!
(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)
For More Information, E-mail:
Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk
http://burdastyleclubs.ning.com/group/bscliverpooluk |
Tuesday, July 27
| Time: |
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Social Centre monthly meeting |
| Description: |
Monthly meeting organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. The meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop, ring the bell labelled 'basement'. |
Saturday, July 31
| Time: |
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Summary: |
Saturday Vegan Cafe |
| Description: |
Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre
Vegan food, tea & coffee, by donation
Free use of computers & wifi internet access. |
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