Nottinghamshire Culture Newswire Archive

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Middle East Party - Sunday 19th March, Wax Bar, Broad Street, Nottingham, 4-8pm. An exhibition of drawings, photographs and paintings from Palestine by Paul Gent + speakers. Live music from long Journey Home.

The idea was to build a multi-person contraption, partly inspired by the famous Rinky-Dink. It is expected that it will bike about with Critical Mass and similar matters ....

On Saturday 3rd March, Nottingham Refugee Forum (NNRF) held a ‘Living Ghosts’ vigil outside St Peters Church in town. The ‘Solidarity Sisters’ joined the vigil, asking passers-by to add their own paper ‘shopping bag’ to a display with a wish list of what they would need if they were starting a new life in a new country.

Shrovetide football has been played for centuries and possibly for over 1,000 years. Each year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, Ashbourne becomes a war zone! The majority of the ablebodied men, women and children take to the streets to play what is probably the largest football game in the world!

Shrovetide football has been played for centuries and possibly for over 1,000 years. Each year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, Ashbourne becomes a war zone! The majority of the ablebodied men, women and children take to the streets to play what is probably the largest football game in the world!

Drums of Peace, a celebration of cultural diversity, took place on Fri 10th Feb, and featured music and food from around the world.

Bar events and Centre diary for March, A4 PDFs to download

The content of this lot shows that CM is important for local transport, personal fitness, safer cities. Right up to the global scale of stuff with pollution, climate change, big business.

CM is just yet another manifestation of the [very] old adage

"Think Globally -- Act Locally" I think it is important that we do so act locally!

Saturday afternoon saw the first stage, of layout and 'sketch-in', of an illustation on the walls of the ASBO Centre at 35 Burns Street, Nottingham.

17th Feburary - Last Friday before the last Friday! (this Fri!!!!)
5:30pm - 6:30pm Upstairs at The Peacock 11 Mansfield Rd

(Its hired for free so this gathering is FREE, you will not be asked for name or details be as annonymous as you like)

Followed by an evening of fun making banners, and other such items to make ourselves feel less invisible and creatively safer on the roads at:

[To Be Confirmed, will let you know closer to next Friday. We will head off together from The Peacock if so]
ASBO Community Space
35 Burns St - 7:00pm
 http://asbo.squat.net/

So bring paints and scraps and all things bright and fun!

'Wild Geese'

Featuring the stories of refugee cleaners in London¹s Canary Wharf, Chinese cockle-pickers in Morecambe Bay, Iranian asylum seekers and Irish, African/Caribbean and South Asian immigrant communities

Wild Geese is a video ballad interweaving interviews, documentary film and animation with live music and song. It features the musical styles of Africa, America, Asia and Europe ­ from reggae, rap and rock to folk, flamenco and klezmer ­ with strong messages about the human costs of globalisation.

CLARENDON COMMUNITY THEATRE,
NEW COLLEGE NOTTINGHAM,
PELHAM AVENUE (off Mansfield Road)
THURSDAY 9TH MARCH @ 7:30PM
£5 WAGED / £2 LOW WAGED / FREE TO UNWAGED, STUDENTS, REFUGEES & ASYLUM
SEEKERS
(All proceeds will go to the Destitution Fund)
For more information contact Stuart on 07891 701133

Critical Mass is a bikeride, where lots of cyclists get together to take over the street, just once a month. In Nottingham these bikerides have happened for a few years now. On Thursday 9th Feb there will be a meeting/discussion about how to move forward with the ride. How to make it more positive and how to get more people involved. Previous article about the discussion:

Where is Nottingham Critical Mass heading?
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/01/332500.html

The meeting will start at 7.30 at the ASBO Community Centre, 33-35 Burns Street, Arboretum, Nottingham.

See previous reports on Critical Mass with photos:

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/02/332729.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328535.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328514.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326823.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/324826.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/310149.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305420.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305893.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/292966.html

Once again the popular and successful Chinese New Year celebration events took place at Beeston and at the Lakeside Arts Centre on the 28th and 29th January consecutively. The events have been organised by Broxtowe Borough Council in conjunction with Broxtowe College, Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham University) and Nottingham City Council

Once again the popular and successful Chinese New Year celebration events took place at Beeston and at the Lakeside Arts Centre on the 28th and 29th January consecutively. The events have been organised by Broxtowe Borough Council in conjunction with Broxtowe College, Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham University) and Nottingham City Council

Full rundown of events at Sumac Centre and Sumac Bar during Feb. Download PDF files, print and display. Reduce in size and use as flyers.

Having attended the Critical Mass rides in Nottingham for the last year, I really started wondering what it is all about after the ride this last Friday. I find the rides choatic, stressful and dangerous. It's dark, wet and friday night and I don't think Critical Mass should just be about blocking traffic for the sake of it. People in the ride should stick together and we should make sure everyone's ok. At the moment the route is unclear. At each junction people in the front of the ride argue and shout at each other and it all just feels like hard work and not really enjoyable. Why do we continue to go down the widest roads where we continue having the same kind of accidents, month after month? If we were enough that would be great. But I don't think we are.

Here are the flyers and poster for this months Critical Mass, on the 27th january, leaving from Derby Road (at Savoy Cinema) at 5.30pm and then to the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields for an after party.

Read the previous feature article on the Critical Mass:
 http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/10/326823.html

Once again the popular and successful Chinese New Year celebration events are taking place in Beeston and at the Lakeside Arts Centre on the 28th and 29th January consecutively. The events have been organised by Broxtowe Borough Council in conjunction with Broxtowe College, Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham University) and Nottingham City Council to bring an exciting new programme of events to celebrate the year of the dog.

On Saturday 21st January there will be a workshop to prepare flags and other decorations for this month's Critical Mass. The workshop wil be from 1-4pm at the ASBO Community Centre, 33-35 Burn St, Arboretum.

ASBO website:  http://asbo.squat.net

The Critical Mass will take place on Friday 27th January, meeting 5.30pm at the Savoy Cinema, Derby Road.

Previous article on Notts Indymedia about the Critical Mass:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/10/326823.html