Library House Newsletter 11th-17th May

Hello everyone

Put down on your diary the two next special dates:
- Library House day on 23rd of May. One of the last event? :) A chilled out day of workshops, food, lazing around in the garden, bonfire and music (jam session and hopefully some DJs!). probably starting at about 4pm. More details later!
- Cinema Klandestino on 29th of May. A collective from Bristol will come and present some latin american movies! http://www.cinemaklandestino.org

==Monday 11th 6.30-8pm==
*Kundalini Yoga 6-week course*
Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy.Donations appreciated.
Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

==Tuesday 12th April 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 13th 10.30am==
*Court Case support!*
This wednesday 13th is our court case. A second session after the adjournment 2 months ago. Anyone who’s around is welcome to come at court for support: 10.30am at Lambeth County Court Cleaver St, London, SE11 4DZ.
For the bravest ones: Radical Breakfast at 9am at the Library House!

==Wednesday 13th 6pm onwards==
*POST COURT Cafe Marie*
If you cannot go to court with us come along at the cafe, get updates, get happy or sad with us! :) The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or similarly themed documentaries for most nights. Discussions between films, as well.

==Thursday 14th 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots The space is rather small but it is great fun as you need to be really aware of your surroundings. We usually practice movements, make a rodinha and play live music. We have all we need: good mood, a lot of energy and wilingness to learn. Sessions are free and you are more than welcome to join us!

==Sunday 17th 7pm==
*South London Squatters Network Meeting*
the library house collective is calling the squatters or ex- or futur-squatters living in south London to come to a meeting on sunday the 17th May, 7pm @ the Library House.
We thought it’d be a good idea to try again to build some networking, and share our experiences and skills!
Maybe the aim of this meeting could be to decide clearly what we want to do with a network, how and when do we meet etc.? or maybe something else?
And remember there are still the squatting practical night in 56a infoshop from 7pm every 2nd and 4th tuesday of the month.
These are exciting times, lets squat the world!

**<<== Other Announcements ==>>**

**56a Info-shop Benefit Party @ Rampart Friday 15th, 9-late**
52 Commercial road : beautiful atmospheric post rock
Me and Goliath : Screamo Core
Sorro: Sludgy Doom
Hobocop- Dissidant Island DJ – dubstep
Klaus. Minimal step
@Rampart Social centre 15-17 Rampart st, E1 2LA. Whitechapel tube

**Anarchist Movement Conference 2009**
Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 will happen at Queen Mary & Westfield College on Saturday June 6th and Sunday June 7th, 2009. The space will include 20 rooms and a large hall as well as a creche for both days. It is a chance to put our ideas on the table and rebuild ourselves. The barriers that exist need to be broken down, the experiences and ideas of those involved in anarchist politics need to be shared, discussed, critiqued and debated. The task is urgent, practical and necessary – are we as a movement mature enough to face the challenge?
www.conference09.org.uk
Please set aside 20minutes to register. Download the form at http://www.conference09.org.uk/register.html
If you are in a group in London PLEASE put this on your agenda at your next meeting. It is important that we see this as a part of what we are ALL doing. Its our movement, its our conference.
You can also register at Freedom Bookshop. Or email registrations@conferecen09.org.uk for more assistance

InfoUsurpa 16-22 March

InfoUsurpa is a fortnightly listings of events happening in London Social Centres and beyond. Contact email: info_usurpa at … riseup.net

http://infousurpa.co.nr/

go here to get a proper file where you can actually see whats on the picture!! :)

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ASSEMBLY FOR THE BLACK (HOUSING) PROCESSION @ G20 MELTDOWN

Between the 28th of March and the 2nd of April a series of protests will “welcome” the arrival of the leaders at the G20 summit in London which will decide the future of global financial institutions.

On 16th of March, 8.30pm @ rampart (15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA. near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd):

there will be an Organisational meeting for the Black Procession (focusing on the question of housing) which is part of the g20 meltdown protests [http://www.g-20meltdown.org/] which will converge on the Bank of England on the 1st of April.
We invite all squatters, council housing tenants, activists and people concerned about the issue of housing and social spaces to participate in this assembly. Spread the word!!!

Events @ Belgrade Road

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston.
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington. It is collectively run and open to the public.

REGULAR EVENTS
*Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us…
*Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike
*Monday 18th 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners*
everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817 alisisalisis@hotmail.com

SPECIAL EVENT:
*Sunday 17th May 5pm onwards // Together4tamils presents an evening exploring the struggle for tamil cultural identity and self determination*
cafe, exhibition, movies, speakers, discusion, traditional tamil musical satire and music till late.

InfoUsurpa 2-8 March 2009

InfoUsurpa is a fortnightly listings of events happening in London Social Centres and beyond. Contact email: info_usurpa at … riseup.net

http://infousurpa.co.nr/

go here to get a proper file where you can actually see whats on the picture!! :)

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InfoUsurpa

InfoUsurpa is a fortnightly listings of events happening in London Social Centres and beyond. Contact email: info_usurpa at … riseup.net

http://infousurpa.co.nr/

go here to get a proper file where you can actually see whats on the picture!! :)

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London FreeSchool Weekender

The first common project involving some of the Social Centres that are part of the “newly reformed” London Social Center Network: a London FreeSchool Weekender!

The event is of course completely free and open to all willing to respect the ideals of the freeschool and of each other.

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Friday 20th February 2009 at rampART, 15-17 rampart street, E1 2LA

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4-6pm Clothes Making

4-6pm Drumming Workshop

4:30-6pm Getting rid of ‘Education’

6pm Radical Theory Reading Group

7-9pm Dissident Island radio setup

9-10pm Dissident Island Broadcast

10pm-2am Benefit Party for rampART

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Saturday 21st Febraury 2009 at the Culture Centre, 2a Belgrade Road, Dalston, Hackney, N16 8DJ

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Ground Floor

14:00–15:30 Theory and Practise 1

16:00–17:30 Theory and Practise 2

18:00-19:00 Samba Dancing

19:00-20:00 Music Workshop

20:00-late Jam Session/Open Mike

First Floor

16:00-18:00 1st Round-Table-Samosa-Making Discussion on Rethinking Ecology
(see http://www.londoncriticalecologyforum.wordpress.com)

18:00-19:00 Here We Are! A Map for Autonomous Spaces

19:00-late Café

Second Floor

13:00-15:00 Life Drawing

15:00-16:00 English as Foreign Language and French (separate classes)

16:00-17:00 Portugese and Arabic (Separate classes)

17:00-18:00 Bellydancing

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Sunday 22nd February 2009 at the Library House, 52 Knatchbull Road, Camberwell, SE5

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1-3pm Basic Internet Security & Encryption for Beginners

1-3pm Pinhole Photography

3-5pm Flour and Water

3-5pm Knitting

3-5pm Spanish

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Next Meeting 1st March 4pm

The next meeting of the London Social Center Network will be on the 1st of March 4pm, at the Library House

THE LIBRARY HOUSE
52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY.
Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415.
stop: loughborough road)
http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com

London Social Centers Network meeting

For you reading this post, this is an invite to a London Social Centers Network meeting, on sunday 25th of January, at 4pm. The idea is to meet in the newly opened social center somewhere in Stoke newington. Contact Jess goodmorningmidnight..at..riseup.net for details later this month.

For those of you who didnt know, some of us had a chat about social center networking during the “rampART’s revival meeting” few weeks ago.

We might have reinvented the wheel a bit, but all of us were quite keen on trying again to network the existing social centers in London, squatted or not.

There are already existing tools that we might want to try to use a bit more!:
- A London Social Centres Network (LSCN ) website at
http://londonscn.wordpress.com/
- A LSCN discussion list [londonscn-discuss] at :
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/londonscn-discuss
- A LSCN events and announcement list at:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/londonscn-events
- InfoUsurpa (http://infousurpa.co.nr/).

At the 25th january meeting, we thought we could talk about:
- our experiences as social centers
- our practice with neighborhood (if any, or if planned)
- Housing situation in our neighborhood.
- maybe preparing an open conference on Social center (to get together, to publicise the idea of social centers etc.)
- and of course, what to do as a network! :)

Places we thought about contacting for the meeting, if you think of any other place, contact them!
- 56a infoshop
- LARC
- rampART
- Pogo cafe
- The Library House in Brixton
- new place in Stokey
- The Morgue in Dalston
- May fair-Da!collective crew
- Old buddhist center in Waterloo
- Nunhead Chapel project
- The Spike

Hope to see you all soon!