Weekend at City Arts

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Tuesday August 16, 2011 11:20 by Mick - Campaign for the Old Dublin City Arts Building campaigncityarts at gmail dot com 24-25 Moss St, Dublin 2

A series of talks and workshops

August 19 - 20th Outside Old City Arts Building, 23-25 Moss Street, Dublin 2

This two day event will look at issues surrounding education, the property crisis, and how to fight back against the narrow economic imperatives dominating both of these fields today.

As ordinary people willing to engage in political discussion, we find ourselves pushed out of the spaces which should belong to us. NAMA has left countless buildings empty and denies citizens access to them. The university is not interested in providing an adequate space for learning, and insteads orients its teaching and research toward the market. This event aims to be part of a resistance to these tendencies, while at the same time creating a space for new ideas to grow. The Campaign for Old City Arts Building want to re-open this building to run it as a citizen-managed educational and cultural space, independent of private or state institutions and open to everyone. We reject the false pretense of NAMA which denies citizens the right to their city.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

mailto:campaigncityarts@gmail.com

http://www.campaigncityarts.wordpress.com/

(no booking required)

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

Friday

6:00      registration

7-9:30   introduction, food, talking shop: 'public space'

Saturday

3-5:00   University in Crisis: this session will take a critical look at the university today and explore alternatives. Speakers Provisional University, Naomi Milner

5-6:00   Break

6-8:00   Challenging NAMA: a discussion on the socialisation of bank debt and how to fight NAMA

8:00      Happy City Samba