Seomra Spraoi collective invites you to a night of play, art, discussion, film, food, disco

dublin | arts and media | news report Saturday September 10, 2005 02:02 by dunk - seomra spraoi collective fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

Fri 23rd September

seomra spraoi collective which has come together to create a social centre space in Dublin. To find out more about the ideas behind the initiave see seomra spraoi - "Seomra Spraoi Initiative Aims to Create Radical Social Space"
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsm/ws/2005/84/space.html
We are organising a big event on Friday the 23rd of September in the Saint Nicholas of Myra community centre on Francis Street. The event will include films, workshops, exhibitions, free food, discussions, music, radio transmissions...............and lots more things of interest, we are emailing you to ask you to join us and to bring whatever you feel could contribute to the evening or the project. As part of the evening we will be having an exploration / discussion into the question that was recently asked at the Dun Laoighre Festival of World Cultures - can art help change the world,
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71559&search_text=monks%20garden

Seomra Spraoi, a project for a social centre for Dublin

Give Us Some Space: New Initiative to Create Dublin Social Centre (Dec 1 2004) is an indymedia feature that marked the begining of the project
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67739&search_text=seomra%20spraoi

our website keeps update of minutes from meetings and links
http://www.seomraspraoi.blogspot.com/

More musings on social centres in Ireland... is a bit more from darren who made a few films from visits he made to social centres around europe
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67838&search_text=seomra%20spraoi

all previous events, minutes, discussions the social centre can be found here
small link

in Something Maybe Beautiful written by Naomi Klein, the italian social centre network (150 + @ 2001) was described in the Frenchnewspaper Le Monde as "the Italian cultural jewel."......
http://www.nologo.org/newsite/detail.php?ID=34

"Social centres are abandoned buildings—warehouses, factories, military forts, schools—that have been occupied by squatters and transformed into cultural and political hubs, explicitly free from both the market, and from state control. By some estimates there are 150 social centres in Italy."

this and further background can be found at critical discussion at monks garden, venice (commentry on and about the art world and in particular artist Sarah Pierces "monks garden" project that is part of the Venice Bienelle, the "art olympics" )
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70090&search_text=monks%20garden#comment119126

and as it happens theres a free street party the following day sat the 24th.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71773

and on sunday the 25th there is an open garden and play day in the community garden we were invovled with creating in dolphins barn.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69689&condense_comments=false#comment121019
And if thats not enough you can join the dublin greenway cycle who will be stopping to have a picnic in the phoenix park.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69929&search_text=greenway

So all in all it will be a fun filled and productive weekend of lively events, discussion, action, art, play. We hope you can make the journey up and join us, we should be able to sort you out with accomodation with our friends here in Dublin. Hopefully the Friday night will spark the wish to make the idea of a social centre a reality.

And do invite your friends and ask them to ask their friends

a few art, media, eco, radio, activist links:

cork:

what if
http://www.whatif.ie/

mayfield arts centre
http://www.mayfieldarts.org/
art encounter 2005
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70860&search_text=muralismo

wheres me culture?
http://www.wheresmeculture.com/

caucus cork
http://www.corkcaucus.org/

green map cork
http://www.sustainable.ie/ireland/corkgreenmap/home.php

one day collective
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsm/ws/2005/85/corkculture.html

kilkenny:

KAZ krew
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68486&topic=artsandmedia#comment104585

kilkenny vid heads
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71508

mary butler, city arts officer
http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/ar2003/arts.html

belfast:

direct action against apathy
http://www.geocities.com/directactionagainstapathy/

the vacuum
http://www.thevacuum.org.uk/

Bloomer and Keogh
http://www.thevacuum.org.uk/main/columns.html

the lawrence street workshops
http://directory.visitsouthbelfast.com/LawrenceStreetWorkshops/

dublin:

sarah pierce
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70090&search_text=monks%20garden

can art help change the world?
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71559&search_text=monks%20garden

framemakers
http://www.daghdha.ie/framemakers/

indymedia ireland
http://www.indymedia.ie/aboutus.php

pallas heights
http://www.pallasstudios.org/

CREATE
http://www.communityartsireland.com/homepages/home_home.htm

AAI - architecture association of ireland
http://www.irish-architecture.com/aai/

galway:

macnas
http://www.macnas.com/

radio:

CMN (community media network)
http://www.cmn.ie/index.htm

dublin south
http://www.medialive.ie/Radio/Pilot_community/dublin.html

liber8 (dublin 8)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71309®ion=dublin

NEARfm
http://www.nearfm.ie/intro.html

anna livia
http://slarti.ucd.ie/annalivia/

indymedia radio
http://radio.indymedia.org/

galway feminist pirate radio

De Dublin social centre will be great

a play and garden day in your community garden