Seomra Spraoi Meeting

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday December 06, 2007 15:03 by Spraoi'r - Seomra Spraoi

Teachers Club,36 Parnell Square 7.30pm

Following on from recent events in the Seomra and our forced closure,a meeting is to be held in the Teachers Club tonight at 7.30

Seomra Sproai -

All those individuals and groups who have used the space in any way or just been there or like the idea,do join us in the Teachers Club tonight to discuss the current situation and the means by which we can get the space back up and running as soon as possible.
All support is greatly appreciated by the collective and we are seekign particularly people who may have particular skills to offer relevant to the problem we are currently having.

Some background on the recent events-

Seomra Spraoi (& the entire building in 4 Marys Abbey) was closed down by the Fire Authority accompanied by the police last Saturday the 30th.
At 8pm around 10 Police & 4 Fire Officers arrived to inspect the space. Less than 10 people where present in Seomra Spraoi. The fire authority stated that the building did not meet fire safety regulations & closed the building. An hour was negotiated with the Fire Authority to move out any of our stuff we might need whilst we don’t have access to the building. The Fire Authority were, supportive & apologetic, but ultimately had no choice but to close us down.

Phonecalls went out & around 30 people supporters arrived within the hour in solidarity & to move out stuff we might need.

Around 20 people from the Seomra Spraoi Collective reconvened for an extraordinary general meeting (at midnight). We see this as a temporary setback & obviously agree that we’d like the building to be fire safe.
We have booked a fire consultant to see what work needs to be done & will be working with the Fire Authority to get the building re-opened as soon as possible.