Sunday Night 02.06.11 — Event for Revolution — Truth & Politics Series
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(questions, letters, gestures, poems
Egypt and Tunisia and … )
CONTENTS:
1. About this Sunday
2. Note for Event 3
3. no-w-here (+ details of London event)
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1. About this Sunday
When: 6.30 pm, Sunday 2.06.11
Who: Free and open to all
Where: 16 Beaver Street 4th floor
What: Statements / Questions / Solidarity / Camaraderie
This Sunday Night, for the third event of our Truth and Politics Series, we invite all who are inspired and provoked by the events unfolding throughout the Middle East and North Africa to come and take part in a collective video, which we hope to post or send to friends, comrades, colleagues in Egypt and beyond.
The video we hope to produce will be part poetry, part letters of solidarity, part critical ruminations on questions these historic events may raise for us.
We encourage anyone who would like to take part to do one or more of the following:
a.) Prepare a letter of solidarity to those who have taken to the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, and beyond.
b.) Prepare a letter to some other addressee that you think warrants one, in this context.
c.) Bring a question or two which you would like to propose that other participants address.
d.) Prepare any text, gesture, poem, idea you would like to include in this video.
This should be an experiment in localizing and focalizing in a particular time and place, a set of thoughts around life, freedom, truth, politics, democracy, media, and various other subjects which seem close at heart. It should be a moment to give time and consider these courageous actions. It should also be a moment to consider collectively what the implications of these events may be in a wider context, even here (wherever here is being read).
On a practical note, it would also be great if you can bring ingredients for food, something to eat and/or drink.
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2. Note for Event 3 (Truth & Politics Series)
Today, Friday February 5th 2011, on the day we send this letter, millions of demonstrators will once again take to the streets of Cairo, throughout Egypt, and in the surrounding region, putting their life on the line for an experience of collective freedom. On this same evening, a group of individuals wishing to act in solidarity with those inspiring protests will meet in London, near Edgware Road, inside the Center for Possible Studies, to give and record statements of solidarity.
Since our event will not take place on Friday, a day we hope will mark a critical change in Egyptian history (and beyond), we thought that we can try to use the occasion to produce not only statements of solidarity, but also raise questions that may only come by virtue of our distance, our being thousands of kilometers away.
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3. no-w-here
One of the members, Karen Mirza, of the no.w.here collective, who is involved in organizing this event in London, will be here in New York. And we thought to organize something together, which can relate to the events in Egypt, their event in London, and beyond.
For more information about the collective, please visit:
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk
We also include their letter for the London event:
The Egyptian people’s revolution is changing every day. At this moment the exact future is uncertain. For many the Egyptian protesters are an inspiration for their shift from resilience to resistance, for others the deaths and destructions in the country are deeply worrying, for others again, the revolution is already an emphatic success as it has broken people’s fear. In London we are dislocated from this centre, but we are not unchanged.
no.w.here and the Centre for Possible Studies invite you to share information coming from inside and outside of Egypt with each other from the many different sources that we are all connected to. But more importantly it is also an invitation to record to video your views and support for the people in Cairo. These will be sent via social media networks in response to the many requests for international support and recognition currently coming from Egypt.
Please come and lend your support. Bring images, information or statements to read that you feel are urgent and important to share. Or you can upload them to this ftp site to be read in your absence:
https://public.me.com/amalkhalaf
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This event will take place
Friday 4th Feb, 6pm-8pm
The Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street London W15BW
For more information call us at the Centre on 020 7723 3162
or email
amalk [AT] serpentinegallery.org (Ta7ia Masr!)