30/08/2010
A Day Out of Time photographs
Now that a few weeks have passed since the splendid Day Out of Time festival in Govanhill Park here are a few photos to take you back to that sunny day...
28/07/2010
Camp for Climate Action Gathering
This weekend we will be doing the (people's) kitchen and the party for the Camp for Climate Action Gathering which is coming to
If you can help with the kitchen or the party give Johnny a shout on 07737030560. If not then come to the party, it will be ace!
The Gathering
What?
The gathering is a weekend of organising, discussing and planning this year’s Camp for Climate Action which will be taking place near
Where?
3rd floor,
When?
31st July – 1st August 9am-6pm both days
The Party
(7pm – 12pm)
We’ll be hosting a d.j. set at the Barra’s Bistro, a chilled out, covered “outdoor” space in the heart of the Barras. Easy to find but give us a shout at the number above if you’re lost.
23/07/2010
This Land is Your Land at the CCA
Today the Glasgow Social Centre presented our documentary and gave a talk about our current activities and the upcoming Mayan 'Day out of Time'.
Luis from the Southside Collective gave a spirited talk about the corruptive nature of 'ownership'. GSC volunteer, Omair also spoke about his experiences in a Scottish detention centre.
We also showed (most of) our film 'The Stroy so far' which documents our time at Osborne street. You can watch it in full below:
Luis from the Southside Collective gave a spirited talk about the corruptive nature of 'ownership'. GSC volunteer, Omair also spoke about his experiences in a Scottish detention centre.
We also showed (most of) our film 'The Stroy so far' which documents our time at Osborne street. You can watch it in full below:
Glasgow Social Centre: The Story So Far from Bean There Done That on Vimeo.
Garnett Hill Park 25th July 'Day out of Time' Festival
This event will be loosely based on the 'Day Out Of Time' Celebrations, an international day of festivities promoting the concept of 'Peace through culture' and 'Time is Art'. For those of you who are familiar with Garnett Hill Park it is particularly appropriate for this with its Mayan like pyramid, water garden and amphitheater.
The day will be a celebration of community, the park and the fine thought and work that brought it into being, an inspiration for the many community garden and landscaping projects currently emerging and those to come in the future.
There will be a pa system set up in the amphitheatre area for music, poets, storytellers etc with dancers, performance artists and all things accoustic at the pyramid. Nothing set in stone,this is the first year for doing this event here so we feel our way and set a precedent for an annual celebration.
The idea is that the two spaces be linked by the 'Rainbow Bridge' via the stone staircase and stepping stone water garden. The Rainbow bridge will be processional i.e. made of people using costume ,body paint ,flags ,banners etc and hopefully have a ceremonial element to it....this may involve the planting of a vine!
So far we have the 'peoples kitchen' group working on providing free food, a pa system, some materials, and a growing cast of performers and artists plus the debut performance of a locally produced radio play and hopera(!) written by the late Fraser Clarke 'MEGATRIPOLIS@FOREVER' which introduces the concept of TimeDancing!!.....
Come along, and get involved. We'll see you there.
15/07/2010
More info on Collectives
So you're interested in getting involved in one of the collectives? Great! Here's some more information on what they are all about:
Food Cooperative Collective
Help us get people out of the supermarkets and eating healthy food with less packaging! This collective involves sourcing initially dried foods from GreenCity Wholefoods and hopefully vegetables from a local farm at a later date. The dried and wholefoods will be bought in bulk and sold on at low prices with a wee profit to the Glasgow Social Centre.
People's Kitchen Collective
Serving free food to people on the street. This process provides a space to talk about how we relate to food, encourages eating together and gets healthy food into hungry mouths.
Film Collective
Showing radical films and documentaries in interesting spaces around Glasgow.
The collectives are being set up now so that they have a running start when we get a space. If you want to be involved in these collectives when we have a space (or don't!), please get stuck in now. See earlier post for contact details.
If there is a collective that you would like to start then please come along to our Monday meeting 7pm at the CCA to let us know.
Food Cooperative Collective
Help us get people out of the supermarkets and eating healthy food with less packaging! This collective involves sourcing initially dried foods from GreenCity Wholefoods and hopefully vegetables from a local farm at a later date. The dried and wholefoods will be bought in bulk and sold on at low prices with a wee profit to the Glasgow Social Centre.
People's Kitchen Collective
Serving free food to people on the street. This process provides a space to talk about how we relate to food, encourages eating together and gets healthy food into hungry mouths.
Film Collective
Showing radical films and documentaries in interesting spaces around Glasgow.
The collectives are being set up now so that they have a running start when we get a space. If you want to be involved in these collectives when we have a space (or don't!), please get stuck in now. See earlier post for contact details.
If there is a collective that you would like to start then please come along to our Monday meeting 7pm at the CCA to let us know.
Get involved in our Collectives
The Glasgow Social Centre group are setting up a Food Co-op Collective, People's Kitchen Collective and a Film Collective. For the food coop get in touch with Kate Hughes on 07969240530 and the all others contact Johnny on 07737030560.
04/07/2010
SWAPORAMA: This Saturday
GSC presents an amazing Swaporama at the CCA. Saturday 10th July 12-4pm.Contact Melissa for more info.
06/06/2010
Update Meeting
Tommorrow night (Monday 7th) we'll be hosting an update meeting at the Electron Club CCA from 7pm.
We've had lots of exciting developments since our move from Osborne street. The group is gaining momentum towards a new more permanent space. It would be great to get more hands on board to give it a bigger push.
So if you want to get stuck or are just generally excited byt the possibility of a Social Centre in Glasgow, then we hope to see you there.
Thansk
- The GSC team
We've had lots of exciting developments since our move from Osborne street. The group is gaining momentum towards a new more permanent space. It would be great to get more hands on board to give it a bigger push.
So if you want to get stuck or are just generally excited byt the possibility of a Social Centre in Glasgow, then we hope to see you there.
Thansk
- The GSC team
26/05/2010
Glasgow Social Centre Update
Hello!
You may wonder what we’ve been up to since moving out of Osborne Street. Here’s where we’re at:
First off, there’s a general meeting on Monday 7th June and you’re all invited! It’s in the electron club upstairs at the CCA on Sauchiehall Street. This is an opportunity for the wider group to feed into some important decisions. We’ll be looking at membership rules, and hopefully deciding on which space to go for!
So we moved out of Osborne Street way back at the start of the year. Since then we have been hunting for spaces around the city. Options have included a huge bingo hall, the old pipe factory, railway arches and some more regular spaces such as record shops. We have spoken to council planners about a couple of spaces and have especially been concentrating on a space on St George’s Road. It’s all very laborious and slow process but we’ll get there!
We’re also registering as a cooperative and hopefully as a charity as well! This will help us get rid of nasty council rates and get lovely funding.
What else have we been doing? We brought the free shop and a sound system to the May Day celebrations on Argyle Street and to Streetland in Govanhill. We’re hoping to work with The Govanhill Community Trust to have an event supporting the reopening of Govanhill baths. A group of us went to the UK Social Centres gathering in Leeds to learn from experience and meet folk from other centres around the country, and last weekend a few people went to Talmh to the Radical Routes gathering.
We’re planning on having a fundraising party soon so if you want to help out with this please come along to the meeting on the 7th of June..
Over and out.
Glasgow Social Centre organisational collective.
You may wonder what we’ve been up to since moving out of Osborne Street. Here’s where we’re at:
First off, there’s a general meeting on Monday 7th June and you’re all invited! It’s in the electron club upstairs at the CCA on Sauchiehall Street. This is an opportunity for the wider group to feed into some important decisions. We’ll be looking at membership rules, and hopefully deciding on which space to go for!
So we moved out of Osborne Street way back at the start of the year. Since then we have been hunting for spaces around the city. Options have included a huge bingo hall, the old pipe factory, railway arches and some more regular spaces such as record shops. We have spoken to council planners about a couple of spaces and have especially been concentrating on a space on St George’s Road. It’s all very laborious and slow process but we’ll get there!
We’re also registering as a cooperative and hopefully as a charity as well! This will help us get rid of nasty council rates and get lovely funding.
What else have we been doing? We brought the free shop and a sound system to the May Day celebrations on Argyle Street and to Streetland in Govanhill. We’re hoping to work with The Govanhill Community Trust to have an event supporting the reopening of Govanhill baths. A group of us went to the UK Social Centres gathering in Leeds to learn from experience and meet folk from other centres around the country, and last weekend a few people went to Talmh to the Radical Routes gathering.
We’re planning on having a fundraising party soon so if you want to help out with this please come along to the meeting on the 7th of June..
Over and out.
Glasgow Social Centre organisational collective.
29/04/2010
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