Saturday 18th July
Love Music Hate Racism will join the Unite against Fascism campaign for a special joint national conference in Manchester on Saturday 18th July. 'Stop Britains Nazis' will bring together musicians, anti-fascists and fans to refocus and re-energise the anti-fascist movement following June's European elections.
This conference offers the perfect opportunity for musicians, political community and trade union groups and activists to join together in discussing our collective response to the fascists' gains, and to work out plans to step up the campaign everywhere over the coming months, ahead of next year's General and local elections.
Musicians including Jon McClure (Reverend and the Makers), Sam Duckworth (Get Cape Wear Cape Fly), Lowkey (Mongrel), Nottingham rapper C-Mone, and Manchester's own Kid British will be on the panel of the LMHR session at the conference to give their views on the BNP and how music can help fight back. LMHR supporters will look at the experiences good and bad of LMHR events over the past few months. Other speakers will include Glyn Ford MEP, Councillor M. Afzal Khan, Steve Farley North West TUC, Dr Dilder Chowdhury MCB, Dominique Walker Anthony Walker Foundation.
To join this special joint conference visit the Unite Against Fascism website and register:
http://www.uaf.org.ukRegistration is £10 for an individual, with a £5 concession ticket available for students and the unemployed.
Manchester Central Hall, 4-5 Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JQ
Saturday 18th July
LandGirls present PICNIC - a celebration of the Great British Summer and forgotten wastelands.
Music, Poetry, Comedy and cucumber sandwiches.
3-5pm, Saturday 18th July on the wilderness wasteland in Hulme, Manchester, between Bonsall St. and Old Birley Street.
Tuesday 21st July
The next Manchester Film Co-operative screening is Resurrection Man on Tuesday 21 July, 7.45 at the Kings Arms. A curry will be available from 7.30 (for about £3) so worth getting down early.
Resurrection Man - which was filmed in Manchester - explores the deeds of the Loyalist ShankhillButchers in 1970s Belfast, who killed upwards of 30 people, mainlyCatholics but also a significant number of Protestants, in sectarianattacks, paramilitary feuds, personal grudges and bombing raids.
Their story is told as a retrospective by Victor Kelly, a criminal andruthless murderer who leads a gang known as'Resurrection Men'. Victor's cruelty makes him a local legend, bothfeared and venerated. On his trail is Ryan, a journalist, driven by hisown personal demons and by an obsessive need to discover the truth.Loosely based on real events, this is a disturbing, chilling look atone of the more gruesome episodes of Northern Irish history.
Discussants for the film are Jim McAuley, Professor of Irish Studies at theUniversity of Huddersfield, and Jon Tonge, Professor of Politics at theUniversity of Liverpool. Film starts at 7.45 and will be followed by discussion and drinks. £3 entry to film. £2 students / unwaged
Kings Arms, Bloom Street, Salford
Thursday 23rd July 2009
Garden City Social
A night of live music, films and inspiration ahead of Climate Camp 2009.
Money raised will go to Climate Camp 2009 and the Drax 29 defendants.
Live music from 8pm:
Honeyfeet
Mind on Fire Collective
John Fairhurst
Tom Spencer band
+ poet Dominic Berry
+ Defunkles DJ set
+ inspirational films from 7pm-8pm
Donation on the door
St Margarets Church, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8AE
Saturday 24th July and Sunday 25th July
Come and watch Le Tour with others to make the nail biting atmosphere of the final two stages even more intense!!
I have persuaded the Lass O Gowrie pub to let us use the upstairs bar to watch Le Tour on Saturday 24th July for the Ventoux Stage and on Sunday 25th July for the final stage to Champs Elysess
Come to the pub from noon til 5pm on both days to watch the action LIVE and socialise with other cycling fans too.
It will be free to come in and the Lass will have their usual supply of fine CAMRA award winning ale selection and food to keep you going throughout.
On Saturday, after the race has finished we shall go for a 40-50 mile **twilight ride** from the pub out to Cheshire and up the Wizard. Not quite the Ventoux but a hill with a great view. Meet at 5pm outside the pub
**In order for me to know which room to use I need you to RSVP to info@ibikemcr.org.uk if you are coming on either or both days. (there are different rooms with different capacities and it will be a right arse if we have to change to the bigger room half way through, but the atmos might be a bit lost if we're in a huge room with only a few of us, so please let me know ASAP)**
Lass O Gowrie
36 Charles Street
Manchester
M1 7DB
Sunday 2nd August
Star Fucking Hipsters plus The Autonomads, Officer Down and Banditos
Star and Garter, Fairfield Street
Tuesday 4th August
Climate Change: A Year from Now Looking back from August 2010
Manchester Climate Forum
7.00pm at Friends Meeting House
Tuesday 11th August
WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY plus Stand Out Riot, Al Baker & The Dole Queue and A WarAgainstSound
Star and Garter, Fairfield Street
From 15th August 2009 to 22nd November 2009
An exhibition to mark the death in 1809 of revolutionary writer and radical political thinker Thomas Paine.
Salford Museum and Art Gallery