| National Social Centre Gathering - April 2010 |
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From Saturday, 17 April 2010
To Sunday, 18 April 2010
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Social centres in a time of crisis
How can a new generation of social centres learn from the successes and failures of established ones? What are the ways in which we can best face up to the challenges?
How can we sustain energy and dynamism? Can we stop the daily grind of actually running a social centre from eclipsing the politics and passion behind it
Is there a way in which we can capitalise on the current widespread disaffection with mainstream politics? What is the role of social centres in a time of crisis?
What is the current situation with your social centre? What’s going right, what’s going wrong, and what support do you need?
Saturday: 10am – 6pm, followed by dinner and entertainment
Sunday: 10am for brunch, 11am – 4pm
Lunch available on both days.
Suggested donation for weekend £10 to cover meals etc. All meals will be vegan.
If you have asked for accommodation for the Friday night we will meet you at the Common Place. Accommodation will be available for the Saturday night, bring a sleeping bag and camping mat.
Saturday
09.00-10.00 - BREAKFAST for those arriving Friday night or early Sat
10.00 – 11.00 Greetings and intro to the gathering – What would you like to get out of the weekend?
11.00-12.00 Social Centres ‘Health Check’ – What’s going right and wrong with your social centre? What are some of the challenges we are facing?
12.00-1300 Small group discussion + large group feedback of key themes pulled from previous session
13.00-14.00 - LUNCH
14.00-16.00 - What can a social centre do? - What are social centres for? Why are we running them? Are they fulfilling their potential?
Discussion in small groups around these questions and more.
16.00 BREAK
16.30 – 18.00 - Social Centres in a Time of Crisis - What is the role of our spaces in a time of financial and ecological crisis? Discussion.
18.00-19.00 DINNER
19.00 bar open, 20.00 evening event starts, 21.00 live performances from D.millard + Quipsta
Sunday
BREAKFAST - 10.00-11.00
11.00-12.00 Social Centres Network + others – A space to discuss issues around networking between spaces. What networks currently exist? How well are they working? Do we need to strengthen the network?
12.00-12.30 Evaluation of the weekend + Any plans for future
12.30 onwards - Free space – time for meetings and discussions that have come out of the weekend
We will also serve LUNCH around 13.00
In addition to the sessions timetabled above we will have a few parallel workshops focussing on some of the practicalities of establishing and running a social centre.
These will include information on:
· Licensing
· Legal structures
· Finances
· Squatting
And hopefully more!
We also hope to have a Q&A session with representatives of existing social centres and those currently in the process of establishing new spaces. We will need people to volunteer from existing spaces in order to get the most out of this session.
We will also need people to volunteer to help with facilitation of some of the discussions.
See you there!
Contact:
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Please email to tell us you're coming, if you need a place to sleep and on which days, and whether you have any special dietary needs (all food will be vegan).
Email if you wish to run a workshop or have ideas that you think would be useful/interesting, and whether you would be up for facilitating any of this.
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