If the government is to be believed, we are undergoing a streak of freakily bad luck. First the credit crunch, then astronomical fuel price hikes and now a global food crisis. Could all these by any chance be connected?

Neoliberal policy makers and money-men clearly don't think so, since they are advocating more of the same medicine as a cure - further deregulation of food markets, more restructuring of developing countries sweetened by aid packages, more biotech and, of course, bank bail-outs to sustain the whole debt-addicted economy. In other words, propping up a system that will continue to force famished populations to grow export-only crops, to be fuel-intensively shipped to the developed world, to stock supermarket shelves at inflated prices for debt-encumbered consumers, while the famished producers pay through the nose for imported food at prices inflated by the flight of investment from mortgages into basic commodities. A vicious circle indeed.

!!!!!CAUTION! THIS IS NOT A GUIDED TOUR!!!!!Saturday 21st June-----Housman’s
Bookshop, Caledonian Road, Kings Cross N1.
SAVAGE MESSIAH/ WE ARE BAD COLLECTIVE
NIGHT DRIFT: TRACING THE PATH OF THE RIVER
FLEET….@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@££££££££££££££££££££$$$$$$$$Meet at the bookshop 7pm for
Housmans booze up, will embark on drift approx 10pm.Lubetkin estates Bevin^Lenin
court/ proto coppers offed at the Calthorpe/ gastro pub vandalism/ Kurdish
communists/ Chartist insurrection/ St Bartholomew’s fair /rioting mobs/ Wat Tyler/
Smithfield all night cafs/ lisencing loopholes/ Blackfriars/ Bologna bombings/
Rimbaud and Verlaine......BRING… old maps, booze, lighter fuel, ropes, chalk,
codeine.!!!VIVA SAVAGE MESSIAH!!! DEATH TO THE GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS!!!!!!
www.housmans.com/events/index.htm
www.wearebad.net
www.savagemessiahzine.com

Obscured under buildings, the threads and tributaries of the Fleet are easily lost.
Multiple channels are dissolved, currents disappear and emerge simultaneously,
apertures are kicked open and the Fleet is glimpsed again. Traces of the Fleet can

The Future So Far
Pil and Galia Kollectiv

Exhibition: Sat 21st June - Sun 6th July 2008
Private View: Fri 20th June, 7-9pm
Open: Thurs - Sun, 1-5pm
Artist Talk: Sat 28th June, 7.30pm

An exhibition of video works featuring parts one and two of Pil and Galia Kollectiv’s Future trilogy, which takes the 2005 IKEA riot as the starting point for a speculative history of a fictional future revolution.

The Future for Less (2006) imagines the consumer riot as the foundation of a new totalitarian state religion imposing the tenets of modernism on the masses.

In Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (2008), the sequel, a rural cult perverts this official creed through pagan rituals of architectural worship performed at Celtic burial sites in Cornwall.

Grey Area
Lower Ground Floor
31 Queens Rd
Brighton
East Sussex
BN13XA

www.kollectiv.co.uk
www.greyareagallery.org
thegreyarea@hotmail.co.uk

Radical History Discussion
Resistance in the UK's Detention Centres in the Last Decade

Time: 7 pm, Tuesday 24 June 2008
Venue: T&G, Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8TN

Asylum-seekers and migrants who have been locked up indefinitely by
the British state are carrying out one of the most sustained
fight-backs in the UK in recent years. Three major detention centres
(out of 22) have been destroyed, forcing the government to release hundreds of
detainees. Hunger-strikes, occupations, naked protests, dirty protests
and successful break-outs involving tens and hundreds of detainees have
become a regular feature of immigration detention. The government has
reacted with brutal levels of repression, using assault, segregation
and transfers to prisons to punish the protestors.

The UK government has also tried several times to prosecute those
involved in large-scale riots. This has rarely resulted in convictions
and has more often led to public humiliation for the government and the
private
detention contractors. The government is persisting in its plans to
rebuild ruined wings and build completely new centres at Brook House

RE-WRITE; Join our motley crew at the open lab session as we explore our relationship to the stuff we call 'media'.... The city collapses and reassembles as it gurgles and farts. Experience its hidden depths and intimate encounters, watch as it mutates and gives birth to new fictions, or wade through its discarded wardrobe. Come soak up some free love, indulge in cake and chit chat, tamper with an avatar's dreams, and enter the dolls house. Re-write, this is media, but not as we know it.

Just insert your disc!

pixel poets, guest poet andy postman

Number 10, 10 burton road lincoln ln1 3lb

 8:35 pm til 11:45pm free event

ANDREW BYRNE AND TOM NICHOLSON

LINES TOWARDS ANOTHER CENTURY

Performance – The Elysian Quartet – Sunday 22 June, 16.30hrs
Artist’s talk – 24 June, 18.00hrs
Exhibition continues 24 June to 6 July 2008 (Tue to Sat 10.00 - 17.00, Sun 11.00 - 17.00)

Local residents are being encouraged to attend an Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) local consultation event and drop-in sessions to find out more about the plans for the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC) for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The consultation events are being run before the ODA makes its planning submission is made for the Games time elements of the venue which will serve around 20,000 media during London 2012 and will become a quality employment and commercial space in legacy.

The consultation will run from 27 May to 25 June and includes an event on Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm–8.30pm at Hackney Wick, Community Association, Old Baths, 80 Eastway, E9 5JH. Hackney residents can confirm their place at the event by calling 020 7861 3937 or emailing oda.events@london2012.com

Residents can also talk to members of the IBC/MPC team at a series of public drop-in sessions:

* Wednesday 28 May and Thursday 12 June 2pm–5pm, Hackney Central Library, 1 Reading Lane, E8 1GQ.
* Thursday 5 June 2pm–5pm, Homerton Library, Homerton High Street, E9 6AS.
* Friday 13 June 2pm-5pm, Ideas Store, Bow.

The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies invites you to `Crime
Scene`, part of the project 'Rosebud Plan: On Images, Sites and Politics of
Memory' by María Ruido on Wednesday 28th May 2008, Screen on Birkbeck Cinema
(Gordon Square, 43), 12-2.00 pm.
>
> This event is part of Birkbeck Arts Week.
>
> Dr Maria Ruido is Visiting Researcher at Birkbeck College (February-June 2008).
She is
> a Lecturer in Video Art, Documentary Films & Feminist Film Theory at the
> Universitat de Barcelona and also a filmmaker and cultural producer. In this
> presentation, the screening of her videos for the research project 'Rosebud Plan'
> will be followed by a talk. The project explores the relationship between
> representation and the politics of memory in Spain during the last few decades,
> and traces a comparative look at the United Kingdom within the context of
> European democracies. Taking as a starting point recent debates around the
> Law of Historical Memory, 'Rosebud Plan' proposes a retrospective glance at the
> Transition and its film production, paying close attention to militant cinema

Mute will be tabling at the London International Climate Forum, come out and show some support, listen to some speakers, and have a chat with us.

More information closer to the date of the event-

The Climate Forum

Mute will have a stall at the Fourth Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb, Croatia- April 11-13 2008

Come show some support, chat, and flip through issues of Mute- we would love to see you there!

4th Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb

April 11th to April 13th, 2008

The Fourth Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb will take place on April 11th to April 13th, 2008.

Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb (ASK - Anarhisticki sajam knjiga) aims to become a long-term, developing project. First three (2005, 2006 and 2007) bookfairs went well, and we hope to bring in more and more people every year as participants, publishers, groups, projects - whoever is interested in what the bookfair has to offer.

5th berlin biennial for contemporary art
05.04. – 15.06.2008
When things cast no shadow
 
 
When things cast no shadow, the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art, curated by Adam Szymczyk and
Elena Filipovic, brings together artists from different generations and nationalities in an exhibition by day
and night that aims to trace the diversity of art practices today.  
 
Eschewing a singular theme, form, or temporality, and determined instead by a critical engagement with
artists’ processes, When things cast no shadow could be said to take the form of an open structure in five
movements without a plot.
 
The day part of the 5th berlin biennial will be on view at four distinct venues and include mostly newly
commissioned works by 50 artists, while the night part of the show will feature still more artists and cultural
producers in 63 nightly events taking place in locations spread across the once-divided city.