Late July – Manifesto Clubnight – Celebrate the Freedom of Flight
Late July – Manifesto Clubnight – Celebrate the Freedom of Flight The dream of flight has long captured the human imagination – yet in recent years the vast expansion of flight has come to be viewed as a problem. Cheap travel is…
2 July – Manifesto Clubnight – Attention Please Launch
Speakers: Tom Mower, author of the Attention Please project, and one third of the design practice St. Pierre & Miquelon Clare Cumberlidge, founding director of General Public Agency Tim Abrahams, associate editor, Blueprint magazine Dolan Cummings, co-founder, Manifesto Club When: doors open 7pm. Discussion begins 8pm Where: El Ryan’s, 56 Carter Lane, London, EC4V 5EA. See map Cost: Free for Manifesto Club members; £5 non-members. Join the Manifesto Club. Download a poster for the event.
Debate and picnic against Booze Bans – Brighton
Thursday 25 June – Debate on Booze Bans, Brighton – Brighton Manifesto Club members are challenging the city council to a debate on its booze control zones, which mean frequent confiscation of alcohol from city residents. This event will also launch a…
21 June – Sports Day Against Vetting, London
The Manifesto Club’s ‘Campaign Against Vetting’ will host an informal sports day in a central London park, for volunteer adults, parents and their children. This is a day for fun games and races – and also to celebrate adult volunteering and informal…
14 MAY — MANIFESTO CLUBNIGHT, LAUNCH OF FREEDOM SUMMER: WHAT NEXT FOR FREEDOM?
14 May – Manifesto Clubnight, Launch of Freedom Summer: What Next for Freedom? Our May Club Night will be the official start of Freedom Summer, a pan-European series of events standing up against the Hyperregulation of everyday life. Following on from the discussion begun by libertarians and freedom campaigners at the Convention on Modern Liberty in February, we will kick-start Freedom Summer by asking What Next for Freedom? What are the key limits to freedom today, and how should we begin to organise against them? We have invited a range of civil libertarians from different campaigns and perspectives to debate the key…
3 JUNE — CABARET WITHOUT BORDERS – TALKS AND PERFORMANCES FOR FREE MOVEMENT
Cabaret Without Borders – talks and performances against the Home Office’s new controls on visiting artists and academics. This is part of the Manifesto Club’s summer events series, Freedom Summer. See the Video of the Cabaret Without Borders Event, on WorldBytes. This…
FREEDOM SUMMER: AIMS AND IDEALS
Politicise the regulation of everyday life. We think that the regulation of everyday life is one of the key political questions of our time. The state’s erosion of informal relationships and spaces – in the street, the playground, or the football field – is one of the most worrying developments of our age. We want to make these questions political, to develop a political critique and challenge to the regulation of everyday life. Develop a new theory and practice for freedom. One big challenge right now is to develop a new political theory of freedom – a critique of the new dynamic…
FREEDOM SUMMER: WHAT’S ON
Below is the latest outline of plans for the summer – with more to come. To subscribe to the Freedom Summer newsletter, email info@manifestoclub.com Download a Freedom Summer flyer or a poster. MAY Thursday 14 May – Manifesto Clubnight, Launch of Freedom…
FREEDOM SUMMER: AGAINST THE HYPERREGULATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Petition against Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics
The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive proceedures to get their visa, and then…
Testimonial from an Artist, his Translator and Chili Hawes, Director of The October Gallery.
Testimonial from an Artist, his Translator and Chili Hawes, Director of The October Gallery. An Artist from Beijing and his translator were both refused a visa to attend the Artist’s own Private View at The October Gallery which opened in February 2009. Since all the visa applications in Beijing must be submitted through Visa Application Center (VAC) not British Embassy, the officer at VAC couldn’t advise us what type of visa we should apply. So based on our previous experiences about visa applications, we chose to apply for a visa as business visitors from a range of “General visitor, Family visitor, Business…
Artists’ testimonies
The regulations, which were officially put into effect on 27 November 2008, have meant a number of artists have been refused entry. Read testimonies below, and email visitingartists@manifestoclub.com to post a comment. An update from Flavia D’Avila, a Brazilian theatre star Ruganzu Bruno, a Ugandan Visual Artist which tells the despairing narrative of how African artists are treated by visa officials who create an arduous, costly and impervious system that is insurmountable for up-and-coming artists who don’t earn a substantial income from their art. Read the full testimony. Flavia D’Avila is a theatre star facing deportation. Read the full testimony. Visual and…