Events

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…

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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…

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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…

Free movement - visiting artists

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…