Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday 13th September Zoom: Direct Message or Email for Link A collaboration with The World Transformed. All over the UK, DIY community spaces play a vital role in sustaining working class infrastructure - from food provisions and community theatre, to accessing legal aid and music rehearsal rooms. As part of our radical vision for a socialist economy, we need to fight to preserve these spaces, but also forge a collective understanding of what we mean by a thriving and egalitarian socialist culture. To explore this further, TWT is collaborating with ‘A Good Night Out’ - a radical reading group set up by theatre workers, which is aimed at raising consciousness around the struggle for a more egalitarian arts and culture sector. Before the session, you will be sent some short, accessible readings which we will discuss collectively with guest speakers Emma Warren and Alan Lane. Reading material is available as both text and audio below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/103pQb_JLS01obnSoWt2sIUxGMcOSZsdOhP7SE3ASOxs/edit?usp=sharing https://soundcloud.com/user-542371732/make-some-space-agno-selected-reading
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Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday 9th August Zoom: Direct Message or Email for Link Reading: Extracts on anti-racism. Reading material is available as both text and audio below: https://twitter.com/AGoodNightOutRG/status/1290024689612464128 https://soundcloud.com/user-542371732/anti-racism-belgrade-theatre-statement-and-cts-and-mb-tweets Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday the 12th of July Zoom: Direct Message or Email for Link "We need art, but the people who sustain it need livelihoods... Publicly funded theatres project a 'woke’ image while relying on an exploited casualised workforce to keep the shows running." Reading material is available as both text and audio below: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/06/a-federal-theatre-project-for-the-21st-century https://soundcloud.com/user-542371732/a-federal-theatre-project-for-the-21st-century-by-katherine-hearst Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday the 14th June Zoom: Direct message or email for link This month we focus on building collective strength as precarious theatre workers. We consider the Covid-19 crisis as an example of disaster capitalism: we are already seeing employers and governments exploit the situation to erode our rights as workers and we will discuss specific examples of this on the group call. The vast majority of us are freelance and/or on zero hours contracts. The ongoing carousel of theatre industry ‘conversations’ has only revealed that most of us have no real say or power over what comes next. And, as a precarious workforce, we lack the cultures and practices of collectivity that could enable us to fight exploitation, to be resilient in the face of shocks, and to support each other materially. This will be a practical session where we plot, plan, scheme, and strategize… Reading material is available as both text and audio below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ITjdulOjSi4AwB9-dzDT-2DipUDDdnYeuLHx12D8DI/edit?usp=sharing Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday the 10th of May Zoom: DM Join us to discuss our industry's centralisation in London. Did you feel like you had to move to the capital to work? Is this different from other industries? And is the creation of a kind of London2 in Manchester a solution? Reading material is available as both text and audio below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KTFK-5Oh5XqxHlpVP5OXSWFXRbQXjdTIm-jiy8n66Tk/mobilebasic https://soundcloud.com/user-542371732/sets/reading-group-extracts-for-10-may-2020/s-JbWnG9FQkQe The 15th meet up of the AGNO reading group is next Sunday (9th Feb) 4pm-5:30pm at Theatre Deli. Woop! This time we’ll be discussing climate emergency and how we can resist in the wake of a Tory majority. More here https://facebook.com/events/s/a-good-night-out-theatre-worke/214813849561714/?ti=icl Reading material: Main text is 'The Uses of Disaster' https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/… We wanna ask everyone to try to read at least the first two thirds but if you feel like you can’t, there is also a brief summary that you can download below. Thanks!
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday the 8th of September Venue: The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street - wheelchair accessible Chaired by Tash Simone: I’ve just come back from Edinburgh which was...an experience. And I wanted to chair a discussion about the access/class/race barriers regarding the Fringe. (And how we can dismantle the whole bloody thing). Reading Material http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/questions-edinburgh-fringe/ Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Date: Sunday the 11th of August Venue: QMUL Mile End campus, Queen Mary University - wheelchair accessible Today we'll be discussing short excerpts of John McGrath and Franca Rame - taken from Alternative Traditions: Popular Political Theatre In Britain by Maria R. DiCenzo. If you have time, read Chapter 2 (Towards A Working-Class Theatre) of A Good Night Out by John McGrath. Reading Material https://twitter.com/AGoodNightOutRG/status/1157188702956863488 Ordinarily there would be a short article or extract (ideally something you could feasibly read on the journey to the session) but this time we will simply be discussing all/some of the following:
- A consensus reached on the principle objectives of the group - A list/schedule of future conversation subjects for the reading group - A plan for the next Utopia event (a potential date, and who is up for being on the organising team) - don't worry if you didn't attend, that is absolutely not essential - A consensus reached on other potential actions/campaigns that the group could do (besides the reading group and the utopia events) Today we'll be discussing working hours. The reading consists of a blogpost by Girl In The Dark and an article in the stage.
Reading Material http://justagirlinthedark.blogspot.com/2014/04/thats-not-my-job.html https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2019/backstage-theatre-workers-pushed-breaking-point-due-lack-work-life-balance/ |
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