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From: "Mudlark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 08 March 2005 22:53
> You Are Here but Why?
> A Festival of Mapping
> June 2005 South London
>
> Invitation to participate in A Festival of Mapping
>
> As part of the 56a Infoshop Free Skool (see below), which runs through the
> whole of June 2005, The Map Room (is open...) will be running a Festival
of
> Map and Mapping. Intended to be as freeform as possible, a call hereby
made
> to anyone who feels like they would like to contribute something to the
> Festival's events.
>
> Here follows a list of the kind of things we are looking for:
> ¥ Submission to the The Map Room (is open...) collection of maps and
walks.
> This include numerous species of hand-drawn maps, imagined or utopian
maps,
> political charts, flowcharts and diagrams, altered maps, radical history
> maps, radical history walking guides etc. There are no guidelines to what
we
> collect - eg. we have a scrappy bit of paper detailing the walk in
> Pensacola, Florida from a house to the beer dumpster but we also have a
> professionally produced Women's History map from Copenhagen, Denmark.
> Photocopies are fine. These will be displayed throughout the Festival at
56a
> Infoshop and then open-access archived there.
> ¥ Taking a slot of time in the programme to run an event. Things that
spring
> to mind are: -Guiding Radical History Walks or giving Radical History
talks
> on a particular locality.
> - Mapping events: practical, radical, poetic, artistic, playful or events
of
> exploration, adventure, discovery, detective work, uncovering,
> archeo(il)logical. The less described the better. It's up to you.
> - Production during the Festival of maps, zines, badges, flyers, posters,
> grafitti and its application to the street. Workshops, free-for-all,
social
> production.
> - Theory and history of Maps and Mapping trying to avoid the dry in favour
> of the conversational and the engaging.
> - Off the Map....have a go, whatcha got? Get in touch with your willfully
> obscure, deranged or over-rational ideas for events. The Festival of
Mapping
> is not limited to the above.
>
> Local but international:
> The main bout of Festival activity will happen in London, with the
physical
> Festival space being in Walworth, South London. However, events can happen
> anywhere in the world. Feel free to contact us for inclusion in the
> programme and website if you decide to put on an events as part of the
> Festival.
>
> Preferred Guidelines:
> - There isnt much we won't consider. Apart from self-promotion.
> - Technological nonsense such as laptops, wifi, mobile phones, GPS etc
will
> play no part in the Festival's events. Acceptible technology: Pens, paper,
> compass, sextant.
> - Psychogeography is a tool in the class struggle.
> - Encouraged are group events such as puzzles, labyrinth, mazes, voyages,
> days in and out, passion, revolutionary activity, potlatch. The Festival
is
> about sharing.
> - No money will change hands. All events are free and no-one is paid.
> Limited budgets might be made available to cover costs (such as
> photocopying) as we recognise that few people have any money.
> - As above, so below.
>
> Contact:
> Chris c/o 56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St London SE17 3AE U.K
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>
>
> NOTES:
> * 56a Infoshop:
> Is a long-established social centre in the Elephant and Castle, South
> London. Squatted from 1991 to 2003 but now operating under due conditions
of
> tenancy, it functions as a bookshop, archive, meeting point and all round
> good example of what can be done. Entirely unfunded and volunteer-run, the
> Infoshop demands and creates the extension of autonomy into our daily
> individual and social life. To get a flavour of this space (and the
> prevailing wind behind the Map Festival). 56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St
> London SE17 (Thurs 2-8, Frid 3-7, Sat 2-6pm) or check www.56a.org.uk
>
> * Free Skool:
> Is the second celebration of open learning to be held at 56a Infoshop. A
> month long programme of free classes will be held to extend skillsharing,
> education, collective autonomy, production and fulfilment of desire and
> more. Classes range from one-off sessions to weekly, bi-weekly courses.
> Teachers and coordinators sought. What can you teach?
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>
> The Map Room (Is open...):
> Is a loose collection of radical / different maps and walks from all over
> the known mapped world and beyond. It functions to build a collection of
> alternative guides to towns, cities and treasure islands that can be taken
> away for free by travellers. So far we have 30 handdone maps/walks from
> Richmond, Virginia via The Science Museum, London to Rovereto, Trento. The
> Festival of Mapping is a continuation of the The Map Room (is open...)
> seeking to substantially build up this collection.
>
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