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About this event

All are welcome to attend this training to increase knowledge and confidence around your rights during police contact, specifically Stop and Search interactions. The training will also cover what you can do as a witness and your rights to intervene and report misconduct.

The session - led by Zara Manoehoetoe - will be delivered via zoom, with closed captions enabled. A PowerPoint will be delivered by the facilitator and breakout rooms will be used to encouraged audience participation. There will also be time for a Q&A.

If you have any access needs or questions, please contact us on npolicemonitor@gmail.com

Zoom link will be sent via email in advance of the training.

Northern Police Monitoring Project is an abolitionist organisation that works with communities in Greater Manchester to resist police harassment, violence and racism.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-rights-online-training-tickets-257878781377

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Eventbrite - This event is organised by Northern Police Monitoring Project presents Know Your Rights online training - Wednesday, 2 March 2022 - Find event and ticket information.

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Kickstarters roles with Counterpoints Arts: junior graphic designer and production assistant 

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Kickstarters roles with Counterpoints Arts: junior graphic designer and production assistant 

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https://counterpointsarts.org.uk/we-are-looking-for-a-junior-graphic-designer-and-a-production-assistant/

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Image copyright © Bumi Thomas

Hours: 25 hours a week
Salary: National Minimum Wage
Duration: 6 months (February - July 2022)

How to apply: For further details and to be referred for either of these roles, please contact your Job-centre Work Coach.

Deadline for applications: Friday 21st January 2022

Are you based in London or surrounding areas, aged 16-24 and on Universal Credit? As part of the government's Kickstart Scheme, Counterpoints Arts is looking to hire two new roles.

Junior Graphic Designer: supporting the Counterpoints Arts team with digital communication, websites, newsletters, social media and digital media production.
Your role

Assisting the team with planning and delivery of digital media content, events and campaigns tailored to specific projects;

Providing support with websites, newsletters, social media and other administrative tasks as required;

Producing visual graphic media as required;

Liaising with the Social Media Officer to ensure digital media content is aligned with CA's broader social media strategy;

Explore and identify new available platforms and opportunities for reaching audiences digitally;

Other reasonable duties, as required.

Skills and experience Essential:

Experience of using graphic design software to produce high quality graphic content for website and social media;

Good working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, InDesign, Illustrator, Microsoft suite, Google Drive and digital engagement platforms such as Zoom and Slack;

A good understanding of how to create engaging, visual content for different audiences.

Excellent organisational, planning and creative design skills;

Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills;

Ability to work collaboratively and effectively as part of a team that works flexibly in-person and remotely;

Ability to prioritise tasks, work under pressure and manage your own workload, adapting to needs and shifting priorities as they arise;

A commitment to the aims and overall mission of Counterpoints Arts.

Desirable:

Existing networks and relationships built across the creative and culture industries.

Knowledge of website design and tools including experience with HTML, WordPress, Mailchimp.

Experience working around issues of social justice, migration and/or diversity.

Further details on this role can be found by downloading the job description.

Production Assistant: supporting on our Clapham Park Creative Co-op neighbourhood project and other projects across Counterpoints Arts, such as PopChange and Refugee Week 2022.
Do you want to learn how to produce exciting projects that bring artists and communities together to make impact? Your Role

Assisting with programme delivery including event planning, production and monitoring;

Digital outreach producing social media and newsletters, and updating websites, and monitoring outcomes;

Community outreach including postering, phone calls, liaising with local groups and organisations;

Supporting workshop delivery such as setting up, registration and artist support;

Administrative tasks such as meeting notes, organising digital archives and multimedia, updating project documents and contacts database;

Participating in Counterpoints Arts team meetings and supporting team-wide administrative tasks when required.

What you will gain

Learn skills in the entire creative production process working with socially-engaged artists and projects for a high profile arts organisation;

Develop a strong understanding of how the creative sector can contribute to social and narrative change particularly around themes of migration, displacement and racial justice;

Develop experience in community-based projects and bringing the arts into neighbourhoods, learning how to design a creative commission and develop audience engagement;

Develop contacts and networks with artists and organisations in the arts and social change sector;

A training budget to develop skills in a particular aspect related to your job at Counterpoints Arts, to be decided together;

Mentorship and monthly feedback sessions to reflect on progress and achievements.

Skills and experience Essential:

Demonstrated experience and interest in developing skills in digital outreach and audience engagement (e.g. Instagram, Mailchimp, WordPress websites);

Previous work or volunteer experience working on a community or creative project;

Good working knowledge of Word, Excel, Google Drive and comfortable using digital team platforms such as Zoom and Slack;

Ability to work collaboratively and effectively as part of a team that works flexibly in-person and remotely;

Ability to prioritise tasks, work under pressure and manage your own workload, adapting to needs and shifting priorities as they arise;

Flexibility to support workshops on evenings and/or weekends when required;

Committed to a career in creative production, social change or community work;

A commitment to the aims and overall mission of Counterpoints Arts (see our website).

Desirable:

Multimedia production skills such as photo/video/audio, graphic design, illustration.

Existing networks and relationships in the Clapham Park and/or South London area.

Knowledge of and contacts with creatives and artists based in South London.

Experience working around issues of social justice, migration and/or diversity.

Further details on this role can be found by downloading the job description.

Applicants will have the opportunity to learn about Counterpoints Arts work and also benefit from mentoring/training throughout both positions.

Counterpoints Arts aims to recruit talented people from all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from migrant and refugee communities and black, Asian, ethnic minority and disabled applicants as these groups are currently under-represented in the cultural sector.

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We are looking for a Junior Graphic Designer and a Production Assistant! - Counterpoints Arts

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Image copyright © Bumi Thomas Hours: 25 hours a week Salary: National Minimum Wage Duration: 6 months (February - July 2022) How to apply: For further details and to be referred for either of these roles, please contact your Job-centre Work Coach.

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Open Day For Creatives!! 🎉.  Bristol Culture & Creative Industries open day for freelance creatives in early December!

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Open Day For Creatives!! 🎉.  Bristol Culture & Creative Industries open day for freelance creatives in early December!

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The open day is open to anyone that would fancy knowing more, not just young people, but especially those that might not have previously worked with Bristol Culture and Creative Industries, which could be people of colour and Disabled or neurodivergent people. The doors are open to anyone that would consider themselves ( or would want to become) a creative freelancer and would like to expand their networks.

The layout of the event will consist of stalls, with staff members from the Exhibitions, Events, Arts Development,Participation, Fine Art, Digital and Learning teams, who will be eager to have conversations and to get to know people!

There will be free refreshments on the day and some captioned films playing in the space putting faces to names and roles!

We will be ticketing the event, mainly so that we can keep an eye on numbers for everyone's safety, but the event is 100% free!-  all we ask is that anyone attending brings along a mask to wear to keep everyone safe ( unless medically exempt).

Below is a link to book. If a BSL interpreter is required please RSVP by Monday 6th December.

https://pretix.eu/bristolmuseums/tours-mshed/

LINK to the Bristol museums webpage; https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-on/open-day-for-creatives/

Anyone interested but worried about accessibility can also email us on (museum.community@bristol.gov.uk) and we will be happy to answer any enquiries and ensure they are able to attend.

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Smashing down the 'LGBT+ Free Zones' Film, Panel and Party Tickets - London - OutSavvy

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Smashing down the 'LGBT+ Free Zones' Film, Panel and Party Tickets - London - OutSavvy

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https://www.outsavvy.com/event/7396/smashing-down-the-lgbt-free-zones-film-panel-and-party

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Smashing down the 'LGBT+ Free Zones' Film, Panel and Party - SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

Celebrate our Polish Pride icons who have been on the frontline of smashing down the Polish Governments sexist and homophobic 'LGBT+ Free Zone ideology' on the first night of their 'Make Poland Queer Again' UK Tour - all profits go to Lambda Szczecin and Fundacja Ocalenie - Read all about it - BIALYSTOK PRIDE: POLISH LGBTQ PEOPLE MARCH DEFIANTLY IN A CITY SURROUNDED BY 'LGBT-FREE ZONES'

Mon 22nd November 2021 - 7.30 - 10.30pm at The Glory, 281 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8AS, United Kingdom - tickets are suggested donation £5

'Remember that you are not alone, you are not a freak of nature, and your sexuality or gender identity is normal and important.' Avtomat - Queer composer, producer, DJ and vocalist

'I get an ocean of love from queers like moths to the light.' Monika Pacyfka Tichy - Women's Strike and Pride organiser

'We are the first front line. We go ahead and say what it is' Łukasz Jurewicz - Stonewall activist, artist

'The image of homosexual people as dangerous is a form of social intimidation and antagonization.' Szymon Adamczak - Dramaturg, theatre and performance maker

We will also be joined by Marzena Zukowska - (they/she) is a London-based organiser, activist with Dziewuchy London and co-director of Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC). Born in Białystok, Poland, Marzena is a queer, nonbinary immigrant who grew up undocumented in the United States.

With Dan Glass - Bender Defender, activist and film presenter of 'Never Again - Fighting the Polish Far Right ' and performances from Xrol from SLAV 4U - UK's Polish drag collective and the world's biggest queer Polish party celebrating Slavic culture and Polish pop! Na zdrowie!

Make Poland Queer Again (MPQA) exist to strategise effectively and produce key solidarity initiatives to endangered Polish prides. MPQA want:
Freedom from oppression and equal rights for all
To spread solidarity with other oppressed groups across borders / Contact / press enquiries - makepolandqueeragain@gmail.com

With thanks to The Glory / The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) / Farsa / SLAV 4 / Redfish and ALL OUT.

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Smashing down the 'LGBT+ Free Zones' Film, Panel and Party Tickets - London - OutSavvy

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Smashing down the 'LGBT+ Free Zones' Film, Panel and Party - SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON.

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Workshops (including bi-monthly workshop run by Solen Fluzin) 

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Workshops (including bi-monthly workshop run by Solen Fluzin) 

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https://space4.tech

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SPACE4 is home to a community of technology activists and social innovators. We're a hub for the generation of progressive ideas, organisations and individuals and encourage collaboration amongst our members.

Located 2 minutes from Finsbury Park station, we offer both affordable workspace and room hire with multiple price plans available dependent on your circumstances. We host a wide range of events, including training in digital skills and ethical business development. We are community-led, and welcome your involvement and support. Guided by co-operative principles, and working to develop the co-op sector, everyone using the space is involved in our decision making. There's even room for members of the public to feed in to what we do, and we work closely with local residents and business owners to help develop both ethical business and digital skills.
Get in touch if you'd like to find out more about how you can be involved.
Please note that currently we don't have wheelchair access but we are aiming to get our lift fixed soon. Many apologies for any inconvenience and let us know if we can help in any other way.
UPCOMING EVENTS
We are now holding most of our events in the space and some online, we also live stream some of our bigger events.

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SPACE4 is home to a community of technology activists and social innovators. We're a hub for the generation of progressive ideas, organisations and individuals and encourage collaboration amongst our members. Located 2 minutes from Finsbury Park station, we offer both affordable workspace and room hire with multiple price plans available dependent on your circumstances.

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We are so excited to announce more speakers and event details for Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, a one-day in person event and digital programme on 27th November, organised by WOW and Birkbeck, University of London's SHaME project.

Taking place in South London, the epicentre of recent conversations in the UK around sexual violence following the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard, Shameless! Festival shines a light on the realities affecting millions of people of all genders across the world. With 1 in 3 women across the global population having been affected by sexual violence, this pioneering event aims to reposition urgent conversations and importantly eradicate the misplaced feelings of shame that prevent such a large proportion of survivors from feeling able to seek help or report incidences of sexual violence.

Shameless! Festival will involve charities, artists, leading voices, survivors and wellness practitioners from national, international and grassroots organisations. Ticket holders will be able to curate their day, exploring a day-long programme of talks, workshops, performances and more. Discussions throughout the day will address topics from the normalisation of sexual violence through to the rape myths that have entered the public discourse, consent, everyday triggers and survival.

Inspired by the format of WOW's Festivals, Shameless! will offer challenging conversations but also moments of joy, spontaneity, laughter and optimism. Festival goers can experience popups, visit the marketplace and access healing sessions. These include therapist-led sharing circles for survivors, a workshop on how to be a supportive friend and confidence tools for building self compassion. On-site support and one-on-one sessions with experts will be available throughout the festival to help support the wellbeing of speakers, audience members and artists alike during the festival and beyond.

Festival programme

A powerful and frank opening session from Founder and CEO of WOW Jude Kelly CBE and Director of Birkbeck's SHaME Project Professor Joanna Bourke will address attitudes towards sexual violence and the dangers of it being normalised, culminating in a performance by the survivors of human trafficking ensemble, Amies Freedom Choir.

Throughout the day, The Hope Box will bring hope and celebration with performers and activists standing on their 'Hope Boxes' to offer optimism and joy. Appearances will include a performance by winner of the Merky Books New Writers Prize Monika Radojevic, and a powerful reflection and rejection of shame in the South Asian community by award-winning podcaster and founder of Soul Sutras, Sangeeta Pillai. Actress Ellice Stevens will also perform a dramatic retelling of the work and life of artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The day will be broken up with a period of communal Radical Rest, which will offer festival goers the chance to recharge and reflect on the morning's activities, before enjoying the rest of the day.

Survivor and award-winning author Winnie M Li ( Dark Chapter, Complicit), activist and author Laura Bates ( Men Who Hate Women) and co-founder of the advocacy group The Triple Cripples Jumoke Abdullahi will question why sexual violence and the sexualisation of women's bodies has become so normalised.

An expert panel made up of journalist and survivor Olivia Petter, Dr Maryyum Mehmood, Mamatha Isha Sumah and award-winning author Lucia Osborne-Crowley ( My Body Keeps Your Secrets) will explore how to navigate life without trigger warnings, and ask if there is a better way to provide due care and attention to survivors.

Exploring the power dynamics that continue after the act of sexual violence, writer and campaigner Caitlin May McNamara, author Leah Cowan ( Border Nation) and the Deputy Leader of the Women's Equality party Tabitha Morton will explore the political stratagem of sexual violence and what can be done to rebalance power.

Professor Joanna Bourke, critically acclaimed author Rachel Thompson ( ROUGH) and podcast host Sarah Ozo-Irabor will burst open the myths and untruths around sexual assault that have entered the public imagination.

Movement builder for Chayn Naomi Alexander Naidoo, campaigner and writer Laura Bates and cybersecurity expert Julia Slupska will lead a session on sexual violence and the digital world, addressing online abuse and innovative frontline services for survivors as they look to redefine our ideas about the separation between the online and offline world.

Author Catriona Morton ( The Way We Survive), poet, survivor and founder of Black Minds Rachel Nwokoro, speaker and activist Sabah Choudrey, and artist and survivor Tashmia Owen will lead a vital discussion around survival, the journey of healing and what happens if you don't fit the mold of the 'empowered survivor'.

Exploring why rape prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales fell to the lowest ever level in 2020, Helena Kennedy QC will be joined by Director of the interdisciplinary research centre for the study of Emotion and Law Amina Memon, Leader of the Women's Equality Party Mandu Reid, author and Senior Lecturer in Criminology Alexandra Fanghanel and lawyer and activist Charlotte Proudman. Together they will explore how the system is letting victims down and take audiences through the journey of reporting incidents of sexual violence through to giving legal testimony.

Poet, performer and survivor Tanaka Mhishi, and activist Ben Hurst will examine why male survivors are often overlooked and ask how we can challenge the elements of masculinity that can often normalise violence.

Jude Kelly, Tanaka Mhishi, academic Jacqueline Rose, founder of Everyone's Invited Soma Sara and disability activist Dr Amy Kavanagh look at how our understanding of consent has changed, the limitations of the language of sexual violence and ask how we can reimagine the gradations of consent.

Interactive workshops will take place across the day for those who would like to actively take part. Dr Galadriel Ravelli, Dr Milena Romano and Dr Sandra Darocazi will look at how sexual violence and rape have been represented in visual arts from 15th century to today, giving voiceless characters a new narrative of solidarity on a shared collective canvas. Award-winning writers and survivors Winnie M Li and Clare Shaw will lead a creative writing workshop specifically for anyone who has experienced sexual violence, designed to demonstrate the power of writing as a healing and transformative act.

Concluding the day will be a separate evening ticketed event with actor, model and writer Emily Ratajkowski. In conversation with Jude Kelly, Ratajowski will discuss her new book My Body for the first time in front of a live UK audience.

The digital programme, curated in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre, runs alongside the festival and will feature Live, Laugh, Rage! on 16th November. Hosted by Phoebe Patey-Ferguson with authors and activists, Chardine Taylor Stone, Jennifer Jackson and Mona Eltahawy, this lively online panel discussion will hold space to rage about the tangled mess of systemic violence, and how it enables and perpetuates violence against us.

About Shameless! Festival

Shameless! Festivals of Activism Against Sexual Violence are presented by WOW, which is run by UK charity The WOW Foundation. The festivals are presented in collaboration and as part of Birkbeck's SHaME project, a research hub for scholarship exploring the medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence. Placing medical professionals at the heart of the debates, the project seeks to address the global crisis and help move beyond the shame often attached to sexual violence. The project will take place over three years, with 2022's Shameless Festival! to be produced by WOW Rio curators Redes da Maré in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Find out more about the SHaME project here.

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We are so excited to announce more speakers and event details for Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, a one-day in person event and digital programme on 27th November, organised by WOW and Birkbeck, University of London's SHaME project.

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https://onefestivalofhomelessarts.com

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https://www.naamfestival.co.ke

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NAAM Festival is a creative activism platform running the #JusticeforLakeVictoria campaign. The pollution and destruction of the lake's ecosystem is the motivation factor. NAAM means YES in Swahili and LAKE in Dholuo languages from Kenya. We use art as an advocacy tool for action.

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Join us as we celebrate 20 years of Adventures In Utopia, from 27 - 30 August in a secret Northamptonshire location. Tickets going fast!

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Stop the Chop and Save our Library Trees

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Stop the Chop and Save our Library Trees

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https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-chop-and-save-our-library-trees-don-t-cut-down-protected-trees-for-a-car-park-extension

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Four protected trees and one of Newark's last remaining urban green spaces are about to be destroyed in order to extend an already underused car park.

This petition is asking Newark and Sherwood District Council:
- Stop the chop. Pause the imminent felling of our trees
- Undertake, and publish the findings of, the promised car parking review with stakeholders including the Newark Civic Trust and Protecting Newark's Green Spaces
- Hold the promised public consultation on the development of the site, given its high value to local people
- Undertake a full bat survey next spring in May 2022 when the weather is warm enough for the bats to fly at night.

On Tuesday 12 October Councillors voted to cut down the trees and replace the grass with tarmac for a proposed extension to the London Road Car Park of net 21 extra spaces.

The trees, next to Newark's public library, are some of the oldest in the town centre. For decades they have provided a leafy welcome to residents and visitors. The area of grass under the trees is one of the last remaining public green spaces close to the town centre.

This upsetting decision has been made despite:

-Car parking occupancy in Newark is about 60%
- A site visit on 24th October 2021 generated 108 bat calls recorded over a 40-minute time frame. The level of Bat activity strongly suggests hibernation roosts in the roof of the building and in the surrounding mature and veteran trees.
- The trees are protected by Tree Preservation Orders
- A promised car parking review has not yet taken place
- A promised public consultation has not taken place
- A 2018 petition signed by 1,700 local people the Council opposed the decision
- The Council declared a climate emergency in July 2019
- Over 600+ Newark residents and visitors have been peacefully protesting via a family picnic, candlelight vigil and rally in October.

To make matters worse, derogatory comments about local campaigners and the trees were caught on microphone at the recent meeting with a council officer saying 'are the chainsaws on the way'.

We understand the council is under pressure to balance the needs of residents and visitors. Our message is - it's not too late to change your mind. Twentyone parking spaces won't solve the need for future parking but these trees cannot be replaced in our lifetimes. Nor is there any new green space close to town to replace what is being lost. This decision is a lose-lose for local people.

Please sign our petition calling on Newark and Sherwood District Council to keep our urban green space protected for residents and visitors to enjoy for future generations.

We will deliver all of your signatures in person directly to Newark and Sherwood District Council's office. We will send one donated toy car to represent each person's signature.

This petition is supported by Protect Newark's Green Spaces.

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Stop the Chop and Save our Library Trees - Don't cut down protected trees for a car park extension

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On Tuesday 12 October Councillors voted to cut down the trees and replace the grass with tarmac for a proposed extension to the London Road Car Park of net 21 extra spaces. The trees, next to Newark's public library, are some of the oldest in the town centre.

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https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/co-creating-change-festival/

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ACT UP event Brenda Brenda Goodchild has been working on - on Nov 21st - come along! 

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ACT UP event Brenda Brenda Goodchild has been working on - on Nov 21st - come along! 

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https://www.outsavvy.com/event/7293/uprising-let-the-record-show-a-political-history-of-act-up-new-york-1987-1993-launch-with-sara