Hello my friends.
Hope you're well and are having a positive, productive and socially progressive day. I've been hungover again due to drinking five cans of strongbow last night whilst chilling in bed watching shit hollywood horror films. Stranger things have definitely been known to happen. This is the point.
With it getting towards the end of the year and with November having just begun I thought I'd try and take one last opportunity in 2011 to make some changes. Changes both personally and politically, adopting new habits, letting go of old ones as well as reflecting critically upon the collective action taken with others with our aim of creating cultural, social and political change. Lets be honest, December isn't going to be the month within which to do embark upon such a grand, disciplined and deluded experiment so here we are, November it is.
It seems like there's loads going on this month too so thought it could be a chance to really push myself and find the motivation and commitment needed to evolve a little bit. Myself SR & HJ have been working hard on the RamPAGES peoples paper which is being launched this week, I'm performing with CJ in Leeds on Thursday evening and Nottingham, supporting Chester P on Friday evening. We have the significant CITY-ZEN AGAINST THE CUTS shennanigan happening by the waterfall near the Market Square with GEO FEST and loads of happenings including a Derby Uncut action this Saturday 5th November.
The following week I have an interview for Lyric Lounge Shake The Dust project, there is a CITY-ZEN social, a Human Rights Workshop I'm co-facilitating being ran by RR from Global Education Derby, our final rehearsal for the Sound Track Derby performance and fingers crossed, thanks to MG who is laying out the final design, we'll see the launch of the long awaited City-Zine 15. On Thursday November 17th CITY-ZEN are hosting a film showing of the Shock Doctrine documentary, based on the book by Naomi Klein, upstairs in the Brewery Taps, the next night we shall be performing at the Sound Track Derby finale at QUAD and over the weekend I'll be seeing my long lost, amazing friend WA who I went to Leeds Uni with before preparing for my final week trying to smash being super productive and disciplined before I start to chill out and wind down December style.
Thursday 24th CITY-ZEN are facilitating a popular education workshops titled 'Cuts, Anti-Capitalism and Movements for Change', then I take a deep breath, chill the fuck out for a couple of days and look forward to spending 3 days in Leeds checking out one of the most important and relevant critical social theorists still kicking about, John Holloway. John is giving three lectures based around the title of his work in progress 'Rage Against the Rule of Money', the final one landing on Wed November 30th, which is a hugely important day as there's going to one of the most significant strikes that I've lived through. That's assuming I'll live through it and don't instead end up having a seizure due to withdrawing from the Strong Bow and shit hollywood horror flicks for too long.
On top of this I'll be facilitating weekly creative writing and critical thinking workshops with the inspirational, generous, funny and talented young people that attend Baby People pupil referal unit (PRU). The staff are alright too. Sometimes. I shall also be working 10 hours a week as a support worker with BP who will most likely be required to support me more than he requires me to support him. I shall also be striving, like every other sinning human bean floating through space on this odd little sock of ours, to drink water, exercise, read, reflect, meditate, cook, clean, tidy, organise, not be a complete cock to the people who get caught in the cross fire of my existence and generally try and be reasonable company for those I love the most. Right then. What's the chuffing point of all this? I'll shed some more light on my hopes and motivations in a day or two. I hope your week as panning out as you planned.
Vision, Action, Reflection, Repeat
J
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