Standup comedy tonight! Plus other events at the Free Hetherington
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We have a weekly reading group starting this Tuesday, Greece night on
Wednesday, a film about pornography on Friday.
All at the Free Hetherington. 13 University Gardens.
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Saturday 2nd July (tonight!)
21:00 - 23:30
Rising new stars of the comedy scene in Glasgow: Sarah Cassidy, Ross
Main, and Will Setchell; keep an eye out for them on Pop-Out Comedy,
and new venture The Impenetrable Click.
With SPECIAL GUEST: Glasgow comedy's legendary VIV GEE!
Her previous gigs include compering T in the Park and Glasgow’s
Hogmanay as well as supporting Mark Thomas, Jo Brand and Henry
Rollins, So You Think You’re Funny and the BBC’s New Comedy Awards,
Revolver, The Key, and Velvet Soup for BBC 2, The Today Programme for
Radio 4, Fred Macaulay Show, Cover Stories, Comedy Café and Velvet
Cabaret all for Radio Scotland.
Viv has also been teaching Stand-Up for Continuing Education at the
University of Strathclyde since 1998 - so she's no stranger to
education sector issues!
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Monday 4th July
5-7pm
Occupation meeting - all welcome. Come and get involved in the running
of the Hetherington!
9pm
Weekly pub quiz. As ever, mystery guest rounds and plenty of giggles.
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Tuesday 5th July
7-9pm
Autonomy: A Reading Group (Week 1: Mario Tronti, ‘The Strategy of Refusal’)
Full details and the full program at bottom of email.
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Wednesday 6th July
7:30-1030 pm
Greece is currently at the centre of a pan-European struggle against
austerity and cuts. As the IMF and their puppets in the PASOK
government attempt to force through further austerity measures - amid
huge protests, riots and occupations - while the future of the Euro
and the global capitalist economy hang in the balance, here at the
Hetherington we'll be having a night of food, films and solidarity
with the Greek resistance.
Film showings:
- THE POTENTIALITY OF STORMING HEAVEN: a half hour documentary on the
youth insurrection in December 2008.
- DEBTOCRACY: made this year, a documentary which examines the current
financial situation in Greece, and looks at possible solutions.
Followed by a discussion, and we'll be having Greek food from the Free
Hetherington kitchen too!
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Friday 8th July
7:30 - 10pm
The Price of Pleasure - Friday Film Showing + After Discussion
Examines the unprecedented role that commercial pornography occupies
in American popular culture. The film explores what happens when
images of sexual degradation are used for arousal.
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Upcoming :
Two night's of theatre at the Free Hetherington, with actor Jerry Levy
(www.levyarts.com), currently on a European tour. On Thursday 14th,
'Marx in Soho', by the renowned US historian Howard Zinn, followed by
Wallace Shawn's 'The Fever' on Friday 15th. Start time tbc
Howard Zinn's play, "Marx in Soho" portrays the return of Karl Marx.
Embedded in some secular afterlife where intellectuals, artists, and
radicals are sent, Marx is ...given permission by the administrative
committee to return to Soho London to have his say. But through a
bureaucratic mix-up, he winds up in SOHO in New York. From there the
audience is given a rare glimpse of a Marx seldom talked about; Marx
the man. The play offers an entertaining and thorough introduction to
a person who knows little about Marx's life, while also offering
valuable insight to students of his ideas.
[Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn © Howard Zinn Revocable Trust]
Wallace Shawn's play, "The Fever" explores what a sensitive, well
educated, arts loving and consumption-driven man or woman of any age
discovers when his/her life-affirming existence is related to the
often brutal suffering of others. In the bathroom of a hotel our
"anti-hero" feverishly defends and relentlessly attacks his own way of
life. Inner voices and imagined characters fuel his fever as he
narrates and often attempts to enact his story.
['The Fever' presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play
Services Inc.]
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Autonomy: A Reading Group
Hosted by The Strickland Distribution: http://strickdistro.org/
The group will run once-weekly on consecutive Tuesdays, 7-9pm,
throughout July. Tuesday 5th July to Tuesday 26th July.
Venue: The Free Hetherington, 13 University Gardens, Glasgow
University, Glasgow.
...
‘Autonomy’ is a concept much discussed, but perhaps less well
understood. This may well be due to the relative neglect of
‘autonomist’ thought in the UK compared to other European countries
such as Italy, France and Greece. This reading group aims to make
inroads into that neglect by exploring in detail four ‘classic’ texts
from the movement of Italian Autonomist Marxism; a movement widely
considered as the most advanced expression of autonomist thought in
the 20th century.
The reading group will explore key selections from Mario Tronti,
Antonio Negri, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Sergio Bologna. We introduce
a broad sweep of theoretical innovation from 1964 to 1977, covering
such key ideas as the ‘mass worker’; ‘the refusal of work’ and the
autonomy of the class; the critique of the Keynesian ‘planner-state’;
feminism, reproduction and the ‘social factory’, and ‘class
composition’ as a mode of radical research and transformative
activity.
The group is not afraid to be ‘caught learning’: our aim is to
encourage an open collective learning process for working through some
of the fundamental texts of autonomism and autonomia. The group aims
to develop deeper critical engagement with some of what we regard as
the most important revolutionary writing of the last century. To make
the discussion more participatory, reading the texts before each
session is encouraged, but this is not mandatory. The group is open to
all.
DATES AND READING MATERIAL:
Week 1 – Tuesday, 5th, July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm:
Mario Tronti, ‘The Strategy of Refusal’, Italy: Autonomia.
Post-political politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi,
Semiotext,1980,pp. 28-35.
http://libcom.org/library/strategy-refusal-mario-tronti
Week 2 – Tuesday, 12th, July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm:
Toni Negri, ‘Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State Post-1929’,
Revolution Retrieved: Selected Writings on Marx, Keynes & New Social
Subjects, 1967-1983. Ed. Ed Emery, London: Red Notes, 1988.
http://libcom.org/files/negri_keynes.pdf
Week 3 – Tuesday, 19th, July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm:
Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James. ‘The Power of Women and the
Subversion of the Community’, Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1972. With
an introduction by Selma James (optional).
http://libcom.org/library/power-women-subversion-community-della-costa-selma-james
Week 4 – Tuesday, 26th, July, 2011, 7.00-9.00pm:
Sergio Bologna, ‘The Tribe of Moles’, Italy: Autonomia. Post-political
politics. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (New York:
Semiotext, 1980), 36-61.
http://operaismoinenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-tribe-of-moles.pdf
BACKGROUND READING (optional)
Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi, eds. ‘Italy: Autonomia.
Post-political politics’. Ed. Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi,
New York: Semiotext, 1980.
http://www.generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm
Harry Cleaver. Introduction, ‘Reading Capital Politically’’, Austin,
TX: University of Texas Press, 1979), pp.3-66.
http://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver-intro
Steve Wright, ‘Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in
Italian Autonomist Marxism’, Pluto Press, 2002.