Get Lost…with the LRM!

LOITERERS RESISTANCE MOVEMENT FESTIVAL!
NYCs finest Chris Mills plays the Britons Protection this Friday, 23rd May, 8pm. Support comes from
the wonderful Liam Dullegan and Case Hardin… that’s three top notch
artists for just £5 AND there will of course be cake.

28th May heralds the start of Manchesters Second Accidental
International Festival of Psychogeography, curated by The LRM.
For a month we will be invading The Royal Exchange and spaces all over
Manchester to cause a spectacle, have fun, tell stories, redraw maps,
ignite debates, go for walks, uncover treasure and loiter with intent to
make Manchester wonderful.

Attached is a printable version of our programme, we’re working on
getting a readable version online, it will appear on our new website
www.nowhere-fest.blogspot.com and in the meantime you can get in touch
by emailing loiter@hepzombie.co.uk, calling 07974929589 or you can find
us on facebook or myspace/the_lrm.

Get lost with the lrm this summer
  from may 28th at the royal exchange and all over our city
  bringing magick and mischief to the streets

www.nowhere-fest.blogspot.com

http://trip2008.wordpress.com/lrmget-lost/
Get Lost and TRIP Opening
Shindig

Wednesday 28th May 8PM Greenroom
View intriguing images from Jane Samuels
haunted and beautiful abandoned building
project and Situationist inspired posters
from Pam Shaw and John Rooney, find out
more about psychogeography and expect a
few surprise treats too…

See Here… The Public
Drawing Experiment
Friday 30th May 11AM onwards
Manchester City Centre - see website for clues
Jenny Trigg will be inviting passers by to
show her what they see from her portable
studio which will be situated somewhere in
the heart of Manchester. Come along and
help create a map of what Manchester
means to you - this work will be collated
and exhibited in Nexus.

The Bench Project
8 AM Friday 30th May - 8AM Saturday 31st May
St Ann’s Square
A day in the life of street furniture of How to
Explore the City Whilst Sitting Still… Morag
was trying to deal with the contradictions
inherent with organising a festival of
walking whilst it hurts to stand up and
decided to take loitering to its limit and
make a city centre bench her home for 24
hours. Well, the view is bound to be better
than the telly. Please come and say hello,
have some cake and share your thoughts on
Manchester. Because it’s not an endurance test, the
timing of this event is subject to change
according to the weather.

Where Are You? An Introduction to the LRM and
Psychogeography Sunday 1st June 1-3PM Café Pop, Oldham
Street (Downstairs)
Psychogeography is about looking at our
city in different ways, it’s a place where
local history, politics, protest, art and
magick meet… Join us for a brief discussion
about what the LRM is about and how we
are trying to re-map Manchester. We’ll
introduce the Situationists and the links
between the Paris of May 1968 and
Manchester 40 years on. Then we’ll go for a
wander and show you some of our favourite
sights.

The Caduceus Walk
Saturday 7th June 11AM-3PM
Meet at The Royal Exchange Theatre
A walk around Manchester unearthing the
mysteries of its esoteric architecture. From
a theatre built on Kabbalistic and Rosicru-
ciandimensions to one of Manchester’s
most famous three-sided, seven-tiered
public buildings. Plus, the mysterious,
mystical, pattern-in-the-carpet of the city fa-
thers, of the Golden Age of Manchester’s
Industrial Revolution revealed!

Pigeon Streets
Jane Samuels and Lee Johnson
Saturday 14th June 1PM onwards
Meet at The Royal Exchange Theatre
We really like pigeons. A lot. They see parts
of the city no one else sees, they’re messed
up survivors and they live and die on the
streets of their cities. Using work from art-
istswho were involved with the street art of
United Art City, we propose a pigeon eye
view treasure hunt in which participants
follow images and clues around Manches-
ter’s city centre. The first few to solve the
clues, choose the right pigeon from our line
up and text in the solution win a
pigeonlicious prize.

Dirty Old Town: A Tour of
Old Ancoats
Sunday 8th June 1-3PM
Meet outside the Crown and Kettle Pub, Great
Ancoats Street (opposite the end of Oldham Street)
Join us for a historical tour of Ancoats, the
world’s first industrial suburb and the cradle
of the Industrial Revolution in Manchester.
Discover the stories of its people and the
unique buildings before they are lost to
gentrification.

Corporation Lectern Project
Circling Manchester City Centre on the weekend of
14th & 15th June
Renegotiate power relations NOW with the
corporation lectern. it’s mobile, it’s
convenient. IDEAL for making your point.
TAKE IT ANYWHERE.

Urban Camping
Come and visit from 14th June
Treacle Theatre Company: Susanne Kudielka and
Kaspar Wimberley
Urban camping inhabits disused empty
spaces that can be found squatting between
adjacent urban structures and looks at our
right to roam in the city. A tent will be pitched and a simple camping
kit and map will be available for visitors who
would like to go and enjoy the central
Manchester landscape to brush their teeth,
have a nap, or drink a cup of tea at the
selected camping site. Other members of
the public experience the installation as an
unexpected intervention.

Here Be Dragons
Treacle Theatre Company Kaspar Wimberley
Various Dates and Times
Here be dragons is a journey to the holes
and cracks that quietly form along the folds
of a well used map… You are invited to
become intrepid explorers, pioneers and re-
porters. Following a set of instructions and
using one of our worn and weathered maps
of Manchester we will set out to document a
selection of ‘holes’, Legend claims that early
cartographers labeled lands that had not
been mapped or documented with the
phrase ‘Here be dragons’ What will we find?
The results will be on show in Nexus.
See treacleonline.wordpress.com for more
information about treacle who will also be
staging miscellaneous interventions whilst
visiting us from Stuttgart.

Under The Pavement: The
Field
Sunday 15th June 2PM-4PM
Meet at John Ryland’s Library Café, Deansgate
A Deleuzian, rhizomatic take on
Psychogeography suggests a literal hunt for
the green between the cracks in the
pavements and the cracks in the map. Join
us as we look for the fields, squares,
gardens and meadows of Manchester City
Centre. Many of these social spaces have
now been lost to paving stones - can we
re-discover and re-imagine them again?

Squat Evicted!

The home of the Manchester Space Invaders the YOT club on Chichester Road South, Moss Side was evicted today..the police got in through the kitchen door and woke up sleepy space invaders escorted by angry council officials!

No one was hurt; and we’ll be back!

Thank you to everyone who got involved!

To find out more, or get involved in future projects, email: manchesterspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk

Keep watching this space…and come to In Search of the Social on Saturday to watch films bout the days of action! Details below…

In Search of the Social…A walk; with more!

Saturday 3rd May..

For part 2 of their 'In Search of the social in Manchester' Part 2 event in the Futuresonic
Festival, the Single Cell Collective presents a guided walk exploring the use of
public space in our city on Saturday May 3rd.  Taking in some of the radical history
of the city through to current issues of private/public ownership, civil rights and
freedom of assembly.  We join the dots with music and performance along the way.
Meet at  the pebble sculpture outside The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St M2 3WS
at 1.30pm The walk will finish up just after 4pm at Marbella Café (Sunshine Studios) at 52 Newton St M1
1ED in the Northern Quarter where food and drinks will accompany a series of short
films on urban interventions(starting about 5pm; including films about the Manchester Space Invaders). This will be followed by acoustic
music from the Single Cell Collective, featuring ShimbalShells, Uye Parker and
YouandBoo.myspace.com/singlecellrecordings
myspace.com/youandboo
myspace.com/uyeparker

SingleCell Collective presents…In Search of the Social in Manchester (Pt1) - part of
the Futuresonic festival.Joshua Brooks, Friday May 2nd
Hosted by State of Mancunia with SingleCell, Bass Camp, Drum Music, CrashLive Music from Single Cell Collective…I-Mitri –Prolific
multi instrumentalist hailing from Leicester via Athens presents conscious roots
reggae and electronic dub from his own label Counter ActionCaulbearers – Archaic
funk fables and dub migrations.  Bitter sweet songs of the self, the soul and
society played by a ten piece heavy groove orchestra,conducted and improvised on the
night.DJsFibre (Crash/DrumMusic/Kingdom RecordsKen Evil(Bass Camp/Ape/Drum
MusicUnbalanced Jack (Broke Records/Sourpuss)Longshot (DrumMusic/Bass Camp)GM
Ruffmouth (Drum Music/State of Mancunia)State of Mancunia Residents…Witchdoktor,
Mono, Skoop, Lost Property, Jackie Omassive 8pm-3am £6 Joshua Brooks, Charles St
Manchester.This event is part of the Futuresonic festival – please get down early to
see live acts.
www.singlecell.co.ukwww.drummusic.orgwww.myspace.com/dimitrismwww.myspace.com/singlecellrecordingswww.futuresonic.comcontact
–07761384271 or 07748347367

Space Invaded, and Evicted?

SPACE INVADED!

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED…..IT WAS ACE!

Manchester Space Invaders landed on Thursday night…. Dodgy TV kicked off

the weekend with films about squatting (including the OK cafe) and a tribute to Free party stalwart Charlie.This was followed by a late night opening at the new social centre. Intrepid invaders then took to the skies for a night of audacious banner hanging around the city to promote the weekend and No Borders

Friday night was the opening bands night at the squat, with everything from punk to folk, via electro randomness. This was a fundraiser for the Basement Social Centre; which lives on through the collective despite  being temporarily shut down.

On Saturday the Manchester space invaders took to the streets to reclaim some ‘public’ spaces…The family funday was a success despite being somewhat overshadowed by the corporate presence of the Manchester
swimathon in Cathedral Gardens. The space invaders supported the teenagers who are constantly moved on and targeted by police for assemblying in ‘public’ spaces. With a range of music, from bike soundsystems to a folk and samba band, space invaders hung out in the sunshine with the I bike MCR art parade. They made banners, painted faces, did tai qi..and were entertained by a magician!

In the evening, up to 200 squatters and No Borders activists held an unauthorised demonstration in the city centre. Accompanied by a samba band and two soundsystems mounted on bike trailers, they marched from Victoria Station into the Northern Quarter, along Market Street and Kings Street, through Spinningfields into Castlefield.

The event, called by the group Manchester No Borders, called for the defence of squatted spaces and the freedom of movement for all. Squats and autonomous spaces face a hard time from the authorities. Yet, for many people, especially some migrant communities, they are the only alternative to homelessness.

The demonstration highlighted the ridiculousness of hundreds of houses standing empty, while many of us face extortionate rents, mortgage repayments or eviction threats.

At the end of the march in Castlefields, the protesters succeeded in taking symbolic action against the redevelopment of the area, occupying an old pub and having a celebration of autonomous spaces. The redevelopment of Jackson’s Wharf into a block of flats was recently fought off by local
opposition; but in many parts of the city the battle has been less successful.

After the demonstration some space invaders took off to a party in an old furniture warehouse in Ardwick, but this was sadly busted by the police and shut down after a couple of hours..

GET INVOLVED!

The home of Manchester Space Invaders in Moss Side is a beautiful building, an old church/Youth Offenders Institute, 135 Chichester Rd South, Moss Side (next to Kath Locke centre). We are in court this Thurs…we need your help!
Do you have any good legal advice? Space that we could store equipment in? Transport?

We want to keep this project going..and occupy another building..

putting on an event? Would you like to help in the vegan cafe? Got an art installation you want to show? Film screening? need somewhere to have a band practise? Any other random ideas that require a social space to work?
Call 07526256932, or email manches terspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk

Interspace Berlin

Interspace

International meeting for squats and autonomous spaces

Kesselberg, Berlin 24th - 26th May 2008

International meeting for autonomous spaces - why?

Following on from the last international squat and autonomous spaces victories: to redraw the battle lines. To achieve durable exchange and solidarity on an international level.

The time

The meeting will last three days: from Saturday May 24th till Monday 26th. We invite everybody to arrive on Friday during the day or in the evening.

For those who can stay a bit longer, the Berlin free spaces action days are taking place from the 30th May to the 2nd June (wba.blogsport.de).

Agenda

We of course have some ideas and have included the suggestions already made in Dijon, but the agenda is open and in the end determined by the people who come. If you have ideas, wishes or if you want to do a workshop, send us an email to intersquatberlin@riseup.net

Proposed topics so far:

• How do we deal with repression?
• What new strategies are there to create and invent squats and autonomous spaces?
• How does paying rent or buying houses influence the reality of autonomous spaces?
• What are free spaces and why are they important?
• How do autonomous spaces generate, maintain and involve themselves in broader social struggles?

And of course there will be need to speak about the April Action Days, to evaluate the actions and the networking process and to possibly further develop the infrastructure created in Dijon.

The place

The meeting is taking place at Kesselberg, an autonomous/project space in the countryside just outside Berlin. There is space at Kesselberg for about 100 people to sleep (but please bring tents if you have one), as well as several rooms for plenaries and workshops. The place is surrounded by woods and there is a lot of space for taking breaks or meeting outside if the weather is good.

Leave your dogs at home if possible. If you do bring them please keep them close to you at any time, as there are wild animals in the woods surrounding Kesselberg and already a bunch of dogs living there.

The site is also chemical free. The people at Kesselberg have said they can provide soap, but if you bring your own, make sure it is completely chemical free.

How to get there from Berlin:

Public transport: The nearest train station is Erkner. Just take the S3 train, direction Erkner. This is a local Berlin train line and tickets cost about 3 euros.

From Erkner station we can either pick you up if you let us know when you’re arriving, or you can take the bus. The bus is Line 428, direction Ziegenhals, until the stop ‘Neu Zittau, Kesselberg’. The entrance to the Kesselberg land is next to the bus stop. Alternatively, it takes about 20 mins to cycle there from Erkner.

With a car: Kesselberg is about 7km south of Erkner, between Neu Zittau and Wernsdorf. Driving from the Berliner Ring, either take the Erkner exit via Neu Zittau, or the exit Niederlehme via Wernsdorf , direction New Zittau. For a map see www.kesselberg.info/weg.html

There is limited parking space at Kesselberg, so it would be helpful to let us know if you are coming by car or wanting to park a live-in vehicle on site for the duration of the meeting.

So that we can prepare enough space, organise enough food etc., we need to get an idea of how many people to expect, so please let us know you are coming. Likewise if you need a place to stay in Berlin just before or after the meeting, please email us at: intersquatberlin@riseup.net

Keep an eye on the blog for up to date info: http://interspace.blogsport.de/ See you in May!

Manchester Space Invaders

Manchester Space Invaders are a collective of autonomous groups and inidividuals working together to reclaim our city…we are mobilising to fight gentrification, ‘regeneration‘ and all the borders that exist within the city. We call for all groups, individuals, networks and families to get involved and to join in our glorious celebration of autonomous spaces…

We are everywhere…For centuries, people have used squats and autonomous spaces, either urban or rural, to take control of their own lives.. For decades, squat movements across Europe and beyond have fought capitalist development, contributing to local struggles; providing alternatives to consumer culture; running social centres; demonstrating the possibilities for self-organising without hierarchy. These networks have changed many lives, providing free spaces where people can live outside the norm.In April Manchester Space Invaders will continue this tradition..taking over the city, and creating autonomous spaces for all…On Friday 11th there will be live music with bands performing in the evening, workshops, and an opportunity for people to get creative and get involved in plans for the weekend…Saturday 12th will see autonomous groups from across the city working together to create…
-a fair in a park near the city centre during the day,
-a creative squatted space holding workshops and family friendly activities, including practical workshops.
-a demonstration and street party in the early evening in defence of autonomous spaces and freedom of movement.

We call for all groups, sound systems, individuals, artists, campaigns networks, individuals, performers, families, and anyone else besides to get involved and help us to reclaim the streets, the parks and the city…

Keep watching for full timetable and details…
Manchester Space Invaders next meeting on Thursday 28th March, 6pm at the Archways project, for directions and info, or to join the collective

email manchesterspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk




MSI Events!

GENERAL CALL OUT

MANCHESTER SPACE INVADERS LINE UP
Manchester Space Invaders are a collective of autonomous groups and
individuals working together to reclaim our city…we are mobilizing
to fight gentrification, ‘regeneration’ and all the borders
that exist within the city. We call for all groups, individuals, networks
and families to get involved and to join in our glorious celebration of
autonomous spaces…

THURS 10TH
DODGYTV FILM NITE
7pm Afeewe Pub, Royce Road, Opp Hulme Par,k M155BP

Films about squatting and a tribute to Free party stalward Charlie whose presense at free parties will be sadly missed..
Bring your own films! All people and all ages welcome.

Get ready and clued up in preparations for the days of action!
Popcorn + vegan cake.

FRIDAY 11TH
SPACE INVADERS BAND NITE
The weekend will kick off from 5pm on Friday..come to the squat for food,
music and help create the space…bring yer mates, art materials and
enjoy the sounds of
SAMSON AND DELILAH, GNOD, CASH FOR YOUR STORIES, THE AUTONOMADS, SONIC BOOMSIX..and more!
Location TBC…call for more info

SATURDAY 12TH

I BIKE MCR BIKE ART PARADE
Dress yourself and your bike up for a bike art parade..Any theme for
fancy dress for you and your bike is welcome..why not make it cosmic for
some fun with the Space Invaders!?
Meet Cathedral Gardens, next to Urbis on Saturday 12th April at 2pm for a nice picnic in
the park and to admire each others fancily decorated steeds and
riders(bring some nice picnic food and drink)..also if you don’t get
chance to bling your bike before you come, there will be opportunity and
materials to do it there… then we shall ride around the city showing
off how greatour blinged-up bikes look…..ending up at the Manchester
Autonomous Spaces Squat where there will be food and entertainment and all
sorts of exciting activity!!!

http://ibikemcr.org.uk

PARK FUN DAY…SAT 12TH

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Cathedral Gardens, outside Urbis from 1pm to 6pm..
Bring your family and friends, picnics and crafts!
Folk bands, a soundsystem, magic tricks, street theatre and art session!
Transister madness with our mobile sound system…bring your portable radio!
Get creative and get involved before reclaiming the city with No
Borders…

DEMONSTRATION IN DEFENCE OF AUTONOMOUS SPACES SAT 12TH
Saturday, April 12,a demonstration for FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR ALL and IN
DEFENCE OF AUTONOMOUS SPACES.Assemble at Urbis (next to Victoria
Station), 5pm
Check http://www.april-12.blogspot.com/ for updates.
Across the country cities are being sold to the highest bidders. The
drive for ‘regeneration’ is demolishing homes, marginalising
communities, privatising public space and closing down vital community
services. There has seldom been a time when fighting for autonomous
spaces in Manchester has been more important.
The struggle for self-organisation and social autonomy brings migrants
and squatters into inevitable confrontation with the existing social and
political system. Self-organisation does not mean living outside of
society. We want to live in it but according to our own rules. We want to
emancipate ourselves from the capitalist processes that govern our city
and our lives, withoutturning our backs to society.

INFO manchesterspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk
http://mcraz.wordpress.com
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/

SUBSCRIBE https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/manchesterspaceinvaders

CALL 07526256932 AFTER 6TH APRIL

Check out the Calendar of Events

The calendar is now ready at the Protest.net

check out times for parties, family friendly events, food, events, bike crazyness, demos, street party stuff etc.

NOTE:  No Borders demo starts at 5pm Sat 12th from Cathedral Gardens (near Urbis).