“Too Tough To Teach’ – documentary about the Ian Mikardo High School in East London. “The documentaries, filmed by producer/director Isabel Cook over six months earlier this year, showed the struggles boys go through when they join the school, and how, supported by calm and committed staff, they make progress. Ian Mikardo is unconventional because…
Read More Rad Ed Film Club, ‘Too Tough To Teach’, 12 NovThe East London Strippers Collective fundraiser! Get your tickets at www.common-as-muck.eventbrite.com p.s. read an article published in VICE about us here: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/east-london-strippers-collective-is-standing-up-for-strippers-rights-250
Read More East London Strippers Collective party, 8 NovThis month we are going to read about ‘place based education’ and the amazing Grace Lee Boggs’s thoughts on it! ‘In her book, The Next American Revolution, longtime community activist Grace Lee Boggs, presents a radically different vision of education, of schools as part of a community and as part of social development: Just imagine how…
Read More Radical Education Forum monthly reading group, 29 Sept, 7.15pm – 9.15pmDear Friends, there will be NO ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC THIS MONDAY 22 Sept. as I am on holiday this week. It will be back on as normal 12 – 6pm the following Monday 29th. Apologies for the disruption. x Alice
Read More No Acupuncture Clinic on Monday Sept 22Free to Learn, 68 min, by Jeff Root & Bhawin Suchak Free to Learn is a 70 minute documentary that offers a “fly on the wall” perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany, New York. Like many of today’s radical and democratic schools, The Free School expects children to decide for themselves how to…
Read More Radical Education Forum Film Club screens ‘Free To Learn’ + Q+A with former intern teacher at the school, 17 Sept, 7-9pmJoin us for our monthly meet up – sharing food and ideas for how to use the space. All welcome whether you are a regular user, are interested in getting involved, or have never visited the space before. Each meeting is hosted by one of the regular user groups and there will be food to…
Read More Join us for our monthly Common House OPEN MEETING: Sunday 7 Sept, 4-6pm.Feminist Fightback were due to host a discussion with an activist from China who runs the Beijing LGBT Centre this Saturday, 30 August at 2pm in the Common House. Unfortunately she has not been able to get a visa. Hopefully we will be able to rearrange in future.
Read More Meeting with Chinese LGBT activist, Sat 30 August now cancelled“Enjoy Poverty” (2008) – Dutch artist Renzo Martens travels with his camera through the poorest and most violent areas of the Congolese interior. In these regions, where poverty is the highest export product, Martens start an emancipation program in which he encourages local communities to monetize their poverty. This fails horribly. ELCPAS is a new regular…
Read More East London Capitalist Propaganda Appreciation Society screening: ‘Enjoy Poverty’, 28 Aug, 8pm