"Well Said" Govan.

As usual, interesting info from Bob at City Strolls:

          An opportunity to see the "Well Said" showcase of films. From the "Govan All Stars" to the "Common Good" Get animated!
          “Well Said!” project will be presenting a free screening of 6 short films made in, by and about the Govan community:

“The Wee Bauchle” by Trish Caird
“The Caretaker” feat. Andy McIntosh
“The Common Good” by Bob Hamilton
“Galgael” by Susannah Tullis & John Bennett
“With a Song in Your Heart” feat. Govan Allsorts
“Don’t Hate, Animate” Hate Crime Awareness Animation

When: Wednesday 2nd March 2016, 7pm-9pm
Where: The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU

          The “Well Said!” project is open to anyone from Govan who would like have their voice heard about what matters to THEM!
Whether it’s a group you are involved in, a community issue or an interest you have …we can support you to produce your own film about it, and have fun at the same time.  Absolutely no experience necessary.
         So get in touch if you have an idea for our next project, to start in March 2016.

http://plantation.org.uk/well-said-showcase-event/

          Information on "Radical Imagination Power Event" for next year will be on display. So switch that telly off PI Wed.

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Film Night In Glasgow.

A wee reminder:

COMMON GOOD FILM NIGHT CONVERSATIONS:

GROWN IN DETROIT
Tuesday, August 11 at 6:30pm for 7:00
The Portal Plantation Productions, 987 Govan Road, G51 3AJ
Focuses on the urban gardening efforts managed by a public school of
300, mainly African-American, pregnant and parenting teenagers.
     Also COMMON GOOD PROJECT, will be at 
Centre Human Ecology in the Pearce Institute every Thursday from between 
1-4pm, or by prearranged times:

CHE Pearce Institute, 840-860
 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 3UU
Phone:
07811263923 

email: info@inthecommongood.org 

Web: commgood.wordpress.com

PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT
    Part of the PAR To increase understanding and encourage participation in helping to build local institutions where research can be shared, discussed and developed with others.

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Glasgow Dates For Your Diary.

      The Govan Participatory Action Research Project will be participating in the GSC Funday running a ZINE workshop, come along, tell your friends.

GLASGOW SOCIAL CENTRE: Summer Funday!
Saturday, August 8 at 11:00am until 4:00pm
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park
Underground)

      Come one, come all, to our fantastic Summer Funday. This event is perfect for people of all ages!
Funday activities include:

- Relaxing massages from 2pm
- Tricks by a stage magician
- Free food for all
- Arts, crafts and games
- Make your own water squirter (2PM -outdoors - weather permitting -
bring change of clothes)
- Free shop with clothes,ornaments and plants
- Stalls from groups such as the Radical Independent Bookfair, WestGAP,
Unity and AFed
- Live music
...and more!
      The event is free, but we will be collecting donations that can go towards our fund to setting up a social centre so a few quid per person could go a long way.

AND

COMMON GOOD FILM NIGHT CONVERSATIONS:

GROWN IN DETROIT
Tuesday, August 11 at 6:30pm
The Portal Plantation Productions, 987 Govan Road, G51 3AJ

      Focuses on the urban gardening efforts managed by a public school of 300, mainly African-American, pregnant and parenting teenagers.
     Also COMMON GOOD PROJECT, will be at 
Centre Human Ecology in the Pearce Institute every Thursday from between 
1-4pm, or by prearranged times:

Phone:
07811263923 

email: info@inthecommongood.org 

Web: commgood.wordpress.com

PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT
Part of the PAR To increase understanding and encourage participation in helping to build local institutions where research can be shared, discussed and developed with others.

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July 14th. A Date For Your Diary In Glasgow.

Film Conversation, The Portal, Plantation Productions: 

6:30 for 7 on 14th July Film Length 36:17


THE GOVAN PROJECT - PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
       To increase understanding and encourage participation in helping to build local institutions where research can be shared, discussed and developed with others.
       So we had our first volunteer session along side the film night. It was a nice summer evening, so we weren’t expecting a big crowed. The folk who did turn up had a wide variety of perspectives, which is ideal. An important part of the process of this kind of research work is that we are all coming at it from different sets of experiences, where the teacher and learner are inter changeable. Where the more experienced in different aspects and topics can be the less experienced in others.
    We found local volunteers, even family members who spanned a wide understanding of academic research and local life. Folk who do campaigning work, local men's group, some visitors to the city, a few students and some other local people with a general interest. We are also receiving enquiries from Glasgow Volunteer network. So its all good there. This is how we hoped to start.
      The next film and conversation night we will be showing “Given to the People” The story that led up to GalGael’s beginnings. The conversation will be about how this group of people, even in the midst of protest and through what they were learning from the protest, were planning on how to sustain the energy of the protest to create a sustainable community institution, Galgael, which is now 20 years old. Gehan Mcleod will lead the open discussion and share some ideas. Topics could include, governance structures, using assemblies for decision-making and input ideas from the floor.
       It would be worth pointing out here, we will be using the Centre for Human Ecology office at the Pearce Institute as a drop in, on a Thursday starting this week from 1:00 to 4:00 and early evening for those who work and cant get to events. Or other times by appointment if you email or phone. It is important to meet folk face to face, pop in for a chat.

Next volunteer session will be posted soon: See website

Phone: 07811 263 923

Thanks to Plantation for use of Portal. http://plantation.org.uk/

Sign up for updates: https://commgood.wordpress.com/

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Free Film Show, Glasgow, Red Skirts.

        Just a reminder of a great free event taking place in Glasgow on Thursday June 4th. In co-operation with the showing of the Red Skirts film at the Pearce Institute in Govan Road, The Fairfield Heritage Museum will be staying open from 6pm to 7pm. The museum is just three minutes walk from the Pearce Institute and is well worth a visit. Pop in and see a wee bit of Govan's history before making your way to see this excellent film Red Skirts, about the 1915 rent strikes. Details of the Film event can be found HERE:

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Govan, And Common Goods.

      If you are in or around Glasgow on January 13th. there is an interesting event from Bob at Citystrolls:

 January 13th 2015 7:00 
Pearce Institute

      You are invited to a Common Good evening to find out about and discuss the Farmhouse project.

Idea:
     Take an old farmhouse part of Govan’s Common Good Fund and turn it into an independent community resource centre. Use the entire process from planning to building as a learning project and include as much of the community as possible.
      In this our first of many TownHall meeting. We will set out plans for the Farmhouse and discuss ways 
of how folk could become involved. Then open it to the floor for peoples
 input and ideas. 



What we will look at on the night is: 

- A short presentation of the farmhouse and ideas for future developments in 2015. 
- Why independent commons assets are important to our communities. 

- Why it is important to different organisations in the wider context. 

- The commons in helping to create new community models relevant to
 local people.

- How we protect the Common Good Fund for future generations, by 
understanding what it is and using it to empower communities.
Light refreshments and 
some snacks will be supplied during evening 
 



More info?  
Contact: Bob 07811 263 923 
bob@citystrolls.com

Project website: https://commgood.wordpress.com/ 

Short video: http://youtu.be/Oh-LJs6v-B0 



 


Common Good Awareness Project

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Glasgow Diary Date.

From Glasgow Games Monitor:

       Neil Gray is doing a talk at the centre for human ecology 6.30, tomorrow night (wednesday), Pearce Institute, Govan: http://www.che.ac.uk/2014/02/beyond-post-politics/
      The talk will include discussion on the games and the wider gentrification of Glasgow so may be of interest to people on this list. come along add to the discussion (RSVP essential - see below).
cheers, neil http://gamesmonitor2014.org/

      Beyond Post-Politics and ‘Soft’ Urban Fixes: Developing A Politics of Space- with Neil Gray Wednesday 5th March 6.30pm The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU (near Govan underground station)
    Join us for our latest ‘library chat’, an informal roundtable conversation in the convivial surroundings of our library in the Pearce Institute.There will be space and time for general discussion and input from all participants. Light refreshments provided.Please email info@che.ac.uk to confirm attendance. RSVP essential

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CRISIS IN THE COMMUNITY.

Sunday
        Due to various things (COC). This event will now be held at Plantation Productions, at the Portal, Govan road. Not the Pearce Institute. Don't worry if other people don't get this The portal is two minutes away, about two blocks down from the Pearce Institute. Someone will be at the PI to direct people and there will be a direction notice on the PI door. Sorry about that.

http://citystrolls.com/reshuffle12/crisis.html

THE CRISIS OF COMMUNITY and the Opportunity for Change, Sunday 17th 1:00pm.
       On the Sunday James Kelman, will lead a discussion geared towards mobilisation and solidarity in dealing with the issues across the city of the councils process of stopping DIY community activities in favour of. "You can have community things but we will do them for you with private partners". There has recently been a growing ground swell of ordinary people feeling the urge and the necessity to do something. Such as. Maryhill Park clean ups, despite council objections. Making Councillors accountable campaigns. Community run dinner nights at the Pearce Institute and places like Kinningpark Complex are creating activities and bringing groups together, presenting local people with a platform to voice their concerns and also their ideas. I mention a few but there are many others across the city. Some are known about but many are invisible to people as well as to each other.
-- www.citystrolls.com

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THE GLASGOW RESHUFFLE.

Reshuffle Pearce Institute Govan

Sat. Sun. 16-17th June
        The idea of the Reshuffle is that the answers and skills to resolve most of the communities needs, desires and problems, lies within the community itself. “We only need to ‘reshuffle’ our priorities to learn where the answers lie”.
      The question we are asking this year is. What would you reshuffle given the chance? Our big "R" is going to be going round the community engaging people in the questions. Looking at our community infrastructure. How can we motivate ourselves and others to think more about taking part in things, finding out what is going on and coming up with solutions to solving our own problems.
      We could also maybe look at the possibilities around us. What do we already have. How could it be improved on. What skills do we have to offer and what do we want to learn. How do we make our community and things in it visible to more people. After we collect some ideas and things we have a shared interest in we will look at places where we can gather to talk about these things. Using our community facilities and institutions, gardens centre's, libraries and local resources.
       We will of course need to make this work interesting, creative, educational and use a whole variety of media to explore ideas. We will also need to socialise the work, make it fun if the task is boring. We will also need to think about how to engage different age groups from
kids to older folk in working together.
       But that's for later. First we must identify some issues, trains of thought, germinating ideas to get us going. We would like to bring the big R to where you R and get started on discussing a few ideas, make recordings and film things.
More Pop into Sunny Govan or Pearce Institute or Dinner nights PI Tuesday from 6:30 for more info or lookout for the big "R" around Govan and beyond and at the Reshuffle. Updates soon, this part of the project is new And will be used to plan next years event.http://citystrolls.com/z-temp/z-pages/big-r.htm

Let's get doon theer an' help!!

Help needed on Saturday:To help run the cafe and move stuff around. Some leaflets to put out this week to. Can be collected at Pearce Institute.
http://citystrolls.com/reshuffle12/index.html

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GLASGOW POP-UP-SOCIAL CENTRE.

PoP-Up Social Centre

Glasgow Social Centre

30 March at 18:30 until 1 April at 17:00

Pearce Institute. 840 Govan Road. Glasgow, G51 3UU

The Glasgow Social Centre PoP's Up in Govan.

This Weekend the GSC is holding a PoP-UP Event at the Pearce Institute in Govan.

Friday: Film Showing: Wasteland 6.30pm

      "Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."

Empire:

        “Beautifully captured, this portrait of a very proud and resourceful underclass rightly tugged the heartstrings of everyone who saw it.”

New York Times:

         “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s inspiring documentary “Waste Land."

Saturday: Govan Together,

        You are warmly invited to the final event of the Govan Together partnership. Events throughout the day to include:

-Seed Planting

-Film Screening

-Workshops

-Community Visioning

-Torchlight Procession

The evening will climax with a reconvening of the Parliament on Doomster Hill at Water Row.

Sunday:

         Banner Making, Sunday Lunch & "This Space Is Your Space" Discussion.

-Banner Making: 11am

        Have a cause, a group or campaign you'd like to tell the world about? Get involved in our banner making workshop. Lets all pitch in together! (Paints & Some Materials Available)

-Lunch: 2pm-3pm

"This Space Is Your Space": 3pm-5pm

          We're aiming to plan a series of PoP-Up Social Centres throughout 2012, and we'd like to know what you want, bring suggestions for workshops, talks, film screenings, or anything else you're passionate about.

This Space Is Your Space!

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COME TO THE VILLAGE SQUARE.

The village Square project
         While there are many interesting avenues of change around the city. There are groups, campaigns, projects and activities, working in the common good, but many of them are invisible to a lot of people. The Village Square will act as a focus point for what is happening around the communities and city. The project will operate from the Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow and be run by volunteers, on a daily basis also with evening events. There will be as well as hands on workshops on model making, mapping, meetings, discussions, talks, films, bookstall and an info shop.
          Groups working in the cities communities will be invited to exhibit, what they do, share and swap knowledge, ideas, organisational skills and build solidarity with each other. We would like to persuade folk to invent their own meet-up ideas and topics and to encourage those already working in the community to create awareness of what they are doing. There are a multitude of ideas that will unfold in the square, but the main aim is to encourage, parents and
children, young folk, older folk to think about, question and help to articulate ideas interests and issues in their patch. 

Let's get doon theerr.  

       We can do this in entertaining and inventive ways through cultural activities, actions, interventions, politics, education, art, drama, geography, mapping, technology, different mediums, film, photography, internet, walking, and such, can all be brought into play.
         You can find out more about the village Square at the LEGUP dinner nights, Govan conversations next Tuesday at the Pearce Institute and every following Tuesday at the Pearce cafe from 6: 30 or see city strolls for details.

Check the website:http://themeetingsquare.wordpress.com

 www.citystrolls.com

While we all watch television business gets organised.

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