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!
