Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Indymedia Benefit Gig : Breakcore Versus Punk !





Live Performances by :

We Are Knives
Herv
Scientific Bong
Princekong
Lakker
PCP
Vimanas
Scallywag

Kennedys, Westland Row, D2 (behind trinity college)
Thursday 30 November
9pm till late
Admission €6
A benefit for indymedia.ie

Two of Dublin's best underground clubs are joining forces for a one night only extravaganza of noise on November 30, to raise money for
indymedia.ie, the Irish branch of the worldwide open-publishing independent media collective.

The night will feature a mix of acts which might typically play a Kaboogie or Porco Dio night, climaxing in the final and untimate battle between guitar-based and electronic music.

For more information on Kaboogie and Porco Dio, please visit :
http://www.myspace.com/kaboogiemusic
http://www.myspace.com/porcodiodublin

Monday, November 27, 2006

Revolt Video & Indymedia Gathering


A real world meeting in which people will gather to discuss independent media projects and to network amongst fellow Independent media actvists . This will be followed by a Vegan and Vegetarian Cafe for people to socialise .
This will coinisde with a few different events around the week including a benefit concert and film screening to mark the five year anniversary of Indymedia .

Saturday 2nd December
2pm / Starts 2.30 sharp !

@ Seomra Spraoi
No 6 Lower Ormond Quay is on the north side quays, between capel street and swift's row.
The entrance is a big blue metal door next to Snap Printing. Ring the top buzzer.

Check out : www.indymedia.ie for more details


Maybe include the map to seomra spraoi its located at : http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/nov2006/map.gif

Monday, November 20, 2006

Revolt Video Screening & Kelly Nesbitt acoustic gig (European Tour)

Revolt Video Presents a screening of :

The Century of the Self



And

Surplus.-Terrorized Into Being Consumers




Plus a Live performance by :

Kelly Nesbitt – solo acoustic performance as part of her European Tour

Doors 7:00

Film screening 7:30

Kelly Nesbitt 9:30

Waged 5 euros/unwaged 3 euros

Location:
No 6 Lower Ormond Quay is on the north side quays, between capel street and swift's row.

The entrance is a big blue metal door next to Snap Printing. Ring the top buzzer.
(see map)




The Century of the Self is an acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis

Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed

Synopsis

In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself
Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people's minds by business and politics.
This programme shows how this rapidly developed in America through self-help movements like Werber Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training - into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.
But the American corporations soon realised that this new self was not a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

Surplus.-Terrorized Into Being Consumers

Synopsis

Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Surplus approach is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective, shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. It is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg.

Erik Gandini's approach through Surplus is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective

George W Bush's famous "shopping-speech" calling for a war against terrorism that deters the nation from the fear of consumption. Castro responding with hymns to the anti-consumerist, advertising-free island of Cuba. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer preaching that the computer will give us peace on earth "bringing people together" while Adbuster Kalle Lasn warns that advertising pollutes us mentally, that over-consumption is unsustainable and that we are running out of oil.

Surplus main man is John Zerzan, controversial philosopher whose call for PROPERTY DAMAGE has inspired many to take to the streets. "That is not violence. Sitting there doing dope and watching MTV . Then you go and get a job. Just schlep along. To me that is violence," says Zerzan. "We are terrorized into being consumers."

In November 2003 Surplus was awarded with the prestigious prize “The Silver Wolf” at Amsterdam's IDFA, and has spread widely around the globe since then.

"... This film about consumerism totally consumed us. It used the language of music video, propaganda and commercial advertising as a response to the forces of globalisation. It fights fire with fire. The questions it raises are ultimately more important than any answers it might suggest. And we believe audiences can only profit from the debate that will ensue. For its originality, sense of humour, irony, forcefulness and visual virtuosity, the Silver Wolf Award goes to SURPLUS." The Jury of the International Documentary Filmfestival in Amsterdam, Nov.2003.

Kelly Nesbitt, gig

Kelly Nesbitt is a psychedelic-folk-country musician and zany artist from Portland, Maine USA.

She has collaborated on numerous projects with the members of the US band Cerberus Shoal, and opened for the infamous band The Sun City Girls in Seattle.

In 2005 kelly showed her theatrical side and toured Europe performing as a clown and mime.

On this current 2006 European tour, Kelly will be presenting a different side of herself, singing her own songs on acoustic guitar.

http://www.myspace.com/kellynesbitt

Monday, November 13, 2006

Friday, November 10, 2006

Clare Shell to Sea & Revolt Video at Mrs O'Brien's Kitchen.


Evening of Activist video and "DANCE, DANCE, DANCE YOUR ANGERS AND YOUR JOYS FOR WE SEE TOMORROW AND THERE IS AN OGONI STAR IN THE SKY." - Ken Saro-Wiwa, murdered by Shell.
Saturday 18th Nov @ 8pm, Upstairs, Mrs O'Brien's Kitchen, Lahinch, Co Clare.

Films, Music and Dance from 8 till late ...

... including the award winning documentary 'The Drilling Fields' which tells how Shell paid off the Nigerian Military to rape and kill villagers in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta who opposed Shell, destroying their pristine fertile delta environment, poisoning their lands and rivers with oil spillages, burning and flaring. Interviews and footage of Saro-Wiwa as he organised the Ogoni people and travelled the world for support. Eventually framed for murder with 8 other leaders of MOSOP ( Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) he and them were hung by the Shell/Nigerian dictatorship in 1995.

Also showing the new film from the Rossport Solidarity Camp - X Wrong Project, X Wrong Place.

Followed by Sounds and Dance.

Admission €5 before 9pm, €6 after 9pm.

Special guests - Djembe Faso, the African Drum & Dance group out of Dublin.

Special thanks to our host - Ray 'An Proinnteach' Prunty, Mrs O'Brien's Kitchen, Bar & Internet Café/Restaurant, Lahinch, Co Clare.

'All Golfers are Rodents!'. (seen on a Lahinch Surfer's T-Shirt).

Party and Accommodation afterwards in Doolin, bring sleeping bags.

Related Link: http://www.struggle.ws/rsc

Monday, November 06, 2006

Revolt Video Film Night


1) Occupation of Shell HQ

2) New Revolt Video Documentary – 25 mins (Rossport)

X Wrong Project
X Wrong Place

3) 16 Intakes - "Why Koreans Society Is Crazy"

South Korean Video Activist Documentaries

Time 8:00? (Shell to Sea protest ushers key 6:30)

Waged 5 euros/unwaged 3 euros

Location:
No 6 Lower Ormond Quay is on the north side quays, between capel street and swift's row.
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