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LUX presents - HACKNEY PREMIERE of Anja Kirschner and David Panos’, ‘TRAIL OF THE SPIDER’
…filmed on location in Hackney Marshes & Essex

Trail of the Spider is a Western shot in Hackney and Essex, with a cast of actors and non-actors including many residents of East London.

The film recreates the epic panoramas of the Wild West using landfill sites in the Thames Gateway, gravel pits serving the Olympic Park, and Hackney Marshes - an area affected by the land grab accompanying the 2012 Olympics.

Trail of the Spider takes elements from the history of the Western (the stylized violence of Spaghetti Westerns and the melodrama of golden era ‘Horse Operas’) and combines them with the suppressed history of the multi-racial American West, where many cowboys were black, and alliances that crossed racial boundaries were common.

The film also addresses class conflict and displacement in East London today. By using standard Western plot devices of the ‘arrival of the railroad’ and the ‘end of an era’, Trail of the Spider explores the compromises and struggles of a population facing a new order of property speculation and gentrification.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the makers of the film + bar and DJs MIZ CB2000 & guests.

Thursday 24 July 2008.
7.30pm doors |8pm screening | party ’til late at Chats Palace Arts Centre, 42-44 Brooksbys Walk, Homerton, Hackney, London E9 6DF

Entrance FREE

This is London article about the film.

Last ever Tighten Up - tonight!

http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2008/05/tighten-up-rip-1999-2008/

Tighten Up takes place at Rhum Jungle, 70 Exmouth Market, Islington, London EC1.
The venue is just off Roseberry Avenue and is roughly 10 minutes walk from Angel, Farringdon or Kings Cross tube stations.

9pm till 2am
FREE ENTRY ALL NITE!!
Dress code: No hoodies.

Juan Haro, a speaker from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio will talk in Dalston, about their struggle against displacement by gentrification in Harlem, New York city.

On Saturday the 24th of May @ Passing Clouds, on Richmond Rd, just off Kingsland road in Dalston, 10 mins from Dalston Kingsland Station. Buses: 149, 242, 243, 67.Free or donation entry to talk from 7.00pm.

Followed by Latin bands and DJs hosted by Movimientos at around 9pm “From folkloric to electronic Movimientos is the sound of London’s Latin alternative”. (£5 entry)

Dalston, like many other parts of London is undergoing development that will mean rent rises for tenants already struggling to pay extortionate London rents. When an area becomes appealing for investors and “regeneration” it’s those people with money who end up enjoying the new housing, expensive cafes and shops, and the people with less money who end up having to move further away from the centre of the city or who, if they stay, lose the shops, cafes and resources they rely on. Movement for Justice, the organization of tenants in Harlem, New York that have been struggling against the landlords that want to price them out of their area say;

“This displacement is created by the greed, ambition and violence of a global empire of money that seeks to take total control of all the land, labor and life on earth. Here in El Barrio (East Harlem, New York City), landlords, multi-national corporations and local, state and federal politicians and institutions want to force upon us their culture of money, they want to displace poor families and rent their apartments to rich people, white people with money. They want to change the look of our neighborhood, with the excuse of “developing the community.”

The talk will explore issues around resisting gentrification and the model of organization that Movement for Justice have used to work with each other – an inspiring and educational example from across the Atlantic that we could learn from in London.

“Together, we make our dignity resistance and we fight back against the actions of capitalist landlords and multinational corporations who are displacing poor families from our neighborhood. We fight back locally and across borders. We fight back against local politicians that refuse to govern by obeying the will of the people. We fight back against the government institutions that enforce a global economic, social and political system that seeks to destroy humanity.”

Talk organized by Hackney Solidarity Network, Hackney Independent, Haringey Solidarity Group and London Coalition Against Poverty.

invoicing for Woofah / lots of scanning / dump stuff in charity shop / water newly planted (not by me) vegetables / listen to the new blogariddims podcast / get technics deck fixed / transcribe an interview tape / review Downpressor’s record he sent me ages ago / purchase mixtapes by Jammer, Tinchy Stryder and the new Ruff Sqwad 12″ on no hats no hoods oh and a copy of ‘Smell of Female’ by The Cramps / finish reading Jason Toynbee’s slightly too academic Bob Marley: Herald of the Postcolonial World / answer all my emails, texts, private messages / watch Barbarian Queen featuring Lana Clarkson / start on sleevenotes for next blogariddims with Paul Meme / get to these:

Looks to be a great weekend for Londoners…

Friday sees the first night of this:

Organised by bass comrades (and Woofah contributors) Lower End Spasm. Bok Bok has done a little five minute promo mix for the night you can grab here. All Sarf Londoners should head down there, it will be wicked.

Then on Saturday, some serious decisions have to be made, with the return of the legendary:

over Wembley way. Tempting though that is, I am also wavering on:

Iration Steppas will be bringing the entirety of their eye watering sound system down especially for the Deviate crowd. Benga will then be playing an exclusive set on the Iration system (London first)

Hmmmm. Or:

Only just heard about this and not able to go, but looks pretty good, eh?

ON U SOUND MASSIVE
Present
REGGAE IN THE CITY

The Cock Tavern
East Poultry Avenue
Smithfield Meat Market
London EC1 9LH (opposite Fabric)

Saturday 23rd Feb
Saturday 29th March
Saturday 26th April

10pm - 6am

Admission £10

FIRST NIGHT:
African Head Charge Sound System
Adrian Sherwood
Jah Surrzema

Tim P in reggae blog roundup sensation

Luscious pouting Tim P of Tighten Up fame gives the lowdown on his favourite blogs covering reggae, dancehall and a bit of grime (huh? I thought it was all rocksteady cool runnings over there?!). It’s going to go off! There are already signs of certain mp3-sharing reggae blogger scumbags shuffling about outside the arena…

Anyway, you can vote for your favourite.

Ahem.

Or indeed for Dancecrasher itself if you want to keep in with Tim and get him to big you (or your crew/”ends”) up on the mic in fake patois* at the next Tighten Up night which takes place on March 7 at a brand new venue, Rhum Jungle in Islington, London, EC1.

Heatwave**, Prancehall*** and Computerstyle**** are clearly in the runnings for the crown in this contest. Surely the winner should be given a residency at Tighten Up? Please comment to this effect on Tim’s blog, it’s only fair.

** Full page ad on the back cover of the new Wire for their England Story comp!

*** This entry about Photek’s Hertfordshire accent re-emerging after a decade of cockney ‘ows yer farver is very funny.

**** See Per’s write up of World Clash 2007.

[NB: Tim P doesn't actually big people up on the mic in fake patois. Sorry.]

21 FEBRUARY 2008
176 Gallery, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT. Entry details tba.
Stewart Home lecture: “Mondo Mythopoesis: Psychogeography after situationism. A talk emphasising the non-literary aspects of psychogeographic practice with a few asides about writer Iain Sinclair’s role in popularising the term.”

Book tickets: http://www.projectspace176.com/events-calendar/#