"New Year Reshuffle" Event - Pearce Institute, Govan

Who will be there:

GALGAEL are just around the corner, building boats, beautiful furniture, jewellery, metalwork and training folk in useful skills and kinship. Talk to the trainees and volunteers of Galgael. There are courses available that can change the way you think about your community and yourself. + (Film) Come and have a chat.

GLASGOW RESIDENTS NETWORK. What is stock transfer and GHA about. What is going on in housing. The information you won’t get in the glossy brochures. Start a residents group - find out about others - Get advice on this here. The Glasgow Residents Network is a growing coalition of residents associations and communities from across Glasgow, drawn together to work for better stronger communities, and a better fairer city for all our citizens. Come for a chat

BURGH ANGEL A free community newspaper dealing in housing and community issues. Pick one up.

CARDBOARD CLUB If you ever want o see how parents and kids can enjoy themselves together. Present a couple of dozen giant sheets of cardboard and a glue gun. Build a castle a stage set or anything else you can get up to with cardboard. We supply the cardboard the kids supply the imagination (This is the opposite of television)

DEAR GREEN PLACE Get friendly with your park. What’s all this green stuff and who does it belong to, parks and green space in the community. How to use them and keep them for the public use. Open space in the city will be even more crucial when even those with cars need to change their habits as our roads block up and the country side is out of reach ... Come and talk about allotments, the parks and community gardening

JAM 74 motorway madness In their determination to build a motorway, which most people don’t want, The Scottish Executive, ignores inquiry, that states - pollution would increase, toxic waste would be disturbed, working class areas would be flattened and communities disrupted. Cost £1 Billion, to increase, not decrease traffic. Talk to Jam74 and they will explain you why we need to stop it

THE LONDON PARTICULAR Regeneration: The London Particular is an open-ended urban research group which has been documenting and acting against regeneration and gentrification in East London since 2001. Some of their concerns are - Privatisation of space, housing and services, the displacement of working class communities, and authoritarian social control coinciding with rising homelessness and falling living conditions. Come along for a free program of short films that reveal the shocking truth about motorway madness, and how residents are preparing to fight to save their communities and our environment. “The Battle for Broadway Market” is one - a definitive record of the occupation and campaign. essential viewing for those who wish to be inspired by what local people can achieve.

INDEPENDENT BOOKS “When I discovered the value of reading books, without being forced to (school), a new world appeared on the horizon”. Books to change the world. Books that get to the heart of the matter. Reading your way out of television, Getting unplugged. These folk (RIB) will do anything to get you to read books and they love being asked questions.

FREE PRESS INC (Indymedia No Computers) is a free newspaper that will try to say things other newspapers decide is not to important to you. Like housing struggles, campaign news, politics. INC is the newspaper of Indymedia Scotland, is part of a collectively run media outlet, which create written, radio and video journalism and is run by volunteers. Find out more and get a few copies for your friends.

ECONOMICS FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU “A fair days work for a fair days pay” Words that usually come from someone who makes a thousand times more than yourself. There are other ways of doing business - Economics is only what you do every day of your life, when you decide to buy, or not buy something. There are other alternatives which could give you more control over your financial decisions. Coops, credit unions, participatory economics, (not as complicated as it sounds) Have a chat about these here.

VARIANT A free independent arts magazine of broader social & cultural issues

GOVAN COMMUNITY RADIO Help to make a program of the days events and have your say on what’s happening. Learn to be a community reporter. “ever fancied yourself as a radio presenter? A roving reporter unearthing the real stories? Come along and find out meet Govan Radio. If you don’t feel like making a radio program - Make a radio!

MAKE A RADIO Yes a real radio, with soldering irons and stuff. The gear will be there to construct your own wee radio and other electronic and scientific toys. Then you could find out from the Electron Club information on radio on the net and free software.

ELECTRON CLUB Open source is software that is free. Yes I thought that would get you. You can do most of the things you do with expensive software, using programs that are free and easy to download on to your computer. Come and find out about Linux. This is the “real” cool stuff - not your Microsoft, let’s make millionaires tosh. Come and learn about Linux open source freeware.

GLASGOW USER MANUAL Help to create a social map of Govan and beyond by telling us what is happening in your community - your stories - ideas - events - thoughts -pastimes and dreams. Do it on video, photographs, sound, or just use a pencil. Find out how to be part of the User Manual’s pages and what and who it is for.

A CITY STROLL Around 5:00, the second part of the days events. A walk from Govan to the *Centre for Contemporary Arts.(Don’t be feart, it’s only an public art gallery) taking in the developments on the way and reflect what they mean to you. Look at your city as if you were a Martian just landed on earth,. What would you make of it. Where are all the houses, factories? - What are all these strange buildings? Come on a City Stroll and see what the developers have been up to. This walk will be filmed and hopefully shown at the gallery sometime in the evening. Instant media!

On the Evening on the 20th

*CCA There will be a selection of Books Films and stalls. The CCA is a public funded art centre, available for use to all members of the public. A place that needs used more by the general public as a central meeting place in town. A series of workshops are available there, free: Book events, computer stuff

PI CENTENARY BOOK The Pearce Institute has been open for 100 years. To celebrate a book has been published. Edited by Norie Mackie and Roy Adams the book is a treasure trove of fond recollections of happy days spent in the PI. It also features a wealth of photographs, newspaper articles and other archive material that capture the first one hundred years of the PI. Help to support your local community centre. The new Pearce Cafe is now open.

Purpose: Could work as an informal event to encourage groups/people to think of ways to work with each other for future events.

Use local issues to communicate ideas and mediums that would be useful in creating noise to back up local opinions and campaigns.

Think of ways to to make events enjoyable and sociable to encourage participation by local people.

An invite for folk to meet up and chat about these things at the event.

Times and updates will be posted nearer the 20th. If you want to help out please let me know ASAP. Any queries, additions, ideas, thoughts same thing. Please forward this email to friends and folk you think would be interested. Cheers, Everybody involved. Bob