Creative Forum

Thursday March 9th
Film and Food @ The Synergy Centre

Another World Is Blossoming Screening
March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th from 6pm
Entry by donation

This month The Synergy Centre is hosting uniteddiversity’s series of Another World Is Blossoming events, including four weeks of screenings starting this Thursday 9th, and a big Centre fundraising party on Friday March 31st. It’s all taking place as part the NODE.London Season of Media Arts.

Thursday March 9th
Main Feature - 8pm Sharp
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
http://www.chavezthefilm.com/
International Jury: “The best television programme in the world this year”

Hugo Chavez, elected President of Venezuela in 1998, is a coulful unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his nation’s working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history’s shortest-lived coup d’état. It’s a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela “Washington’s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba.”

Second Feature Film - 10pm
Network (1976)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
Won 4 Oscars and Voted one of the best 100 films of all time.

Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is an ageing TV anchorman for UBS who is fired, effective in two weeks, after his ratings have been steadily deteriorating. He reacts to this by sensationally announcing on live television his intention to commit suicide on air. In doing so, Beale becomes a major TV icon and one of the most valuable assets to the Communications Corporation of America (CCA), the company that is gradually taking control of UBS. As a result he is given his own show as `the mad prophet of the air-waves’. He appears live on television every week-day evening to tell the real truth to the people of America. The programme is a huge success but Beale uses his power to make startling revelations about CCA, leaving the company executives with a serious problem.

Shorts - from 6pm

Real2Real
http://www.real2reel.co.nr

Founded as an off-shoot of Lifecycles (Pedal Powered Cinema And Multimedia Outreach Collective) in mid 2002, Real2Reel is a small group of video artists making short and occasionally amusing films about counter-cultural activities, social struggles and environmental concerns, all with a strong grassroots direct action bias.

Reclaim Love
http://www.o-i-l.org

Footage from the annual Reclaim Love event that takes place at the Eros Statue in Picadilly Circus each year. Check the website for more info and what its all about.

There will also be healthy food from the Synergy Sattva Cafe, served from 7pm.

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** Creative Forum OpenSpace @ The Square social centre, 21-22 Russell Square, London WC1, 19th March, 2pm - 12am **

Part of United Diversity’s ‘Another World is Blossoming’ festival

You are invited to the Creative Forum this Sunday at Russell Square.

A collectively self-organised conference for linking with others, discussing, and planning. Use the event to reach people to help make your projects happen.

Everyone agrees to the ‘Law of two feet’: if you feel you are not contributing or gaining from a particular session it is fine to move on to another. This creates a focused, creative, informal environment to be in.

Add to the shared list of ‘wants and needs’, to tap into the skills and resources of those gathered for the event.

The event features a debate done in a Cogers-style on the ’state of the world now and the challenges that face us’, with speakers introducing alternative technologies and diverse business models. A debating method as way to negate the difficulties of networking and the meeting of minds.

Leap-frogging from this event there is to be much more public event at a later date specifically for expanding and actively promoting the projects.

Creative Forums are a gathering of capable and knowledgable people to pool our resources and create solutions. A creative, environmental, grass-roots, forward thinking atmosphere. Come to share your projects and to learn from others.

Current participants:
Solaroof/Ecoshelter
London Biennale self-organised art festival
EcoAction Sustainable communities Forum
The Conscious Fashion Week
Globalvision 2000
Art Not Oil
PeaceNotWar collective
A World to Win
Caracas Trollparty report and talk on open-source
A new model for Housing Co-ops
Deptford.tv
LETSlink
Open Capital
Sunday Soundz accoustics
…more

Networking and Creating Friendships
Economic Change Discussions
Practical Activism
Positive Change

There will be food, music, films and photography exhibition.

We ask for a non-compulsory donation to support our related projects.

To get involved and suggest a session:
info@creativeforum.org

Thanks and be great to see you and hear your ideas on Sunday!

The Creative Forum

wiki.uniteddiversity.com

creative visions of
another world: harmony;
inclusivity; participation;
empowerment;
authentic communication

The Creative Forum exists as a space for bringing together different and diverse groups and individuals to meet and share and network alternatives to the conventional way of thinking with regards to global political ecological and ethical relationships.

ANOTHER WORLD IS BLOSSOMING: March 1st - 31st, 2006
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming

The systems and institutions upon which we rely for our well-being and survival are at risk of massive failure. Ecosystems everywhere are in decline. The age of cheap plentiful oil is over. Food and energy shortages are on the horizon.

Few are aware of the full nature and extent of our predicament and, of those that are, many feel powerless to do anything about it.

Corporate media manipulates our minds while the monetary system continues to fund plundering unelected presidents and plunge the world into an ever-increasing spiral of debt.

But all is not lost. There IS another way.

In fact, Another World Is Blossoming…

Communities across the World are beginning to self-organise and share resources in order to take back control of their lives and build hope for a sustainable future.

Another World Is Blossoming events will raise awareness about our predicament, inspire collective action for change and launch the Synergy Community Fund.

With films, music, debate and more participants will be empowered with knowledge about the state of the world, what pioneering groups are doing about it and how they can join in.

Together We Have Everything we need to Create the World We Want

Events taking place as part of Another World Is Blossoming:

For more info see:
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming and
http://www.nodel.org

* Sat 4th March: Creative Forum Visioning @ The Square

* Thursday 9th March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Thursday 16th March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Sunday 19th March: Creative Forum Open Space @ The Square

* Thursday 23rd March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Thursday 30th March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Friday 31st March: Another World Is Blossoming Benefit Gig @ The Synergy Centre with Live Music from Joe Driscoll, The Pistachios, The Rub, United Vibrations, DJ Rubbish, Bones of Contention, Jamie Woon, Sarah Bear & more plus a Screening of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and Healthy Food from Synergy Sattva Cafe plus lots of info stalls and more! 7pm - 3am, £10 / £7 adv/concs - Buy Tickets Now from http://uniteddiversity.com!

For more info see:
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming and
http://www.nodel.org