belfast weekend of dissent: sights, sounds, feedback

by dunk Thu Jun 02, 2005 17:42

we arrived into common grounds cafe, great bluegrass music going, upstairs for tailend of meeting, back down for a cuppa. belfast is a fair trade city, this cafe in a church is a lovley little space
http://www.commongrounds.co.uk/
we were late for the criticall mass
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69913

gaf, late night picnic in queens, palestinian support night, party, @ the falls.

on saturday we went over to the cultúrlann for a cup of coffee and to check things out, then over to the glor na ngael centre, across from the hospital, where an international crew of socialists and anarchists are working hard to reopen the centre; a possible new social centre for belfast, lots of room, 3 floors, they hope to be open for the west belfast festival
http://www.feilebelfast.com/
where they might be able to do live radio feeds

an cultúrlann- irish culture club, 216 falls road

early saturday morning gaelic discussion, good food and coffee too

Glór na nGael

glor- cafe at ground level

upstairs bar

by dunk Thu Jun 02, 2005 18:07

then headed in in the black taxi type bus system into city centre to hook up with the food not bombs crew- 25th aniversay since its inception @ san fran
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69916

talk with dublin food not bombs cian up in belfast about history and objectives of fnb, working on the streets, general banter in belfast
audio report:
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp0985.wav

face painters freely bringing color to the streets of belfast

http://www.dissenteire.tk/

now bono and bob geldof have got behind g8 protests with free gigs in london, berlin, paris, rome they are trying to get people on the streets to make a difference
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70066&condense_comments=false#comment109588

belfast weekend of dissent- fnb 25 year aniversary

food table on the belfast big bike

big bike as sound machine and all round play machine

punk picnic

stephenie, chloe, spiderman, dunk (g8 will be destroyed)

by dunk Thu Jun 02, 2005 18:46

from food not bombs we head back on the big bike and other colored bikes back to the workshops; a super super space in belfast, a nucleus of many different networks
http://directory.visitsouthbelfast.com/LawrenceStreetWorkshops/

then we went for a swifty and a fine chat about everything really, a few of us still had painted faces.

back to the workshops, little food, little drink, lot of laughing.

then later, a mini screening of bloomer and keoghs video "apackabalex now"; plenty of laughs, i felt one of the strongest things up in belfast is the fact that there is so much laughing, messing, playing, acting the bolix- the way it should be, i feel we here in dublin can learn a lot from the north.

we also saw the (in)famous vacuum mags that mr bloomer is involved in
http://www.thevacuum.org.uk/index.html
and we learned about saying SORRY.
issues are sent down to project and maybe some will make their way up to the warehouse?
you thought the slate was good, check this out

sun morning:
up, wander about the town, most of which is closed due to it being the holy day

then an audio piece with dutch girl ester who has been in belfast for a year or 2 and who is loving her job working with the homeless in belfast talks about life in the city, why she came over, how she finds it as an outsider.
lots of laughter seems to be the key to enjoying life here.
audio article (@27min):
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp1027.wav

back up to the garden, where the camera battery died and i had forgotten cable- always a donkey...........
anyway, the garden rocked
we had a soil ceremony where dublin community garden earth was mixed with the belfast soil, lovely day, lovely people, lots of babies about, healthy scene
we look foreward to being able to return the favour.

11 years olds carrying out art action on the streets of belfast

apackobalyx now

the lagan, belfasts river

lots of state funded art @ the lagan edge

talking and laughing in a garden

by dunk Thu Jun 02, 2005 18:58

from idle wondering in the garden an idea was born in the garden to make a CPUL (continous productive urban landscape) / greenway for the city.
we later got on our bikes and cycled the eastern side of town to check it out, a very interesting cycle, near the end we got a few stones thrown at us by young hoods behind the botanic train station- but you get that on streets of dublin too.

then back to garden for resting and socializing

mon- early cycle around docks part of greenway then back to dublin

really top weekend with a lovely funny community
happy days

irish anarchists sow seeds of flower power
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69689

belfast greenway?

irish anarchists sow seeds of flower power

by :-) Thu Jun 02, 2005 23:29

:-)

by Ciaran Mackle Sat Jun 04, 2005 15:59 ciaran.mackle at gmail dot com

Hey Duncan,

I was the one that was with you when you were interviewing the goths at City Hall. You wouldnt have those interviews?

Love to hear them!

Cheers
Ciaran

by dunk Tue Jun 07, 2005 16:14

sorry ciaran, they got lost over the weekend along with a few other bits and pieces,

by Ciaran Wed Jun 08, 2005 23:59

No worries!

Hopefully see you again soon.

by Aquila Sat Jul 14, 2007 17:42

Unity, Diversity?

Of all the pictures, I only see 1 non-white.

So much for diversity eh. What a bunch of phonies you are.