Date: Friday 13th August 2010

Time: 7-10PM

Venue: 81 – 83 STOKES CROFT

Drinks: P.R.S.C. 37 JAMAICA ST.

On the 13th of August 2010, the diversity of life in Stokes Croft will snap into focus with the opening of Stokes Croft Museum: A small independent space opposite Hamilton House on Stokes Croft. Conceived and created by Katy Bauer. Informed and constructed in partnership with The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft.

The project aims to shift the reverence automatically afforded museum environments from the past to the present. With local visitors encouraged to add anecdote, knowledge, ephemera, and fresh observation. These contributions will create an archive and the museum experience will become increasingly layered and changing because of it. People will stamp themselves directly into history instead of waiting for someone to get it all wrong a hundred years hence.

The museum contains what is apparent – chips, dogs, the post office and also reveals that which is hidden: artists, anarchists, policy, the shattered, and the generous. Some of the displays will be curious inventions; however, all the displays will be true!

The museum is intended to be a permanent fixture in Stokes Croft. The initiative receives no funding.

STOKES CROFT MUSEUM: REMEMBERING THE PRESENT

[1]www.stokescroftmuseum.info

[2]http://stokescroft.wordpress.com/

To celebrated the arrival in Bristol of Los Autonomos, an anarchist  Brasilian football team, on Monday 2nd August 2010 the Easton Cowboys & Cowgirls will be hosting a discussion featuring David Goldblatt.

Topics will include the world cup just passed, the next world cup to be held in Brasil and international fan culture. There will also be cheap Brasilian food and cocktails. From 7:30pm at the Stag and Hound at the bottom of Old Market.

Was Warren James Right To Protest?

Friday 13th August, 7pm, Coleford Baptist Church. £3

In 1831 Warren James led 3000 Foresters to tear down the enclosures that prevented their livelihood….

In 2010 300 people gathered at Hopewell Colliery at an event to remember Warren James and this history…

A talk by Simon Sandall historian, lecturer and author. The free-miners of Dean and the defence of Forest custom during the seventeenth century ‘I want to say a few words about the history of protest in the Forest of Dean, this lecture will provide historical context for the Warren James uprising of the early 1830s.’

This will be followed by a debate on the relevance of Forest rights to those living in the Forest of Dean Today. Free mining and common rights, ownership, privatisation,.. And asks ‘Was Warren Right to Protest?’

Come along and share your views….

BOX OFFICE

All tickets are available at: The Forest Bookshop, 8 St John Street, Coleford

01594 833334 9 am–5.30 pm or on-line, post free, at www.forestbookshop.com

Those of you who missed the excellent Warren James day in the Forest of Dean last weekend and those who were there and want to relive it might be interested in the following link:

http://web.me.com/forestofdeanpodcast/Site/Welcome.html

Keep an eye open for photos etc. from the event.

An event in the Forest of Dean on the 6th June 2010.