[Imc-london] Forest cafe workshops?

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Hi Alan,

there were a set of proposals for film screenings in the evening there - 
maybe adding some scheduled ones would be a good idea.

however the space is not that huge and personaly i'd say that running it as 
a creative forum space would be a bad idea - to be honest it's going to be 
rammed a lot of the time already without putting anything else in there.

personaly and despite having been to many ECF events, I also don't like the 
idea of running the cafe space as a creative forum open space. It's a cafe 
- a hopefully chill space and social space, for people to eat and drink 
-  it's not a workshop space - that's the point of it.

please don't get me wrong, i've supported CF stuff, I just don't think it's 
a practical suggestion  - have you thought of trying the university 
buildings that are being organised that should be open 9am-10pm each day? 
do you need contacts for the grousp organising them?

ciao,
dave

At 15:13 07/06/2005, Alan Liddiard wrote:
>Hi guys,
>I spoke about this with a few of you at the media convergance last month, 
>but realised I hadn't got this ok'd from the group as a whole.
>
>I'm with the Creative Forum and we are looking to use the Forest Cafe 
>ground floor space, around it functioning as a cafe, as an Open Forum space.
>
>You will be using upstairs, no?
>And possibly put on film screenings in the evening in the cafe?
>
>How do you feel about sharing the cafe space? I'd like Indymedia to input 
>into what we do anyway.
>
>Sorry if I'm stepping on toes with this.
>
>Below is the proposal sent to the Forest Cafe. Dates need to be confirmed.
>
>Alan
>Creative Forum
>--------------------
>Estimated use to be 2nd July to 9th July.
>
>The Creative Forum would like to use the cafe space for putting on 
>discussion forums, presentations, workshops, skill/info sharing, film 
>screenings. This would be done so as to not interfere with the functioning 
>of the cafe.
>
>It would be run as an 'OpenSpace', where the event is made up of, and
>organised by, the audience (participants) themselves. Looking to have 
>invited and planned activities as well as the activities provided by the 
>participants. How much will be going on, and when, is dictated by the 
>participants. So it can be anticipated that there will moments of high 
>activity as well as times with not much going on.
>
>Space useage, minimally, would be a medium sized table with chairs to sit 
>around - a meeting area, though it would be prefered to see the whole cafe 
>as the forum space, where the activities are run alongside those of the 
>cafe. It would be great also to have a table that we can use as an 
>'infoshop', for laying out information literature on the alternatives that 
>we publicise.
>
>Other requirements would be access to electrical plugs for a laptop or dvd 
>player. Somewhere for a notice board, a wall or freestanding, for 
>announcing activities and self-organising of the forum. I'm told you have 
>projector.
>Would it be possible for us to use it for presentations and film screenings?
>
>"What is the Creative Forum?"
>
>The Creative Forum exists as an open space for bringing together different 
>and diverse groups and individuals to meet, share and express creative 
>visions of another world, and to network alternatives to the conventional 
>way of thinking with regards to global political ecological and ethical 
>relationships.
>
>The Creative Forum was setup to build creative networks and active
>friendships. Our 'Visions of Another World' events are in a way, 
>mini-Social Forums, with a view of creating positive change.
>
>The events are platforms for presentation, discussion, networking and
>skill-sharing, with independently-minded entertainment and creativity.
>
>
>
>
>
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