A Space For Us ~ People's Museum Somers Town

People in placemaking! Recording change now, people's histories for a sense of place in an urban area at risk.
Finalist: Radical Changemaker Award

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Wednesday book talk SQUAT! History Jam on a counter culture activist in 1970s Somers Town. Looking for Camden Radicals! - DM us if you were a activist. See. https://t.co/99p3F3zFSs

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Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
What a year - we launched 2 public realm artworks, gathered stories created a Pearly Sari, events VE Day to EGA Women's Hospital protest- and we preserve social housing For more https://t.co/99p3F3zFSs
Back on the 7th January!

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We're having a Christmas Party! Free food, live music & vinyl | Wednesday 10th December 6–10pm. Find out about the party & more in our newsletter - https://t.co/Zgy4gc0PLe

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Call Out: Youth Work Experience
Radical Histories Zine Week
• Interested in Culture, art, writing, publishing?
• Got a desire to communicate issues to the world?
• Do you want to bring your passion for radical histories to life?
• How about learning how to get your message across?

A Space for Us have devised an exciting hands-on, in-person work experience opportunity which gives you access to cultural and social capital through a small museum of radical histories in Somers Town. You’ll gain valuable real-life experience by designing and producing your very own zines.

You will have the chance to experience real world work based around creative and literary subjects giving you the opportunity to exercise work skills, facilitated by professionals with over 25 years in commercial publishing.

When: 27th - 31st October (Half Term Week)
Times: 11am - 5pm
Where: People’s Museum, 52 Phoenix Road NW1 1ES (as well as archives in NW1 / WC2)
Who: Young people aged 16-19 years from Somers Town or Camden areas
Click the link below 👇 to find out more or email us at [email protected]

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Youth Work Experience, Vinyl Club & More! - https://t.co/37SRIjJjKt

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Join us in a launch of a NEW Heritage Trail for Somers Town for Open House London. New public realm artworks in Phoenix Rd are a contemporary reimagining of ceramic artworks for 1930s housing estates.
Join our Launch events - on Thursday 18th and a walk/ workshop on the 20th.

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Can KQ institutions support or does this subsume?
Support local-led initiative:
#supportdontsubsume
#hyperlocal
#communitynotcorporate
#knowledgequarter
#takeover
#crushlocal
#voicesfrombelow
#socialhousingnotsocialcleansing
#workingclassheritage

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The monopoly board in @camdennewjournal is in the museum. Student Ella gets why heritage matters in a social housing area. It's "institutionalisation"; not gentrification in the "Knowledge Quarter". Institutional power can subsume community-led initiative. Why
#aspaceforus ?

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Somers Town now faces a new development ...the
#britishlibrary #extension .. more than 10 years building disruption.
Is there #aspaceforus in this new London?

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@CamdenCouncil @WhyDemolish @DemolitionsLdn @camdengp @PaulWatt1232 @HistoryTown @HamandHigh @NewJournal @justspace7 @pplsassembly @HousingActionSL @Nasrinedj Indeed the article and letters in today’s CNJ prove this, this from the TRA, people living in the estate. Many of us are Camden residents or LHs living with mould and damp. Please, come talk to us!

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Join us tomorrow from 6pm for the launch of our exhibition ‘Pearly Sari! Threads Connecting Us’.

Explore the rich and often overlooked histories of Bangladeshi diaspora in London through women’s embroidery, bedspreads, collages, and folk-art inspired needlework.

Doors open 6pm - Bangladeshi snacks and drinks available on donation

Embroidery workshop/sari wearing demonstration 6.30pm

Singing folk songs & Social from 7.30pm

The Pearly Sari features individual button embroidery panels combining British working class Pearly King/Queen heritage with Sylheti embroidery folk design, highlighting both cultural significance and personal creative expression.

People’s Museum
52 Phoenix Road NW1 1ES

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See us at this Saturday's Somers Town festival. Legacy of Steve Denholm (RIP) & Alan Patterson.. in ‘93:
“... community minded rather than corporate minded. There is more that brings us together than divides us.'
#groundsup is always better. #keepitlocal

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Anarchist Freedom Press originated in The Torch which started in Ossulston Street here, by the teenage nieces of Rossetti. We're honouring their legacy by running screen printing course for youth from Tuesday. (Apply now.) Images from the brilliant Sparrows nest archive.

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@56aInfoshop Sounds great! We'll be there

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@RadicalPosters Can we have a copy please?
Just the ticket for our radical poster workshop next week for sixth formers in Camden!

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Monopoly is ...an idea nicked! Elizabeth Magie's 'Landlords' game' was stolen. Social housing heritage ceramics turn up at auctions.
#workingclassheritage for sale.
(And I feel your pain Elizabeth!) Our work also appropriated.
Ps Original post by
@historyfeels