This isn’t a course and you don’t need any previous knowledge. We want to learn together how we can address harm in our communities. We see this as a part of building a world without police & prisons.
We’ll read the text together in the session. You don’t need to have read it in advance (though it might help if you have).
Potentially triggering topics will come up including interpersonal, sexual & state violence.
Bristol Queerants is a queer feminist discussion group to explore ideas about gender and sexuality.
We are having a winter social at BASE on Thu 7th Dec, 7-8.30pm. We thought that we would each bring one poem, or piece of music, or short words on a book, or a film – something that has moved or shaped us as a queer person. We each get 5 mins to read, present or play a tune, and there’s a bit of a chat about it. We thought this would be a way to bring in really personal stuff, or pleasure-based stuff, or somatic / feelings stuff into our group space. All LGBTQIA+ welcome including if you’ve not been before.
A peer organised meet-up to explore practical conflict navigation and support skills using discussion, role-play and other tools.
During this session, we will explore the practice of pod mapping. «A pod is made up of the people that you would call on if violence, harm or abuse happened to you; or the people that you would call on if you wanted support in taking accountability for violence, harm or abuse that you’ve done; or if you witnessed violence or if someone you care about was being violent or being abused.»
Through practical exercises and group conversations, we will also explore how this practice can support us during other life moments and transitions, such as such as loss, death, pregnancy, losing a job, losing housing or illness, etc.
BASE Infoshop collective are heading to London this weekend for the London anarchist bookfair. We will be alongside loads of anarchist distros, activist groups and assorted trouble makers, raising funds for BASE social centre and doing our own bit of shopping for the revolution! Expect more awesome radical books and revolutionary good stuff on the shelves at BASE in the very near future! This year the bookfair is taking place across 6 venues in the East of London. There is also an afterparty that will be unrestrained and uproarious! Long live anarchy! An idea whose time has come…
Bristol Anarchist Federation are hosting a chilled out chance to chat about anarchism, ask questions, discuss answers and make plans.
We’ll talk a bit about what anarchists have done, and are doing, in Bristol and further afield. As well as what new projects we could get off the ground and what existing ones we can build upon. All over some vegan cake and a cuppa.
We’ll be at Bristol’s own anarchist social centre BASE (14 Robertson Road, Bs5 6JY) from 2.30pm on Sunday 24th of September, with the option to stay on for BASE’s regular by-donation vegan cafe afterwards.
If you’ve been wanting to get involved in AFed or Bristol’s other anarchist/activist projects, but haven’t been sure where to start this is the event for you.
New people especially welcome, but we’d also love to see some old or returning faces!
basebristol.org / afed.org.uk / @bristolafed
Access info: There is step free access to the front cafe, and from the side entrance to an accessible toilet and the events room. Do not attend if you have cold/covid symptoms, masks and tests available, windows will be open.
This month, BARC Open House is during International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. Join us for a delicious free community dinner and letter writing to international prisoners!
We’ll be processing the variety of herbs we’ve recently foraged. We’ll chat through the herbs and their uses then collectively decide what we’d like to tincture (alcohol and glycerine) and macerate (oil), thinking through what blends and balms we’d like to make at the following sessions. All welcome! No prior tincture making knowledge needed! *Please bring along your own jar to take a tincture sample home with you!*
Radical Remedies is an evolving collective of friends, comrades and herbalists whose work focuses on skill sharing theoretical and practical knowledge of medicinal plants to support each other, social movements and those in need. Since 2021 RR have organised foraging walks, remedy making workshops and weekend long events. We aim to create support networks in collaboration with other groups to reclaim autonomy over our own health, access to green spaces and promote respect and connection to one another as well as the natural environment around.
