Anarchy 102 is a 2-hour in person interactive workshop that explores the question ‘how do anarchists actually organise?’

We’ll look at some of the ways that anarchist organise and make decisions together, both within small groups and between groups on a larger scale. The workshop will be interactive with plenty of chance for participation, reflection and questions.

We hope the session will empower people to learn about themselves, how to put anarchist values into application and action and become agents of change.

Our first workshop in the series, Anarchy 101, focused on anarchist values and principles, and invited folks to recognise where these already show up their lives. It also introduced participants to affinity group organising. Attending Anarchy 101 is not a prerequisite for this workshop: we will recap the core elements at the start of this session

This is an entry level session with no dense theory or history and where questions and exploration are welcome.

This event is free (donations welcome) and open to all. Tea, coffee and water will be available, feel free to bring your own vegan snacks.

BASE Accessibility information here.

If you have any questions or additional access needs please email NoMasters@anarchyforall.com and we will do our best to accommodate you.

BASE Librarians will be in the library on Saturday 27th June 2pm-5pm.

Come check out the resources with help from the library collective, chill out and read, or help us with some library work!

The library is up a steep flight of stairs. We’ve booked the downstairs space as well, and are happy to set up a downstairs workspace and carry resources down as needed.

(Please note this means we will not be in the library on Friday 26th.)

The next BASE work day is: Sunday 28th June 🏠🛠️🎨 11am – 2pm(ish)

Drop in and lend a hand to help us make base beautiful (again).

Anyone can join, no special skills required.

We host work days approximately once a month: we can always use a little help from our friends to assist with repairs and handy tasks needed around the building, or helping with things like tidying, painting, and generally keeping our community space looking groovy 😎

11am until 2pm. And don’t forget about our weekly Sunday evening cafe!

Are you reconsidering using music streaming platforms like Spotify, but questioning…

🎵 Why does it feel so hard to leave them?
🎵 What are the ethics behind these huge companies?
🎵 What about these platforms suck people in?

Come along to the next Bad Apple Bristol event ‘Music: To Stream or Not to Stream’, where we will take an anticaptalist approach — thinking about how mainstream music platforms cause harm by being extractive / unethical and are linked with imperialist projects. We’ll also be talking about more ethical alternatives!

The event will be interactive & everyone’s perspective is welcome and valued! We want to create a safe space for discussion, connection and learning from each other.

We will be holding this event after BASE’s usual Sunday vegan dinner! Feel free to come along for the some good food before the event, and please message Bad Apple Bristol if you have any questions or needs <3
Pay what you can, no one turned away due to lack of funds!

Full details on venue accessibility can be found here:
https://basebristol.org/safer-space/accountability-conflict-resolution-process/

This week (16th – 21st June) is Refugee Week, the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.

To celebrate Refugee Week, screenings and film festivals have been organised across the UK to celebrate the creative works of those seeking sanctuary.

A World Not Ours, by Danish-Palestinian filmaker Mahdi Fleifel was scheduled to be shown at the Armadillo Youth Centre in Yate, but this and four other screenings were cancelled due to pressure and threats of protest by a far right and anti-immigration group in Bristol.

We think this film should be shown anyway! 

A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the same family, A World Not Ours is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective
memory.

BASE Bristol have graciously invited us to host this screening, despite pressure from a hateful minority of far right voices. This screening is free, but all donations will go directly to the Palestinian Childrens Relief Fund

7pm Film Screening this Saturday at BASE. Doors open at 6.30pm. Free entry, please make donations to https://give.pcrf.net/fundraiser/7360987

Join writers’ co-op Shoal Collective for the launch of ‘Everything We Thought Was Beautiful’: Interviews With Radical Palestinian Women.

Nearly three years since Israel began its genocide in Gaza, Western media continues to invite Palestinians to comment only on the humanitarian situation and the horrors they endure, while no space is made for their political agency and experience. Within this, women are often portrayed as passive victims of violence.

As Israel escalates and expands its deadly colonial project across Palestine and Lebanon and bombards Iran – with the full participation of the US, UK and others – it’s never been a more important time to hear from radical Palestinian women.

Edited by Shoal Collective, ‘Everything We Thought Was Beautiful’ features 13 interviews with Palestinian women spanning continents and years. Women who are not only active in the struggle for the freedom of their people but in globally connected struggles for liberation.

Interviewees include Ayah Al-Ghazzawi, a BDS activist in Gaza, Shatha Abu Srour, a disability rights advocate in Bethlehem, and Samah Fadil, an Afro-Palestinian writer and poet in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada.

We will be reading excerpts from the book and will hear from some of the women via recordings and video.

You are welcome to BASE cafe before the event between 6-7.30pm. This is a vegan pay-what-you-can community dinner.

Venue has step-free access and a wheelchair accessible toilet.

Free entry but donations appreciated to help us cover costs.

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For more details about the book or to buy, please see PM Press UK: https://pmpress.org.uk/product/everything-we-thought-was-beautiful/

Fifty percent of author royalties that Shoal Collective receives from the publisher will be donated to Palestinian fundraisers and organisations chosen by the women interviewed. The remainder will go towards book-related expenses.

For more on Shoal Collective, see https://shoalcollective.org/

Next BASE work day: Sunday May 31st 🏠🛠️🎨 11am until 2pm

Drop in and lend a hand to help us make base beautiful (again). Anyone can join, no special skills required (although definitely appreciated!).

If you’ve used and benefited from the space then this a great way to give back. Remember there are no staff or building managers, the space is what WE make it.

We host work days approximately once a month: we can always use a little help from our friends to assist with repairs and handy tasks needed around the building, or helping with things like tidying, painting, and generally keeping our community space looking groovy 😎