Event: A GROWING {R}EVOLUTION

Saturday 22nd October 11.00 to 5.00pm
Electron Club

Glasgow To Detroit

(Film Project)


Three adults and two weans from Glasgow, set off to Detroit to talk to and film folk involved in Detroit’s City Farm projects, a revolutionary community movement undeterred by the desolation of a third of their city and the demise of the car plants that was the biggest part of the city’s economy. Detroit is famous for something else now, that has nothing to do with cars. We have much to learn from their experience and much to tell you of what we found.

The day will be about connecting up the US experience with the UK and Detroit with Glasgow and our connections with activism and growing things. Lunch at the community garden may be on the cards weather permitting. Part of the day will be taken up by discussion, watching films and looking at a manifesto for a civil society.

Participants

LEGUP & Fairfield Farmhouse Community Trust

Building community in the Common Good. The LEGUP garden is much more than just a garden- it is an open air community centre, a meeting place, a place to bring your ideas, an educational process. The garden is situated within Elder Park, a green space that is part of Glasgow’s Common Good Fund. This project runs on DIT (Do It Together). The Fairfield Farmhouse Trust, on the same site, works to restore Govan’s oldest building. We hope to repair the building with the involvement of local people at every stage.

Common Good Awareness Project

The CGAP is part of an association of people working on the campaign to identify, document and restore our common heritage. Also to look at ways that the Common Good concept and the Common Good Fund could be used as a civic organising tool across Scotland, as a template others outwith Scotland could find resonance with and as a format for solidarity.

Grown in Detroit (Film)

Grown in Detroit focuses on the urban gardening efforts managed by a public school of 300, mainly African-American, pregnant and parenting teenagers. In Detroit alone, there are annually more than 3,000 pregnant teenagers who drop out of high school. As part of the curriculum, the girls are taught agricultural skills on the school’s own farm. The young mothers, often still children themselves, are learning by farming to become more independent women and knowledgeable about the importance of nutritional foods.

Manifesto in progress

Towards building a {r}evolution in answer to the banal ideas and decline of the nation state bereft of a social vision. If we attempted to articulate a vision of revolutionary change in which people transform themselves into more socially and politically conscious citizens; the entire society is thus enriched by an expansion and deepening of human identity. Agree? This is part of an on going project at different events.

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