New Norwich Social Centre! Events update

The Where Will It Be Col­lec­tive (WWIB) announce the open­ing of a social cen­tre in a squat­ted build­ing in Nor­wich city cen­tre. Come and vis­it! Here’s the press release:

Press release
For imme­di­ate release 17 Novem­ber 2007

Col­lec­tive squats city cen­tre build­ing

A group call­ing itself the “Where Will It Be Col­lec­tive” (WWIB) has announced the open­ing of a social cen­tre in a squat­ted build­ing in Nor­wich city cen­tre. The Duke Street build­ing is open for art exhi­bi­tions, music, work­shops and many oth­er activ­i­ties.

The squat­ters, who have been adver­tis­ing events under the slo­gan “Where Will It Be?” have announced that their occu­pa­tion is pro­tect­ed under the 1977 Hous­ing Act and have dec­o­rat­ed the build­ing with giant ban­ners.

The Col­lec­tive has made the fol­low­ing state­ment about their aims and inten­tions:

“The WWIB Col­lec­tive hopes to cre­ate a place where any­thing can and will hap­pen. We will run art shows, music events, a free shop and work­shops on every­thing from cli­mate change to bicy­cle repair.

“The Col­lec­tive is cre­at­ing a place that is tru­ly free and tru­ly demo­c­ra­t­ic. It is free from cor­po­rate prof­its and author­i­ty. At a time when much of our city is dom­i­nat­ed by expen­sive, com­mer­cial venues and chain stores, we want to show what can hap­pen when peo­ple are giv­en the space to enter­tain them­selves.

“We are demo­c­ra­t­ic in that we oper­ate with­out lead­ers or com­mit­tees – allow­ing all com­ers a say in what hap­pens and how the cen­tre oper­ates.”

The Col­lec­tive stat­ed that it warm­ly wel­comes vis­i­tors with refresh­ments by dona­tion and will be pro­mot­ing its events over the next few weeks.

Notes to edi­tors
Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the Where Will It Be Col­lec­tive and their events can be found at http://www.myspace.com/wherewillitbe, or by phon­ing 07944874393

The Where Will It Be Col­lec­tive oper­ates with a full equal oppor­tu­ni­ties pol­i­cy and is active­ly opposed to any form of dis­crim­i­na­tion. The Col­lec­tive is not affil­i­at­ed to any polit­i­cal par­ty.

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* We now have a name! I am proud to for­mal­ly announce the exis­tence of Sec­tion Six Social Cen­tre.

* On Sat­ur­day we held our inau­gur­al gig, a well-attend­ed and extreme­ly con­vivial evening of acoustic music fea­tur­ing Paul Gill and Sam Choi, Spi­der­milk and Twist­ed Routes. The evening was made a lit­tle more stress­ful than nec­es­sary by kids break­ing stuff in an adja­cent build­ing and the police try­ing to hold us respon­si­ble and gain entry, but we man­aged to calm them down and have a great evening.

* On Sun­day evening and Mon­day morn­ing work­men and secu­ri­ty from Dar­d­an Secu­ri­ty announced their inten­tion to board up the front door, there­by pre­vent­ing sev­er­al peo­ple includ­ing three young chil­dren from exit­ing the build­ing. Thank­ful­ly on both occa­sions the police were even­tu­al­ly per­suad­ed that entomb­ment of liv­ing peo­ple had poten­tial­ly embar­rass­ing legal con­se­quences and asked them to stop work­ing.

* Come and vis­it! We could real­ly do with more peo­ple to help out and keep the rota staffed, espe­cial­ly dur­ing these ear­ly days of secu­ri­ty para­noia.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thurs­day Novem­ber 22nd, 4pm: Bike main­te­nance / repair work­shop fol­lowed by bike relat­ed films New York Crit­i­cal Mass and Belleville Ren­dezvous.

Fri­day Novem­ber 23rd, 8pm: ’80s dis­co fea­tur­ing the Por­ta­Party.

Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 24th, 8pm: Live bands Fletch Cadil­lac, Stem Cells, Skatabrain (tbc) +Ska DJ (tbc) + more (tbc)

Mon­day Novem­ber 26th: Cli­mate Change evening, includ­ing a show­ing of the envi­ron­men­tal doc­u­men­tary “The Plan­et”.

Com­ing soon (we hope…):

* More gigs
* Capoeira