A CENTURY OF SOLIDARITY: PROCESSIONS 2018

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged 14-18 NOW, activism, Artichoke, Belfast, Cardiff, celebration, City College Norwich, community action, craftivism, creative activism, creativity, demonstration, Edinburgh, Emmeline Pankhurst, featured, feminism, Fiona Kay Muller, imprisoned women, intergenerational, london, Mary Richardson, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, norwich, Print to the People, privilege, Processions, propaganda, solidarity, suffragettes, votes for women, women of the world festival, women's rights.

By Laura Potts

This year I was determined to make the most of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, taking place from the beginning of May. Last year I found myself reading about projects and events that had already taken place. However, this year I was aware of a project early on that was just getting underway: ‘Processions’, in association with Artichoke and 14-18 NOW. This idea saw a number of women gather together with local textile artist Fiona Kay Muller to create a banner. This banner, with all its laboured hours very much part of its fibres, would then be part of a nationwide procession in London, also taking place in Belfast, Cardiff, and Edinburgh.

THE PEDESTRIANISATION OF NORWICH CITY CENTRE

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Alan Partridge, All Saints Street, anniversary, celebration, ceremony, city centre, comedy, Community, Dixons, driving, environment, high street, local, local businesses, London Street, mayor, motorist, NCC, norfolk, norwich, pedestrian, pedestrianisation, pollution, Red Lion Street, Westlegate.

by James Anthony

I never thought I’d start off a serious article by writing about talking during sex, but here we are. It’s a slightly awkward subject, and one that the world of comedy is not afraid to touch upon. Specifically, I’m referring to everyone’s favourite fictional radio presenter, Alan Partridge, who is no stranger to the delicate topic of conversations mid-intercourse. I’m Alan Partridge brought to British comedy a very memorable line, during a less than steamy sex scene, in which Alan asks his partner just what she thinks of the pedestrianisation of Norwich City Centre.

Aside from being a line used as a sure-fire way to detect a fellow Partridge fan, those outside of Norwich may not realise that we recently celebrated fifty years since the first high street in the city became pedestrianised, and that the debate around the motorist vs pedestrian issue continues to rage on. It is very much to this day – as Alan himself would say – a ‘hot topic’.Continue Reading

ROAR: RAISING FUNDS FOR WOMEN’S REFUGES

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged Anna Bird, benefit gig, cabaret, celebration, Dandelion and the Rockets, domestic violence, equality, Fawcett Society, feminist, flamenco, Hannah Tobias, Kill Bitches to Dress Foxes, leeway, Mindframe, misogyny, music, norwich, owl sanctuary, politics, punk, queer, Radioactive Rats, resistance, riot grrl, ROAR, solidarity, Spu Terrible and Puka Percussion, welfare cuts, women, Women's Refuge.

by Tim Forster

Content warning: mentions domestic violence and abuse.

As we know the Tories’ so-called austerity has been an attack on the working class — the economics of class war if you like —but cuts in public sector jobs, benefits and social services have hit women particularly hard.Continue Reading

NEOLIBERALISM

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged adulthood, celebration, class, coal, creative writing, credit, dystopia, economy, establishment, formatting, growing up, gunshot, LGBTQIA+, memory, money, neoliberalism, personal, pinkwashing, poem, poetry, political, politics, pronoun, racism, response, SAD, safety pin, war, writing.

by Julian Canlas

drank from lakes
that turned out to be droughts
cut our lids
to see the future
tricked crops
into growing
mined coal with safety pins.
‘It’s time for celebration, not gawking
at deaths crushed by credit,’ you say.

sick dentures pushing teeth back
broke vessels
gold-cracked chinas
rusty hammers made from origami cranes, pinkwashed. never grow
tired of going to the bank, where each need is a static noise
& a gunshot,
where you tell me,

‘you &I are beings in boats.
you&I are
establishments.’

wasting the column. no column. no pronoun to speak.

rather the gusts than a wall
rather understanding than secular missionaries
rather the freedoms of you & me than glass ceilings
rather the prickled rose we will hold firmly than the diamond-sculpted cross
rather the blood &organs than shed skin
rather the body of blood & sinews than war-torn factories

this is stinking of sweet sorrow,
where dystopias are youth’s memoirs, &
where adulthoods are delayed because there is no
money & water.
& until this day, we are sat on swings
that you say will break from our weight.

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PUNK AND ERASURE: 40 YEARS LATER

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Music That Matters and tagged 7 Year Bitch, anarchism, anniversary, arts, Babes in Toyland, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Blink-182, Blood & Honour, British music, Buzzcocks, celebration, crass, culture, dead kennedys, DIY, earasure, female artists, female musicians, Ford Dagenham, Ghost Town, Goldfinger, Green Day, grunge, history, Iggy Pop, IWD, John Lydon, L7, Less Than JAke, LGBT+, Madness, Malcolm McLaren, male-centric, Minor Threat, music, music that matters, neo nazi, New Found Glory, New Rose, NWA, Patti Smith, politics, punk, punk rock, Ramones, Rancid, RAR, refused, retrospective, revisionism, riot grrrl, Robert Smith, rock against racism, Roxanne Shante, Run DMC, salt n pepa, Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Sid Vicious, Siouxsie Sioux, Ska, The Beat, The Bodysnatchers, The Clash, The Offspring, The Selecter, Young Marble Giants, zine.

by Chris Jarvis

Anniversaries are strange things. Almost exclusively, they consist of rose-tinted, uncritical and nostalgic assessments of whatever they seek to commemorate. 2016, forty years since the ‘birth’ of punk, appears no different. Expect Union Jacks, safety pins galore and excessive images of John Lydon in BBC sanctioned documentaries. Expect descriptions of how important Malcolm Mclaren was to punk’s success, claims that New Rose was without contention the first punk rock single and a neat lineage where pub rock became punk – a very British phenomenon.

Inadequate as such histories are, they are demonstrative of the problem we have with understanding punk as a cultural occurrence. Debate rages amongst fans about whether punk was ever grassroots, whether it was ever political, whether any of the anti-establishment ethos was ever genuine, or instead fabricated by an astute record industry seeking to find the new zeitgeist. Adherents to either theory will read selectively into the evidence and ignore anything which would disprove their dogma.Continue Reading

PUNK’S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged anniversary, anti-establishment, celebration, Converse, fad, fashion, Grime, JME, John Corre, Malcolm McClaren, Mayor of London, music, nostalgia, Novelist, politic, punk, Punk London, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Skepta, sponsorship, subculture, Vans, Vivienne Westwood.

by Mike Vinti

This year, as I’m sure you’ll be hearing a lot of as we move closer to summer, marks 40 years(ish) of punk. As such there’s a plethora of punk-themed exhibitions, celebrations and, inevitably, memorabilia knocking around with the aim of inducing some punk-nostalgia in the generation that came of age during the mid to late 70s and early 80s. However, while there’s much to celebrate about punk’s legacy, and the modern punk scene itself, a lot of the ‘official’ anniversary celebrations are somewhat missing the point.Continue Reading

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A CENTURY OF SOLIDARITY: PROCESSIONS 2018

THE PEDESTRIANISATION OF NORWICH CITY CENTRE

ROAR: RAISING FUNDS FOR WOMEN’S REFUGES

NEOLIBERALISM

PUNK AND ERASURE: 40 YEARS LATER

PUNK’S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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