WHEN and WHERE?
YOUR TOWN, OUR TOWN!!!

It was the intention to once again begin preparing a new Map Festival for later next year and so we invite your ideas and participation. We were thinking to run the Map Fest in 2008. We wanted to once again situate the Festival in and around the 56a Infoshop in Walworth. BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANYTIME!! Really sorry! But you can do your own Festival and invite us for a holiday we very much need!! ;-)

But this year we extend invites to participate to millions of possible groups around the world to hold events under the name YOU ARE HERE BUT WHY? In their own locations, each event included in our programme and website.

• Mapping Migration in South London (as No Borders Leeds did in a printed map form) looking at and ‘targeting’ the infrastructure of the Migration industry (detention / reporting centres, cop shops, govt agencies and so on).
• Another Austin Osman Spare walk but this time around Blackfriars where a reputed stained glass window can be found designed by Spare.
• Another exhibition of hand-done maps in 56a from our recently expanded archive
• A day trip to Trumpington near Cambridge for the hell of it. To ‘map’ Trumpington.
• A day devoted to Treasure Trove in some sense in London.
• An photobased exhibition based on Primo Levi/train routes in Italy to the Nazi death camps
• Something that looks at Non-European cartographies / experiences of landscape / ways of moving around a terrain without map.
• Guerilla film night on a roof somewhere in South London showing short movies. We have a few good ones. Do you have any good ones?
• Discussions of radical geographies and non-linear processes of changing the world, looking at critiques of ‘multitude’ and interpretations of ‘singularities’ of situtions. Got that? Basically new, Post-Left ways of acting now.
• Considering physical and communicative actions on the creative quarter of Bankside that talks of the gentrifying nature of Globe and Tate, the recuperative process those institutions engage in. Looking at the role of the Tate, other galleries, and ‘Art’ in erasing radical thought and activity through their promotion of ‘socially engaged art’ etc
• Games in the area (that are not abstract pseudo-radical interventions) that are fun and playful for those involved (us, others). Bike games encouraged. Also the ‘100 Things That Are There’ street game.
• Something about all the food that used to be made in SE1 eg Twiglets in Peak Freans in Bermondsey. A walk, a picnic??
• Radical history done in new ways?
• Maybe a computer adventure game based on notion of not having to do anything!!?
• A typographical walk around the E+Castle and beyond.
• Compilation of the Atlas of Significant Sites (Cefalu? Kronstadt? Nietsche in Turin?)
• Your ideas here?

EXHIBITIONS

LIVE EVENTS

WALKS

DISCUSSIONS

RADICAL HISTORY

GAMES

SELF-MAPPING

MUSICKS

EXCURSIONS

MAP MAKING

DREAMING

FOOD + DRINK

CONNECTIONS

SPACE TO THINK

SILENCE...

We haven't written the new invitation yet, so in the meanwhile....

contact us at:

what is the
YOU ARE HERE BUT WHY? A Free Festival of Mapping?

• You can read about what the last YOU ARE HERE but why? was all about here:

• You can look at all the events that were part of the 2005 Festival here:

• You can read about what the current activities of YOU ARE HERE but why? here:

• You can read the JUNE 2005 invite for YOU ARE HERE but why? here:

LONDON:
Get in touch. We will tell you when the next meeting is. Add something to this great Festival.

INTERNATIONALLY:
Okay so we are looking for you, your group, your infoshop, your family to get involved. You can create and hold an event, however loose it is, where ever you want. Just inform us of the date, time and what it is and we will include it in our publicity.

chris56a(at)yahoo.co.uk

or write

56a Infoshop
56 Crampton St
London SE17