For 48 hours, Goldsmiths will become a furnace of creativity, a place to re-imagine resistance against the cuts. The Long Weekend will reclaim the public, critical space that universities and art schools should be. We will transform the buildings into a living laboratory, an art school for the future, which brings together art students, artists, cultural workers and those fighting the cuts from across the UK to share in defiance against the relentless marketization of our education and our lives. We will share knowledge and skills; we will collaborate across disciplines, ages and backgrounds; we will turn our imagination and desires into tools of disobedience. We will make sure that all the knowledge, ideas,tools and projects which emerge from the event will be disseminated and put into action in streets and public spaces across the country and be shared by all those in the anti-cuts movements.

The Long Weekend will be a feast of non stop workshops and presentations, slide shows and films, how-to sessions and skill shares, and a free space for spontaneous creation of events, actions and expressions. Its not important what art is but what it does, and right now it has the potential to turn the crisis of cuts into an opportunity for change.

Programme

SATURDAY 4th DECEMBER

10-11 - Breakfast

11-12 - OPENING PLENARY (4)

12-1 - Dave Beech; Art, Protest and Freee (1)
Bob & Roberta Smith; Protest poems and songs (4)

1-2 - Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead; Russian radio and film extracts (2)
John Cussans; Free school (1)

2-3 - Pil & Galia Kollectiv; 'I or We' deconstructing liberal individualism (1)
Ben Seymour; tbc (2)

3-4 - Amna Malik; Global Protests and Kettling (2)

4-5 - CLOSING PLENARY (4)

5-6 - Esther Leslie (4)

SUNDAY 5th DECEMBER

10-11 - Breakfast

11-12 - OPENING PLENARY (4)

12-1 - Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination; Creative resistance
workshop (4)

1-2 - Anna Feigenbaum & Anja Kanngieser; An interactive workshop on queer performance tactics and political protest (1)

2-3 - Pedal Power Workshop; How to build a pedal powered sound system (2)
Mark McGowan; The artist known as Taxi Driver (1)

3-4 - Independent Art School; Reading group for manifesto writing, CELL (1)
Electronic Disobedience; a practical workshop on virtual protest (2)

4-5 - Slade Occupation; discussion (1)
David Graeber and Stefano Harney; An open conversation on debt and slavery (4)

5-6 - CLOSING PLENARY (4)