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Voices Behind Walls: Anti-Carceral Art @ Cyklopen

Nattsvart Verkstad presents
VOICES BEHIND WALLS: ANTI-CARCERAL ART

When? 20-22 September 2024
Where? Cyklopen, Högdalen, Stockholm
What? Art exhibition, letter readings, panel talks, book table, print sales, solidarity fund raising.

Event program

Friday the 20th of September

  •  Exhibition opens @ 18.00
    • 19.00 Welcome talk
    • Through the evening: Letter readings
  • Exhibition closes @ 22.00

Saturday the 21st of September

  • 12.00 Exhibition opens
    • 13.00 Welcome talk
    • 14.00 – 14.45 Panel talk: Kollektivet Jordens Fördömda & Samidoun – on Prisons and Borders, the anticolonial perspective
    • 14.45 – 15.45 Presentation: ABC Belarus on the situation of political prisoners in Belarus
    • 15.45 – 16.45 Presentation: Ukrainian anarchist comrade on prisoners of war
    • 16.45 – 17.45 Panel talk: Fånggruppen – Att vara anhörig till intagen eller att sitta inne utifrån aktivisters perspektiv
    • 17.45 Workshop: How to work with prisoner support
    • 18.15 – 18.45 Presentation: No Border Boiling Pot
  • Exhibition closes @ Late

Sunday the 22nd of September

  • Exhibition opens @ 12.00
  • Exhibition closes @ 15.00

We are living through hard times, and they are only getting harder. Our movements, friends, comrades, organizations, protests, neighbors and activities are falling more and more on the wrong side of law enforcement, regardless of legality or illegality. Some of us will be kidnapped by the state, to be punished for the crime of seeking justice or even basic survival. Neoliberalism is failing miserably to make good on its false promises. But instead of making amends, politicians and industrialists blame us for its failures! This means that police, security guards and prisons are the proposed solution by the rich and powerful. It means more and more brutal borders, and other forms of colonial, imperial and corporate violence. It means the international rise of fascist authoritarian tactics seeping into every aspect of daily life. Here in Stockholm this trend is evident! Hoards of violent new security firms, ticket checkers and increased police are menacing us all over our streets in plain sight! All of them have legally been given new oppressive tools like “visitation” zones and “right” to carry out more random physical attacks and arrests on people. We can neither meet this with despair, nor let the state take away our people so easily.

Nattsvart will hold an art show and education weekend featuring the art, literature, music, and words of imprisoned comrades. We have worked together with an international array of anti-carceral groups to make this happen: Fånggruppen, ABC Belarus, ABC Kiev, Kollektivet Jordens Fördömda, Samidoun, No Border Boiling Pot, INFo 44, Mongoose distro, Free Marius Mason, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. There will be artwork from prisoners from many parts of the world, letter writing, book table, as well as panel talks and lectures on prison abolition, solidarity and how to get organised in the face of the increasingly rampant carcerality seeping into every aspect of our lives.

Let’s keep our friends and comrades connected and active in our communities in spite of the state’s cruelty!

 

This is a picture showing a closed black fist raised in the air, clutching two flags, one black and one red. Above the fist a headline ripped from another document spells out "en dag fylld med samtal och föredrag om Especifismo". Below the fist the date "26th of february" followed by the line "13.00 at Nattsvart Verkstad" is written in a font created by the mujeres libres during the spanish revolution. On a superimposed sticker in the lower right corner the following text is printed: "The anarchist practice of building popular movements & revolutionary organization".

A day about Especifismo

On the 26th of february, starting at 13.00, Nattsvart Verkstad invites you all to a day full of talks and conversations on the ideas of Especifismo. Now, you might wonder what especifismo is:

Throughout the history of anarchism, we have struggled with the tension between making a full prefigurative revolution and fighting for the lives of those who get the worst positions in the prevailing power structure.

We also confront the problems of finding the revolutionary subject, avoiding vanguardism and liberal activism at the same time.

How do we build new power if we constantly petition the state and capital to do this work for us in the name of expedience? Do we organize in anarchist organizations or in broader organizations sharing methods of anarchistic organizing? Do we build parallel organizations like the FAI of revolutionary Spain?

Especifismo is an anarchist tradition originating in Latin America, closely related to the Platformism of Nestor Makhno’s peasant army and aspects of Italian Anarcho-communism, which addresses many of these questions. We invite you to join a day of presentations and discussions on this exciting part of the anarchist movement.

a picture showing a colorful galaxy. Superimposed over the universe is the logotype of Nattsvart Verkstad and its open hours are listed. The space is open on thursdays between 18.00 and 20.00. In parenthesis behind the times it says "sometimes longer".

We are back! Vi är tillbaka!

Sen mitten av januari är vi igång i lokalerna igen!

Våra öppettider är som vanligt torsdagar mellan 18.00 och 20.00.

Vi inleder 2023 med att påbörja arbetet med HeaterBloc projektet! HeaterBloc är en sorts kamin som förbränner alcohol. Detta gör vi för att distribuera till utsatta som löper risk för förfrysning. Vintern är hård och samhällsklimatet blir kallare för varje år som går.

Steg 1 i arbetet är att skaffa materialet vi behöver. Hjälp oss skaffa material så vi kan skapa värmekällor! Vi behöver:

  • Skruvstäd
  • 6 mm diameter kopparrör
  • Värmetåliga glasburkar med metallock (syltburkar) (måste vara värmetåligt och härdat!!)
  • J-B Weld Epoxy (två komponents)
  • Bommulstyg för vekar
  • Lergodstallrikar med ca 14 cm platt yta i mitten
  • Galvaniserat hönsnät (utan plast/gummi på!)
  • Terrakottakrukor (max 14 cm diameter)
  • En riskkapitalists lever (deras hjärtan är för små)

Vi planerar just nu även en rad föreläsningar och workshops för våren. En av de redan bestämda ämnena vi kommer fokusera på är Especifismo. En anarkistisk praxis som är en form av plattformism. Especifismo dagen kommer vara den 26e februari! Vi komemr posta uppdatering kring det här när vi har spikat detaljerna.

Vi kommer även lite då och då dyka upp på Kafe44 med ett infobord och svara på frågor, knyta kontakter och värva stödmedlemmar.

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