IRREGULAR RHYTHM ASYLUM -blog

Grrrl 8
Go! G8 Night

＠Kichijoji Fourthfloor
http://fourthfloor.sub.jp/

31 (sat). May 2008
start: 17:00
1000YEN (1D)
(+ one cup of rice - *Rice will go to a food collective providing for participants at the coming anti-G8 action gathering)


Performing:

893 a.k.a. ホー娘。
煙巻ヨーコ
MASA
さっちゃん
yoyo. & Toppie!
ikkyu
いちむらみさこ
レイナ
中村友紀
illcommonz
redbandana Labo.


Booths:

Team Kathy
NU☆MAN
lilmag
Serpica Naro
にちようびカフェ
布ナプ会議
Feminist & Queer Unit @ NO-G8 Camp


So, the G8 is coming to Hokkaido. The papers explain it as a top-down affair. Stately world leaders rush in surrounded by guards and take their place at a table efficiently making decisions for the future of a world that WE ALL share. Yet so many of us feel powerless, poor, and cheated. Isn’ t this what they call power harassment - just on a larger scale? Heads of state dine and pamper themselves at resort hotels... What is this worth to us?

Grrrl 8 believes that a world which would force the G8 on us is one we do not need. And in July, we’ ll be going to Hokkaido. We’ ll be helping to set up an alternative camp at Toya Lake, where people will come together to jointly create alternatives to this ‘G8 world’ . We don’ t need world leaders making our places in the world, we’ ll make them ourselves! While they are fed and pampered, we’ ll be having a party. Let THEM eat cake.

Yes, we can - and do - make our own spaces for belonging and security in this world. Spaces where all people wishing to build alternatives to the social ‘realities’ and relationships they experience today can share their strengths and insights for change. People across Japan are now carefully working on building these spaces at the Toya Camp, as well as expanding on them everywhere that we live.
And for this, we need to consciously think of safer spaces...

What we mean is, openly working on the spaces we participate in. It’ s not uncommon to attend an alternative event, but leave feeling disappointed or confused due to something that made you or a friend uncomfortable. Maybe women were not represented - or the elderly, or the young. Maybe you couldn’ t financially afford the event in the same way everyone else seemed to. Maybe it was in the way everyone talked or tried to appear, or the way they drank. The prevalence of smoking. The lack of vegetarian, or meat-eaters, options. We may not always be aware, but we’ ve learned to feel the existence of countless differences that can be used to keep us apart.

While many differences exist, Grrrl 8 aim to create a space where people that identify with them can openly and comfortably coexist. We are committed to creating spaces free from all forms of violence, oppression, and harassment - and spaces that are capable of openly addressing these problems when and where they
do occur.

Join us at the Grrrl 8 party AND at the Toya camp as we discuss how we can make ‘our space/a space for everyone’ in this precious world we share!


Safer Space:
A space where we may openly question, engage, and support each other.
In such a space, anyone uncomfortable because of harassment would be able to express it, the offending person would have opportunity to consider the problem, and surrounding persons in the space would be able to openly recognize the issue and face it together to better build a future free of harassment. The idea of safer spaces was born from direct action for the elimination of sexual violence and oppression. It has grown in recent years as a path towards achieving truly alternative spaces free of oppression, assault, marginalization and inequality.


Made possible by!:
Fourth Floor, No! G8 Action, A-Menace, Irregular Rhythm Asylum, エノアール, 素人の乱, poetry in the kitchen, VEGEしょくどう