Info Centre
123A Mare Street, E8. London Fields BR.
"The Five Year Plan ‹ Propaganda
and printed matter from the Association of Autonomous Astronauts."
Open daily from 1pm - 6pm throughout the festival. Event updates, information
and your input.
phone: 0181 985 9981
email: infoc@compuserve.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/infoc
Calendar:
Friday June
18th:
1:30pm: Protest
against the militarisation of space, part of the J18 global festival.
(www.gn.apc.org/june18)
Venue: Assemble Green Park tube.
Saturday 19th:
Noon - 6pm: Intergalactic Conference
- John Eden (Raido AAA)
Conference Introduction
- Professor Chris Welch
(Lecturer in Astronautics, Kingston University) "The history of the
British Interplanetary Society"
- Paul Macauley (author
of Pasquale's Angel and contributor to Interzone) "How the future
should have been" (www.omegacom.demon.co.uk)
- Mark Singer (writer specialising
in aesthetics, sex and the immediate future and currently working
on 'The Electric Storm, a cultural history of music and technology
between 1876 and 1982') "Home is where the heat is ‹ when spacemen
fall to Earth"
- Neil Gordon Orr (Disconaut
AAA) "Everybody gets to go to the moon ‹ next
steps into space"
- Zigi Sinnette (Missiles
for Peaceful Purposes, member of UK Rocketry
Association) "Build your own rocket"
- Barry Bryant (Aotearoa
AAA) "Towards an everythingisation of stuff:
Pasifikan strategies for radical emigration"
- Riccardo Balli (AAA Bologna)
and Gerard Z (Grub Street 23) "333"
- Dorothy Matrix (Future
Excavations Inc.) "Hostile Environments"
- Jason Skeet (Inner City
AAA) "See you in space"
- Plus AAA propaganda films
and stalls.
Venue: University
of Westminster, Marylebone Road,
opposite Baker Street tube.
£4/£3. Sponsored by King Mob
8pm til late: My Eyes...My Eyes presents ETC.
(Extraterrestrial Cinema).
AAA films, presentations installations and performances, including Lola
Chanel (AAA Vienna) "Women in Space", Nomad AAA "This is my confession",
Disconaut AAA "Means of Flight - an alphabet for autonomous astronauts",
Laura Liverani "Mondo Astronauta ‹ portraits of the AAA". Films and
video
from Tim Flitcroft, Deane Thomas, Lisa DiLillo and more.
Presentations, installations and performances from Simon Lewandowski,
Toolroom Salon, Seba Patane, Judy Sirks, Saul Albert and Strike.
Live electronica and video mixing from Ticklish 'Deviate, decapitate,
fornicate, fabricate' performance by Inventory. Premiere of "Victims
of
Geography" film by Pictorial Heroes. DJs including DoA.
Live web video streaming
with Backspace.
Venue: Strike, 11-29 Fashion Street, E1.
Liverpool St/Aldgate East
tube.
£4/£3. Sponsored by Pictorial Heroes
Contact: 0181 858 5983 or www.myeyes.dircon.co.uk
Sunday
20th:
2pm: Three-sided Football, AAA Krazy Golf & Picnic
Venue: Assemble Speakers' Corner. Hyde Park tube.
8pm: AAA Pub Night: Space Quiz and debate of the Millennium: Star Trek
v.
Babylon 5.
£1. Sponsored by The Idler
Venue: Penny Black, Mount Pleasant WC1.
Farringdon tube.
Monday
21st:
Noon: Press Conference & AAA Bologna Psychic Attack against NASA
Venue: Blackwall Steps. Yabsley Street E14.
Blackwall DLR.
8pm: Solstice outdoor training for autonomous astronauts, featuring
star
navigation, low level gravity practice, dreamtime workshop, and astral
projection exercise.
Venue: Hampstead Heath,
Assemble Hampstead
Heath BR, Southend Road, NW3.
6.23pm: THE
FOUNDATION FOR ART IN ZERO GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS : OFFICIAL LAUNCH
Venue: Central St. Martin's College, 107 Charing Cross Road,
WC2.
Julie Bacon : AQUARANTINE INTERCOURSE incontinently itinerant, interdisciplinary
living in n degrees; Andy Smith (Project One) : THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH
SPACE a meditation on the possibilites and practice of taking performance
into new landscapes; Stuart B (Nomad AAA) : POLAROID HAIKU crossing
innumerable borders with simultaneous actions.
Free entrance
Tuesday
22nd:
8pm: Nocturnal Emissions (1st London gig in 15 years), plus Beam
Me Up, KJ
(performing music from classic Star Trek and featuring voice of KJ Grant,
ex-Cop Shoot Cop), plus DJs Interossiter, OSI and John Eden.
Venue: Upstairs at the Garage, Holloway Road N7.
Highbury & Islington tube.
£6/£4. Sponsored by Blast First! and Club Integral
Wednesday
23rd:
2:30pm: Inner City AAA Grub Street Launch Site tour and psychogeographical
experiment.
Venue: Assemble, northern end of Milton Street EC2. Barbican/Moorgate
tube.
9pm: space 1999 pop night.
Featuring:The Adventures of Parsley (5 piece pop combo playing
cult 60s and 70s TV themes in original Space 1999 moonbase alpha spacesuits),
guest vocalist Norbert J. Hetherington.
The Family Way (the Way family down on their luck sing pop duets
to try and earn back some of the family silver. Come and meet scarlet
day, lady summer way, father way, j.d. babyface way and cousin mortimer
way).
Mikeys space video
selections
Venue: Vauxhall Tavern, opposite Vauxhall Tube. Buses 36, 185,
44, 77, 88.
£4 or £2.50 for those in very spacey fancy dress. Sponsored by Green
Bohemia
12am onwards Wig 'n' Casino gay Northern Soul music with space visuals.
(£2 entrance if you arrive after 12)
Night-time: Raido AAA Astral Training
Try to visualise yourself in space, or at Raido AAA's launch site in
the
minutes before you go to sleep. Report any results, or related dreams
to
aaa@uncarved.demon.co.uk
(text or .jpegs), or hand them in at any Space 1999
event.
Thursday
24th:
2pm: Space Fete, organised by Oceania AAA. The first/last annual
AAA garden party.
Events include drinking, eating, dancing, and space-themed
competitions. Bring your own drinks and food.
Venue: Assemble 67 Millbrook Road, Brixton SW9.
Brixton tube or Loughborough Junction BR.
6:30pm: AAA
5 year plan gathering.
Venue: Info Centre, 123A Mare Street, E8. London Fields BR.
Friday
25th:
11am: Protest Against The 1986 Space Act and Spaceship Licensing
Laws.
Venue: Assemble outside the British National Space Centre, 151
Buckingham
Palace Road SW1.
Victoria tube.
7.30pm: Space Caff 2 - space vegan food, the chance to eat your
food on
mars/the moon/in outer space and to purchase the video for £3 for proof.
Space age pop music as surround sound.
AAA project reports.
Venue: 56a Infoshop, 56a Crampton Street, SE17.
Elephant & Castle tube.
Saturday
26th:
10am
- 11pm: (and Sunday 27th 11am - 6pm). Escape from Gravity with the
seventh annual kite festival.
Venue: Hackney Marshes.
Homerton BR
2pm: Intergalactic Triolectic Football Cup (Three-sided Football),
Venue: Kennington Park.
Oval/Kennington tube.
4-7pm: Intergalactic
Conference - the second stage
Featuring: Andreas Mu B (AAA Trento) and other speakers to be confirmed.
Venue: Kennington Park Community Center
Oval/Kennington Tube
All-night Rave in Space.
Venue: to be announced during the festival. Call festival hotline
on the day or check website.
Sunday
27th:
11am
- 6pm. Escape from Gravity with the seventh annual kite festival.
Venue: Hackney Marshes.
Homerton BR
3pm: Back to Earth: A review and summing up of the ten days and
a look to the future.
Venue: 56a Infoshop, 56a Crampton Street, SE17.
Elephant & Castle tube.
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