Elannor Donne speaking on Rosa Luxenburg

There is nothing to see on this, I recorded just the audio as agreed. x

Who is that gun pointing at? (IWM)

Soup at IWM. I walked into the large gun pointing outwards & I felt it should point back at itself, deconstruct its own identity.

Widening Participation

I imagined as I walked into LSBU... two shots together, side by side.

The security turnstiles ?

and something that represented 15% cuts, bankers, property, gatekeepers often lowest paid, migrant labour,

Artist or Activist?

A question for myself, Am I an Artist? What is an Artist? What would I like to do?

I have the opportunity to be one (?). I could live a year without extra £ but that hasn't been an issue for me for a while. I don't spend that much, well till more recently so now I have time I can make for this exploration - am an artist or activist?

Can you be both? Who was both? Is this the research? Linking to surrealists and Banksey or an underlying issue to contend with?

Relationship with art & activism in 21st centuary? What's art got to do with it? If resistance is represented why bother? Particular time in history.

Wars on words & people... religion..

Recession & enviormental oblivion

What would I want to do this now?

Action Learning Set ?

Had an Action Learning Set today - we were trained as facilitators by the people who the link goes to. We came to be nurtured and developed.

Read a little on the bus before I left, which was helpful. Gave me ideas to consider. What kind of set are we?

What do we want from the set?

What kind of feedback do we give

a) Supportive

b) Reflective

c) Informative

d) Hard to heard

Noted importance of acknowledging own resonance, and interest, taking away limelight from presentor and also acknowledging we are partisan - have history, life, own insight.

I was challenged with questions, open ?'s, I will practice more? (Maybe give myself a question to answer in posts?)

I felt calmer and less active but struggled inside with the process. The white elephant in the room, loss and time for opportunities. Taking them or holding space for the moment and the when energy permits.

Manifesto & Collectif

Spoke to Z & B of 'Collectif' about a manifesto and it was clear others wanted to do that, though it doesn't seem forced but made sense as we all searched for an anti-capitalist stance, framework.

Its alive.. and I'll share it more.

? New people

? Others who know about manifesto?

Manifesto for the Arts

1. Review old manifesto (Surrealist)
2. Why Now
3. Why Arts
4. What can we learn from process
5. Who with?
6. Who for?
7. In context of economic crisis and election growth of far right, not popular front but socialist.

So I added a link of it to facebook.

Spoke to KJ,

Spoke to Anna R

Discussed with L - maybe to work on with me

Sent by email to Union members, Friends, SP, but a list of others to be done:

RMT

Loriane Leeson

Desperate optimists

ken loach

tony garnet

mark thomas

pedro almadovar

Sanar Yurdapan

Sembebe Osumane

Monty

FBU ?

Moti Roti

Kathy O B

Whitechapel - link to Guernica piece

Wondered if I sent to them, am I trying to fame it up? Most are not my friends..