Common House

Hello Friends! Please click for some cash for us! The Common House started in 2013 to provide affordable space for radical/community groups, and it has hosted over 7,000 hours of community action since, incl over 500 meetings, 350 classes and workshops, 120 complementary healthcare sessions, 80 reading groups, and 110 film screenings. All of its user groups are non-profit, volunteer-run, and committed to building supportive and more integrated communities, and ultimately a fairer society.

Exciting news everyone! The Common House has been shortlisted for funding through the Skipton Building Society Grassroots Giving fund. To win the grant, we need to get the most votes! Please take 2 seconds to vote for us using the link and help us get £500!! https://www.skiptongrg.co.uk/…/201…/l ondon/the-common-house/

Inspiring!! and soon we'll be starting our own podcast series... hear this space!! ;)

Dear friends and followers! We are looking for folks to help us with our website. It's a bit sad and desperately needs a good de-bugging and facelift. Shouldn't take someone who knows the score very long...
Please drop us a line if you think you could help! Thank you <3

Many Common House groups representing!

Kickabout every Wednesday in Vicky Park, organised by Queerspace east ⚽🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🌈🌳💜

29 July, 2pm at Victoria Park Square (5 min walk from Common House): Women's Strike Assembly 'On Violence'
Join us for a summer afternoon of food, feminist hanging out, discussions and making plans. Our focus: how gendered violence, abuse & criminalisation operate in our communities and how to confront them. With the far right using stories of sexual abuse to fuel racist hate mongering and trading in increasingly regressive and violent ideas around gender, our question is: how do we build a feminist movement that can confront and defeat the far-right on these issues, and to challenge structural violence.

Friday 27 July, 7.30pm: Feminist Fightback Film Club presents 'Girlhood'
Girlhood is a 2014 French coming of age drama film directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Karidja Touré. It focuses on the life of a girl who lives in a rough neighborhood right outside of Paris and discusses and challenges conceptions of race, gender and class. Sciamma's goal was to capture the stories of black teenagers, characters she claims are generally underdeveloped in French films.
As ever, there w...ill be an informal post-screening discussion after the film, and snacks and drinks available. All welcome. Suggested donations £0/2.5/5 un/low/higher waged taken on the door.
Access information for The Common House is here https://www.commonhouse.org.uk/b…/acces sibility-information/ - get in touch if you have any questions.
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Weekly Queer Kickabout organised by Queerspace east!

7 July 6-11pm: Dreaming of Life (screening) - Lesvos Solidarity Film Fundraiser, hosted by Olive Branch Arts
Come along & help raise awareness & funds for Lesvos Solidarity. We will be screening a documentary shot in 2015, by Iranian refugee and documentary film maker, Morteza Jafrai. The film shows unique insight to the journey of refugees arriving at the height of the crisis in 2015, following them from the arrival on the boat, through their stay on Lesvos, into mainland Gr...eece and the confrontation with police on the Macedonian border,.
Film screening, discussion, including Skype Q+A with the director, music and entertainment.
Doors at 6pm. Film starts at 7pm. Donations Welcome, all funds go to Pikpa Refugee Camp Lesvos.
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A reminder that next Sunday is the monthly Common House meeting. Anyone who would like to get involved with the Common House, or just find out what's going on very welcome. Meeting is 2pm-4pm. Friends and Common House family also very welcome to our monthly pre-meeting lunch social 1pm-2pm! <3

26 June, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Conversations to Reimagine NGOs
We will explore how we can collectively reimagine Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) as places of international solidarity, justice and compassion. Without blame or finger pointing at individuals or organisations, let’s use our role as citizens to start a conversation about the deep cultural beliefs we have of ‘others’ and how this manifests in how we support and enable international development.
... You don’t need experience or knowledge of NGOs. You just need to be a citizen who is curious about finding better ways of organising our society. We will discuss what gives us hope, explore the deep cultural beliefs that lie beneath ‘development’ and share ways our struggles for equality and economic justice are connected to those in the global south. https://www.commonhouse.org.uk/…/conver sations-…/2018-06-26/
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24 June, 5 - 9pm: Jewdas film screening of: 'The Rabbi's Cat' (2011), a French film set in 1920s Algeria based on a comic. In the film a rabbi’s cat learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot and expresses his desire to convert to Judaism. There will be dinner and a discussion of the film after the viewing.

Queerspace FC - film club runs as a film club in winter and as Queer Kickabout East in summer!! come join this casual kick/hangout in Vicky park!!

Tonight (not at Common House): Come celebrate with us the end of Antiuniversity 2018 Festival (and Antiuniversity in general - this was the last one).