PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 6 Next up in the current padkos bioscope season is Robert Nuerwirth’s talk on Shadow Cities (15 mins). Neuwirth spent years living in ‘squatter’ communities across four continents in the process of researching his seminal book: Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters; A New Urban World. In this 15-minute TED Talk from 2005 he
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PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 5 Do not miss “Favella Rising” – an outstanding, multiple award-winning, movie looking at life in Brazil’s slums (1hr 20min, 2005). It focuses on the work of Anderson Sá, a former drug trafficker who establishes the grassroots movement, Afro Reggae. Get to the padkos bioscope on Thursday, 23 May, at 1pm sharp! Thanks to
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 4 We know some of our regulars were gutted they couldn’t make it – but thanks to everyone else for great support and discussions at the “Occupy Wall St” showing! Continuing the occupy theme, but locking it down in our own context, we’re watching “Street Dreams” next week: Thursday, 16 May 2013
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 3 Thanks to everyone who’s joined the phenomenally successful first 2 screenings in the padkos bioscope series. “Occupy Wall Street: History of an Occupation”, a 25-minute Faultines /Al Jazeera documentary, is the next attraction showing @ the padkos bioscope @ 1pm on Thursday, 9 May 2013. More info on poster.
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 1B It’s all happening at CLP on Thursday, 28th March, before the Easter long weekend. Be there by 11:30am when Richard Pithouse will share and discuss his analysis of the state we’re in at this time in South Africa. For this serving of Padkos, we’re attaching Richard’s January 2013 piece titled “The Riotous Underbelly
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 2 Come to the Padkos Bioscope (@ CLP offices) at 1pm on Tuesday, 30 April. We’ll be watching: “La Via Campesina in movement: … Food Sovereignty Now!”, a 20-minute documentary produced by the global movement of peasants and the landless, La Via Campesina. In a previous Padkos (December 2011) marking La Via Campesina’s ‘International Food Sovereignty Day’, we shared