Dave Haslam talks a lot about the secret public and the importance of small scale events in Manchester. His other major theme running through the talk is 'marginal activity' and being different from the main stream. The idea of mass appeal is against all the small scale things that happen in Manchster, especially the hard to find tiny club nights which happen in many unassuming buildings.
A club night of particular interest was 'Drunk at Vogue'. This gay friendly, but shunting of the overtness of canal street event is only publcised by word of mouth and fanzines. This sparked of the idea of 'What is cultural significance?' It is about how much of a difference something makes to our world. But that that be energy, creativity or potential not just the mainstream.
The end of Dave Halsam's talk was what spoke to me the most. The world is capitalised and large scale, but why not rebel? Make small scale, handmade and local. Make bespoke and independant. Why not self publish like the fanzines such as 'Shrieking violet'. These people who created those thing just got on with it. They didnt wait for the world to dictate which way to go, they did what they wanted.
If your spirit is opposite to the times, then change the times! Ths idea will be encouraging for the 'Slow is beautiful' video on Moodle. I have many ideas which don't fit into our world now, but that gives us an opportunity to change things.
A club night of particular interest was 'Drunk at Vogue'. This gay friendly, but shunting of the overtness of canal street event is only publcised by word of mouth and fanzines. This sparked of the idea of 'What is cultural significance?' It is about how much of a difference something makes to our world. But that that be energy, creativity or potential not just the mainstream.
The end of Dave Halsam's talk was what spoke to me the most. The world is capitalised and large scale, but why not rebel? Make small scale, handmade and local. Make bespoke and independant. Why not self publish like the fanzines such as 'Shrieking violet'. These people who created those thing just got on with it. They didnt wait for the world to dictate which way to go, they did what they wanted.
If your spirit is opposite to the times, then change the times! Ths idea will be encouraging for the 'Slow is beautiful' video on Moodle. I have many ideas which don't fit into our world now, but that gives us an opportunity to change things.
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