Fast Forward Festival 2017: Programme

Fast Forward Festival 2017
Build Commons, Build Counter-power: Programme

In less than a month more than 200 of us will gather at a beautiful site called Thornbridge Outdoors in the Peak District National Park, to eat, drink, walk, discuss, strategise, and party together.

We are very excited to announce the line up for Fast Forward 2017…

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Friday 1st September

5-6pm: WTF sessions and first workshops

• WTF are the Commons
• WTF is Counter-Power?
• WTF is Wrong with Capitalism?
• WTF was the Russian Revolution?
• A Communist Agroecology
• The Class of the Dispossessed will Unite a Whole Lot of Fuckers

6-7.30pm: Dinner*
Baked Potato + Chilli + Cheese + Courgette Salad.
Dessert: Roast Pears + Chocolate Sauce.

7.30-9pm: Build Commons, Build Counterpower (Plenary)

9pm… DJs, dancing, bar, film screenings, Spoken Word Roulette!

 

Saturday 2nd September

8-9.30am: Breakfast

9-9.30am: Mass workout!

9.30-11am: Cities in Common – Against and Beyond the Nation State? (Plenary)

11.30am-1pm: Workshops II

• From Corbyn to Counter-power
• Resisting NHS Maternity Care Charges for Migrant Women
• Creating Communities of Care Under Capitalism
• How to Build a Citizens’ Platform
• C-Planning the University: Utopian Planning Project #1299
• Rethinking Solidarity: Networks: Economies & Platforms

1-2.30pm: Lunch
Pasta Bake + Green Salad

2.30-4pm: Workshops III

• Mapping Power, Mapping Commons
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Fascists
• Making Feminism a Threat Again: Organising a UK Women’s Strike in 2018
• Building a Successful Anti-Capitalist Climate Movement in the UK: Lessons from Ende Gelände
• Taking Housing Out the Market: Rent Strikes as Political Leverage and Territorialising Agent
• On Capitalist Realism and Acid Communism

4.30-6pm: Workshops IV

• Blueprint for Counter-Education
• Getting Dirty with the Institutions; The Family, Reproduction & Gender
• The Movement for Housing Justice: A Conversation with Acorn & Radical Housing Network
• How to Take Back Power – Municipalism & Energy Democracy
• Red Gyms, Radical Self Defence and Counter-Power-Punches
• How to Stop a Charter Flight

6-8pm: Dinner
Squash & Halloumi Curry + Kohlrabi Salad.
Dessert: Crumble + Custard.

8pm… DJs, dancing, bar, film screenings, Poetry in a time of Politics, and a Sesh with the June 8th Shitposting Social Club!

 

Sunday 3rd September

8-10am: Breakfast

10am-12pm: Workshops V

• Social Strike: The Game
• The Rojava Revolution in 2017
• Building a Network to Win Our Cities
• Mass Protest and the Future Direction of Anti-Authoritarian Internationalism
• All My Bosses are Dead and their Algorithms are in Power – What is the Future of Work?
• Without Care and Justice, Victory is not Possible: Rethinking Sexual Violence, Accountability, and the State

12.30-2pm: Tactics of Counter-power (Plenary)

2-3pm: Lunch (to go)
Banana + Roasted Pepper & Feta sandwich + Flapjack

3pm… Leave the site

That’s it folks, don’t forget to grab your ticket soon!

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Kids Programme

We have a wonderful kids programme with a great mixture of exploring the beautiful and exciting surroundings – treasure hunts, den building and exploring. Added to that we will put on a play, learn circus skills, watch films, go foraging, make fires and whatever else takes our fancy! All ages welcome to join, 1 to 101!

The kids programme has its own dedicated space on site – The Lodge.

NB. There is no kids space during main meals, but kids will start eating earlier.

 

Friday 1st September

4.30-5.30pm: Kids Space opening circle. All kids and parents.
5-5.30pm: Explore around the site
5.30-6pm: Kids dinner
7.30-9pm: Film

 

Saturday 2nd September

9-9.30am: Kids Space opening circle. All kids and parents.
9.30-11.30am: Treasure hunt
11.30am-12.30pm: Choice of fire lighting, craft.
12.30-1pm: Kids lunch
14.30-5.30pm: Choice of play rehearsal, circus skills or den building.
17.30-6pm: Kids dinner
6.45-7.30pm: Kids play performance
19.30-9pm: Film

 

Sunday 3rd September

10.00am-12.30pm: Choice of fire lighting, craft.
12.30-2pm: Expedition for picnic lunch and closing circle
2pm: End of kids space

 

Kids can come for free, so you don’t need to buy them tickets, just let us know who’s coming!
NB. For this purpose ‘kids’ means 16 and under, but as above, anyone can join the kids’ programme.

 

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A version of this programme will be available later in August as a nice pdf, and all attendees will be bestowed with a beautiful riso-printed hard copy. The kids’ programme is not included here but we can assure you it is looking excellent.

* Vegan and kids’ options will be provided. Please inform us of any allergies or intolerances on the booking form when you pick up tickets.

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