Crisis Fest: Nov. 18th, WILSON PLAZA 5pm-ALL NIGHT

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Crisis Fest Events

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

(will be updated as MORE events are confirmed)

UPDATE: LOCATION CHANGE: WILSON PLAZA, BETWEEN THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER AND KAUFMAN.

(Decision to move made in solidarity with unions and student groups' decision to move tent city ALSO to Wilson Plaza. We want to be there for the hundreds coming in from across California that night!)

TOMMORROW, NOVEMBER 18TH, WILSON PLAZA, 5PM TO ALL NIGHT, IT'S ON!

FREE FOOD & HOT DRINKS ALL NIGHT (thanks to our unions!)

CAMP ON CAMPUS (BRING YOUR OWN TENT)

ALL EVENTS OUTSIDE OF PAULEY PAVILLION

All bands play for approximately 45 mins. unless otherwise noted.

5PM: Dobrega (music: electronics project)

Banner, Flyer and Poster Making Begins (All day event)

Literature Table with Zines, Articles and other info on the budget cuts (All day event)

530PM "Latin American Poetry Reading:

Spanish & English Translation,
Lectura de Poesias Latina Americanas: Espanol / Ingles"
(Poems Provided / Poemas Suministrados)

Screen Printing Workshop (some materials provided but bring your own if you can!)

6PM: Dodgeball Match #1

"Protest Poetry of the World at Large" (Some poems provided, but bring copies of your favorite poets' works to share with the group. Afterwards we will write our own poems to disseminate.)

6:30PM "The K-12 Resistance" (Discussion)

"How to Make Vegan Desserts" (Workshop, samples provided)

7PM Naima Earth (experimental/jazz band)

"An Absent Future?: The International Student Movement" (Discussion)

7:30PM "Third Worldism and the Global 60's" (Presentation / Discussion)

8PM Costa (d.j.) DANCE LIKE MAD! (goes till 930pm)

"How to Get Involved in Community-Powered Radio" (Workshop / Discussion)

8:30PM GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Short presentations & open discussions on 4 of the broader issues: race, war, capitalism & the future of the student movement.

9-930PM GENERAL ASSEMBLY continues.

930-10PM GENERAL ASSEMBLY continues

10 PM In Sepia (Band)

"The Struggle of Undocumented & AB540 Students" (Discussion)

11PM: Midnight Radio (Band)

"Vows on a High Place: A Ritual Without Spirituality" (Ritual)

12:01 AM YOUR acoustic performance / generalized jam session

Dodgeball Match #2

Confirmed performances with unconfirmed times:

Ultimate Frisbee
MORE Workshops & Discussions

DON'T SEE THE EVENT YOU WANT? THEN GO AHEAD AND DO IT YOURSELF!

NO NEED TO CONFIRM. DON'T ASK FOR PERMISSION!

If you need support or want to see your event posted up here, just email crisisfest@gmail.com and we'll be glad to help.

Drug & alcohol free

Thursday, November 12, 2009

3 Pre Crisis Fest Art Party / Hangouts: Nov 14, 15 and 16

BREAKING NEWS!

3 BRAND NEW PRE-CRISIS FEST EVENTS:

1. UNIVERISTY "RE-DECORATION" Art Party & Hangout
UCLA Kaufman Hall
Saturday Nov 14 9am-4pm (possibly later)

2. UNIVERISTY "RE-DECORATION" Party & Hangout
UCLA Kaufman Hall
Sunday Nov 15 12pm-6pm (possibly later)

This weekend, bring your paint, markers, chalk, cardboard, banners, paper, canvases, boxes, old sheets, old shirts, tape, glue, and other supplies, and other random junk to help create signs, posters, art, and installations for the upcoming UC STRIKE! Most importantly though, just bring YOURSELF...and some friends. We will have snacks and perhaps some cheap wine to help get us into the festive and revolutionary spirit.

We need to make this Strike & Protest VISIBLE. We need to make sure that no surface of campus goes untouched. We need to make sure that no student will be able to say he or she didn't know what was going on. We need to make some beauty, some horror, and some fun. And most importantly...we need to have fun doing it. So let's make it happen!

3. GENERALIZED PRE-CRISIS FEST HANGOUT, ART PARTY AND MORE!
Steps of Royce Hall
Monday November 16th, 12 noon to 2pm

Includes all of the above in 1 and 2 (no wine, unfortunately), music, frisbee, art supplies and most importantly, WHATEVER YOU BRING!

MOST IMPORTANTLY JUST BRING YOURSELF.

What is the point? At one level, THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT. The point is being together without all the shitty boundaries that keep us apart. At another level, we want to be visible, liberate some space on campus, have some fun, create art for the 18th & 19 and take back our university every day.

If you want to contribute, don't ask permission: do it! If you have any questions email crisisfest@gmail.com

Monday, November 9, 2009

GET INVOLVED

Want to put on an event? THEN DO IT!

DON'T ASK PERMISSION, LET'S TAKE BACK OUR UNIVERSITY!

Have your band play, put on a workshop, read your poetry, project a movie on the wall, do a fashion show, dj a set, whatever!

Email: crisisfest@gmail.com if you need any support or need help getting the word out.

Spread the Facebook invite link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205509788311&index=1

Crisis Fest: Call to Action

CRISIS FEST: A Space for Music, Workshops, Dance, Joy and Protest!

On November 18th, hundreds of union members and students from all over California will converge on UCLA in the leadup to the system-wide protest of the Regents meeting. With the support of union and student groups, there will be a day and night Tent City outside of Pauley Pavillion to house our convergence!

Therfore, the students of UCLA have created the CRISIS FEST: A radical space at Tent City to respond to the crisis with new ideas, experiences, anger and joy.

We recognize the broader issues shaping the crisis: privatization, and the economic downturn, the resegregation of the university and the ongoing wars abroad.

But we don't want boring colloquiums or lectures: for one night we run our education as self-education; we protest with fun and festivity! There will be music, food, workshops and communal spirits in store for everyone.

And we want your help!

From 5pm until (at least) Midnight, we want to fill UCLA with your music, poetry & spoken word, discussions, dance, visuals, videos, d.i.y. workshops, and literature, in addition to what we've already set up (and the list will only get longer).

We have discussions of the international student movement, dodgeball & frisbee matches, mass camping on campus (bring your own tent!), screen printing workshops, banner & art making, rock & traditional Mexican music and a General Assembly to discuss the future of the movement.

DON'T ASK FOR PERMISSION! LET'S TAKE BACK THE UNIVERSITY AND MAKE IT OUR OWN!

Determine your own participation. Create your own event! Email: crisisfest@gmail.com

Sign up for the Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205509788311

If you need a bus ride to UCLA on Nov 18th, sign up here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=riU_2fY_2fwxry5LldJgrCRWaw_3d_3d

Sunday, November 8, 2009

WRITE YOUR LIST OF DEMANDS HERE: LET'S GET 50

Add more in the comments box. Let's see if we can get 50 demands.

1. $0 tuition

WRITE YOUR OWN "SLOGAN" FOR CRISIS FEST

Most slogans just put people to sleep. That's because everyone's supposed to think the same thing and repeat the same words we've all heard a million times before.

So here's a list of things people have said so far when talking about Crisis Fest. No one of these is better than the others, Crisis Fest is ALL OF THESE THINGS.