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Date: Thursday 5th January 2012

Speaker: Clive Hendry

Time: 19:00

Venue:Hydra Books 34 Old Market

The Safety Net is a fact based novel set in a hostel for homeless people. The book follows eight people living and working in the hostel as they struggle with the loss of independence within the bureaucracy and inefficiencies of the welfare state. The novel is structured as a series of overlapping short stories, one for each main character.

Each of them find somewhere to live in Webber House, a hostel for the homeless. But in the bureaucratic, under-resourced world of support services, will Webber House be the safety net they need?

Come and meet Clive Hendry as he talks about his book and the background which led to it being written.

Due to ill health Stevphen has had to Postpone tonights event

Plan is to re-scheduled for this event for the spring, sorry for any inconvenience.

Date: Thursday 15th December 2011
Speaker: Stevphen Shukaitis
Time: 19:00
Venue:Hydra Books 34 Old Market

Minor Compositions is a research – theorizing – publishing project whose aim is to bring together, develop, and mutate forms of autonomist thought and practice, avant-garde aesthetics, and an everyday approach to politics. This draws a good deal of inspiration from history of militant research and workers’ inquiry, expanding it beyond inquiry into particular workplaces into a more general investigation of cultural labor, social reproduction, and the relationship between radical politics and their neutralization by market and state forces.

What can ongoing political organizing learn from the history of radical art and cultural politics?

For this evening editor Stevphen Shukaitis will talk about Minor Composition (and Autonomedia) as project and publication series, focusing on themes such as precarity, the radical imagination, communization, occupations, and autonomy. How do these ideas developed from within movements in one context migrate to other countries and situations? And what happens to them when they move?

Click the link below to view the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJRt10-cw4

After months of planning and work, the Hydra Bookshop opens its doors for business tomorrow.

The Bristol Radical History Group has organized an opening week of events for the Hydra to mark the opening.

The first event, which takes place at 3pm tomorrow Saturday afternoon, will be a talk by Ian Bone. Sunday will feature two events. Steve Higginson will speak at 3pm. Followed by Sheila Coleman of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign at 7pm.

Please support the shop by coming to the events and by buying books.

Thanks

The Hydra

Date: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Speaker: John Desmond
Time: 19:00
Venue:Hydra Books 34 Old Market

The Tredegar Medical Aid Society was founded in Tredegar in South Wales in 1890. In return for a contribution from its members it supplied free health care. This society contributed the model which established the British National Health Service

The provenance of John’s talk is a series of events which began last year. After recounting these events, he will discuss the lessons which he has learnt from his research into, and his reflections about the Tredegar Medical Aid Society. He will conclude by touching upon his current work about the health sector in Wales, which is informed by these lessons.’

John throws into sharp relief the contrast between the provision of a health service by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society and its current provision by the State.

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Part of Bristol Radical History Group’s opening week of events for the Hydra.