Gatherings¶

• The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army held training sessions at the centre.
• During the Hugo Chávez referendum there was a week long ‘Venezuela Solidarity’ event.
• Conscious fashion week.
• A week-long series of talks, films, food and discussion about Africa.
• The festival for peace organised by the European Creative Forum and Peace Not War was accompanied by an afternoon of workshops at rampART.
• During the European Social Forum the rampART opened its doors to accommodate over 50 European visitors as well as laying on free food and a huge range of entertainment. Additionally, as one of the European Social Forum autonomous spaces, rampART hosted the Home Education Forum and acted as homebase for the European Creative Forum and the Laboratory of Insurrectional Imagination.

Film nights¶

• Since the closure of The Other Cinema, Indymedia London has been using the rampART as a venue for a series of film festivals. These included ‘Caminos De Resistencia’ (Paths Of Resistance) and the Middle East Film Festival.
• There have also been non-Indymedia organised festivals including ‘Positive Global Movements’, a week long exhibition of inspiring stories of resistance around the world.
• Prior to its official debut, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 was premiered at the rampART on the 4th July as part of an ’Independence FROM America’ themed evening.
• 120 people squeezed into rampART’s main room for a documentary about the McLibel trial and a sneak premiere of Supersize Me.