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News November 8th 2009
News 28th October 2009
News 23rd October 2009
News 22nd September 2009
First of all thanks to everyone who has been involved in all the benefit activities recently. We will be getting into some serious fund-raising in the near future in terms of grant applications and the like as well as the first Warzone annual rubber-duck race (all will be revealed). While we are still in negotiations over the Victoria Street building, we are not holding our breath and are going to start looking at other potential venues. We might still get a positive outcome with Victoria Street yet but there's no point holding out for it. We've learned a lot from these negotiations and are strengthening our position as a result. Rest assured we will keep going until there is a new centre in Belfast. As ever for all those who want to help, and there's a lot of you, the best thing to do now is organise benefits. The stronger financial position we are in when we first set foot through the door, the better position we will be in the long term.
Also coming soon will be a new website where there will be no adverts and you can say **** as much as you want - Onwards and upwards...
Those kind folk at Warzone
News 8th September 2009
Anarcho legends Subhumans are playing in Auntie Annie's tomorrow night - Marty who used to do the Warzone demos and mastering will record the show for CD release - Come along, bring as many mates as you can and let's make it one to remember!!!
News 3rd of September 2009
Over the weekend we raised £1332. Thanks to all the bands who played for free, Mac for doing sound on the Friday for free, everyone one who lent out equipment and everyone who showed up!! I had a great weekend and hope everyone else did! Im only just about over the hangover now!!!
News 25th August 2009
Third Belfast Anarchist Bookfair & Warzone Fest
The 3rd Belfast Anarchist Bookfair will take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday 29th August 2009 with an exhibition of Abel Paz's photos from the Spanish revolution and video showings at 9-11 Lombard Street Belfast on Friday 28th and Sunday 30th of August (details below).
Talks/discussions confirmed so far:
Fighting Racism and Fascism 12.00
Women and Equality - workshop co-facilitated with RAG 12.45
Lunch 1.30
Equality and Education 2.00
Taking on the Bosses 2.45
Equality and Northern Ireland 3.30
Freedom and Communism - Equality and Anarchism 4.15 Stalls confirmed so far:
Anarchist Federation
Antifa Belfast
Aufheben
back2front magazine
Organise!
Just Books Collective
RAG
Solidarity Federation
Workers Solidarity Movement
"En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo" Friday 28th and Sunday 29th August "En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo - In one who knows the greatness of our tomorrows there is no room for pessimism" video showings and an exhibition of photo's from the late Abel Paz's 'The Spanish Civil War' at 9-11 Lombard Street, Belfast.
Friday 28th 5.00 - 7.30 pm plus showing of the documentary by Lisa Berber and Carol Mazer "...de toda la vida" and Ken Loaches 'Land and Freedom'
Sunday 30th 1.00 - 4.00 pm plus showing of Vicente Aranda's 'Libertarias'
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WARZONE BENEFIT FEST 28th-30th August! Pavillion Bar Belfast. Friday and Saturday. Doors 7pm both Nights!!
Friday 28th
Gama Bomb
www.myspace.com/gamabomb
Only Fumes and Corpses
www.myspace.com/onlyfumesandcorpses
Neinfenbach
www.myspace.com/neifenbach
Pocket Billiards
www.myspace.com/pocketbilliards
Sorcery
www.myspace.com/sorcerytrash
Momma Slippers
www.myspace.com/mommasslippers
Saturday 29th
Bacchus
www.myspace.com/bacchusband
Carosah
www.myspace.com/carosah
The Lobotomies
www.myspace.com/thelobotomies
Sort it out
dont think they have a myspace
The Dubtones
www.myspace.com/dubtonesireland
Axis Of
www.myspace.com/axisof
Dwell in Sun
www.myspace.com/dwellinsun
Benefit shirts possible logo
Hey guys here is the logo i made for the benefit shirts. what do you think? anyone else got any ideas? i was thinking 6 quid for the shirts as that covers the $2.50 (roughly i will get the exact figure when the shirts arrive) for materials and then the rest goes to the collective.
News 4th August 2009
There is a picket today at the Belfast branch of Thomas Cook at Donegal Square West at 1pm over Thomas Cook workers who were arrested in Dublin. Come along and show your support!
News 23rd July 2009
A few of us met yesterday and went over the blueprints of the new building and we've submitted our ideas to the architect for costing, building possibilities etc If he gives the thumbs up we will enter negotiations. We hope to get the rent down, get a rent-free period and a long term lease etc but it all hinges on planning permission to change the use of the building as well as an application for an entertainments licence. We'll take things one step at a time though. It's great to hear all of the encouragement and response to this new initiative has been overwhelmingly positive. Fingers crossed it will work out but don't worry if it doesn't we'll keep at it until it does!
News July 06 2009
Here is a possible design for a new logo for Warzone - what d'ya reckon? - check
out the discussion boards and give your opinion - other ideas welcome too...
News July 02 2009:
After a second viewing and meeting last night we have decided to have a go
with the building on Victoria Street. We had a bloke from building control out
to advise us on what we need to do to make our project viable. There are a
number of changes we need to make but no major works involved. An architect
is coming out next week to check things for us. The next stage is that we go to
planning and enter a proposal to change the building's usage. Once cleared we
will then go for the entertanment licence after which it is all go. In the meantime
we will begin fundraising in earnest. All help is appreciated. It's your centre too!
News June 20 2009
Get involved in helping to build the site by becoming a writer - send a message and we'll do the rest and then you can add to the site, build your own pages etc - this site could really take off if more people get involved!
The Warzone Collective began in 1984 when local punks and anarchists decided to pool their efforts and get their own venue, practice rooms and social space. By 1986 the Collective opened its first premises in Belfast which provided a vegetarian cafe/drop in centre (Giros Belfast), practice and office space, venue and screen printing workshop. It developed organically on DiY and anarchist ideas and soon became a focal point for anarchists, punks, radicals and other n'er-do-wells. In 1991 the Collective moved to a larger and more ambitious venue. Over the years thousands of people passed through the doors and were exposed to new ideas such as anarchism and DiY politics and the Centre became the counter-cultural hub for the greater Belfast area and beyond. Towards the end of 2003 the Centre closed for a number of different reasons but it left a gap in radical Belfast culture. In 2007 discussions began and eventually in 2009 the Collective has reformed and is going through the process of trying to establish a new venue. News of developments will be posted here as it happens.
Everyone is welcome!
News 28th October 2009
News 23rd October 2009
News 22nd September 2009
First of all thanks to everyone who has been involved in all the benefit activities recently. We will be getting into some serious fund-raising in the near future in terms of grant applications and the like as well as the first Warzone annual rubber-duck race (all will be revealed). While we are still in negotiations over the Victoria Street building, we are not holding our breath and are going to start looking at other potential venues. We might still get a positive outcome with Victoria Street yet but there's no point holding out for it. We've learned a lot from these negotiations and are strengthening our position as a result. Rest assured we will keep going until there is a new centre in Belfast. As ever for all those who want to help, and there's a lot of you, the best thing to do now is organise benefits. The stronger financial position we are in when we first set foot through the door, the better position we will be in the long term.
Also coming soon will be a new website where there will be no adverts and you can say **** as much as you want - Onwards and upwards...
Those kind folk at Warzone
News 8th September 2009
Anarcho legends Subhumans are playing in Auntie Annie's tomorrow night - Marty who used to do the Warzone demos and mastering will record the show for CD release - Come along, bring as many mates as you can and let's make it one to remember!!!
News 3rd of September 2009
Over the weekend we raised £1332. Thanks to all the bands who played for free, Mac for doing sound on the Friday for free, everyone one who lent out equipment and everyone who showed up!! I had a great weekend and hope everyone else did! Im only just about over the hangover now!!!
News 25th August 2009
Third Belfast Anarchist Bookfair & Warzone Fest
The 3rd Belfast Anarchist Bookfair will take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday 29th August 2009 with an exhibition of Abel Paz's photos from the Spanish revolution and video showings at 9-11 Lombard Street Belfast on Friday 28th and Sunday 30th of August (details below).
Talks/discussions confirmed so far:
Fighting Racism and Fascism 12.00
Women and Equality - workshop co-facilitated with RAG 12.45
Lunch 1.30
Equality and Education 2.00
Taking on the Bosses 2.45
Equality and Northern Ireland 3.30
Freedom and Communism - Equality and Anarchism 4.15 Stalls confirmed so far:
Anarchist Federation
Antifa Belfast
Aufheben
back2front magazine
Organise!
Just Books Collective
RAG
Solidarity Federation
Workers Solidarity Movement
"En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo" Friday 28th and Sunday 29th August "En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo - In one who knows the greatness of our tomorrows there is no room for pessimism" video showings and an exhibition of photo's from the late Abel Paz's 'The Spanish Civil War' at 9-11 Lombard Street, Belfast.
Friday 28th 5.00 - 7.30 pm plus showing of the documentary by Lisa Berber and Carol Mazer "...de toda la vida" and Ken Loaches 'Land and Freedom'
Sunday 30th 1.00 - 4.00 pm plus showing of Vicente Aranda's 'Libertarias'
WARZONE BENEFIT FEST 28th-30th August! Pavillion Bar Belfast. Friday and Saturday. Doors 7pm both Nights!!
Friday 28th
Gama Bomb
www.myspace.com/gamabomb
Only Fumes and Corpses
www.myspace.com/onlyfumesandcorpses
Neinfenbach
www.myspace.com/neifenbach
Pocket Billiards
www.myspace.com/pocketbilliards
Sorcery
www.myspace.com/sorcerytrash
Momma Slippers
www.myspace.com/mommasslippers
Saturday 29th
Bacchus
www.myspace.com/bacchusband
Carosah
www.myspace.com/carosah
The Lobotomies
www.myspace.com/thelobotomies
Sort it out
dont think they have a myspace
The Dubtones
www.myspace.com/dubtonesireland
Axis Of
www.myspace.com/axisof
Dwell in Sun
www.myspace.com/dwellinsun
Benefit shirts possible logo
Hey guys here is the logo i made for the benefit shirts. what do you think? anyone else got any ideas? i was thinking 6 quid for the shirts as that covers the $2.50 (roughly i will get the exact figure when the shirts arrive) for materials and then the rest goes to the collective.
News 4th August 2009
There is a picket today at the Belfast branch of Thomas Cook at Donegal Square West at 1pm over Thomas Cook workers who were arrested in Dublin. Come along and show your support!
News 23rd July 2009
A few of us met yesterday and went over the blueprints of the new building and we've submitted our ideas to the architect for costing, building possibilities etc If he gives the thumbs up we will enter negotiations. We hope to get the rent down, get a rent-free period and a long term lease etc but it all hinges on planning permission to change the use of the building as well as an application for an entertainments licence. We'll take things one step at a time though. It's great to hear all of the encouragement and response to this new initiative has been overwhelmingly positive. Fingers crossed it will work out but don't worry if it doesn't we'll keep at it until it does!
News July 06 2009
Here is a possible design for a new logo for Warzone - what d'ya reckon? - check
out the discussion boards and give your opinion - other ideas welcome too...
News July 02 2009:
After a second viewing and meeting last night we have decided to have a go
with the building on Victoria Street. We had a bloke from building control out
to advise us on what we need to do to make our project viable. There are a
number of changes we need to make but no major works involved. An architect
is coming out next week to check things for us. The next stage is that we go to
planning and enter a proposal to change the building's usage. Once cleared we
will then go for the entertanment licence after which it is all go. In the meantime
we will begin fundraising in earnest. All help is appreciated. It's your centre too!
News June 20 2009
Get involved in helping to build the site by becoming a writer - send a message and we'll do the rest and then you can add to the site, build your own pages etc - this site could really take off if more people get involved!
The Warzone Collective began in 1984 when local punks and anarchists decided to pool their efforts and get their own venue, practice rooms and social space. By 1986 the Collective opened its first premises in Belfast which provided a vegetarian cafe/drop in centre (Giros Belfast), practice and office space, venue and screen printing workshop. It developed organically on DiY and anarchist ideas and soon became a focal point for anarchists, punks, radicals and other n'er-do-wells. In 1991 the Collective moved to a larger and more ambitious venue. Over the years thousands of people passed through the doors and were exposed to new ideas such as anarchism and DiY politics and the Centre became the counter-cultural hub for the greater Belfast area and beyond. Towards the end of 2003 the Centre closed for a number of different reasons but it left a gap in radical Belfast culture. In 2007 discussions began and eventually in 2009 the Collective has reformed and is going through the process of trying to establish a new venue. News of developments will be posted here as it happens.
Everyone is welcome!
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Just an update on wat we are doin at the minute to get a new building.
We have writen to the estate agent about the building on Donegal lane hoping they will change their minds and offer us this. The initial reason it was taken off the market was because it needed so much work doing to bring it up to standard. In the letter it was offered that we do the work ourselves and we are hoping this will mean a extended rent free period. I will keep you posted Other than that we need keep an eye open for a good place.. i have spotted another place on Victoria St and am going to arrange a viewing next week. Its great to see the energy being generated into this by everyone. |
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