Mutiny presents
Money on Trial on Thursday, September 24.
Karl Marx described money as the “universal pimp”. But the grumpy German philosopher is dead and the Queen’s head is still on the £10 note. Having no money is depressing. Money means food. Money means paying the rent. Money means getting a round in. But even those with stacks of cash spend their whole lives desperately trying to make more. Money perverts everything it touches. So do we need money? Is it a fact of life the same way as water, gravity or syphilis. Can we run the world without it?
Money on Trial is an evening of engaged debate and entertainment.
There will be three main themes..
Music and resistance: Has money destroyed the music business;
Green money: Can the money markets deliver on climate change and
Government and our money: can the government be trusted with our money?
Doors open at 6pm with music and the
performances start at 7pm so get there early.
Mutiny has adopted and adapted the
Red Room meeting format for a series of events themed Money on Trial, Violence on Trial and Love on Trial. Each event will feature live performances, film showings and music. The performers are invited to a round table discussion with speakers and members of the audience.
Each event begins at 6pm and ends at 11pm starting and finishing with an hour of live music and DJs.
The heart of the meeting will be
three sessions of 45 minutes which will feature short films, poems, talks, plays and other performances along with
discussion around a central “dinner table” with microphones and
questions and statements from the audience.
The first event is titled Money on Trial. The first discussion session will open with an examination of the impact of money on the music industry. We will hear from a new generation of rap artists who have rejected the cliché of drugs, guns, cars and sexism in favour of politically engaged performance. This session will also be examining copyright laws and hope to have a speaker from the appropriately named Pirate Party.
We will then examine Green Capitalism with a short film from director Nick Bloomfield called A Time Comes about the Greenpeace occupation of Kingsnorth; a video on the Vestas occupation and a discussion about whether green investment and legislation can prevent climate change.
Finally, there will be a video performance before a discussion about money and democracy which will look at the issues around MPs expenses, welfare not warfare campaigns and whether the human race actually needs money to exist.
There will be a twitter wall, an exhibition mezzanine and a goody bag of leaflets and information so that everyone can express their creativity, their ideas and their standpoints. We are still open to new ideas to make the event as stimulating and informative as possible.
Here's a glimpse at some of the contributors...
Photographer Anna Logophobia (great name)
Green artist Kat Austen
Reid Dudley-Smith presents on Music and the Internet
People’s Army General VICTORY
War on want campaigns director
and many more...
See the line-up at the
News Update section of the blog
