We have two events coming up in March 2023.
On March 24th we are supporting The Cultural Engine’s
Cherry Orchard Country Park – Future Events
Friday 24th March 2023, 7pm at the WI Hall Rochford (West Street)
An open session to discuss how future Events and Cultural programming at Cherry Orchard Country Park could support broad engagement with Culture and Heritage. With free food and drinks!
The Cultural Engine are holding an event to discuss the potential for an events programme at Cherry Orchard Country Park, and how this can play a key role in developing the heritage and cultural profile of the Rochford District.
We will have a number of speakers that will focus on the opportunities and share knowledge about Cherry Orchard Country Park. This will be followed by opportunities for anyone attending to share their thoughts, insights, ideas and concerns.
We are keen for anyone that has an interest in the Park to attend and get involved – wherever you live. Please get in contact for more information or if you would like to talk to us beforehand. Please also share with anyone else you think might be interested in attending.
For more information contact giles@culturalengine.org.uk or 07765 242241
Following on from Club Critical Theory’s (CCT) launch event for Graham’s Burnett’s Southend-on-Zine archive book at 21 in Oct 2022 , we will be at Southend’s Ironworks for this event on Thurs 30th March 7-9pm:
‘GONNA BREAK OUT OF THIS CITY’ A SOUTHEND ON ZINE EXHIBITION EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH CLUB CRITICAL THEORY AT THE IRON WORKS, 90 SOUTHEND HIGH STREET, SOUTHEND ON SEA Thursday 30th March 2023 7pm – 9pm Info;
As part of the ‘Southend on Zine: Fifty years of voices and stories from Southend’s Underground and Alternative Press’ exhibition at The Ironworks this month, Club Critical Theory will be hosting an evening event remembering the scenes and places of Southend and the surrounding area. With a range of speakers and performers and some great Southend sounds we’ll be sharing and collecting stories of the rich heritage of venues, musical scenes and youth culture of this city, ranging from punk to jazz to indie to reggae to folk to mod to disco to goth to poetry to soul and everything in between… Have you got memories of The Railway, The Grand, The Pink Toothbrush, The Cliff, Reids, Focus, Grrrl Zine Fayre, Shades, The Goldmine, Preview Club, The Taste Experience, The Kursaal, Cult 13, The Swag Club, The Shrimpers, The Odyssey, Culture As A Dare, The Esplanade, Projection Records, The Sun Rooms or The Zero 6? Then this is an evening you can’t miss! This event is building on the conversations begun at the last Club Critical Theory event in October 2022, based around Graham Burnett’s ‘Southend on Zine’ publication, and is intended as the launch of a wider project documenting Southend’s rich subcultural history and it’s often long-forgotten venues, scenes, places and spaces – we need YOU to help make it happen, so see you there! After party at The Craftwerk to carry on the chats…
Free Market Radicals
After a long break in our events programme, due to the pandemic, CERG are back with the first in a series of Free Market Radical events.
The first event takes place in Rochford in Essex on Friday 10th Sept, where our guest speaker, Jon Cruddas MP, will help frame the localism debate (for details see postcard below).
Free Market Radicals is a project that is focused on developing good ideas and providing support to local partners who want to do good things. It is focused on understand what ‘localism’ means given the challenges faced by towns and villages across the UK today. A lot has happened in the last few years, and certainly since Covid-19 that has changed the context for town and village centres. We are keen to share reports, concepts, ideas and theory that may be of interest for people that want to take action, and some of it may be helpful in making a case for support or investment.
Archive of CERG and CCT Event
Next CERG/RDLAC Silvertown Session
This Silvertown Session invites you to debate Youth in the Community from a range of viewpoints, including strategies for youth empowerment, critical thinking on youth crime prevention practice and neighbourhood policing, as well as local perspectives from community leaders on youth safety. We will also hear from Newman Council about the Mayor’s Youth Safety Board and invite you to have your say on these policies.
Youth culture can play an incredibly important role in sustaining and reinventing the local community. Youth can bring together and refresh communities.
In the past decade, local communities have seen funding cuts to many youth services and crime prevention agencies supposed to help young people flourish and maintain stability in the community. The current rise in youth related violence is arguably a symptom of this decline leaving all of the community feeling increasingly unsafe.
Can this decline be reversed? There are some encouraging signs. The Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz, has ‘made youth safety a major priority’ in the borough. In 2018 she announced the launch of Youth Citizen Assemblies, enhanced activities and transformed services, including doubling the number of youth hubs. The local authority says they are ‘listening to… young people about their experiences living in the borough,’ asking them what they need to make them feel safe.
Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry (AKA British Reggae Deejay Lezlee Lyrix) was born in Lewisham, of Jamaican Parentage. He is a writer, poet and community activist. Lez has lectured nationally and internationally, featured in numerous documentaries and current affairs television and radio programmes and have written and published extensively on many of the concerns of the African Diaspora in the UK.
Dr Anthony Gunter, Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of East London and author of Race, Gangs and Violence: Policy, Prevention and Policing (2017), and Black Youth ‘Road Culture and Badness in an East London Neighbourhood (2010). He worked as a community and youth work practitioner for many years prior to entering academia.
Frances Winter is a Senior Policy Officer at the London Borough of Newham, where she focuses on policy relating to children and young people, and has this year been supporting the Mayor of Newham’s Youth Safety Board.
Date and Time
Wed, July 17, 2019
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Pub On The Park
19 Martello Street
London
E8 3PE
Was the cultural commentator, Jacques Peretti correct when he accused retro obsessed ‘cultural necrophiliacs’ of vampirically draining subcultures of their youthful vitality? In enduring the nostalgic proclamations of these middle-aged reactionaries as they assert ownership of a self-proclaimed legacy of radical politics, what does it mean to witness yet another launch event for an institutionalised celebration of an ‘underground’, ‘edgy’ youth tribe? Conversely, how can current dispossessed youth acquire an authorial voice when its public value is limited to news fodder for a rabid right-wing press cynically seeking scapegoats in austerity Britain? Who would want to be young now?
This latest Cultural Engine Research Group event, chaired by Dr Andrew Branch (CERG, UEL), will address these questions by focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing curators of British youth subcultures and how we might usefully define the concept itself. Invited speakers will debate how curatorial bodies can reflexively engage with academics whose work documents the politics of youth subcultural practice, past and present, and why these legacies matter.
Speakers
Iain Aitch
Iain Aitch is an author, journalist and artist whose work looks at the social history of the working class. He is a Director of Rendezvous Projects and is currently working on a book and exhibition about beauty queens. Of particular relevance for this event, Iain has been artist and writer in residence at Turner Contemporary, Margate, producing a photographic show about subcultures as a} result of working with those living in the town and identifying with its subversive heritage. This work was shown alongside work by Banksy, Bowie and Warhol.
Dr Andrew Calcutt
Since graduating 40 years ago, Andrew Calcutt has been a record producer (praised by radio djs John Peel and Charlie Gillett), magazine journalist (his byline appeared in Arena, Blueprint, Living Marxism and The Modern Review, to name but a few), broadcaster (from BBC Radio Four’s Moral Maze to Channel 4’s Zeitgeist), digital pioneer (commissioning editor for Channel Cyberia and award-winning Cscape), and prolific author of a host of books on culture and society, including Fictitious Capital: London After recession, White Noise, Cult Fiction, BritCult, and his own ‘cult classic’ from the 1990s, Arrested Development: pop culture and the erosion of adulthood, which has just been reissued by Bloomsbury. Andrew teaches at all levels of the University of East London’s BA Journalism programme. His research interests include the regeneration of East London and the remaking of journalism. Twenty years ago he coined the term ‘hackademic’ to describe his own transition from journalism to academia.
Dr William Henry
Born in Lewisham of Jamaican parentage, William Henry DJs as British Reggae icon Lezlee Lyrix, as well as being a writer, poet and community activist. Lez’s experience of formal education has taken him from access course student to teaching and researching at the University of West London in his current role as Associate Professor of sociology and anthropology. He is what Gramsci would have identified as an organic intellectual. Lez also has a passion for karate, which reminds us of Pierre Bourdieu’s definition of sociology as a martial art: a tool used by the dominated to defend themselves against the dominant.
Dr Sarah Raine
Sarah Raine is a Research Fellow at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR). Having completed a funded PhD at BCU on the contemporary northern soul scene, she is now an AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellow, working in partnership with Cheltenham Jazz Festival on their Keychange (PRS Foundation) initiative pledge. Sarah is a founding member and co-manages Riffs, a journal run by the staff and students of the BCMCR. She is also the Review Editor for Popular Music History.
Prof Matt Worley
Author of numerous highly-rated journal articles and books, Matt Worley’s (Reading University) interests lie in the field of subcultural histories, and how British youth practice has responded to the divergent political discourse shaping post-war Britain. His most recent book is No future: punk, politics and British youth culture, 1976-1984. Matt has also worked regularly outside of the academy, collaborating recently with the artist, Scott King on the project, Crash! Nostalgia for the Jet Age. His current project is curating the complex histories of British fanzine cultures during and beyond first-wave punk.
Music and visuals on the night. Food avaliable to order, with private outdoor space and bar open until 12am.
EVENT ARCHIVE
CERG have two events in May
On the 9th…
Advanced Reading:
Could a grassroots development approach help address inequality?
Julian Manley explains the concept behind the Preston model, and how worker-owned co-operatives supported by major local players could help empower communities.
in the Guardian “In an era of brutal cuts, one ordinary place has the imagination to fight back.”
On the 24th we are in Tendring again…
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ARCHIVE OF EVENTS
CERG and RDLAC present the Silvertown Sessions (22nd Nov) Regeneration for All!
Our next CERG/CCT event will once again be at the Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre, Albert Road, North Woolwich E16 2J
Start 7pm
Food and drink on arrival
7.30 – Chairs (Andrew) intro 5mins
7.35 – Anna Minton, Writer, Journalist, and Academic
5mins Q&A
7.55 – Chair introduces panel
8.00 – Sonia Boyce, Artist, Crossrail Wall Project
8.05 – Aaron Uthman, Community Relations Ambassador, LCY
8.10 – Chris Abell, Local Affairs Manager, Tate & Lyle Sugars
8.15 – Katherine Clarke, Artist Partner, muf architecture/art
8.20 – Jessie Brennan, Artist working on Royal Docks Commission
10mins chaired Q&A
8.30 Break for food and drink with launch of the Surfers Against Sewage, plastic free campaign
9.10 Chaired Q&A and discussion 20mins
9.30 End
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Our next CCT event will be on the themes of food cultures, histories and policies. The venue is the Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre, Albert Road, North Woolwich E16 2JB on Weds 4th July – starting at 6.30pm.
Here’s the lastest postcard…
The Royal Docks Learning and Activity Centre and the Cultural Engine Research Group (UEL) present: Food Cultures/Histories/Policies: Flavours of the Docks
Historically the Royal Docks provided a point of entry for exotic spices and beverages that transformed British food cultures at a time when working class Dockers were often not paid enough to feed their families. Join the RDLAC and the Cultural Engine Research Group for talks and discussion on food histories and policies that have shaped, and continue to shape, food cultures in the Docks.
Food and drink for the event will be provided by the Thish’s Fish, Manzoor: Fusion Foods, Rita from Revennah’s, African Food Truck, the RDLAC Community Café and the Husk Brewery with a special Ferry Festival Beer.
Venue: Royal Docks Learning and Activity Centre, Albert Road, North Woolwich E16 2JB
Date: Weds 4th July
Time: 18.30-21.30
Programme
Event begins 18.30pm
18.45: Introduction to the Event by the Organisers
18.55: Session One: Food Histories chaired by Marieta Borreda Cuenca (Royal Docks History Club)
19.00: Guest Speaker, Graham Hill (author and historian) on curiosities around food & cooking in Victorian London
19.20 Discussion
19.35- 20.05 break for food and drink sampling
20.05 Session Two: Food Policies chaired by Giles Tofield (co-director of the Cultural Engine)
20.10: Guest Speaker: Sharon Noonan-Gunning (Centre for Food Policy, City University) An integrated and inclusive approach to food policy: exploring policy disconnects through the experiences of working-class parents of higher weight children
20.30: Discussion
20.40 Presentation by Surfers Against Sewage followed by food and drink sampling, networking
Event ends 9.30
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PREVIOUS CCT EVENTS
The Next Club Critical Theory event will be at this free conference on 27th April 2018 in Walton-on-the-Naze.
Here’s the new postcard to download – designed by Laetitia Zanga
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Tickets and event information are here: https://www.uel.ac.uk/events/2018/03/essex-sea-side-conference
Next Event: 17th Nov 2017
Ahead of the first of two UEL organised conferences in Tendring next spring (See above- part of the Heritage Lottery funded Resorting to the Coast project), we are meeting to discuss notions of seaside culture.
Club Critical Theory present: Seaside Cultures
Fri 17th Nov 2017
8pm start upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Clifftown Rd, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1AJ. Free entry.
In light of comedian Paul O’Grady’s widely publicised remarks about Southend, CCT invites you to discuss seaside cultures. Is the seaside an irrelevant Victorian concept in decline or does it still hold value? Are swanky galleries, expensive coffee bars and property development part of its appeal or can we actively shape an alternative culture in Southend?
Guest Speakers
Dr Daniel Burdsey (University of Brighton) investigates race, whiteness and the English seaside. In 2016 he published his second book, Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge (Palgrave Macmillan). Dan is interested in social and cultural aspects of the contemporary English seaside including migration and ‘new’ spaces of multiculture.
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/staff/daniel-burdsey.aspx
Dr Tim Gale (Bournemouth University) has published work that explores the decline and restructuring of British seaside resorts, new tourism spaces, places and experiences. These interests are underpinned by ideas associated with the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ and critical realism as a philosophy of/ for the social sciences.
http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/tgale
Panel discussion
Joanne O’Connor (Journalist and Travel Writer) is a former Observer travel editor and now freelances for the Guardian, Observer and FT. She has an interest in the arts, travel and regeneration. Born in Essex, and a regular visitor to Southend as a child, Joanne has recently returned to live in Essex.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/joanneoconnor
Tim Burrows (Journalist and Author) writes about culture and place for publications including the Guardian, Vice and the Quietus. Recurring subjects in his work are Essex, the Thames Estuary and Essex myths, from Towie, Dr Feelgood and the “armpit of the world”. Tim lives in Essex.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
CCT are Giles Tofield (Cultural Engine), Andrew Branch (UEL) and Tony D Sampson (UEL)
Next Event: 10th June 2017
Next Event
Our next event will be a two day free conference at The Civic Centre in Southend on 15th and 16th Sept 2016.
Club Critical Theory: Essex Futures Conference
Venue: Civic Centre Southend-on-Sea, Committee Room 4a (close to Southend Victoria and Southend Central railway stations)
Dates: 15th-16th September, 2016
Club Critical Theory (CCT) host a free two day conference exploring ideas relevant to three public policy areas that have an impact on local communities within a national context
Keynote speakers
Robert Hewison (cultural historian and author of Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain)
Jack Monroe (writer, journalist and activist)
Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the RSA)
Day One: Thurs 15th Sept
Doors open 9.30am
Morning session 10am – 1pm
Introduction to CCT: Tony Sampson
Creative Industries and Entrepreneurialism: Exploring the drive by local authorities and other agencies to encourage growth in ‘creative sectors’. What impact is this really having on regional economies, and is it any more than simply ‘branding’?
Robert Hewison (Cultural Historian and author of The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain)
Joe Hill (Director of Focal Point Gallery)
Duncan Smith (Artistic Director of Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art)
Chair: Andrew Branch
Afternoon session 2-5pm
Food Cultures: Who is really setting the agenda in terms of policies on health and wellbeing in respect of what food we buy and consume? What can be done at a local level to improve ‘food cultures’ in the context of national policies which endorse a free market vision of society?
Vic Borrill (Director of Brighton and Hove Food Partnership)
Jack Monroe (Writer, Journalist and Activist)
Chair: Giles Tofield
Evening drinks at the Railway Hotel
Day Two: Fri 16th Sept
Doors open 9.30am
Morning session 10-1pm
Cultural Policy, Heritage and Place-Making: What do we mean by ‘place-making’ at a local level? Who creates the stories and narratives that define how our towns and cities are to be ‘branded’? Does local cultural policy (where it still exists) have a role to play in creating really distinctive identities and differences in a globalised world economy? How is local ‘heritage’ being used to promote new narratives of towns, cities and regions?
Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the RSA)
Scott Dolling (Head of Economy, Regeneration & Tourism, Southend Borough Council)
Robert Bean (Founder of Robert Bean Branding Co)
Chair: Giles Tofield
Closing remarks by Andrew Branch
Conference Funded by the University of East London
About the Organisers
Club Critical Theory (CCT) is a partnership between the University of East London (UEL) and Southend based social enterprise, The Cultural Engine. Established in 2014, CCT is a public engagement programme that seeks to encourage academics to get out into community spaces to explore how radical theory can inform the imaginative life of society.
CCT co-founders: Giles Tofield (The Cultural Engine), Dr Andrew Branch (UEL) and Dr Tony Sampson (UEL)
When Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 9:30 AM – Friday, September 16, 2016 at 1:00 PM (BST) – Add to Calendar Where The Civic Centre – Southend-on-Sea Essex
Details and registration are here:
Old Events
Club Critical Theory will be back in Southend late spring/early summer 2016
In the meantime
SPACE AND PROPAGATION: A CLUB CRITICAL THEORY SPECIAL AT CONWAY HALL
Book a place at the free event here
CCT open up a critical space for Conway Actants — an artistic and curatorial collaboration between Deborah Gardner and Jane Millar that directly responds to Conway Hall’s spaces, ethos, activities and archive.
Programme starts at 6.30pm with an introduction to Conway Actants by the artists:
INTRODUCTION TO CCT
Giles Tofield (The Cultural Engine)
CONWAY CONTAGIONS
Tony D Sampson
Arts and Digital Industries (UEL)
ART FOR ALL
Andrew Branch
Arts and Digital Industries (UEL)
DISCUSSANTS
Deborah Gardner and Jane Millar
Our next event is on Friday 4th Dec upstairs at the railway as usual.
Following on from our successful election special back in May (the club night, not the result), Club Critical Theory returns on Fri 4th Dec with a discussion that will no doubt mention Corbynmania.
More to follow
UPDATE
Next Club Critical Theory Event – Friday Dec 4th 8pm start upstairs at the Railway
media power and politics
Date: Friday, 04 December, 8.00pm start
Venue: Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea
Following the success of our election special, this CCT event explores how people make sense of the media they consume and how raising questions about the ownership and regulation of commercial and publicly-funded media can provide an insight into the agenda-setting processes they enact.
We ask whether the arrival of new forms of digital social media is a cause for optimism – because such forms appear to provide a genuine challenge to the vested interests of established media conglomerates – or merely provides an echo chamber for the already converted. Further, we consider these developments in relation to the history of alternative media forms and their deployment by marginalised social groups.
In summary, we address a fundamental question: do people believe everything they view and read?
Tracey Jensen (speaker)
A graduate of Cambridge University and the LSE, Tracey’s current teaching and research at the University of East London looks at how policy, media and cultural texts work together to produce and circulate stigmatising ideas of families ‘in crisis’, as ‘welfare dependent’ or ‘undisciplined’. She connects these ideas to a broader analysis of the ‘post-welfare’ shift, in which citizen entitlements are becoming contractual, precarious and sanctioned. At this CCT event Tracey will discuss the recent explosion of a new genre of reality television – known as ‘poverty porn’ – which forms part of a populist authoritarianism around welfare.
Michael Bailey (speaker)
Michael teaches at the University of Essex and is currently writing a book about public sociology. His interests in this field have led him to present lectures on ‘Globalisation, Anticapitalism and Associative Democracy’ at various international universities, particularly in China. Michael connects these interests to his broader commitment to critical theory; historical sociology; working-class heritage and sociology of the media and modern culture. AT CCT he will examine the history of alternative media forms and their legacies.
Andrew Calcutt (discussant)
‘Hackademic’ Andrew Calcutt was a journalist for 25 years before he became an academic at the University of East London. As a journalist, he worked in print (Arena, Esquire, Living Marxism/LM, the Modern Review), in broadcasting (Clarke TV for Channel4), and online (commissioning editor, Channel Cyberia for MSN). As a lecturer in journalism, his priorities are good copy and clear thinking. Andrew will draw on these experiences when identifying comparative and contrasting themes in both presentations in order to open the discussion.
Where is the Common Ground? Making Local Activism Work in Southend
3rd May, 2015 at 8pm
Free entry
Upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea
The General Election on May 7th is occurring against a backdrop of relentless austerity, food poverty, tax evasion and scapegoating of groups without access to the mainstream media that marginalizes them.
Is there an alternative to this politics of despair, and if so, is collective activism the answer? Is Essex man Russell Brand right when he tells us that the system is broken and what we accept as ‘common sense’ has been imposed on us? On one hand, events in Greece and Spain show that collective responses to inequality are working. On the other hand, there is the anti-European, anti-immigration stance of populists like UKIP and Le Front National in France, whose appeal seems to resonate with the mythologized ‘man in the street’.
This pre-election CCT special event explores alternative ways of thinking critically about our everyday political lives and considers the effectiveness of collective activism. We’ll discuss what can be done at the local level to make a difference and what kind of differences ‘we’ want by first thinking about who ‘we’ are – a collective political force or fragmented individual consumers?
We ask you to contemplate the idea of the common ground and critically explore related concepts like neoliberalism, individuality, crowds, publics, multiplicities, collectivity, and of course, democracy.
Programme
8pm start
Introduction by Andrew Branch
8.10pm
Tony D. Sampson (author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks): Crowds, Publics and Desire.
8.30pm
Giles Tofield (Director of The Cultural Engine): Finding Common Ground – Southend.
8.50pm
Q&A Chaired by Andrew Branch followed by break for drinks
9.20pm
Special guest speaker Professor Jeremy Gilbert (author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in the Age of Individualism): The Common Ground
10pm
Discussion chaired by Andrew Branch
The first Club Critical Theory: making sense of place: creating a critical space for southend-on-sea
Date: 17th April
Time: 9pm
Venue: Upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Clifftown Road, Southend On Sea (near to Southend Central Rail Station
Free entry
What’s Occurring…
Giles Tofield chairs this CCT discussion including introductions to Bourdieu’s habit (Andrew Branch, UEL) and Deleuze’s assemblages (Tony D Sampson, UEL).
Special Guest DJ: Stuart Bowditch
Stuart is mostly inspired by his love of open air, spaces and places. His interest in sound and the natural rhythms and routines of everyday life have shaped the methodology of his work, which revolves around noises and sounds which he finds, records and processes. He loves to travel, near and far, and the recordings he makes become a document, a sound memory, of his time spent in each place. He often works with individuals or groups to record new sets of sounds and over the years has built up a large archive of recordings which he draws upon to make songs, soundtracks to films and art installations. In this way of working he tries to make sense of the world he lives in and his place within it. Simultaneously, the creations and experiences of others end up intrinsically embedded in his work, creating a rich texture of layers, representing his life and those he as encountered along the way.
9-9.20pm: Sounds by Stuart Bowditch
9.20-9.30pm: Introduction to CCT by Giles Tofield (Chair)
The Talks
9.30pm
Deleuze, Contagion & the New Brighton
Tony D Sampson (UEL)
This talk will engage with the ideas of Gilles Deleuze in order to grasp how urban space, place and time might emerge. Firstly, we need to rethink the idea of Southend as a holistic entity (e.g. Southend as a whole community) and instead encounter the urban space as a multiplicity. The focus therefore needs to shift away from wholes and essential properties to consider local interactions and singularities that have the capacity and tendency to spill over into urban space (for good and bad). The talk will include a collaborative venture with the photographer Iry Hor whose work captures the assemblages of real Southend.
10-10.15pm: short break
10.15pm
Bourdieu, Habit and Social Space
Andrew Branch (UEL)
Morrissey once asked ‘When you want to live, how do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? This talk will answer these political questions by illustrating how Pierre Bourdieu’s work can illuminate our understanding of how habitual behaviour forms, structures our sense of entitlement and frames our occupation of space and place. Using examples familiar to people living in Southend and its adjacent areas, the talk will conclude by exploring how transformation occurs, both at the individual and collective level.
10.45-11.00: short break
11.00-11.30: Discussion We welcome your contributions
11.30-til late: Sounds by Stuart Bowditch
External Links
CCT Banner photograph by Simon Fowler
Social Media: https://clubcriticaltheory.wordpress.com/; Twitter: @CCT_onSea https://twitter.com/CCT_onSea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDz4KdpXC8E
Community Engagement Initiative 
Do you have any plans for the next event?
Yes, we have 25th May booked for a special on The Kursaal.
A few details here. More to follow
https://clubcriticaltheory.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/kursaal-as-heterotopia-plans-for-the-second-club-critical-theory-event-are-already-afoot/
Just to update this. We are now running the next CCT event on the 20th June (not 25th May). Details here: https://clubcriticaltheory.wordpress.com/next-cct-event/