Liverpool Street Station, 19:06pm
Disruption expected
Swallow & Swift
The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. It focuses on gatherings of family and friends to remember friends and family members who have died. It is a celebration of life and it is an occasion to party.
In preparation to this day Jamboree and Sonido Chipotle have joined forces to bring you ‘¡Báilele!’ on Saturday 15th October 2011, a night dedicated to the salsa and cumbia sounds of Mexico and Latin America. Mexican-born DJ Señor Priego and guests will be behind the decks playing strictly cumbia and salsa with a Mexican sensibility.
We will have a special reading by And Other Stories from Juan Pablo Villalobos’ DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. The Mexican author’s book is first of ten choices for the Guardian First Book Award!
Please bring your mementos for the ofrenda… Other surprises are lined up for the night, but you will have to come to find out for yourselves…
Included in TimeOut Magazine’s “101 Best Things to Do in London” feature – Jamboree was one of the special picks:
“..tucked under a wedge of artists’ studios, Jamboree Live Music Bar hosts incredible musicians and performers from all over the world. Dance between the tables, visit the resident painter or just look interesting in a darkened corner.”
¡Báilele! will be a unique Mexican cabaret/underground experience. Calacas y luchadores welcome!
"I Put a Spell on You"- Nick Cave and The Cavemen, 1984
Via Dangerous Minds.
Young people and territoriality in British cities | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Full report available for download.
August in London
[The second edition of Cross’s London Guide, originally published in 1837.
Copyright © British Library Board. Via Europeana.]
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The past two days I published two editorial pieces on the London/UK riots and a related instalment of my monthly column on London. It goes without saying they’re written from the perspective of a Mexican who lives in London.
They’re an attempt at making sense of the events, their possible causes and consequences, and at trying to offer an outsider-insider’s personal view for my readers in Mexico and Spanish-speaking countries, in their own language.
- “Disturbios en Londres”, Blog de la redacción, Nexos magazine, 09 August 2011
- “El incendio del palacio de cristal”, Replicante magazine, 10 August 2011
- “¿Quiénes participan en los disturbios en Inglaterra?” Blog de la redacción, Nexos magazine, 10 August 2011
- On 9th August I also posted this and this on #SinLugar, a blog I share with others to explore citizen engagement and participatory media in and for Mexico.
Llamaradas de Londres | Revista Replicante
La primera entrega de mi nueva columna. Intentaremos psicogeolocalizar…
Fudge Tunnel perform Boston Baby live at ULU 1992. (uploaded by tooolest32).
Pure sentimental education.
Memorias del subsuelo (Self-portrait on the tube)
Before & Beyond [Adobe] Flash: Hans Bordahl's and David Farley's Online Comics as Short Digital Narratives | HASTAC
The paper I presented on May 24 2011 at the “Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction” at Birkbeck College, London.
May So Far: LatamCyber and Flash Symposium | HASTAC
Brief reports from the International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies at the University of Liverpool and “Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction” at Birkbeck College, London.
Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction — School of Arts, Birkbeck College London
When? Tuesday 24th May 2011 6-9 pm
Where? Birkbeck, School of Arts, Room B03, 43 Gordon Square
The papers will be collected for a special issue of postgraduate journal Dandelion, On Brevity, for autumn publication, and the discussion will be recorded for podcasting.
Chair for papers: Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck)
Papers - Henderson Downing (Birkbeck); Holly Pester (Birkbeck); Ernesto Priego (UCL); Daniel Rourke (Goldsmiths); Matt Sangster (Royal Holloway)
Chair for panel: Ariel Kahn (Roehampton/London Met Film School)
Speakers - Andy Poyiadgi (film-maker, Schizofredric); Tom Humberstone (comics artist/editor, Solipsistic Pop); Heidi James(writer, Carbon, The Mesmerist’s Daughter); Geoff Ryman, 253, Air).
Organised by: Zara Dinnen and Tony Venezia - Contemporary Fiction Seminar
Here’s a provisional running order for the short papers…
Matthew Sangster:Short Forms and Unalloyed Genre
Henderson Downing: Between the long roll of thunder and the long fine flash: a brief history of a little pamphlet bought from a pop-up shop on Redchurch Street in December 2010 on the shortest day of the year. Holly Pester: Visual Poetry: Objectness as a Necessary Shortness Ernesto Priego: Beyond [Adobe] Flash™: Webcomics as Short Digital Narratives Daniel Rourke: The Doctrine of the Similar(GIF GIF GIF)
