An independently organised event by the darkroom collective.

Hæ! We would like to invite you all photography lovers to our second gathering at Andrými. We are a bit late in organisation but it’s all good, just a couple of points:

We chose a theme for the assignment of this month; Night. In this case due to the delay we encourage you to take a look into your archive of pics and bring a couple of images. The aim of this exercise is to exchange opinions, points of view and what not while having a discussion and feedback.

Also, regardless the assignment, feel free to bring any material, gear etc. with you. Doubts, questions, ideas or thoughts for next meetings are very welcome as well.

Let’s have a nice meeting and fun!

Accessibility:
The building is currently not wheelchair accessible, unfortunately, but it is our top priority to cultivate a wheelchair accessible space. This is a continuing goal of the organizers of Andrými.

There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building).

Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.

A main goal of settler-colonial regimes is to enclose indigenous communities within Bantustans, walls, barriers, borders and checkpoints, turning them into refugees within their own territory. Various narratives and myths have been used by colonizers to justify taking over the so-called ‘virgin land of wilderness’, at the expense of the native population that has been inhabiting the area for centuries. Ethnic cleansing, genocide and transfer are still a means to an end, while technological advancements have been playing their role in executing such inhumane policies for decades.

Recently (11 January 2019) it was reported that Elbit Systems, which develops high-tech weapons for the Israeli army, sold its SkyStriker lethal drone to Azerbaijan. This state-of-the-art drone carries a 5kg warhead and can fly at a speed of up to 300 knots (555 kmph). Such advance weapons are often used disproportionately by powerful states against stateless groups, with little fear of retribution, and drone-strikes are still justified by politicians in the name of ‘the war on terror’ by arguing that they are both extremely accurate and keep the soldiers safe.

Considering this, what are the challenges that human rights activists are facing in a place like Israel and Palestine? What motivates them? And which lessons may we learn from the successes of the activists of the past, such as the ones who struggled against the apartheid regime in South Africa?

We will watch the first 25 min from the film “five broken cameras” followed by a 20 min talk and then we will open it for a discussion.

Accessibility:
The building is currently not wheelchair accessible, unfortunately, but it is our top priority to cultivate a wheelchair accessible space. This is a continuing goal of the organizers of Andrými.

There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building).

Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.

Bring your drum or whatever makes nice sound. Everyone is invited, feel free to pop by and drum along.

On Accessibility:

The event is open for everyone but not so accessible to people in wheelchairs.

“There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).

The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor.

Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.”
-https://andrymi.org/accessibility/

Andspyrna’s reading circle will be held for the second time Sunday third of february. In our last session we read a marxist feminist text by Selma Jones and  Mariarosa Dalla Costa. We decided that for now the topic of our reading circle is the concept and reality of work, since it is one of the concepts that governs our everyday life and has a multitude of meanings. In later sessions we will explore the anarchist notion of the destruction of work and take a further look into a feminist analyses of work and capitalism.

In this upcoming session, however, we want to get a bit more familiar to Marx’s thought and are thus reading the introduction and first chapter of “How to read Marx?” by Peter Osborne.

Text source:
How to read Marx

Feel free to read further.

Discussions will be in English.

Closed meeting in the comfy room

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Vistræktarfélag Íslands býður ykkur velkomin/The Icelandic Permaculture Association invites you

Takið með ykkur fræ, kannski einn eða tvo pakka til að deila. Gott væri að útbúa lítil bréf með fræjum og hafa tilbúin. Ef þið eigið engin fræ getið þið notað tækifærið til að panta saman fræ og deila þannig fróðleik. Fésbókarviðburður verður settur upp þarf sem hægt er að koma með óskir af fræjum sem mann vantar.

kl. 20.00 Heilsast / Get together
kl. 20.05 Læra að búa til orgami bréfvasa / Learn to make origmai paper envelopes
kl. 20.10 Kynning á sáningu grænmetis og kryddjurta og umræður / Intro to
kl. 20.30 Sáð fyrir tómötum á staðnum/Sowing tomatoes
kl. áfram/onwards Deila fræjum og fróðleik/ Share seeds and knowledge

Besta leiðin til að kynnast Vistræktarfélagi Íslands er að hitta okkur á félagsfundum
eða fræðslufundum þar sem við fjöllum um hvað sé í gangi og hvernig hanna má líf og land með vistrækt, Skráning í félagið öllum opin sem vilja bæta sitt umhverfi og samfélag.

AÐGENGI:

Aðgengi er ábótavant. Svo það má hafa samband ef það eru spurningar eða bara mæta og við hjálpum, enda er eitt af gildum vistræktar að lausnir séu fólgnar í vandamálum. Nánari upplýsingar hér.
https://andrymi.org/is/adgengileg/

//English

Best way to get to know The Icelandic Permaculture Association is to meet us on club meetings or presentations where we we talk about current projects and how to design life and land with permaculture. Registration is open for everybody that want to improve their environment and community.

Bring some seeds, maybe one or two packets to share. Please make small envelopes to have ready. If you dont have any seeds then you can use the opportunity to order seeds together and therfor knowledge. Facebook event will be set up and there you can make requests for seeds you need.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Access has some limitation. So please get in contact for questions or just show up and we help, since one of the principles of permaculture is the problem is the solution. More info here.
https://andrymi.org/accessibility/

Theme of the reading circles is the concept and reality of work.

Does work bind us or liberate us? What do we mean when we talk about work? How has capitalism affected our perception of work? What does government say about work? Can we destroy work? What would that even mean?

For 1st March we’ll read the article : Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women by Sara R. Farris

Reading material from earlier sessions are listed below:

• The power of women and subversion of community – Selma Jones and Maria della Costa
• How to read Marx – Peter Osborne