Fall of Freedom - London

Come raise a happy glass to the power of gathering in community while raising our voices in defiance of authoritarian powers working to restrict freedoms

Tammy WhyNot and Arts on the Green are taking Fall of Freedom global this May 1st. Fall of Freedom is a US-based "focused, urgent call to artists and arts institutions across all sectors to make art, music, plays, exhibitions, comedy, and beautiful protests aligned with immigrants’ rights organizing, to amplify struggles against repression and state violence".

In London, the international version will happen on the same day at the Newington Green Meeting House. All are welcome.

This event is free, but if you can, please register in advance for a free ticket so we know how many people to expect. Thank you!

The Meeting House has freedom baked into its bricks. Its early Minister, Richard Price, was a moral philosopher who played a significant role in the American and French Revolutions, and in spreading ideas of liberty and dissent. It is also the home of modern Western feminism, known for its links to Mary Wollstonecraft. And today, it is an intriguing and unusual space – a Unitarian congregation drawing from many faiths and traditions, queer- and trans-inclusive, committed to social justice, and with a focus on deeds and relationships rather than beliefs.

Creatives, performers, community members, readers, and other assorted artistes and London dwellers will assemble here to speak, perform, celebrate, rest, love, and care for each other on the evening of May 1st. It's a day known variously for festivity, for liberation from tyranny, for gatherings of many Queens (of May), and much else. So it's the perfect day to imagine, and create, the path from our current darkness to a future of unchained midsummer light.

FEATURING:

Tammy WhyNot

Stacy Makishi

Brian Lobel

Helen Idle

Dan de la Motte

Nick Toner

And others to be announced!

Doors 6.30pm. Start 7pm. Bar available. Watch, listen, or stand up and share: whoever you are, you are welcome here. If you're sharing something, please ensure it takes no more than three minutes to share, and make those three minutes count. If you can, please let us know in advance by emailing [email protected]. You can also decide on the day to share, if you're moved to.

Our host, Tammy WhyNot, facilitates public engagement and promotes subversive expertise as methods of activism. Tammy travels the world accompanying a person named Lois Weaver, who is a writer, director and performer with the Split Britches Theatre Company and Professor Emerita of Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London… amongst other things.

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