Paul Hawkins reads Claremont Road + No M11 film

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You are warmly invited to THREE LAWS at
The Edwardian Cloakrooms

Paul Hawkins reading Claremont Road
and an archive screening of
Life In The Fast Lane - The No M11 story
“...the (in)famous squatted community of Claremont Road in Leyton, London E11 was the final bastion of resistance to the building of the No M11 Link Road. By 1994 the street was almost completely occupied by protesters except for one original resident, 92-year old Dolly Watson, who was born in number 32 and had lived there nearly all her life. She became friends with the anti-road protesters, saying “they’re not dirty hippy squatters, they’re the grandchildren I never had...”

On poetry pamphlet Claremont Road (Erbacce Press)...

A valuable voyage, tossed and memory-tumbled over the battleground … ‘self-medicated’ visions of entropy and sensual returns.
Iain Sinclair

Commited social rebels sharing their lives with down and outs, the homeless, druggies and drinkers, in a loose-knit, tentative community. Dub rhythms (or what Hawkins calls ‘loose-boned blues’) and personal memories drive this collection along.
Rupert Loydell

A pamphlet of protest and ‘broken piano lungs’ that showcases Paul Hawkins’ extraordinary range. Both an experimental and unflinching snapshot of a now lost community, Hawkins sure-footedly sidesteps clichés of romantic dilapidation. This is ‘a survival jive’ for our times.
Claire Trevien

This is the heart of darkness in the east end of London during the Thatcher years: depression, addiction, evictions; the tide and time of love, sex, the bitter fight to overcome. Although it is dark, it is not entirely hopeless, there are moments of tenderness and unity that build a barricade against despondency.
Neil Rollinson

on LIFE IN THE FAST LANE

This feature length documentary presents the inside story of the No M11 Campaign, recounting 15 months of direct action against one of the most controversial schemes in the history of British road-building; the battle for Wanstead's George Green, the Wanstonia eviction and the celebrated roof top protests of 1994. Against a backdrop of growing resistance to the Criminal Justice Act it charts the emergence of CLAREMONT ROAD as an extraordinary symbol of cultural defiance & for the first time tells the story of what became the most expensive eviction in British history. Featuring the music of The Levellers, Zion Train & The Clash. Dir: Mayyasa Al-Malazi & Neil Goodwin (85mins)

Excellent... JOHN PILGER

Brilliant. It both inspired me and gave me a much needed boost in energy and commitment STEVE PLATT New Statesman

The struggle of people against power, is the struggle of memory against forgetting..MILAN KUNDERA

THREE LAWS : 2 weeks of events @ The Edwardian Cloakrooms curated by Schoolboy's Death Trio feat. guest poets & musicians responding to themes of CHANGE, POWER & ACCEPTANCE

Entry: donation

Time: 7:30pm