Wanja is a documentary about “the Block”, through the eyes of Auntie Barb and the life of Wanja, her blue heeler dog, recently deceased. The community on the Block's many and varied stories of Wanja reflect on the issues affecting this indigenous community in the heart of Sydney. Auntie Barb is an elder of Redfern's community: Wanja was an integral part of the community, known to all for her ability to sniff out the police -in uniform and undercover- “the Block's guardian angel”. Through Wanja, Aunty Barb and the community's memories of this tenacious, loyal, smart and loving dog tell of the early days on the Block when there were elders and families, good housing and a strong sense of community. The stories of Wanja tell us how the tension between the community and police escalated, why the housing has continued to deteriorate and largely been demolished, and why the strength of the community - it's elders, moved on. Aunty Barb was one of the last elders forced off the Block. In spite of this, Aunty Barb continues to call the Block her community and home.

Tales from the Periphery looks at the changes currently taking place in the world's second largest river basin, that of the River Plate Delta in Argentina, and reveals aspects of the lives of its people. The everyday rhythm of these lives slowly unfolds before a camera which picks out detail via a subjective approach, thus opening up a new existential reality for the spectator.

An exploration of the responses of people belonging to different associations in the seaside neighborhood of La Barceloneta, who are facing an urban plan proposed by the government of Barcelona. The plan consists of placing elevators inside the traditional neighborhood houses. By criss crossing the perceptions of various characters, we perceive the creative tensions that reveal some of the ways people experience local conflicts and different ways of resolving them.

Safaris in the gaps of the empire of property speculation. Psycho-geographic wanderings.Huge urban extension of desolated and confused territories between deconstruction and construction submerged to the rhythm of daily transformations... While the constructors look ahead in the future and neighbors reclaim the past of the workers district, here we are now, in a changeable and dynamic surroundings, without known marks and orientational signs. Municipal maps are not valid here any more.Flow of human circulations are generating and modifying according to measure that urban volumes are transforming. Every movement happens to be an adventure because it won't be possible to see and experience it never again.

Four families who live in Bon Pastor, a Barcelona neighbourhood, refuse to leave their single-storey houses. Some refuse because they've lived there for their whole lives, others because they feel they've been duped by the Board of Housing. This video shows the action carried out by the support group “Asemblea de Apoyo a Bon Pastor” in solidarity with the four families who resisted, at a time when it is seen as “politically incorrect” to ask for what you believe is right.

ECOSYSTEMIC MEMORIES OF THE CITY

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ECOSYSTEMIC MEMORIES OF THE CITY

Collaboration with Bornlab (El Borne CCM) for a collective approach to the contemporary imaginary of natural resources and territory, based on the sharing of current geopolitical issues that have an echo in the city of Barcelona.

This edition of the community studies group "Ecosystemic memories of the city" proposes a series of sessions in which we collectively approach the contemporary imaginary of natural resources and territory, based on the sharing of some current geopolitical issues that have an echo in the city of Barcelona.

Natural resources and the territory, based on the sharing of some current geopolitical issues that have an echo in the city of Barcelona. Through the contributions of various entities and people who connect us with critical archives, social actions and cultural initiatives in the city, we will address the recovery of community forms of agricultural social organization in contemporary pedagogies, images and slogans of movements for the protection of the land, as well as the reflection, from various worldviews, on cultural heritage and in connection with environmental issues that affect different international contexts.

The programme is organised in a participatory methodology that includes working groups where knowledge is pooled and perspectives are shared between guests and participants. In the different meetings, cultural proposals are discussed to explore the relationship between memory, community and ecology through collaborative experimentation and public action, which are included in the fanzine that is distributed in the closing session.

The Community Studies Group is a proposal of Bornlab, the community mediation programme of Borne CCM with the support of community mediation programme of Borne CCM in collaboration with Coalició Prou Complicitat amb Israel, La Colectiva de Chilenas de Barcelona, Comunitat Palestina de Barcelona, Laboratorio Móvil, OVNI (observatori de Vídeo No identificat) , Ruangrupa i docents i investigadores de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia, el Col·legi de Psicòlegs de Barcelona, l’Escola Massana and la Universitat de Barcelona.

Further information and registration: elbornculturaimemoria

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Thursday 8.2.24 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

Through the audiovisual archive, we will reflect on movements led by communities in Chiapas, Palestine and Ecuador who are

Chiapas, Palestine and Ecuador who are organising themselves against the deterioration of their ecosystems and claiming the right to use and protect their land.

1_ Land and traditions

The civic behaviour bylaws recently passed by Barcelona City Council and applied to other Catalan municipalities bear a striking resemblance to Fraga's 1965 “Keep Spain Clean” campaign. Sex workers, skaters, artists, social activists... spoke out against the new legislation. The video covers the numerous demonstrations that were organised against the civic bylaws.