A conversation on club commons, movement building and queer nightlife w/ MONTAGE

Tonight’s conversation zooms in (or out?) to talk about club commons, communing practices and movement building in/through/for queer nightlife. Or, how nightlife can also be political activism.

with Anjali Prashar-Savoie
moderated by Jonathan Cant

(And after the conversation we'll collectively put theory into practice on the rooftop until the early morning.)

club commons

The commons refers to resources, practices, and assets that are shared and managed collectively by the communities that use them. Building on histories of land enclosures dating back to the 13th century, what might a club commons look or feel like today?

Drawing from their upcoming Club Commons book, Anjali explores what theories of the commons can bring to nightlife. They examine both the potential and limitations of clubs as spaces for building alternative social relations and organisational models that challenge the increasing precarity and neoliberalisation of the night.

about

Anjali Prashar-Savoie is a DJ, writer and yoga teacher. Off the decks and off the yoga mat, they explore queer club culture, cultural democracy, night work, and the night-time economy.
anjaliprashar-savoie.co.uk/

Moderator of tonight is MONTAGE’s own Jonathan Cant aka cratje, co-founder and self-proclaimed sugar daddy of the music collective and label. His own music, his music curation, his organising and his multidisciplinary arts practice all seem to share a knack for new (sonic) pleasures and old (timeless!) ideas – about inclusion, justice and just making the world a slightly better place for everyone in it. Catch him at his regular kiosk radio slot stoute muziek (naughty music) – and later tonight warming up the rooftop, b2b with MONTAGE-mommy Laura Conant.
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