Document Your Culture W/ Emma Warren

Thursday 17 December 7PM via Zoom

This session will focus on Emma Warren’s latest publication, ‘Document Your Culture’. A guide celebrating the importance of DIY culture and the need to create a record of both its existence and impact. As well as talking about the importance of storytelling, Emma will also chat with the group about how to recognise the stories around you.

‘Stories create a long view. We lack this because most people find themselves in these spaces during a specific period of their life, usually in youth. These places are often made or maximised by young, Black and queer communities, groups that lack structural power and therefore easily, and conveniently, overlooked. Stories can act as blue plaques.’

Emma Warren, ‘Document Your Culture’

Emma has been documenting culture for decades as a journalist, Worldwide FM broadcaster and now as an author. Last year she wrote the sold-out book, ‘Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre’. This year she published the manual, ‘Document Your Culture’, a sister publication to ‘Make Some Space’. Both published on her own imprint, Sweet Machine Publishing.

To attend

Please fill in the booking form below and let us know any access requirements you might have, then we’ll send you the Zoom link on the day. You’ll also need sign up to be a Gut Level member. Membership is currently free thanks to a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund.

A Bit of Background

Gut Level is a DIY event space and collective that focuses on dance music, club culture and the surrounding communities. Our in-house collectives, FLAW and Working Them’s Club are hosting a series of Workshops over winter to cut through the no parties/winter/rona blues. FLAW Collective aim to provide a space for marginalised genders to hang out, share skills, use equipment and collaborate. Working Them’s Club is an LGBTQ+ social and music meet up.

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