[Radical_childcare] Fw: anarchist bookfair older kids space

[butterflea at riseup.net]

This sounds interesting.
Is anybody up for having a meeting about this and to generally discuss the
group, etc?
Una

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> --- On Fri, 4/2/10, Georgia Hewitt <work.shirker at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> From: Georgia Hewitt <work.shirker at googlemail.com>
> Subject: anarchist bookfair older kids space
> To: emel_kah at yahoo.com
> Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:35 PM
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> Hi Emel / radical childcare collective
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> I'm emailing from the anarchist bookfair collective as you contacted us
> last year about
> the older kids space. I am just emailing to see if you are still
> interested in being involved, and to ask about what kind of things you
> could offer help with or do with the kids.
> Your group statement sounds great and like you are exactly the kind of
> people  we need to help get involved!
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> At the moment the older kids space is just being run by two committed
> parents. They get the occasional comrade popping in to help for an hour or
> two, but it would be good to get more structured help to develop the space
> more and get more people involved to support them in this.
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> It  would be great if groups or individuals can organise specific
> activities to develop with the older kids. One thing we have talked  about
> is the possibility of the kids making a video of the bookfair , to be
> edited and put together possibly for the website. I was not involved in
> the discussions around this last year so am  not sure whether this idea
> came from you and this is already something you have said you would be
> interested in? But either way, if this is something you wuld be up for at
> this years bookfair, please  get in touch to let us know your thoughts on
> how this could be done. Alternatively, if you are not able to work on tis
> particular activity but have any other ideas for activities your group
> could take on to do with the older kids, please let us know.
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> Also, on a wider scale, we were thinking about the possibility of trying
> to set up a small sub group/working
> group for  the older kids space, to work on ideas to build it up and  make
> it better each year, as well as to help get the
> space organised, publicised etc.
> I am waiting to hear back from the two people who currently run the space
> about how they might see but it would be useful to know in theory if you
> would be interested in getting involved with an ongoing working group on
> this?
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> We are having our next bookfair collective meeting in one week, next
> Thursday 8th April, so if there is any chance of you getting back to me
> before then with your thoughts on this I would be very grateful
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> Very many thanks
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> Georgia, for the anarchist bookfair collective
> PS) have you decided on a new name yet or are you sticking with the
> radical childcare collective?
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