These are some of the projects and events we will be visiting this year. Check regularly for updates!
up next:
ABC TKU and Ecotopia Biketour welcome you to come and write letters to prisoners, and to learn about and discuss prison abolition practices, and queerness within prisons.
Come hang out and share your experience with resistance against prisons, to remember our friends and comrades incarcerated while fighting for a better world that we want to live in together.
Let’s organize ourselves and create alternatives:
Abolishing prisons!
Organized with Ecotopia Biketour that’s visiting Turku this summer.
In Kirjakahvila 16-20 (Vanha Suurtori 3 25100 Turku)
our projects and events in general:
Helsinki
Helsingin Pyöräpaja – Pasilan puistotie 12, 00240 Helsinki
Bike kitchen Helsinki is a free DIY space where people can fix their own bike. There are volunteers there to guide and offer help. We have donated bicycle parts, basic tools and specialist bike tools for different situations.
We will use the Pyöräpaja for our preparation week. While we sleep in a different project, the bike kitchen will be our « day space » where we can fix/build our bikes, prepare the trailers, info material etc.
website: https://pyorapaja.info/
telegram: https://t.me/pyorapaja
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pyorapaja/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pyorapajahelsinki/
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Turku
Turun Pyöräpaja
–> hosting project in turku will the bike kitchen. we will have a small space with electricity and cold water there. and of course bikes and parts and tools and nice people!
8th of July – Writing to Prisoners
soon together with AMR Turku we will create an event of hanging out together, exchanging experiences and writing letters to activists and other people in prison.
more detailed info will follow!
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Tampere
Musta Pispala
We are queer-feminists, activists, punks, antifascists, writers, antiracists, sex workers. We are artists, workers, unemployed, students, poor, chronically ill, tired. We are brave. We are anarchists.
Anarchist counterculture festival Musta Pispala will be held from 12th to 14th of July in 2024 in Tampere, in the Pispala area. The festival programme is organised collectively with the participants and this is your chance to offer your workshop or other kind of content for the event!
website: https://mustapispala.blackblogs.org/
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Tallinn
Ülase 12 – 10613 Tallinn
Ylase12 is an autonomous social center in Tallinn, Estonia. We organize events, such as movie screenings, workshops, concerts etc, and provide space for different projects of the members of our community.
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Massia
Massia – Massiaru koolimaja, Häädemeeste vald, 86004 Pärnumaa
MASSIA is a residency space for the professional and not-yet professional and welcomes individuals or groups from any field – artists, practitioners, scientists, activists, etc., who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work.
MASSIA is busy with notions of self-organisation and making alternatives possible.
Together with the people from Massia we will build a new sauna! If you have any building experience or skills, do let us know in your registration or via e-mail.
website: https://www.massia.ee/
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Kombinatas
Kombinatas Fest – Saugus atstumas, Mackeliskiu k., Anyksciu raj
Join us at Kombinatas 2024, a vibrant summer festival nestled in the picturesque rural setting near Anykščiai, Lithuania, from August 15th to 18th.
This year, our theme is « Home », delving into the multifaceted concept of home as a fundamental human right and exploring its implications on social, political, and environmental landscapes.
website: http://kombinatasfest.org
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/festivaliskombinatas
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Riga
Fukušima
Fukušima is a noncommercial project with a focus to minimize the local environmental impact of industrial activities around the territory, to experiment & promote the emerging science of grassroots bioremediation, to appreciate benefits of sauna, to maintain a book library and to provide camping & facilities for musicians, artists, & travelers and therefore improve the territory for enjoyment by local & foreign visitors. to reach these goals and to evolve a community that shares responsibilities in achieving these goals they organize events and host visitors from all over the world.
we will be staying on their grounds and have the opportunity to get to know and connect with this unique project.
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fukushima.lv/
24th of August – Talka with Free Riga
On 24th of August we will join forces with the community of Lastadija quarter (ran by Free Riga) and help them out with a community clean-up-build-up event (talka). During the day there will be some tasks to do to freshen up the space and we will end the day with a relaxed party for ourselves. (If anyone is a musician and wants to play some dancing beats during the evening, that is also possible!)
website: www.freeriga.lv
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FREERIGA/
instagram: @freeriga AND @lastadija
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Liepāja
Radi Vidi Pats – Kuģinieku iela 5, Liepāja
The aim of the association is to promote sustainable development of Latvian society, cultural and environmental education through lifelong learning of young people and adults and participation in social processes. Over time, the association has also become involved in projects and activities promoting democracy. We care about an inclusive and open Liepaja society, which everyone can get involved in creating.
Ecotopia Biketour has actually already visited Radi Vidi Pats once, back in 2017. We are really looking forward to revisiting the project and experience what has changed (on both sides)!
Here’s a video from EBT 2017’s visit at the project:
website: https://radividipats.lv/en/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadiVidiPats
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radividipats/
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Vilnius
–> we are still looking for a project in or around vilnius that can host us! any help is much appreciated. :)
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Northern Poland
Diggers – about 100km north of Warsaw
We are a queer-feminist self-led group, taking care of a house and a piece of land in the Mazovian countryside. Our main goal is to make space available for workshops, camps, rest, relaxation, etc. for people and groups facing discrimination, as well as those who work against exclusion and discrimination, advocating for social and environmental justice.
website: https://kopacze.space/