The Library House Social Centre in South London

The New Squatted Social Centre is very near Myatts Fields, and not far from Loughborough Junction station in Brixton. The Library House stands right behind Minet Library. The occupied building seems to have been part of the library services but left empty long time ago.

The Social Centre is run by a group of local south londoners that have put quite a lot of work into fixing up the space, and they are preparing events and dreaming of a vibrant free space for South London.

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The Library House stands behind Minet Library (the entrance is through a gate on Burton Road), not far away from where the former New Camberwell Squatted Centre stood a year or so ago until it was evicted, victim of the ever-present speculation [More].

Social Centres are self-managed spaces, a means whereby people can come together to create, conspire, communicate and offer a collective challenge against capitalism...

Social centres have always been a vital part of the infrastructure of radical social movements.

The Library House is one such place and is available to the community and political groups that need free space to meet, organise, put on events or workshops etc.

The Library House includes 3 rooms: a small one (coined as the"dining room", for cosy meetings or small cafes) and two bigger rooms that can contain from 15 to 30 people each (one is the "cafe room" and has sofas+our free shop; the other one, just called the "front room", is virtually empty to make it available for workshops like capoeira or theatre).

We meet as an open collective every tuesday evening from 9pm to discuss use of the space and hear proposals.

Email us at libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

More information:
IMC-UK Free Spaces Topic Page | UK Social Centres Network | Wikipedia on Social Centres | Advisory Service For Squatters | Wombles' Social Centres Pages

Links:

Library House Website

Contact email: libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net