EVENTS DIARY FOR READING RED RAG RED RAG 22 FEBRUARY 1981 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 3 EVENTS IN RAEDING FOR A FORTNIGHT GIVE DETAILS OF YOU EVENTS TO US c/O 31B MILMAN ROAD, OR PHONE 861841 OR 83275 ANTI-NUCLEAR WOMEN MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY The Womens froup of the Berkshire Anti-Nuclear Campaign has a meeting at 107 Waverley Road, Reading. At 8pm. HARD LABOUR THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY Reading North Labour Party A.G.M. at A.U.E.W. Hall, Oxford Road. MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY Mayday meeting at 181 Shinfield rd Contact 861841. 8pm. More HARD LABOUR FRIDAY 27th FEBRUARY Labour Party, District Party Meeting. At the Civic Offices, 8pm WOMENS MEETING SUNDAY 1 MARCH General Womens Meeting, Nos 2-4 Sackville Street, 7.30 for 8pm. WOMENS LIB TUESDAY 3 MARCH Womens Lib Group. FEMINISM – EUROPE. At 26 New Road, Reading. 8pm BACK TO BASICS WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH The Berkshire Anti-Nuclear Group has a public meeting featuring a discussion titled ‘Back to Basics’ in the AUEW Hall, Oxford Road, starting at 8pm THE THOMPSON-RUN MEDIA WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH A benefit for BANC (see last entry), features ‘The Thompson Twins’, who will be performing at the Students Union. Tickets £1.50 in advance from BANC (eg at toneight’s meeting, or ring Heather Petch on 86022 (daytime)to reserve place. If you are not a student and you turn up without a ticket you will be abused and possibly beaten by the thugs hired by the students to protect them from people like you. Detect a trace of bitterness? SOCIALIST FEMINISTS WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH A socialist feminist group meets at. presumably, 8pm at 14 Ennerdale Road. MANLEY BEHAVIOUR THURSDAY 5 MARCH An Afro-carribean band, ‘Jabulla’, are playing at the students union, tickets £1.00 in advance from the Students Union. This appears to be for a ‘good cause’, but we don’t know which one. Comments under 4 March entry apply. INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MEN FRIDAY 6 MARCH Another benefit for BANC, this time at the AUEW Hall, Oxford Road (take woollies if cold), 8.30pm, bar, featuring the Incrdible Shrink- ing Men. TURN OVER THE READING COURIER AND PEOPLE’S FRIEND. SIDE TWO WHO LEADS? WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH Professor Derek Bryce-Smith is talking about the risks of lead pollution, at 8pm in the cap & Gown public house, opposite the tech. He knows. Organised by Friends of the Earth. EDUCATION MONDAY 9 MARCH This entry is out of order. The Communist Party have an education nal meeting on Political Economy at 8pm at 39 Ashmore Road, Whitley RADIATION WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH Dr Rosalie Bertell, one of the world’s leading experts on low level radiation, is speaking in the coffee lounge of the University students union, at 8pm. Organised by BANC, this really shouldn’t be missed. O TO BE IN ENGLAND THURSDAY 12 MARCH If you are the kind of person who reads Red Rag, chances are that if you lived in Germany you wouldn’t be allowed to work as a teacher, civil servant, postal worker or train driver. Berufs- verbot, the system is called, and there’s a public meeting on the subject at the AUEW Hall, Oxford Road, 8pm. Organised by the Communist Party. JUMBLE SALE SATURDAY 14 MARCH St Bartholemew’s church hall, London Road. 1.30pm. In aid of BANC. If you have any jumble, contact B@b Allen, Reading 863803 MESSAGES • Steve Shellard has obtained the permission of the Hexagon to use the area at the side outside the bar, on the first Saturday of every month, for informal busking, agit-prop, street theatre, poetry reading etc. probably starting 2 May. If you are interested CONTACT Steve Shallard, 662302 • Women’s Centre at St Mary’s Centre (behind the church, off the Butts) is now open as follows: 10-3.30 tuesdays 10-12.30 fridays • anyone interested in women’s health CONTACT Mary Evans, 482820 • WANTED: racing bike, cheap but not nasty, CONTACT Pat, 596004 RED RAG Our display of petulance last issue has paid dividends – we are OK for people, more still wanted though to expand activities. From next issue we will include a digest of Reading events. FILLER Realism can only be defined within a given situation, Its methods and aims are always changing. For Masaccio the solidity of form was an essential of Realism. For the Impressionists the destruction of that solidity was an essential of realism. Then the only thing shared by all realists is the nature of their relationships to the art tradition they inherit. They are realists in so far as they bring into art aspects of nature and life preciously ignored or forbidden by the rulemakers. It is in this sense that realists can be opposed to formalists. Formulists are those who use the conventions of their medium (conventions that originally came into being for the purpose of translating aspects of life into art) to keep out or pass over new aspects.