We cordially invite you to the second session of The Living School, to be held at the Ivy House Pub on Saturday, March 12, 2016. The session focuses on the theme of Poverty, and includes presentations by scholar Andrew Conio and archivist Liz Allen. Responding to issues of neo-liberal economics, Conio brings forward a critical discussion on the question of money and liquidity, and how conditions of indebtedness are central to current debates. Grounding such discussions, Liz Allen, archivist at Toynbee Hall, presents an historical overview of the Settlement House Movement, and how institutions dedicated to responding to the conditions of the poor are dealing with current situations. Concluding the session, Andrea Luka Zimmerman (Fugitive Images) screens the film Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000), reflecting upon issues related to social housing and homelessness, and her own experience at the Haggerston Estate, London. It is the aim of the session to reflect upon poverty not only as a state of being without, but equally as the basis for forms of resistance and expressions of weak-strength.
