EVENTS
Every month the Canterbury Socialist Society hosts one educational event and one social event. Our events are free, and all are welcome. Our rolling social event occurs on the third Thursday of each month at Pomeroy’s Pub from 7pm.
February 13, 2019 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
CSS Public Lecture: “An Epoch of Rest” William Morris (1834-96)
"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…
January 27, 2019 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Canterbury Socialist Society Sunday Morning Reading Group
As an addition to the Canterbury Socialist Society programming for 2019 we will be hosting a monthly reading group on…
January 15, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Our first event for 2019 is a free screening of the 2018 dark comedy 'Sorry to Bother You' written and…
December 12, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Guest Lecture: Restoring The Liberty Tree
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses…
November 7, 2018 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
CSS Guest Lecture: Ours To Master and To Own
"All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone We have laid the wide foundations, built…
October 9, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: The Grand Hotel Abyss
"A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia have taken up residence in the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, a beautiful hotel,…
September 12, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Canterbury Socialist Society: Annual General Meeting 2018
Dear friends, Due to the need to reschedule our original September event the CSS has brought its AGM forward from…
August 7, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: Harlan County, USA (1976)
//Which side are you on? Which side are you on? They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there…
July 10, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Public Lecture: Kids These Days
"Major trends like the increase in average worker output, rationalization, downward pressure on the cost of labor, mass incarceration, and…
June 24, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
CSS Guest Lecture: Left Out? Speaking Tour – Christchurch
The Canterbury Socialist Society is excited to welcome a guest lecture from Tyler (The Ice Bloc) for our June Event:…
June 21, 2018 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Standing Orders 2.0: Socialist Society Beers and Books Club
This is an update to our monthly social drinks in order to facilitate a wide variety of discussion and engagement.…
May 8, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
CSS Film Screening: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the…