Space Academy
Christchurch
Canterbury
New Zealand
8011
Events
CSS Public Lecture: The Grand Hotel Abyss
October 9, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia have taken up residence in the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, a beautiful hotel,…
CSS Guest Lecture: Restoring The Liberty Tree
December 12, 2018 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses…
CSS Film Screening: Sorry To Bother You (2018)
January 15, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
Our first event for 2019 is a free screening of the 2018 dark comedy 'Sorry to Bother You' written and…
CSS Public Lecture: “An Epoch of Rest” William Morris (1834-96)
February 13, 2019 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
"We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism,…
CSS Film Screening: Pride (2014)
March 13, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"When the first LGSM meeting took place on the eighth floor of a council flat in Bermondsey, none of the…
CSS Public Lecture: ¡No pasarán! – The Far Right Today
May 8, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride…
CSS Film Screening: Land and Freedom (1995)
June 12, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“You will never find peace with these fascists You'll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of…
CSS Public Lecture: Local Legacies of Radicalism
July 10, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"No. I am no dog to be registered; neither am I a slave to be trained to fight to uphold…
CSS & Unions Canterbury Film Screening: 1951
August 14, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"At the anniversary celebrations of the veterans of '51, as I mingled with those mighty people, the years fell away…
POSTPONED: CSS Public Lecture: Solitude or Solidarity
September 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
[Solitude or Solidarity: On Postcolonialism and Marxism] "The day we can’t get our hands on the ballot boxes before the…
Open Discussion: What do we mean when we talk about socialism?
September 11, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice…
CSS Panel Discussion: State of the Unions
October 9, 2019 7:30 pm-10:30 pm
"It is always somewhat perplexing and sometimes shocking to hear, from respected unionists, a lack of concern for the struggle…