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Sunday 2nd Jul 2017 -2540 Days:-20 Hrs

Creative Community Procession

Creative Community Procession was started in 2015 by the Westway23 community campaign group.

It happens on the first Sunday of July.

The procession was started to raise awareness of the Westway situation and show that we are free to use the land as we see fit.

The 23 acres of land beneath the Westway are here for our benefit. They are here for us to use. They are our compensation for the damage caused by its construction - the lost homes and deadly pollution.

With this in mind we do not believe that the 23 acres have been properly managed by the managing Trust for the past forty years. We believe that only constant action, scrutiny and community oversight can bring about a Westway Trust that is truly of the community and for the community.

Westway23 invite you to use the 23 acres to be creative, share your stories and reclaim the city before it is too late....
SUNDAY 2ND JULY 2017

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Reclaim Ladbroke Grove

Creative Community Procession was started in 2015 by the Westway23 community campaign group.

It happens on the first Sunday of July.

The procession was started to raise awareness of the Westway situation and show that we are free to use the land as we see fit.

The 23 acres of land beneath the Westway are here for our benefit. They are here for us to use. They are our compensation for the damage caused by its construction - the lost homes and deadly pollution.

With this in mind we do not believe that the 23 acres have been properly managed by the managing Trust for the past forty years. We believe that only constant action, scrutiny and community oversight can bring about a Westway Trust that is truly of the community and for the community.

Westway23 invite you to use the 23 acres to be creative, share your stories and reclaim the city before it is too late....
SUNDAY 2ND JULY 2017

route

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The route of the procession has one simple aim: To move from one end of the 23 acres to the other. On the way we will commemorate the spaces and places our local community - and London as a whole - has lost through bad decisions, political mischief and austerity economics.

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Activities
      Face painting
      Banner making
      Circle
      Performers
      Music
      Community land marks
Safety

For your safety and security there will be a number of stewards on the day in High-Vis vests. Amongst them are First Aiders. Please do not hesitate to ask them any questions or point out any urgent matters.

Timetable

1PM Congregate at the Stables
4PM Leave Stables
6PM Arrive at Portobello Green

Travel

Background

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Public Not Private

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Westway23 is a grassroots organisation formed of local residents, organisations, traders & artists of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds, united to defend the rights of the local community of Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, West London in relation to the 23 acres of land held in trust for the benefit of local residents by Westway Trust (WT). This land was given to the local community as compensation for the destruction and continuing damage caused by the A40(M) elevated motorway.

The issues that affect our local community also affect many communities across London and the UK: Deadly pollution; Top-down austerity; Targeted destruction of social housing; Closure of social amenities; Loss of local heritage and culture

Against that backdrop we must

  • Connect with each other wherever possible
  • Raise our issues and share our knowledge
  • Claim, reclaim and protect our public spaces
  • Encourage creative activity and seek alternatives
  • Support our heritage and culture

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In Your Power

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Westway23 are not against development and change; we just recognise that any future developments that are planned must be truly beneficial to the prosperity, health and well being of the local community - as it IS not as some would wish it to be - for whom the land is held in trust.

We regard the management of the 23 acres as a blueprint for the management of all public land and assets.

OUR DEMANDS

Consistent support to enable the people of our community, not the employees of the Trust, to make their visions a reality and make the 23 acres a beacon of community empowerment - what it was intended to be by those who first claimed it as compensation for the local people.

Access to OUR land to use as WE see fit to build and support OUR heritage and culture as the constitution of the Westway Trust clearly states it should. We demand that the 23 acres be a true reflection of OUR local heritage, culture and enterprise (the same heritage, culture and enterprise that made this part of West London so desirable in the first place) and not be developed into a soulless, ten-a-penny tourist “destination” that leaves local people out in the cold, socially, spiritually and economically.

True representation to ensure a Trust that we can trust. We demand a trust that fully understands the pressures and threats our community is dealing with: Austerity, pollution, gentrification/social cleansing, closure of amenities, inequality of opportunity. We demand a board of Trustees and Executive body that can demonstrate unequivocally that they stand with, not against, our community.

Proper consultation that listens to the concerns and desires of local people. We demand a level of consultation that effectively and meaningfully processes our feedback and involves our multi-talented, endlessly creative people in ways that are not tokenistic, patronising or exploitative.

The Creative Community Procession is our annual opportunity to come together to express these demands and more, through sharing the collective freedom that is our right to make use of the 23 acres as we see fit.

It will be what we want it to be and we will tell the story we want to tell. We tell our story through music, through art, through play, through theatre, through dance, through spoken word, through dress... How will you tell the story with us?

Get Involved

Unity is strength

Groups are openly invited to take part in the procession...Bring your energies, your hands, your voices, your instruments and your issues and share them with us!

Tell us who you are in the field boxes, how we can contact you, where you are based, what’s going on in your community that you would like to make a song and dance about and - if you have one - give us a logo we can share too. We are getting a small budget together through donations so we may be able to assist with travel costs if you need special travel arrangements (EG heavy equipment/instruments, disabilities) and the budget allows.









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