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    Juan Mata's summer

    Apparently Thiago's injury means Mata is in with a shout of making Spain's World Cup squad. But does he really want to go? I'd be surprised if he did. Winning the World Cup is a frequent event for diminutive Spanish midfielders, but how often do you get to experience a summer of Mancunian cultural offerings? Not as often, I'd wager.

    So if Juan Mata decides capitalism's corporate (ahem) boondoggle isn't for him, let's list some things he'd prefer to do instead.

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    http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/film-events/the-cinema-of-childhood-double-bill

    Curated by filmmaker Mark Cousins, The Cinema of Childhood presents a selection of the best films about childhood. Many have rarely, if ever, been shown in UK cinemas, so this is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to enjoy them all. Feel young again. See the world through the eyes of a child.

    Join us for The Cinema of Childhood double bill, featuring:

    Palle Alone in the World (U)
    (Palle alene I verden)
    Dir Astrid Henning-Jensen/DK 1949/25 mins/Danish wEng ST
    Lars Henning-Jensen, Lily Broberg

    A boy wakes up to find that he’s alone in the world. Deserted, silent Copenhagen becomes his giant playground. Adapting a famous novel, Astrid Henning-Jensen – one of the greatest directors of children – makes an all-time classic of charm and wonder.

    Crows (CTBA)
    (Wrony)
    Dir Dorota Kedzierzawska/PL 1994/63 mins/Polish wEng ST
    Karolina Ostrozna, Kasia Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska

    Wrona (“crow” in Polish) is neglected at home, laughed at in school, and furious with the world. Feeling unloved, she steals a cute little girl and attempts to mother her, but she soon discovers just how hard being a parent is. Dorota Kedzierzawska’s film about an angry girl who just wants to love and be loved is tough yet tender, and elevated by gorgeous cinematography.

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      #3
      Juan Mata's summer

      Sunday 29th June at the Bridgewater Hall:

      "As delightful as they are dark, fairy tales fire the imaginations of every generation. Composers have never been able to resist their appeal. Here the Hallé offers an enchanting afternoon which opens with the overture to Humperdinck’s ginger-bread opera, Hansel and Gretel, and includes music from Ravel’s Mother Goose. Coming right up to date, there will be a premiere of a new piece based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans – written specially for the Hallé Children’s Choir, featuring young actors from Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as over 200 young singers from Greater Manchester. - See more at: http://www.halle.co.uk/concerts-tickets.aspx?day=29&month=6&year=2014#sthash.Km9is M3n.dpuf"

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        http://www.thelowry.com/event/icarus

        "In 2010 the Mars One Foundation set out their plans to establish a human settlement on the red planet by the year 2024. They received over a quarter of a million applicants for the one-way mission…

        Using their unique physical and cinematic style, Square Peg Theatre asks what would drive somebody to leave Earth forever in this story of hope, ambition and legacy.

        Icarus is created by Square Peg Theatre, developed with The Lowry and supported by Harrogate Theatre and Dep Arts. The production is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England"

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          http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/bolshevism-syndicalism-and-the-general-strike-the-lost-internationalist-world-of-aa-purcell-/

          Launch of Kevin Morgan's book on Alf Purcell - 7pm, free, all welcome
          The third and final volume of Kevin Morgan's widely acclaimed series Bolshevism and the British Left centres around the figure of Alf Purcell (1872-1935), who between the wars was one of the leading personalities in the British and international labour movement. A long-term member of the TUC General Council, Purcell became chairman of the general strike committee in 1926 - and this could have been his hour of glory. But when it was called off ignominiously he experienced the obloquy of defeat.
          Purcell was most famous as one of TUC 'lefts' of the 1920s. But he was also Labour MP for both the Forest of Dean and Coventry, as well as being the founder of a working guild in the spirit of guild socialism, the controversial president of the International Federation of Trade Unions and the man who moved the formation of the British communist party. A sometime syndicalist and associate of Tom Mann, his experiences in the militant Furnishing Trades gave rise to the uncompromising trade-union internationalism which features so centrally in these chapters. But with the squeezing of his syndicalist approach, as the labour movement polarised into Labour and communist currents, Purcell died a politically broken figure.
          Morgan also deploys the life of Purcell as a biographical lens, a way of exploring wider controversies - among them the rival modernities of Bolshevism and Americanism; the reactions to Bolshevism of anarchists like Emma Goldman (who called Purcell 'that damn fake'); and the roots of political tourism to the USSR in the British labour delegations in which Purcell featured so prominently. The volume also includes a major challenge to existing interpretations of the general strike, which it compellingly presents, not as the last fling of the syndicalists, but as a first and disastrously ill-conceived imposition of social-democratic centralism by Ernest Bevin.

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            #6
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            Drinks with Samir.

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              #7
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              caja-dglh wrote: Drinks with Samir.
              There's a definite EIM or Wingco thread in this. The Secret Diary of Juan Manuel Mata García Aged 26¼, or What I Did On My Summer Holidays. Drinks with the Nasris. Class of 92 reading circle. Long strolls on the beach with David Moyes.

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                Sheffield Doc/Fest

                https://sheffdocfest.com/films/5590

                Vagabond

                DIRECTOR(S): Agnès Varda
                PRODUCER(S): Oury Milshtein
                COUNTRY: France YEAR: 1985 DURATION: 105 min LANGUAGE: Arabic, French, English FORMAT: 35 mm
                Varda’s harsh, tragic anti-road movie is compelling in both its formal innovation and its engaging portrayal of an unforgettably ambiguous anti-heroine, Mona. The film plays with conventions of the road movie – quest of self-discovery, journey as social reintegration, dramatic shifts in landscape – to present us with an enigmatic character whose destiny remains nevertheless foretold. Mona acts as a cipher on which others (including us) project keystones of identity (gendered, social, romantic, familial) and as a subject to test the nature of the cinematic look as conventions of close-up, travelling shot and voyeurism are displayed and challenged. ‘Vagabond’ contains strong documentary elements through the use of non-professional actors and characterisation provided through interviews with those who met Mona. Its focus on the social and economic vulnerability of an unlikeable and conflicted character predates mid 1990s French cinema’s ‘realism of proximity’.

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                  #9
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                  Big Dave's Gusset could do an excellent cartoon of Samir and Juan watching the World Cup on TV. It just needs a plot.

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                    #10
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                    Maybe a Likely Lads style attempt to avoid hearing the score of the (massively unlikely) France v Spain final?

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                      caja-dglh wrote: Drinks with Samir.
                      Here they are:

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                      ...holding on to those metal rods for all they're worth, while those kids spin them.

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                        #12
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                        It's MATADAY! That's funny because it references Juan Mata, and Mataday sounds a bit like Saturday.

                        Mata probably won't play. But if he doesn't, I'll still be providing LIVE coverage of him sitting on the bench, reading a book on Brazilian culture.

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                          #13
                          Juan Mata's summer

                          https://vine.co/v/MZ0lLvVTEUv

                          TALK DIRTY TO ME! Dum duh duh duh duh duh duh Diddy diddy duh duh!

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                            #14
                            Juan Mata's summer

                            A delightful chickpea and potato curry, an ice cold can of Zywiec, a smiling Van Gaal, and a goal from Juan Mata. Even without the sun cracking the South Manchester flags, and a delightful evening breeze disturbing my room through the patio doors I've flung open, today would be a good, good day.

                            And I've not had to use my AK.

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                              #15
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                              Erics Inner Monologue wrote: https://vine.co/v/MZ0lLvVTEUv

                              TALK DIRTY TO ME! Dum duh duh duh duh duh duh Diddy diddy duh duh!
                              He nailed that.

                              That skill's called the hocus pocus, and I proper fucked over trying to show my ten year old nephew how to do it a couple of weeks ago. He couldn't do it either, so that made me feel a bit better. But he's since learned how to. The pupil is quickly overtaking the master. Put me out to seed.

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                                #16
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                                Could you please take Juan mata of your list of obsessions eim. You're a curse. I don't want him going the way of veron and the Berbaslug

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                                  #17
                                  Juan Mata's summer

                                  Apparently he's the reason we didn't sign Fabregas. Presumably meaning he plays that role so well, not because Mata said, here, don't sign Fabregas, he's a dick.

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                                    #18
                                    Juan Mata's summer

                                    Tap tap..... Hello hello is this thing on?

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                                      There's no way EIM hasn't already given this the fullest attention, but for those yet to see it:

                                      Juan Mata’s inspiration for the key role he performed in Manchester United’s resounding 3-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday came from the unlikely source of the Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, the Spanish midfielder has revealed.

                                      [...]

                                      “I would like to recommend to those who come to Manchester a visit to the Whitworth Art Gallery,” he wrote. “I went there a few days ago and I was really surprised by some of Cai Guo-Qiang’s works and his drawing technique using gunpowder. Overall, this is a very interesting and well-designed museum.”
                                      Lovely.

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                                        #20
                                        Juan Mata's summer

                                        He's fucking dreamy, and this deserves a bigger audience than the World Cup forum.

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