Prepare for the Stroud Water Riots - Thursday 5th🎨🔥
Wed 05 Nov
|Trinity Rooms
Before we remember and reawaken the spirit of the Stroud Water Riots and dunk our current (symbolic) millowner in the canal on Saturday 8th November - we need to build one! This is your change to come and help us + learn along the way!
Time & Location
05 Nov 2025, 11:00 – 13:00
Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ, UK
About the Event
200 years ago thousands of Stroud Weavers rioted in response to crap conditions and pay, dunking people in millponds in protest. Right now, communities globally are rising up against the occupation of their lands and the trampling of our collective human, people’s and Mother Earth rights.
Before we remember and reawaken the spirit of the Stroud Water Riots and dunk our current (symbolic) millowner in the canal on Saturday 8th November - we need to build one! This session will be one of 2 where we're building our very own Mill Owner (ready for dunking!) - so come along on Wednesday 5th Nov at 11-1pm at Trinity Rooms (or Weds 22nd Oct at Redz) to help us build our effigy and learn why we're remembering the riots.
These events are part of our commitment to the building of the Decolonial Open Communiversity (DOC) through our retrieval and revival of our community’s…