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Get in touch to organise a screening [email protected] Supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

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cooking some food, screening some films and dancing to music at @avaloncafebermondsey on Sunday 20th September to raise much needed funds for Performing Arts Forum.

it also marks my final week in London before I head to Iceland for 3 months, and comes a few days before my 31st birthday - so a handful of reasons to come along!

mainly veggie food from 6pm with the PAF sous chefs, films from the wonderful @house.of.platitudes and @the_lcva along with music from close friends and myself.

advance tickets from the link in my bio, it will be nice to see some friends! xx

poster design @_____ppp_r
typeface credits: Hasan Halilov & Rory King

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East End Voices: Community, Activism and Identity:

Join Four Corners, London Community Video Archive and Oitij-Jo Collective for an afternoon of screenings and discussion. We will be showing and discussing: Gaali Kothon — A Tale of Swear Words (Mahamuda Aktar (Monisha), 2024.

This film will be one of four films shown tomorrow in collaboration with @fourcornerse2 @the_lcva at @whitechapelgallery as part of #backyardbiennial

Gaali Kothon is part of Process of Being Womxn - film programme curated for the Biennial as a collaboration with @shala_paraa and OITIJ-JO.

More films being shown in @oitijjoartsspace on 27th July and 3rd August from 6:30pm.

Join us. ::))

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Slightly late this week but listings are now on substack!

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Looking for things to do this week?

Don’t miss East End Voices: Community, Activism and Identity — a special screening and discussion with Four Corners, London Community Video Archive and Oitij-Jo Collective, as part of Backyard Biennial: East, initiated by Whitechapel Gallery.

🗓️ This Wednesday Jul 22, 12–5pm
📍 Zilkha Auditorium & Studio, Whitechapel Gallery, 77–82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX.

Engaging with community, activism and identity from the 1970s to the present, these short films draw on archive material including a community video magazine, a documentary on Bengali families’ housing struggles, and a film about young people’s attitudes to racism, alongside shorts by contemporary Bangladeshi creators.

🔗 follow link in bio for more information and to purchase tickets.

@the_lcva
@oitij_jo

#backyardbiennialeast #eastlondon #film #whitechapelartgallery

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We are delighted to be part of the Backyard Biennial: East (15 July - 6 September) at @whitechapelgallery, with an exciting programme of films!

Join us on 22nd July for
East End Voices: Community, activism and identity - a special afternoon of screenings and discussion alongside London Community Video Archive @the_lcva and Oitij-Jo Collective @oitij_jo

Engaging with community, activism and identity from the 1970s to the present, these short films draw on archive material including a community video magazine, a documentary on Bengali families’ housing struggles, and a film about young people’s attitudes to racism, alongside shorts by contemporary Bangladeshi creators.

12 - 5pm | July 22 | Zilkha Auditorium at Whitechapel Gallery.

BOOK YOUR TICKET HERE: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/east-end-voices/

🔗 Read more via the link in our bio.
#BackyardBiennial #EastEnd'

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Thursday the 9th of July at @thehorsehospital as part of DISAPPEARING IMAGES festival

A one night exhibition of moving image works by -

@ripgermain
#Hexstatic
@the_lcva
@qualityoflifegallery
@theotherjohnsmith
#geevaucher #mickduffield @crasswords

ONE NIGHT ONLY - DO NOT MISS THIS!

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FRAMED YOUTH: REVENGE OF THE TEENAGE PERVERTS (1983)

Screening Thursday, June 18th, 7P + a conversation with Semaj Peltier and Michael Anthony Hall

Doors: 7PM
Screening: 7:30PM
Conversation: 8:30PM
Location: Fancy Film, 4212 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Tickets at the link in bio (no one turned away for lack of funds)

#cineapartamento

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Join us on Thursday, June 18, at 7PM for a special screening of FRAMED YOUTH: REVENGE OF THE TEENAGE PERVERTS + a conversation with Semaj Peltier and Michael Anthony Hall.

Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts (1983) Facilitated by Andy Lipman and Philip Timmons. The Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project formed in 1982, and about 25 young lesbians and gays made this video about themselves. Jeff Cole, one of the group, explains the process:

“We were challenging the ways that conventional documentary makers were showing lesbians and gay men on television documentaries and so wanted to include ourselves as makers and as subjects, not in any way trying to be balanced.”

Michael Anthony Hall is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, curator, and founder of Cine Apartamento.

Semaj Peltier is an archivist, curator, and recent graduate of the University of Amsterdam’s Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image program, specializing in lesbian memory practices and avant-garde cinema vessels.

Doors: 7PM
Screening: 7:30PM
Conversation: 8:30PM

Fancy Film - 4212 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Tickets at link bio ✨

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✨Last chance to catch ‘For no reason of my own’ This is the final week, open Wed–Sun 12–5pm until 24th May✨

An archive exhibition drawing on the Brent Community Law Centre, tracing how working-class communities built their own infrastructures of legal support, mutual aid and resistance. Bringing together materials from the Brent Community Law Centre and the Young People’s Law Centre alongside films from Cinenova and London Community Video Archive and photographic materials from the North Paddington Community Darkroom.

‘For no reason of my own’ takes its title from a text by the YPLC, ‘If we can’t get our points across… we ought to have a spokesperson for ourselves’ (1981), which outlines the need for a specialised legal service for young people. These archival fragments speak to both legal histories and broader struggles around housing, racism, migration, labour and policing that shaped — and continue to shape — everyday life in Brent and beyond. By placing these materials in dialogue, we ask: what can we learn from collective and community action as a form of justice that extends beyond the limits of legal systems?

More info in our bio 🔝

Photos: @matthewritson ❤️

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📽️London Community Video Archive: Screening and Talk
📍Deptford Library
🗓️Thursday 28th May
⏰6:00 - 8:00pm
A visual tour through the London Community Video Archive’s ( @the_lcva ) footage from Albany Video, including film Beyond Our Ken, lead by filmmaker and researcher Edward Webb-Ingall.

Albany Video was a video production and distribution company based in The Albany Theatre just across the road from Deptford Library, operating from the mid 70’s to the early 90s. They made several productions for Channel 4, and focused on topics of activism, community and social justice. The London Community Video Archive (LCVA) collects, preserves and shares community videos made between 1969 and 1994 in London and the South East.

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Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. @film_london

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🗣️Announcing Lewisham Libraries Local Film Festival 2026!

📽️Join us throughout May for a fantastic array of local film screenings, including shorts from local filmmakers, local archive footage courtesy of the London Community Video Archive ( @the_lcva ), as well as talks, directors Q&A’s and creative workshops!

Check out the full programme on the Lewisham Libraries events platform and book your free tickets now!

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Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

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Listings are up on Substack!

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