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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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We’re hiring a Project Director (JD link in Bio)
The Project Director will provide both strategic leadership and practical delivery for the BFI-funded project LCVA: Building an Independent and Sustainable Future. Working closely with the Directors, Project Coordinator, partners and collaborators, they will lead organisational development, oversee programme delivery and support the day-to-day management of the project.

Hybrid (London / remote)
Fixed term contract
£350 per 2 days per week for the duration of the project, plus 15 days for event support
August 2026-April 2029 (Fixed Term Contract)

Application Deadline: July 3rd, 3pm link in bio and on the Stories page of our website
This is a hands-on role requiring a combination of strategic thinking, project management, partnership building and operational oversight. The successful candidate will help shape the future sustainability of the London Community Video Archive while ensuring the effective delivery of an ambitious programme of activity.

As a small organisation, LCVA works collaboratively and flexibly. The Project Director will combine strategic leadership with practical delivery, administration and coordination, working across all aspects of the project as required. We are looking for someone with experience delivering community engagement programmes and cultural events, someone who knows and cares what the LCVA is and does. Please do not message us on here, any enquiries should be sent to projects@the-lcva.co.uk

Supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Image credit; Cultural Herb Festival (1983) by @the_lcva

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4 months ago

T-SHIRT DROP❗️

Our new tee features imagery sourced from documents in the archive, including brochures from community arts group Inter-action and distribution catalogues from Albany Video.

► Available online - link in bio or in person at select screening events by @the_lcva

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a year ago

↻ ◁ Check out our new redesigned website ▷ ↺
. . . . . link in bio ▶︎ •၊၊|

[the archive is expanding]

newly added videos, new collections, a smarter search tool to help you explore the archive, and information on how to book a screening !

⋆ collect ⋆ preserve ⋆ share and ⋆organise by @the_lcva

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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 taken in Avalon Cafe by @the_lcva

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23 days ago

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. ::)) taken in Whitechapel Gallery by @the_lcva

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3 months ago

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 by @the_lcva

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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' by @the_lcva

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We are excited to announce that LCVA will be part of the @whitechapelgallery Backyard Biennial (15 Jul - 06 Sep 2026) this summer as part of the film installation ‘East End Voices’ in the Zilkha Auditorium alongside OITIJ-JO Collective (@oitij_jo) and Four Corners (@fourcornerse2)

LCVA presents 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨, 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡: 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙬 (1972–1976) which explores the legacy of radical community video and grassroots arts projects in 1970s East London, through the work of the Basement Project, E1 Festival, and Tower Hamlets Arts Project.

The film installation dives into the story of community arts in Tower Hamlets centres on two pioneering initiatives: the Basement Project, founded in 1972, and the Tower Hamlets Arts Project (THAP), established in 1976. Both groups championed community arts as a form of political action. Rather than seeking inclusion within elite art institutions, they created work by and for the community, valuing the collective act of making beyond the idea of the finished product.

Curated by London Community Video Archive @edwebbingall @cici__peng . With thanks to Maggie Pinhorn. by @the_lcva

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3 months ago

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 ✨ by @the_lcva

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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 taken in Deptford Lounge by @the_lcva

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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 by @the_lcva

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On Thursday 23 April, The Otolith Group (@the_otolith_group) bring the next Library Transmission to our Minassa space. The screening of Tunde’s Film will be the first in the Notes from the London Commune series.

Tunde’s Film follows a group of youths in East London who decide to take matters into their own hands after economic turmoil and persistent police harassment. They form an armed cadre whose first objective is to rob a bank. The drama unfolds on the streets of Tower Hamlets as the racial and social faultlines of 1970s London are set to a Joan Armatrading soundtrack.

The screening will be followed by an in-conversation with film directors Tunde Ikoli and Maggie Pinhorn, series curator James Elsey (@metropessimist) and The Otolith Collective’s Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun.

Notes from the London Commune highlights moments from the pre-history of the liberation of London. The programme envisions the political imagination of black, proletarian, queer radicalisms as the seed, the soil and the star of a London yet to arrive.

With thanks to the London Community Video Archive (@the_lcva)

🔗🎟️ Reserve your free place on our website via the link in bio.

#Ibraaz #IbraazLondon taken in Ibraaz by @the_lcva

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