Brexitannia is a film presented in a unique style which shows the people of a once powerful empire as they negotiate their identities in a world changing faster than ever. This is the first feature documentary portrait of the UK during these unpredictable times. From Aberdeen, to Belfast, to Clacton-by-Sea: Welcome to Brexitannia.
On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history. Underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this historic and perplexing vote. Runtime: 1hr 20m Director: Timothy George Kelly
Watch the trailer here
]]>Black Star Season House Party: Comedy Double Bill
As part of Black Star, a UK-wide celebration of the range, versatility and power of black actors, programming collective Come The Revolution invites you to an evening of film and entertainment celebrating Black comedy. Coming to America (Dir: John Landis 1988), Eddie Murphy's shining moment and I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, the directorial debut by trailblazer Keenen Ivory Wayans featuring a young Chris Rock.
Coming to America
Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is the prince of a wealthy African country and wants for nothing, except a wife who will love him in spite of his title. To escape an arranged marriage, Akeem flees to America accompanied by his sidekick, Semmi (Arsenio Hall), to find his queen. Disguised as a foreign student working in fast food, he romances Lisa (Shari Headley), but struggles with revealing his true identity to her and his marital intentions to his king father (James Earl Jones).
I'm Gonna Git you Sucka
Jack Spade (Keenen Ivory Wayans) comes home to the ghetto and finds his brother dead from a gold chain overdose. With the help of his hero, John Slade (Bernie Casey), and a team of washed-up crime fighters, Spade declares vengeance on Mr. Big (John Vernon), the white crime leader responsible for selling gold chains on the streets. But Spade realizes that he must take matters into his own hands to finish the job in this zany spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films.
Live Comedy & Big Tunes
Presented by Come The Revolution in partnership with Watershed and Ujima Radio as part of #BFIBlackStar
]]>This panel discussion is part of a partnership between the BSA and the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum (SRES) project based at Newman University in Birmingham.
The project seeks to build an understanding of the social and cultural contexts of public perceptions of the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ across all faiths and none. Surprisingly, although the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ is often talked about in the media, by public intellectuals, and in public space, very little research has been done that explores what people actually think about their own or others’ views on the relationship between science and religion, or by extension rationality, reason, and faith.
What will happen on the night?
6.30 – Doors open.
7.00 – Mingle/information session in which you will be able to talk with the panellists and write down questions for the discussion.
7.30 – Panel discussion.
9.00 – Close.
The Panel
Dr Emma Preece is a Cognitive Psychologist with extensive experience of interdisciplinary research and teaching in Higher Education. Emma is currently a Research Fellow at Newman University (Birmingham), where she is responsible for the polling and surveying work on the ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum’ project.
Dr Amy Unsworth is a Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion where she studies attitudes to science and religion amongst Christians, Muslims and non-religious people, with a particular focus on creation and evolution. She previously worked in a lab as a molecular biologist and in the field of science communication.
Dr Alexander Hall is Associate Director of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society at Newman University (Birmingham). A historian of science by training Alex’s research is concerned with how historically scientists have communicated their research to the public. Currently Alex is researching how evolution and religion have been represented by the media during the second half of the twentieth-century.
Reverend Stig Graham is a scientist by training and currently chaplain at the Myton Hospice in Warwick.
Dr Eric Albone taught chemistry at Clifton College for 17 years before setting up Clifton Scientific Trust, which he founded to promote science through innovative educational projects. In 2013 he was awarded the MBE for services to education.
This event is free, but you will need to register. Eventbrite link coming soon!
]]>a gruesome twosome, our first two person show.
Opening event Friday 7 October 7pm-10pm
Exhibition continues 8-9 October 10am-5pm
the exhibition opening includes a bar and shop, alongside a special screening designed specifically for the architecture of ebc.
+ more tbc (see website for details nearer time) free admission to all --
east bristol contemporary is an artist-led gallery based at The Trinity Centre, Bristol.
ebc seeks to counteract the lack of established showing spaces for grass roots contemporary artists in Bristol, and seeks to establish a unique and diverse programme of exhibitions and events.
we run events for the public including artist talks/tours, workshops, opening events, events for young people, and discussions.
shows run on the first weekend of each month.
]]>What is it like to have your genome sequenced? How can we extract information from your DNA and what should be done to maintain its safety and privacy? Join our panel of experts from across Bristol in this Question Time style event that seeks to gain your opinion on who should have access to genetic data.
Future Debates events are part of the British Science Association's work to make science a fundamental part of British society and culture. We want to empower many more people – not just scientists – to constructively engage in debates over the applications and implications of science in their lives, their local economy and the UK’s future.
Tickets are free but please register!
An intimate documentary reflecting on the killing of Mark Duggan, a young, black British man, at the hands of London’s Metropolitan Police in 2011.
It reveals the real story, away from media coverage, of Mark Duggan’s friends and family following his death. He was shot and killed in a ‘Hard Stop’ police procedure, sparking the most violent riots in British history. For 28 months, director George Amponsah (The Fighting Spirit) filmed around Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, where Duggan grew up, capturing his family’s distress and focusing on two of his best friends, Marcus and Kurtis. We follow the men as they attempt to get on with their lives, look for a job, talk about the daily discrimination they still experience and the impact Duggan’s death has had on the community.
Duggan is present throughout, in peoples’ heartfelt testimonies and news broadcasts. What emerges is a profoundly humane, thought-provoking and topical testament, which gives a voice to people who are rarely heard.
The Hard Stop is presented by Come The Revolution … This is a BFI FAN Film Hub South West & West Midlands project with support from the National Lottery through the British Film Institute.
Doors: 6:45pm
Screening + Q/A: 7pm - 9pm
The Hard Stop will also be screening at the Watershed Media Centre in July
15 +
east bristol contemporary presents EBC006
School of the Damned (class of 2017)
Nick Barrett ~ Nathan Bather ~ Rory Bard ~ Esme Boggis ~ Rose de Borman ~ Clawson & Ward ~ Katie Della-Valle ~ Sarah-Joy Ford ~ Sam Hutchinson ~ Daniel Sean Kelly ~ Tom Kemp ~ Jane Lawson ~ Joanne Masding ~ Vladislava Predelina ~ Jordan Taylor ~ Jessica Mai Walker ~ Rose Walsh ~ Arlene Wandera
Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd July 2016
Opening event Fri 1st, 7pm-10pm - includes bar and shop
Workshop on Sat 2nd, 1pm - become a member of School of the Damned for an hour and join in with the crits and chats about the work presented.
All events free to attend.
School of the Damned (SOTD) is a year-long alternative, un-accredited, postgraduate program run by its students. Currently in its third year, SOTD will bring together specially created student work for the show, which will be surrounded by a programme of events.
http://schoolofthedamned.tumblr.com/-2017
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east bristol contemporary (ebc) is an artist-led gallery based at The Trinity Centre, Bristol.
ebc seeks to counteract the lack of established showing spaces for grass roots contemporary artists in Bristol, and seeks to establish a unique and diverse programme of exhibitions and events.
we run events for the public including artist talks/tours, workshops, opening events, events for young people, and discussions.
shows run on the first weekend of each month.
www.facebook.com/eastbristolcontemporary
@ebcontemporary
]]>My book, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, is based on my PhD thesis. But it is not like most PhDs and it is not like most books. When I did the research for it and wrote the book, I wanted to make something that would help demolish unethical power systems. I wanted to create a resource that would be meaningful to activists like me.
In this session I would like to talk a little bit about how I wrote and published my book, and I would like to open out some of the themes for a wider discussion. These themes include: research justice, queer methodologies, historicising activist movements, the para-academy and DIY publishing. It is my hope that, by talking and listening, we can generate ideas for research and publishing tactics that continue the work of demolishing unethical and unequal power systems.
Bio: Charlotte Cooper is a psychotherapist, cultural worker and para-academic working and living in East London. Visit charlottecooper.net for more information.
In this workshop Bristol's favourite poet, playright, historian and general all rounder Edson Burton will respond to ‘Concerning the Poem’s Information’ from Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. Within the text Glissant contrasts the logic of computers or 'information' with poetic knowledge, in order to highlight differences between these modes of thinking/ being. What insights can poetry, and the poetic give us, that computers simply cannot? Does poetry, in some way, resist thinking that seeks to calculate and control outcomes? Or can similarities—and even alliances—be drawn between the unruly suggestiveness of poetic language, and the systematic world of computational prediction. This workshop will create time and space to respond to the short text in a collective setting, with reference to our current, historical reality.
This presentation will discuss the ideas of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler on the topic of participation in aesthetic production — the malaise that results from our alienation from this, and how he suggests this can be remedied.
Using creative exercises which facilitate a safe and inspiring group dynamic, we will explore the challenges that differences can bring.
Exercises which reassure the nervous and challenge complacency.
Practices of freedom which enable us to tap into our creative potential and express ourselves more fully, individually and collectively.
There will be opportunities for discussion and reflections on the social implications of improvised music as a way of communicating more freely and nurturing authentic ways of being.
In our different rhythms together, we co create social virtuosity.
]]>This workshop will look at types of silence as a palpable musical event within totally improvised music, as well as conversation; types of silence and ways of hearing/changing them.
All abilities welcome.
Born and based in Derby, Corey Mwamba's commitment to jazz and improvised music in Britain and Ireland drives all aspects of his work, whether through composition, playing, or promoting new music.
Corey predominantly plays vibraphone; he also plays dulcimer and uses audio processing software. He is recognised as a highly creative improviser and composer working across a wide range of jazz and contemporary music. Mwamba's distinctive approach and tone is instantly recognisable in any context: a potent blend of pure sound, highly melodic phrases and ethereal textures; barely whispered chords and ear-piercing robotic screams. Corey won a PRSF/Jerwood Foundation Take Five artist development award in 2007; was short-listed for the Innovation category in the BBC Jazz Awards in 2008; and was nominated for "Rising Star on Vibraphone" in the 62nd and 63rd DownBeat Annual Critics' Polls.