Doors 7pm (starts 7.30pm)
Admission £5 / £3 concessions
An evening celebrating John Ashbery with readings of poems and letters; recollections of John Ashbery - the poet and the person, film and soundscapes.
Contributors include Jeremy Reed and Ginger Light, Mark Ford, Patricia Hope Scanlan, Robert Hampson, Anthony Howell, Anthony Rudolf, Daniel Kane, Olivier Brossard, Hope & Benedict Wishart, MacGillivray and Others . . .
Upset The Rhythm present a A People’s History of Music, a slideshow / lecture / film presentation which draws from archival film, sound clips and images to tell a history of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism.
Native Spirit Film Festival present a programme of short films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A with Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller.
A triple bill of films that celebrate the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on the city of London, its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries: Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature, ‘The Moon Over The Alley.’ With an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford.
Native Spirit Film Festival present writing activation and short films programmed by Zain Gibson, and a screening of the feature film MUNDURUKUYÜ – The Forest Of The Fish Women.
Dancing On My Own is a two-day exhibition of artist’s film and video. Shorts by Mark Leckey, Morgan Quaintance and Keith Piper play throughout the day, accompanied by an evening screening of feature length films by Larry Achiampong (Saturday 21st), and Sarah Miles and Zarina Nares (Sunday 22nd).
Animated shorts are a powerful medium for addressing mental health issues, offering a unique and often visually compelling way to explore complex emotions and inner struggles. These 9 short films vividly depict experiences like anxiety, depression, trauma and personal growth, often capturing the nuance of these conditions in ways that words alone cannot.
As psychiatrist Derwood Richards prepares to say goodbye to Rosemary Hamm, his long-term patient, the boundaries between therapy, memory and imagination begin to blur. Their parting opens a portal into a wonderfully strange universe of lost astronauts, Cold War ghosts and a mysterious Soviet-American space station drifting somewhere beyond Saturn.
A gloriously filthy, anarchic animated romp, O Filho da Puta takes family dysfunction, bad behaviour and surreal mayhem and throws them into one beautifully unhinged blender.
Join us for a programme of short animated films that celebrate queer lives, loves, and imaginations. Animation lets us bend reality, dream big, and tell stories in ways words alone can’t.
