This Sunday 20th May from 2pm to 10pm
AT
Camberwell Squatted Social Centre
192 Warham St, off Camberwell New Rd, Camberwell SE5
bus: 36, 436 tube: oval
FILMS ON SCREEN:
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (USA 1971 Dir.Melvin Van Peebles 97 min)
“the story of a black street hustler turned revolutionary”
Burning an Illusion (UK 1981 Dir Menelik Shabazz, 101 mins)
“a love story that traces the emotional and political growth of a young black couple in Thatcher's London”
Babylon (1980 Dir Franco Rosso, 95 min)
About a young Rastafarian toaster (rapper) and his hopes to rise above the trials of his daily life and succeed at a Sound System competition.
Blood Ah Goh Run (Menelik Shabazz, 1982)
Short 'newsfilm' looking back at the events of 1981, beginning with the killing of 13 young blacks in New Cross, London. The film goes on to show the anger this aroused among black people, and their march in demonstration - `The Black People's Day of Action'.
The Dream To Change The World, Horace Ové
The life of John La Rose, trade-union activist & founder of New Beacon Bookshop, the International Bookfair of Radical Black & 3rd World Books, the Association 4 a Peoples’ Carnival and the Black Education Movement.
Plus the music and poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, HYPERDUB chants and invited speakers. Food & refreshment available for donation
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YEAH, sweet sweetback is a badass film!
16.05.2007 21:04
thanks for making my day!
mole man