Olive Morris Bicycle Tour, Housing Matters, Born in Flames this weekend and more events in January

Posted on December 9, 2009
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Remembering Olive Morris Events – December and January 2010
Entry fee: £1 donation with a Olive Morris badge

SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER

Remembering Olive Bicycle Tour, 12PM
Meeting at 11:45am in front of Olive Morris House, 18 Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RL.
Visiting some of the places where Olive did things, and learning more about her, and Brixton’s history. The bike tour will end at Gasworks in time for the 2pm event.

Housing Matters, 2-5PM
Olive Morris years as a squatter signaled the start of her life-long committment to campaigning for the right of all people to a decent home. This event investigates how housing has changed since her times, and what forms of struggle have been adopted. We will hear from some of the people who have been involved in those struggles, with a Q&A session with groups who provide advice to tenants, squatters and the homeless, including Lambeth Defend Council Housing campaign, the Latin American Housing Coop, London Coalition Against Poverty, and the Advisory Service For Squatters.

SATURDAY 9 JANUARY, 2-5PM

Self-Education: On Alternative Strategies of Education
In Olive Morris’ Brixton, self-education initiatives challenged the failings of standard comprehensive education for Black children. Members of ROC will be joined by a diverse group of educators to explore and exchange different approaches towards learning, across sectors and communities. This open, round table discussion will be initiated by a film screening.

THURSDAY 14 JANUARY, 7-9PM

The Heart of the Race: Oral Histories of the Black Women’s Movement
The Heart of the Race’s author Stella Dadzie, Kelly Foster and Mia Morris from the Black Cultural Archives introduce this year-long oral history project documenting the activism of Black women in the UK.

SATURDAY 16 JANUARY, 2-5PM

Financing the Revolution
How does one fund work of a radical nature? What happens to community initiatives when public and charitable funding dries up, or imposes their own agenda? With Onyekachi Wambu (AFFORD) on fundraising to support indigenous economic development in Africa, Sandra Hurst on financial literacy for Black liberation, and Carolyn on low-budget/zero-budget organising.

SATURDAY 23 JANUARY, 2-5PM:

Closing event of the exhibition and launch of the publication Do you remember Olive Morris?

SUNDAY SCREENINGS

Sunday 13 December, 4PM
Born in Flames (1983), dir. Lizzie Borden, 90 min

Sunday 10 January, 4PM – Double Bill
From You Were Black, You Were Out (2008), dir. Colin Prescod, 38 min.
Blood Ah Goh Run (1980), dir. Imruh Caesar and Menelik Shabbazz, 20 min.

Sunday 17 January, 4PM
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), dir. Gini Ritcker, 72 min.

Sunday 23 January, 4PM – Triple Bill
On Becoming An Activist (1999), Angela Davis, 3:36 min (audio)
David Gilbert: A Lifetime of Struggle (2002), dir. Claude Marks and Lisa Rudman, 30 min.
We Were Born to Survive (1995), dir. Paul Okojie, 29 min.

Thursday 7 January, 4PM – Repeat screening
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), dir. Gini Ritcker, 72 min.

FILMS ON DEMAND

If you want to come in individually or as a group and watch films outside of screening times, you can organise your own screening at Gasworks with the view-on-demand film library. A member of staff will provide you with technical support and access to a list of films including Dread, Beat an’ Blood, From You Were Black, You Were Out and Grove Roots, as well a selection of YouTube clips.

For more information and to arrange a suitable time if you are coming with a group, please contact: info@gasworks.org.uk Tel: 020 7582 6848

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Do you remember Olive Morris? Exhibition
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH
Underground: Oval / Vauxhall
Gasworks has full wheelchair access

Exhibition dates: 21 November 2009-24 January 2010 (closed from Monday 14 for Christmas holiday)
Opening times: Wed-Sun 12-6pm or by appointment
For more information on the exhibition visit Gasworks website

The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive programme of events organised by the Remembering Olive Collective and a programme of film screenings. See above.

More details at http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/

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