Exclusive London recommendations from shado's editors
✴︎ Friday, April 11th ✴︎
Starting on the 14th of April, come down to Westbourne Park to enjoy a week of film screenings and panels which tell stories of resistance and community.
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Tomorrow from 9am, head to Our Lady of Fatima Parish Centre to join community members in the fight against the gentrification of Shepherds Bush Market! All ages welcome and encouraged.
On April 27th at the Bread and Butter lounge there will be a fundraiser for families affected by the ongoing genocides in Sudan and Gaza. Expect workshops, DJ sets and vendors. From 14.00-20.00.
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One of shado's favourite contributors Beth Suzanna is taking over The Southbank Centre on April 2nd and will be looking for participants to help create a large-scale collaborative paper collage that sprawls across The Clore Ballroom.
On April 17th, the lovely folks over at Skin Deep are hosting a reading circle which expands on pieces from their recently published anthology. Go and join them for some lively discussion!
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On May 8th, Rich Mix are hosting a screening of Palestinian archival films which are part of the Palestinian sound archive's physical collection.
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Exclusive London recommendations from shado's editors
✴︎ Friday, April 4th ✴︎
From April 11th-13th, Other Cinema will be hosting their ‘Radical Films, Radical Forms’ weekender, looking at the connection between colonialism and the climate crisis, discussing how film can help highlight the complex violence raged against the environment by global power structures.
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Providing much needed comic relief, on April 8th Girls in Film are getting together with Shoreditch Arts Club to celebrate cinema which makes us laugh, followed by a Q and A with Florence Poppy Deary, creator of SOS but dw if not.
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It's your last week to check out the work of photographer Peter Hujar. Expect gritty retrospective scenes of Manhattan's Queer scene, alongside shots which memorialise New York amidst the AIDS crisis. Entrance is free.
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Set in 18th century colonial Jamaica, Azuka Oforka's powerful yet witty play, The Women of Llanrumney explores the various experiences of women under slavery. On at Stratford East until April 12th.
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As part of The Roundhouse's Longplayer Live programme, Young People's Laureate for London Caleb Femi will be performing a 100-minute poetry event on April 5th which explores time, inheritance, survival, and the unknown.
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The British Library is hosting their food season from April to May. We're most excited about a discussion on feminist food writer MFK Fisher taking place on May 31st.
Check out the whole programme HERE