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.
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Exclusive London recommendations from shado's editors
✴︎ Friday, March 28th ✴︎
Deptford Literature Festival is launching today! Curated by the incredible Emma Warren head down to The Albany to hear some of South London's finest poets and MCs. Get tickets HERE
Time to get some practice in for this one. Old Spotted Dog Sticker Archive are hosting a mixed gender and ability 7-a-side match with workshops and DJ sets afterwards to raise money for Palestine Activists legal defence.
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Bad Vibrations, alongside a whole host of others, are hosting Close to Home – A Show for Palestine at the Moth Club on April 12th. Expect live performances and DJ sets, with all profits donated to All Our Relations Charity.
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 March 30th, Queer Circle is hosting 'T-Masc Erotics Through the Cam Hole', an erotic storytelling screening which will be followed by a workshop in which the cinematic tools of the film will be unpacked.
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On April 18th, Fag Revolt are hosting a karaoke party to help raise funds to cover the costs of two of their members visa applications. There will be tunes, a raffle, and art and food for sale.
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