Gentle/Radical Film Club

23/05/2022

We are so so delighted to announce our very first IN PERSON film club events since 2020...come and join us for three events - all exploring abolition, through film, food and invited guest speakers...

The first event is on at the Bangladesh Centre (Machen Place, Riverside) on Saturday 4th June, 2.30pm – 7.30pm. We're joined by incredible guests Amahra Spence / MAIA Group, Adeola Dewis and Tony Hendrickson , who'll help us unpack our themes.

For more information, and tickets: bit.ly/3FVSkbF

If you'd like to volunteer on the day get in touch with [email protected]

Beyond Punishment and Control: Film, Conversations & Reimagining Ways of Being Together, Multiple dates and times - “Abolition is about presence, not absence. It's about building life-affirming institutions” Ruth Wilson Gilmore."We are seeding the future including our next systems of justice wit...

05/11/2020

We are so excited to be screening a series of beautiful shorts for our screening event coming up on Sunday 15th November! One of these gorgeous films is 'Nenekuş (Meditating with Flowers)' - a touching short from Istanbul-based Turkish film maker/writer Elif Fatima Gorken. Gorken weaves intergenerational healing, storytelling, gender and Islamic mysticism to explore visual storytelling from a decolonial perspective. The film charts the intense relationship Elif's grandmother has to her plants, and the profundity of the presence of plants in her life. Supplemented with family photos + a poetic voice-over, Nenekuş is a beautiful snapshot of a matriarch’s life and sacrifice. Tickets: bit.ly/31UxWVx

04/11/2020

Hi everyone. If you live in South Riverside, you may be interested in a new project Gentle/Radical are leading in called DOORSTEP REVOLUTION. We're building a new podcast for the neighbourhood and a community newspaper, following conversations and dialogues we'll be recording with residents in the coming months. We have some introductory meetings TONIGHT and NEXT WEEK, to share information about the project. Get in touch if you'd like to come along to find out more :-) Email [email protected] for Zoom links.

05/03/2020

Dawn Butler MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities since 2017, gave a speech last year in which she called out to the disenfranchised, the dispossessed, the exluded and the ignored, and told them THEY HAD WORTH.

We are SO excited to be welcoming her to Cardiff, as part of a line of of amazing speakers at our Gentle/Radical screening of Knock Down The House at the USW Cardiff - University of South Wales in collaboration with Women's Equality Network Wales (WENWales), Henna Foundation, Women Connect First, Bawso, Unite The Union - Cardiff.
TICKETS ARE GOING FAST - book them, they're FREE, but will sell out! Check out Eventbrite below!

"If you are in social housing, if you are LGBT+, if you straight, if you are a traveller, if you struggle to pay the rent, if you are a hijab, turban, cross, if you are Black, White, Asian, if you are disabled, if you are old, if you are young, if you don't have a trust fund, if you didn't go to Oxbridge, if you are working class, if you are under 18, if you are aspirational, if you work, if you are a carer, if you feel you won't live beyond 25, if you have ever ticked the 'other' box, you have a future, and you are worthy, WORTHY! Worthy of equality, worthy of dignity, and worthy of respect...just be your authentic self!!

'KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE' screening, and Panel Discussion with guest speakers