All human Events (17)

The Gender of Power: Women Against Patriarchal Structures

August 16, 2018 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm – Rio Cinema What mechanisms are set in motion when women exert real power, power to change lives and countries? In recent years cases like Dilma Roussef, Julia Gillard or Hillary Clinton prove a pattern of patri… Organized by London Feminist Film Festival 2018 | Type: human, rights

Lesbian Identities: Becoming/Situating Ourselves

August 17, 2018 from 6pm to 7pm – Genesis Cinema The films in this session show lesbianism as something plural, complicated, and deeply political. Gender Troubles: The Butches portrays butchness, often underrepresented even within LGBT spaces. Dy… Organized by London Feminist Film Festival | Type: human, rights
Handmaking Herstory: Feminist Uses of Craft

August 17, 2018 from 7pm to 10pm – Rio Cinema The LFFF presents a screening showcasing the practical crafts of women from varying walks of life, who explore through their handiwork issues of Race, Sexuality and Age. Through their crafts the prot… Organized by London Feminist Film Festival | Type: human, rights

Now, Here She Stands: Perspectives on survival (film screening)

August 18, 2018 from 4pm to 7pm – Rio Cinema Filmmakers explore in this session what surviving and resisting looks like, in two fiction shorts and two documentary films that portray the claustrophobic nature of domestic abuse, but also the cour… Organized by London Feminist Film Festival | Type: human, rights

Keepers of Culture

August 19, 2018 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm – Rio Cinema A session exploring documentary filmmaking as a feminist practice to interrogate and reflect upon notions of cultural identity and women’s role –especially in the domestic sphere– in preserving and p… Organized by London Feminist Film Festival | Type: human, rights
Constellations of Activism (film screenings)

August 19, 2018 from 6:45pm to 9:45pm – Genesis Cinema A screening of shorts docs on women mobilizing for change: reclaiming their rights, fighting stigma, opposing abuse. What does the fight for Human Rights look like accross the Globe? From Spain to Br… Organized by London Feminist Film Festival | Type: human, rights

SH Film For Action - Calais Children: A Case to Answer

November 23, 2018 from 7pm to 11pm – St Pauls West Hackney Calais Children: A Case to Answer is a film and live campaign by Sue Clayton. It is a compelling 62-minute film following the scandal of what happened to the almost 2000 lone children who were i… Organized by Sustainable Hackney | Type: human, rights, campaign, social, justice

Extinction Rebellion‎ Saturday Street Party

February 9, 2019 from 12pm to 2pm – XR Saturday Street Party (London) Since October 31st Extinction Rebellion has been in open Rebellion against the UK Government for its criminal inaction in the face of impending climate and ecological collapse. We have blockaded Go… Organized by Extinction Rebellion | Type: human, rights, campaign, social, justice, environmental

Stop the Arms Fair

March 9, 2019 at 10am to March 10, 2019 at 4:30pm – Resource For London The movement to #StopDSEI is growing. Every two years the global arms trade sets up shop in East London. The #DSEI arms fair returns in September 2019. We are many. Together we can shut it down.… Organized by www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk | Type: human, rights, campaign, social, justice

The True Cost - film screening 3 May

May 3, 2019 from 7pm to 11pm – St Paul's Church West Hackney The True Cost is a story about clothing, filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the imp… Organized by Sustainable Hackney | Type: human, rights, campaign, social, justice, environmental