Decolonise Fest are proud to announce a Film screening to raise money for the Festival!
Entry is £3
There will be food available: Popcorn & Bao Buns
Three “Films in resistance” by POC
Film 1:
BLOOD AH GO RUN (1982)
This newsreel film records the greatest march of black people in 1981. The film provides exclusive footage of the Black Peoples Day of Action held to protest against the death of 13 young Black people in a fire at a birthday party located in New Cross, London. No one was ever arrested. The film also provides footage and commentary of the Brixton Riots a few months later.
Director/producer Menelik Shabazz
Running time 20mins/colour/1981
Film 2:
BOARDERS WITHOUT BORDERS (2017)
GirlDreamer have taken a group of young women aged 16-25 from different ethnic minority backgrounds with little or no long boarding experience and formed the UK’s first female, BAME* long boarding crew.
Longboarding originally started in Hawaii in the 1950s as a response to surfers wanting to continue their sport on land when the waves were too small to surf. It then became commerically available in 1958 and quickly became a popuar sport amongst teenagers and young people in Hawaii and California by the 1970’s.
Together with Sport England, GirlDreamer wanted to use sport as a tool for social change where they could build confidence, create inclusion and offer something new and niche to their community in Birmingham.
GirlDreamer decided to film the entire journey to create a legacy and inspire the next generation of girls to try new things, break barriers and feel confident to engage in sport.
Film 3:
Michelle Cruz González reading from The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Female Punk Band at an event earlier this year!
Michelle Cruz Gonzales played drums and wrote lyrics in the influential 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy, and now she’s written a book—a punk rock herstory. Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it wasn’t easy. Misogyny, sexism, abusive fans, class and color blindness, and all-out racism were foes, especially for Gonzales, a Xicana and the only person of color in the band.
Unlike touring rock bands before them, the unapologetically feminist Spitboy preferred Scrabble games between shows rather than sex and drugs, and they were not the angry manhaters that many expected them to be. Serious about women’s issues and being the band that they themselves wanted to hear, a band that rocked as hard as men but sounded like women, Spitboy released several records and toured internationally. The memoir details these travels while chronicling Spitboy’s successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.
Fully illustrated with rare photos and flyers from the punk rock underground, this fast-paced, first-person recollection is populated by scenesters and musical allies from the time including Econochrist, Paxston Quiggly, Neurosis, Los Crudos, Aaron Cometbus, Pete the Roadie, Green Day, Fugazi, and Kamala and the Karnivores.
https://pmpress.org.uk/…/the-spitboy-rule-tales-of-a-xican…/
Plus, an extra special viewing of a Decolonise Fest Film Production… See you there.
