HARRAGA! Archiving the experiences of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean and the English Channel
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, London, CountyA talk by Ed Emery The decade-long experience of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean is known in North Africa as “harraga” – the burning of one’s past identity in the […]
Archive Filmmaking Workshop | MayDay Rooms x Other Cinemas
Join us over two sessions for a hands-on archival filmmaking workshop exploring the role and place of (institutional and community) archives in storytelling and how we can respond to […]
Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline Launch
Join us for the launch of the Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline - a project aimed at mapping anti-gentrification struggles that have happened in Exarcheia over the last three years. Recently, gentrification […]
Archival film night! 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, London, CountyAssembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked politics of and experiments with collective childcare historically and what reflections or […]
Rolling our own! Feminist Magazines and Women’s Liberation with Liberating Histories
From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put […]