Name: 16 Days of Activism: Community Film Screening, Conversation & Crafts
Start: 2024-11-27T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-27T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Velocity Café & Bicycle Workshop

16 Days of Activism: Community Film Screening, Conversation & Crafts

Come join us for 16 days of Activism: A powerful documentary, hopeful activism, and getting crafty together as a community!
About this Event

RASASH are hosting an interactive community film screening as part of the 16 Days of Activism on Wednesday 27th of November at Velocity Cafe. All are welcome to come along for this evening of hopeful activism, community connections and crafting. Tickets for this event are FREE and include all resources needed for crafting your Feminist Christmas Cards!

Film Screening

As part of the event, we will be screening the 30-minute BBC ALBA Documentary ‘It Does Happen Here’ which explores gender-based violence in rural Scotland. Community engagement lead at RASASH, Lindsay Linning, who is among those featured in the documentary, will introduce the film. The documentary is headed both by people living in rural communities across Scotland who have shared their stories of surviving sexual violence and those working in essential services to support survivors through their work and activism.

Crafts & Chats

There will be an opportunity to take part in an informal chat and a collaging Feminist Christmas Card session during the evening, led by artist Cat Meighan. The theme for this year’s 16 Days, is ‘Imagining a Scotland without gender-based violence’ and conversations will be centred on how we as a community respond to sexual violence and the specific challenges people face when getting support in rural areas, with our outreach support worker Laura, and our prevention worker, Emma, sharing their input. The evening will be relatively informal and is a space for community members to create together, contribute where you’d like, and connect through awareness raising and activism.

Tickets & Attendance

Tickets are free, and so are all resources for crafting which will be provided, alongside some goodies to take away with you... Plus a slice of GF/Vegan cake! Donations are encouraged if you’d like to, but there is no pressure to do so.

If you’d like to buy a cosy drink, a member of the Velocity team will be there to serve all things tea and coffee!

We do request if you have reserved a spot and are unable to attend to please cancel your ticket. We are a charity organisation and all tickets are free, so we hope to utilise each and every space. Thank you kindly.

If you have any questions regarding the event please do not hestiate to give us a message on our Facebook/Instagram and we will attempt to get back to you as soon as possible.