Pioneers and Protest: Seeking Change - Screening

IRIE! dance theatre presents Pioneers and Protest: Seeking Change, a film about the Black People’s Day of Action, 1981. The film is part of our Pioneers and Protest project with Goldsmiths In Living Memory programme for Borough of Culture 2022. The film combines oral history interviews with people who took part in the 1981 demonstration and archive photographs. The screening will be followed by a Q&A.

The screening will be in Richard Hoggart Building (RHB Curzon Cinema)

Address: Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of, Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW

Travel details to Goldsmiths campus: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

Cinema location map: https://www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/cinema/

Accessibility guide to the Richard Hoggart building: https://www.accessable.co.uk/goldsmiths-university-of-london/access-guides/richard-hoggart-building

The screen is fully accessible with an infrared hearing loop system for the hard of hearing installed.

Confirmed Roundtable Speakers:

Russell Profitt MBE (Chair) was born in Georgetown, Guyana, emigrated to London in 1961 and attended Goldsmiths College; Goldsmiths, University of London; and London South Bank University. He has held a number of senior positions advising on community engagement and inclusion at Brent Council, Southwark Council and Greenwich Inclusion Project. He has held the position of Chair of Trust at Golden Oldies Community Care Trust, Camberwell After School Project and Rio Ferdinand Trust. He remembers: “I had no idea what to expect from a university education, as no one else from my immediate family had ever got that far before. So, as someone whose head was still resonating with thoughts of my Caribbean origins, I was a little anxious about what life would be like at Goldsmiths. But, somehow, I managed to get it and moved on….”

Vron Ware is a writer and photographer, based in London. A former journalist as well as academic, she has taught at the University of Greenwich, Yale and Kingston University. Her published work has focused mainly on the politics of gender and race, the social construction of whiteness, colonial history, national identity and the cultural heritage of war. Her documentary photographs from 1977-1983 have been published in the national media and featured in TV documentaries and dramas (Alex Wheatle, Uprising, Ashley Banjo) as well as featuring in exhibitions in Tate Britain, Atlas Gallery, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Goldsmiths University, Broadway Theatre Catford, and the Museum of London.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way, London, United Kingdom