Programmed and presented in collaboration with Birkbeck Film Society, this screening and discussion reflect and question the relationship between art, activism, urban regeneration and gentrification. The three films offer different perspectives on these issues and speakers Dr Paul Watt, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies, Birkbeck College and Andrea Gibbons, Los Angeles based organiser of tenants rights movement, will outline salient questions to frame a dynamic discussion.
Films screening: Dereliction of beauty: Artists take over London's doomed Market Estate: dir. Shehani Fernando (8mins) Nike Ground: dir. Franco Mattes (6mins) The Battle for Broadway Market: dir Emily James (75mins)
Birkbeck Screen, 43 Gordon Square
Apr 30 | 6.30pm | £6 on the door, free to Film Society members
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