We Won’t Lie Down on Broadway!
A Benefit film screening for Spirit of Broadway Market, evicted October 2006, but still fighting for justice.
Passing Clouds, Dalston, 7 December 2008, 6.00pm
The Battle for Broadway Market (Dir Emily James, 2006)
In late November of 2005, a small café in the East End of London was due to be demolished to make way for a block of flats. On the eve of the demolition, a handful of local residents occupied the café to stop the demolition. Emily James started filming on the first day of the protest, following them through the long cold winter of their occupation.
Beautifully shot, on HDV cameras, [and narrated by “Children’s Poet Laureate” Michael Rosen] the film draws on the naturally photogenic character of the East End of London, and a colourful and expressive multicultural East End community. The observational footage of the campaign and occupation period is interwoven with interviews from the participants to tell a story of resistance which is at the same time unique and universal.
(http://www.emily-james.com/Site/HOME.html)
£5.00 entrance.
Bar available (and possibly food and music – not yet confirmed)
Passing Clouds: junction Kingsland Road and Richmond Road, E8
Hackney Solidarity Network: www.hackneysolidarity.info/
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