Staffordshire St presents Made Without Permission, curated by bafalw as part of London Design Festival 2024.

Brixton Community Cinema is a pop-up cinema, intended to bring affordable film to communities who face uneven access to arts institutions. They will be showing a double bill of films exploring marginalisation through property and governance in 80's London, and the queer, politically Black community's responses through organising (and) care.

On September 18th, Brixton Community Cinema presents a pairing of films which trace connections between capital, real estate, empire, and sexuality in London, while centering the city’s radical and forgotten histories. Join us for a double bill of Under Your Nose – The Story of the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre (2016) by Veronica McKenzie and Twilight City (1989) by Black Audio Film Collective.

Veronica McKenzie’s documentary offers inspiring insight into the individuals and struggles behind London’s Black Lesbian and Gay Centre, established in 1985 as Europe’s first centre for queer people of colour amidst the Thatcher government and the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. Shot during this era, Twilight City turns to radical scholars and activists, as well as society's margins, in order to excavate the economic and geopolitical processes that paved the way for both late stage capitalism - particularly its localised effects of gentrification and dispossession in London - and the spirit to mobilise against it.

Info:

Wednesday 18th September
19.00 - 23.00

Tickets:
PWYC

If you are financially able, please consider paying more, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.


Brixton Community Cinema | @brixtoncommunitycinema:

Brixton Community Cinema is a pop-up cinema, intended to bring affordable international and independent film to a community who, despite immense cultural contributions, face uneven access to arts institutions.

The cinema screens a range of films across genre and format which foreground subaltern voices and experiences, and showcase the breadth of experimental approaches to using film as a medium of expression and protest.

Operating in vacant spaces, on a pay-what-you-can basis, it aims to explore ways to minimise both the financial and non-financial barriers to cinema-going.

Brixton Community Cinema was founded by Abiba Coulibaly in Autumn 2022.

Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro & Livia Wang (bafalw) | @bafalw | @tundeawoyemi | @farouk__agoro | @liviaqingwang:

We are a collective of designers, artists and curators that have an ambition to collaborate with different groups, specialists, and communities in the projects we do. While still sharing backgrounds in architecture, our work crosses into other disciplines of art, film, exhibition design, education, programming, curation, writing and collective acts/practices.

About the exhibition:

Made Without Permission celebrates a language of intervening in our shared spaces by ‘making it ourselves’ – greatly influenced by the different diasporas and communities that come together in our city.

Bringing together the work and practice of designers, collectives, artists, groups and individuals alongside day-to-day rituals and everyday moments the ground floor Staffordshire St will be 'occupied’. Over the course of the festival it will act as an active space to discover, relax and enjoy along with a range of different workshops and events.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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