In contravention of the laws of physics (or at least the law of popular sayings), I'm going to be in two places at the same time today.

Episode Three of theaardvark's radio show on #LichfieldRadio is on air at 3pm BST at

https://lichfieldradio.org/

But thanks to the magic of a home studio and digital music formats, my physical body will be running the Burntwood Afternoon Cinema showing Song Sung Blue.

#music #CommunityCinema #BusyBoy

BIPOC Shorts – Deep Touches
WORM Rotterdam
June 18
Doors 20:00 / Start 20:30

Squish is back with a new screening & spoken word night, involving several Rotterdam-based BIPOC filmmakers and performers.

Expect raw, tender, and powerful works exploring identity, grief, community, and more. These voices deserve space — and we’re here to hold it.

Tickets in bio.

#squishrotterdam #bipocshorts #rotterdamfilm #spokenword #queerart #communitycinema

Jimmy’s Hall: a blueprint for community resilience in these times?

For host Gareth Evans the reason for this screening in this place, at this time is obvious: Jimmy’s Hall is as much about the Hall – gathering space for a rural community struggling 10 years after the Irish Civil War against the church, state and boredom – as about Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman to be exiled from the country (Irish President Michael Higgins apologised in 2016). It’s uncommon for a film to focus on a building – which is why it pairs well with The Brutalist – and by bringing this film to a community cinema in a community building, Evans as curator deftly remind us of cinema’s original power, like theatre, stories around campfire: the gathering of a group of strangers to share in something. It was such a welcome and needed reminder.

https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/jimmys-hall-a-blueprint-for-community-resilience-in-these-times/