Film show & exhibition

Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews,London
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This event ended on Friday 23rd of January 2015
Admission
Free
Location

Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews,London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Kentish Town 0.07 miles

Crossroads Story Film Screening (7pm)

The multi-racial Crossroads Women’s Centre started as a Wages for Housework Campaign squat near Euston station in 1975. This new film traces the different buildings and activities of the Centre over 40 years up to its current home in Kentish Town. A much-used drop-in and community resource, it now hosts over 15 groups.

Created by young people as a training project the film includes archive photographs, a pop-up book, film clips, interviews with some of the founders and users, and more.

Exhibition Opens at 6pm: Made Possible by Squatting presents “an archive of histories and stories of how Londoners have met their need for housing through squatting the empty buildings which fill our city.”

From housing homeless families, war veterans and survivors of domestic violence to enabling community shops and cafes, advice centres of all kinds, and a Really Free School, MPBS celebrates the energy and creativity of the squatting movement against the backdrop of recent government criminalisation of squatting residential buildings.

Sections of the original exhibition from September 2013 will be on display at the Women’s Centre after the opening night from 26th January 2015 to 6th of February 2015. Monday to Friday 1-6pm, Wednesday 1-7pm.

8pm: Music and sing-along with Jane Turvey, who is the legendary pianist at the Duke of Kendal Pub on Sundays, a wonderful reminder of a time when almost every pub in London had its own piano and community singing.

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