Join us for a series of screenings and discussions that celebrate acts of solidarity and resistance both historical and from the present.
Solidarity Screenings is a series of film screenings and discussions that aim to explore the currents of togetherness that run through our political movements — historically and in the present moment. A space to question, stretch, and reimagine the bounds of the communal.
In the face of oppression, how do different communities step forward to support one another? What can we learn by reflecting on images and instances of solidarity, together?
For this second iteration of the series, we’ll watch Everybody to Kenmure Street, a film by Felipe Bustos Sierra about the remarkable community resistance to a Home Office immigration raid in Glasgow.
We invite everyone to bring something to write with and take notes on anything that arises during the film. Before the screening, a facilitator will share a short grounding using politicised somatics* techniques, along with a few writing prompts. No writing experience is required.
After the screening we’ll come together for somatic writing, a communal dinner and a facilitated discussion.
**Politicised somatics is a framework that understands the body and bodily experience as sites where power, oppression, and resistance operate. It recognises that our physical selves (how we move, breathe, hold tension, take up space, and inhabit our skin) are shaped by social and political structures, and that conscious engagement with our bodies can be a means of personal and collective liberation.