Friday 4th August DFF
7pm: Film Screening of Heather Powell’s 1988 film Paradise Circus
8pm: A celebratory gathering with RESOLVE Collective
We are looking forward to August’s Digbeth First Friday with RESOLVE Collective.
General Assembly will mark our first event with RESOLVE, as part of their FIELD Commission with Cooking Sections, Industrial Actions, celebrating histories of resistance, organisation, and reimagination by asking how sabotage can aid in critical community-focused work in Birmingham today.
RESOLVE will gather community activists in a General Assembly to survey the site of community activism through a survey workshop, creating an inventory of tools that shape both our immediate, tangible environments and wider, collective value systems.
Please note, this survey and workshop are closed events.
If you are interested in taking part, please see here or get in touch with us at info@grand-union.org.uk.
At 7pm, a screening of Heather Powell’s 1988 film Paradise Circus made with the Birmingham Film and Video Workshop will be shown in conjunction with RESOLVE’s event in the gallery space, Paradise Circus documents the ways in which the city of Birmingham (its built environment and architecture) is perceived by women, living in an environment largely designed by men.
Paradise Circus is screened courtesy of Heather Powell (Birmingham Film and Video Workshop) and Vivid Projects.
This screening is also in partnership with Spaces of Hope/People’s Plans, AHRC-funded research, led by Oxford Brookes University as part of a wider exploration of the histories of community-led planning.
From 8pm, we will be hosting a celebratory gathering with music, food and dancing – all are welcome to join us in marking this first event with RESOLVE Collective as part of Industrial Action which we look forward to seeing evolve over the coming year.
Accessibility: Paradise Circus is an hour long and captioned
