Events Calendar

Cinema historian Nigel Smith will lead a walk to teach and show us the lost cinemas of Barking before we visit the award winning architectural marvel A House For Artists to engage in a programme of films that show how film can support local communities with participation allowing for home, identity and poignant feelings on screen. Filmmaker Charlotte Ginsborg worked in the Thames Estuary community of Ebbsfleet to create Our Future, Our Past, Whisper It To Me (2024) where younger and older local residents recite and perform spoken word texts that they wrote. Other films will be informed by the experiences of first and second generation migrants moving to outer London areas such as Thamesmead and Barking to create community, and we'll also see how communities can be changed by climate catastrophe. The programme will include work by animators Mary Martins and Yasmine Djédjé-Fisher-Azoumé and artists Maria Anastassiou and Turab Shah & Arwa Aburawa.

Cinema historian Nigel Smith will lead a walk to teach and show us the lost cinemas of Barking, and we will be joined by the filmmakers whose work is screening hosted by Maxwell Mutanda from the Bartlett School of Architecture.