Thanks for this Rebecca, I'll be happy to promote this screening on our
website, it sounds great!
All best,
Rebecca
On 17/10/2012 11:33, "Rebecca Knight" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello!
> Please find below details of the forthcoming LOUDER NOW! film
> screening at the Star and Shadow Cinema on 1st November 2012. We are
> excited to announce that Professor Sasha Roseneil will be introducing
> GREENHAM GRANNY and leading a discussion after the screening.
> Please feel free to forward on to anyone you think might take an interest.
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> ---
> Thursday 1st November, 7pm
> LOUDER NOW! FEMINISM ON FILM presents... GREENHAM GRANNY
> Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
> http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/921
>
> In 1929 Nell Logan took part in a youth peace conference in Moscow.
> More than 50 years later she was among the women fighting against
> Cruise missiles at Greenham Common. GREENHAM GRANNY is a film portrait
> of Nell Logan, which shows her Greenham activities in the context of a
> life-long struggle by interweaving scenes from Nell's life in the mid
> 80s with archive material reflecting her past and half a century of
> history.
>
> Guest Speaker: Professor Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck University).
> Professor Roseneil has carried out research on the Greenham Common
> Women's Peace Camp and on its feminist and queer politics, which was
> published as Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at
> Greenham (Open University Press, 1995) and Common Women, Uncommon
> Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham (Cassell/ Continuum, 2000).
> She also has met and interviewed Nell Logan!
>
> LOUDER NOW! is brought to the Star and Shadow with support from The
> Gender Research Group at Newcastle University.
>
> All LOUDER NOW! events are free to attend (although £1 membership to
> the Star and Shadow is required).
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