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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:32:55 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] You can follow us on twitter @MedSocNews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Screening of films on HIV/AIDS activism, loss and memory in history of epidemic with Director Q&A 8 - 10pm, Friday, 9 December 2016 The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London, SE11 4TH Tickets available here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-films-by-jim-hubbard-screening-and-director-qa-tickets-28908376733>: £4 full price, £3 students Jim Hubbard has been making experimental films that explore lesbian and gay activism and community-building since the mid-1970s. In 1987, he co-founded MIX NYC, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival with the writer and activist Sarah Schulman, and in 2012 he directed and co-produced the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012). Hubbard and Schulman also coordinate the ACT UP Oral History Project, a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. For this rare UK screening, Hubbard will show four short films that were shot in the 1970s and 1980s, and that deal with themes of loss, memory, activism, and empowerment: Stop the Movie (Cruising) (1980), Two Marches (1991), Elegy in the Streets (1989), and Speak for Yourself (1990). The filmmaker will be present for an audience Q&A after the screening. This screening has been co-organised by the EUROPACH (Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health) and CRUSEV (Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Sexual Cultures) research initiatives. Both projects are funded by HERA under their Joint Research Programme ‘The Uses of the Past.’ Professor Marsha Rosengarten Co-Director of Centre for Invention and Social Process Department of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW United Kingdom. ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************