Fwd: Upcoming Events at Gasworks, 16-24 January

Current Exhibition Do You Remember Olive Morris? continues until Sunday 24 January 2010. Current Residencies Cristóbal Lehyt Priya Sen Alberto Tadiello Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street London SE11 5RH UK T:+44 (0)20 7587 5202 F:+44 (0)20 7582 0159 info@gasworks.org.uk www.gasworks.org.uk Tube: Vauxhall/Oval Bus: 2, 36, 88, 133, 185, 436 Gasworks is open Wed-Sun, 12-6pm. Admission is free. The gallery has full wheelchair access.             Gasworks is part of Registered Charity No.326411	UPCOMING EVENTS AT GASWORKS DISCUSSION: Financing the Revolution Saturday 16 January, 2-5pm How does one fund work of a radical nature? What happens to community initiatives when public and charitable funding dries up or imposes their own agenda? Contributors include Carolyn, a member of Remembering Olive Collective, Andi Elsner, founder and former Treasurer of indymedia uk and Onyekachi Wambu, AFFORD. SCREENING: Pray the Devil Back to Hell Sunday 17 January, 4pm (2008), dir. Gini Ritcker, 72 min. Combining contemporary interviews, archival images and scenes of present-day Liberia, the film recounts the experiences and memories of the women who stood up to their country's tyrannical leader and brutal warlords in order to bring peace to their country. PUBLICATION LAUNCH: Do You Remember Olive Morris? Saturday 23 January, 2-5pm Launched by Gasworks and the Remembering Olive Collective, this volume of original writings includes a cross-section of personal and archival writings about Olive Morris' emergence as an activist as well as her development as an intellectual engaged in domestic and transnational struggles. The launch of the publication will mark the final weekend of the Do you remember Olive Morris? exhibition at Gasworks. SCREENING: Triple Bill Sunday 24 January, 4pm On Becoming An Activist (1999), Angela Davis, 3:36 min, (audio) On Becoming An Activist is the opening track in Angela Davis' little known record The Industrial Prison Complex, edited from a recorded lecture given at Colorado Springs 1997. Davis traces her own path to activism: from the campaign in Birmingham in her youth after the church bombing which killed four of her girlfriends, through her prosecution and incarceration for political work around George Jackson & the Panthers, to her anti-prison work today. David Gilbert: A Lifetime of Struggle (2002), dir. Claude Marks and Lisa Rudman, 30 min. A rare opportunity to go behind prison walls for a discussion with David Gilbert, a lifelong anti-imperialist activist and former member of the Weather Underground organisation. Gilbert is serving a life sentence in prison for activities in support of the Black Liberation Movement. He explains why he joined the movement, what led him to go underground, and discusses frankly the strengths and errors of the movement and Weather Underground. We Were Born to Survive (1995), dir. Paul Okojie, 29 min. A political biography of Manchester activist Kath Locke, based on an interview conducted shortly before her death in 1992. A close friend of Olive Morris, Locke was highly active in campaigning for women's rights as well as in the promotion of different educational and cultural activities in Moss Side, including the formation of Manchester Black Women Mutual Aid and Abasindi Cooperative. Find out more about what's on at Gasworks here.