The Piehouse Co-Op and London Community Video Archive team up to bring you an evening of reflection on Lewisham's anti/racist history, to commemorate Black History Month.
We will be screening 2 films:
Aug 13: What Happened? (1977) Introduced by Phoebe Beckett Chingono
The film depicts the infamous events of 13 August 1977, when a National Front march through South East London led to clashes with anti-fascist groups, and later between demonstrators and the police. The footage shows the first time police deployed riot gear on the UK mainland and provides vital evidence about the demonstration and its aftermath in which over 100 people were injured.
Black to Front (1978) Introduced by Yaya Azariah Clarke
How do people in Brixton feel about race relations and immigration? World in Action sets out to investigate, amid the contentious Lambeth Central by-election campaign, where candidates range from the National Front to the Workers Revolutionary Party. The residents of Haycroft Road seem nonplussed by the furore, reasoning that the only real issue is whether or not their neighbours are 'Brixtonian'.
Following the screening, there will be a talk from The Memorial of Slavery and Freedom, a group that host walking tours about Deptford's colonial history, and Steve McCarthy, a local historian and host of the Deptford Dub Club, who was instrumental in making the Battle of Lewisham mural on Goldsmiths' university campus.