Well, it’s JUNE already and that means a new theme! This month is Encountering Exile Month at SHOP and in true SHOP-stylee there will be plenty of unusual events to keep you entertained through the rainy season, sorry, silly billy – meant Summer.
Especially if you are a budding, or fully blooming film-maker… Ooooh, keep reading to find out more…
JUNE is also the month of National Refugee Week, so make sure you find out a bit about that too. That’s your homework for the month: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/
Especially if you are a budding, or fully blooming film-maker… Ooooh, keep reading to find out more…
JUNE is also the month of National Refugee Week, so make sure you find out a bit about that too. That’s your homework for the month: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/
NEWS
ZINE LIBRARY
SHOP’s fledging Zine Library is not so fledgling any more, with Zine donations flying in from all over the world and press interest from some very unlikely quarters! The launch of the Zine Library will officially take place sometime in July, but for now keep spreading the word so that one day maybe SHOP’s Zine Library will be mentioned in the same sentence as The British Library. Maybe.
EVENTS
Exhibition
4th June – 30th June
11am – 7pm (excluding Sundays)
Free
Saman Mohammadi, a refugee from Iraq, will be exhibiting his oil paintings at SHOP throughout June. They all have different subjects, centring mostly on Saman’s life and background.
Christmas Steps Arts Quarter Artisan Market
5th June
11am-4pm
Free
The Arts Quarter’s monthly Artisan Market, come and get your hand made choccies, frilly knickers and everything else in-between!
Encountering Exile: 30 Day Film Challenge!
Encounters Screening and Planning Meeting
7th June (and then throughout the month)
7pm
Free
SHOP is very excited about this event, who knew that our neighbours were the very Encounters Film Festival peeps themselves? Well they are, and they visited us asking if we wanted to have a film night with them. Little did they know that they in fact ended up inspiring SHOP to put on another, rather ambitious event.
This is the deal: You come to SHOP on the 7th June and have a look at a few winning films from last years Encounter’s Film Festival for inspiration. Then, we set about creating a Shop Club Team, whose aim will be to create a film for the 2010 festival around the issue of Exile in all its different forms.
As some of you will already know, the deadline for Encounters is 30th June, so together we have just 30 days to make a masterpiece, about an important subject, to submit to a very well established and regarded film festival. So, who’s in?!
(No previous experience necessary, we have none, so you will only show us up anyway)
Fillum Clubs
8th June
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Free
In This World
This film follows young Jamal on the long dangerous land journey from a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border through Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to a new life in London.
15th June
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Free
Dirty Pretty Things
Set amongst an underclass of illegal immigrants in the gloomy streets of London, this is a surprising, highly original thriller with some very dark humour. The characters struggle to survive, taking the jobs that nobody else will in order to earn a crust and facing corruption and exploitation along the way.
22nd June
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Free
Turtles Can Fly
Set just prior to the Allies' second invasion of Iraq and filmed on location at a refugee camp close to the Turkish border. The central character is Soran, aka Satellite, a young lad who has become 'King Rat' amongst his fellow children, a role that begins to crumble upon the arrival of two physically and psychologically scarred siblings.
Don’t forget, Fillum Club is free and tea, coffee, popcorn and cakes are provided. You are welcome to bring anything else in addition.
Book of the Month
All Month
This month’s Book of the Month, going along with the theme of Exile, is ‘Who Are We? And should it matter in the 21st Century?’ by Gary Younge. The book sets out to demonstrate that how we define ourselves affects every part of our lives: from violence on the streets to international terrorism; from changes in our laws to whom we elect; and, from our personal safety to military occupations.
SHOP’s fledging Zine Library is not so fledgling any more, with Zine donations flying in from all over the world and press interest from some very unlikely quarters! The launch of the Zine Library will officially take place sometime in July, but for now keep spreading the word so that one day maybe SHOP’s Zine Library will be mentioned in the same sentence as The British Library. Maybe.
EVENTS
Exhibition
4th June – 30th June
11am – 7pm (excluding Sundays)
Free
Saman Mohammadi, a refugee from Iraq, will be exhibiting his oil paintings at SHOP throughout June. They all have different subjects, centring mostly on Saman’s life and background.
Christmas Steps Arts Quarter Artisan Market
5th June
11am-4pm
Free
The Arts Quarter’s monthly Artisan Market, come and get your hand made choccies, frilly knickers and everything else in-between!
Encountering Exile: 30 Day Film Challenge!
Encounters Screening and Planning Meeting
7th June (and then throughout the month)
7pm
Free
SHOP is very excited about this event, who knew that our neighbours were the very Encounters Film Festival peeps themselves? Well they are, and they visited us asking if we wanted to have a film night with them. Little did they know that they in fact ended up inspiring SHOP to put on another, rather ambitious event.
This is the deal: You come to SHOP on the 7th June and have a look at a few winning films from last years Encounter’s Film Festival for inspiration. Then, we set about creating a Shop Club Team, whose aim will be to create a film for the 2010 festival around the issue of Exile in all its different forms.
As some of you will already know, the deadline for Encounters is 30th June, so together we have just 30 days to make a masterpiece, about an important subject, to submit to a very well established and regarded film festival. So, who’s in?!
(No previous experience necessary, we have none, so you will only show us up anyway)
Fillum Clubs
8th June
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Free
In This World
This film follows young Jamal on the long dangerous land journey from a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border through Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to a new life in London.
15th June
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Free
Dirty Pretty Things
Set amongst an underclass of illegal immigrants in the gloomy streets of London, this is a surprising, highly original thriller with some very dark humour. The characters struggle to survive, taking the jobs that nobody else will in order to earn a crust and facing corruption and exploitation along the way.
22nd June
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Free
Turtles Can Fly
Set just prior to the Allies' second invasion of Iraq and filmed on location at a refugee camp close to the Turkish border. The central character is Soran, aka Satellite, a young lad who has become 'King Rat' amongst his fellow children, a role that begins to crumble upon the arrival of two physically and psychologically scarred siblings.
Don’t forget, Fillum Club is free and tea, coffee, popcorn and cakes are provided. You are welcome to bring anything else in addition.
Book of the Month
All Month
This month’s Book of the Month, going along with the theme of Exile, is ‘Who Are We? And should it matter in the 21st Century?’ by Gary Younge. The book sets out to demonstrate that how we define ourselves affects every part of our lives: from violence on the streets to international terrorism; from changes in our laws to whom we elect; and, from our personal safety to military occupations.
A copy will be available in SHOP to read throughout JUNE, but if you would like to take it home, you’ll have to buy it from Bloom and Curll up the road.
Feed the Box
All Month
www.cityofsanctuary.org/bristol
This month, feed the box with pledges of support for Bristol as a City of Sanctuary. SHOP will then submit them enmasse at the end of June.
MotherSHOP
All Month
http://www.boneshakermag.wordpress.com/
Come get your copy of Boneshaker independent magazine for a meagre £3.50 all month at SHOP. It’s a great independent magazine about bicycling, but also about community and a collective desire, through bikes and those interested in them, to do something for the greater good.
WorkSHOP
All Month
Ever wondered about the myths around asylum seekers and refuges that lie behind the headlines? Well, SHOP has set up an interactive WorkSHOP to help inform and answer questions around the issue of Exile and to introduce new ideas such as the World Citizenship Project. There is also a worksheet on how to make a Peace Crane, please feel free to make one and we will hang it in SHOP throughout June.
NOTICE BOARD
Movie Nite
37th Chamber Movie Nite is holding a regular film night in SHOP, starting on 12th June. They are showing retro, exploitative, Asian and kung fu films. Search for 37th Chamber on Facebook, or just come along to SHOP at 7.30pm
‘World Cup’
There’s this things going on in South Africa throughout June and July, you might have heard of it. It’s called the World Cup. Anyway, on the off chance you have heard about it, SHOP will be screening the knock out stages – if, sorry, I meant: when, England reaches them - as an alternative to the pub, or your living room, in fact almost exactly somewhere between the two. So, they’ll be on here, just as another option for yous.
Feed the Box
All Month
www.cityofsanctuary.org/bristol
This month, feed the box with pledges of support for Bristol as a City of Sanctuary. SHOP will then submit them enmasse at the end of June.
MotherSHOP
All Month
http://www.boneshakermag.wordpress.com/
Come get your copy of Boneshaker independent magazine for a meagre £3.50 all month at SHOP. It’s a great independent magazine about bicycling, but also about community and a collective desire, through bikes and those interested in them, to do something for the greater good.
WorkSHOP
All Month
Ever wondered about the myths around asylum seekers and refuges that lie behind the headlines? Well, SHOP has set up an interactive WorkSHOP to help inform and answer questions around the issue of Exile and to introduce new ideas such as the World Citizenship Project. There is also a worksheet on how to make a Peace Crane, please feel free to make one and we will hang it in SHOP throughout June.
NOTICE BOARD
Movie Nite
37th Chamber Movie Nite is holding a regular film night in SHOP, starting on 12th June. They are showing retro, exploitative, Asian and kung fu films. Search for 37th Chamber on Facebook, or just come along to SHOP at 7.30pm
‘World Cup’
There’s this things going on in South Africa throughout June and July, you might have heard of it. It’s called the World Cup. Anyway, on the off chance you have heard about it, SHOP will be screening the knock out stages – if, sorry, I meant: when, England reaches them - as an alternative to the pub, or your living room, in fact almost exactly somewhere between the two. So, they’ll be on here, just as another option for yous.
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