Join us for another archival film night and collective discussion! Assembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked history of feminist spatial interventions and radical placemaking practices — focusing particularly on the squatted formation of women’s centers — in the contested urban contexts of NYC and London.
We’ll be showing the following short films to get the collective discussion going:

Crossroads Women’s Building film: This film traces the different buildings, memories, struggles and activities of the Centre up to its current home in Kentish Town. Created by a group of 16 to 21 year olds as a youth training project, this film includes archive photographs, a pop-up book, film clips, interviews with some of the founders and users.

5th Street Women’s Building film: a film documenting a short-lived building occupation in 1971, where about two hundred women took over an abandoned building to create a women’s center in Manhattan. They created a community space together for 12 days before being evicted.

This will be followed by an open conversation and reflection around the significance and strategies of these actions and histories both then and from today’s perspective, particularly in relation to ongoing and current struggles such as the occupations by Sisters Uncut. We will also have additional archival materials from Mayday Rooms available to browse and learn more!
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