BASE Cafe Collective has, for a long time, provided filling and yummy Sunday meals, a lot of which comes from gleaned produce – from field and shop alike.
On Sunday 11th after the Cafe’s meal, BASE Arts Collective and Avon Gleaning Network will be screening The Gleaners and I, Agnes Varda’s poem to the waste-saver, the stooper in the field, the bin-diver.
We’ll do a short intro to the Gleaning Network and what they’ve achieved in only a couple of years, saving tonnes and tonnes of produce from going to waste. This produce is then redistributed to charitable food projects who are supporting people experiencing food insecurity.
This is the right time to talk about food waste. At Christmas, binned food usually amounts to 42 million dishes of Christmas dinner…
You never know, you may organise your first bin-dive or glean on the crisp morning of the 12th
Are you interested in presenting a movie/documentary/video/a talk at BASE film nights? Any chance you’d also like to cook for BASE Cafe? You can do either or both, as you like (no need to cook!)
The event runs every Sunday. Dinner served at 6, film/even starting at 7 pm. If you are interested, would you put down a few dates that you’d like and the activity you’d be up for: either film/event (write down the provisional name) or cooking or both.
The idea is to have a fun and relaxing social time that will bring together the interested community to watch movies/documentaries together and have discussion about them. It is an opportunity to look at the variety of struggles and topics that different activist collectives in Bristol focus on and have it as a space to highlight some issues or discuss topics. The screening material can be explicitly political, a documentary, but also more mainstream/not explicitly political thing.
The BASE film nights collective will create a poster, will do advertising, provide technical support and physical space, and facilitate the screening and discussion. You would provide the screening material (if you don’t have it, we can help finding it) and come to the screening, you will have the floor to say a few words about your collective and why you chose this film and then take part in the discussion.
Attached is the poster call out. It would be great if you could share it with your group and join us.
This is a really strong film and a chance to meet (and possibly pose a question to) its director and producer: ‘London Mining Network is excited to bring director Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso & producer Jordan Flaherty to the UK for a screening tour of the film Powerlands. The film touches on many of London Mining Network’s key messages and features communities we have been working with for many years around the Cerrejon mine in Colombia.Starting 21 September, Ivey Camille and Jordan will be presenting the film and answering questions at a number of venues across the country. See https://londonminingnetwork.org/powerlands-uk-screening…/ for the full list of dates and locations.—-A young Navajo filmmaker investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey she learns from Indigenous activists across three continents. This film is in seven languages, including several Indigenous languages rarely captured on film: English, Diné, Spanish, Wayuu, Visayan, Blaan, and Zapotec. More here: www.powerlands.org
Powerlands is a documentary feature about global, interconnected indigenous resistance to resource colonialism. Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, investigates the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. She travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these women, Ivey Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cybdnhdp43g
This film is in seven languages, including several Indigenous languages rarely captured on film: English, Diné, Spanish, Wayuu, Visayan, Blaan, and Zapotec.
Featured on Democracy Now. Winner, Best US Feature, American Documentary & Animation Film Festival (AmDocs) 2022, Best Environmental Film, Arizona International Film Festival 2022. Selected, Firelight Media Documentary Lab. Finalist, Chicken and Egg Project Hatched.
Sunday 5th June Dinner at 6pm, film at 7pm followed by a talk and Q&A with one of the film makers.
We Are Now (documentary) 22 minutes with English subtitles CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective At the high point of the George Floyd Rebellion, cop-free zones sprung up from coast to coast.
As they were unfolding, Atlanta police killed Rayshard Brooks, a black father of four.
Angry demonstrators torched the Wendy’s where Brooks was shot, occupied it, and defended it from police and Klansmen for 24 days.
‘We Are Now’ is a small window into the delicate moments of freedom—joyous and tragic—that filled the autonomous zones of summer 2020.
Trailer: twitter.com/crimethinc/status/139180346…1 Dinner (vegan, by donation) – 6pm Film and talk – 7pm At Base social centre, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol BS5 6JY
BASE Cafe is on the lookout for people / groups to cook & host a Sunday dinner – wanna cook up a storm?? Get in touch! Annnnnd got any films you wanna show, one you made yourself or a blockbuster with some good morals?? Pop us a message – we can help with all tech set up etc. Just wanna enjoy food & films, then come on down to BASE on Sundays… open for cuppas from 4pm, food served and 6, then movies at 7pm
Fortnightly on Sundays, all start at 7:30 prompt….
27th February Bristol IWW present “Made in Dagenham” 13th March Bristol Kurdistan Solidarity Network present “The End will be Spectacular” 27th March Simon White (film-maker) presents “We need space”.
