[ACE] Upcoming Events - Free Classes and Film Screeings

[cloudberry]

hi folks !
 
Below are details of some free classes that are coming
up at A.C.E. and all the film listings for March.

All the films are free/donation and start at 3pm every
Sunday afternoon.

Ace is wheelchair accessible and child friendly. 

We are still open every Tuesday 1-4 for advice and
solidarity from Edinburgh Claimants on dole, debt and
housing hassles. 
The food co-op shop and infoshop are also open.
There is free internet access too.
  
And on Saturdays we are open 10-6 for the food co-op
shop, infoshop and free internet access.

We have open meetings on the first Wednesday of every
month at 7:30. All welcome.


There will be four basic herb workshops (cloudberry-
mondays 7-9pm at ACE in march) and a course of six
basic massage classes (lisa- saturdays 3-5 at Yoga
Stable round the corner from ACE in march and first
two weeks of April). The herb workshops will look at
the history and politics of herbal medicine, how to
make an infused oil, ointment, tea and tincture and at
some chosen herbs for certain uses. The basic massage
classes will be include some resting meditations and
simple stretches as preparation and basic massage
ideas for clothed bodies and/or with oil depending on
what folk want to explore. 
Workshops are free/donation. 
Spaces for the workshops are limited.
Women only/trans welcome.
Workshops are in the spirit of feminist self-help; the
reclaiming of information and skills to be shared
freely. If you are interested in either or both and/or
want to know any more about them get in touch. 
Herb workshops cloudberrym at yahoo.co.uk
massage classes lfannen at yahoo.co.uk
Please post this on to any women who you think might
be interested.



 
11 Febuary - A double bill screening of
Journey with the Revolution and 
The Revolution will not be Televised

The Revolution will not be Televised Directed and
photographed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain
Ireland 2003
74 minutes
(in Spanish with English subtitles)

Hugo Chavez elected president , beloved by his
nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic
opponent to the power structure that would see him
deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the
presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was
forcibly removed from office. They were also present
48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power
amid cheering aides. Their film records what was
probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a
unique document about political muscle and an
extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street
Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s
biggest Latin American headache after the old standby,
Cuba."

 Journey with the Revolution 
directed by Nina Lopez and Finn Arden 
61 minutes 2006 ( English with Spanish subtitles)
 
 A journey into the heart of the Venezuelan
revolution.Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors,
housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists,
who are transforming Venezuela. Visit health clinics,
soup kitchens, land committees, education and
micro-credit
 programmes
 The excitement of the revolution is
contagious. If you want to find out what a revolution
is, this is the film for you.
 
 
18 Febuary -  Asylum directed by Peter Robinson 1972
 
 Background
 
The Philadelphia Association came into being in 1965
in order to provide alternatives to traditional  ways
of treating those designated 'mentally ill',
especially those diagnosed as schizophrenic.
        Our first  such venture was the community at
Kingsley Hall, an old community settlement building in
the east end of London. In the words of a brochure of
the time, Kingsley Hall was: "a melting pot, a
crucible in which many, assumptions about
normal-abnormal conformist-deviant, sane-crazy
experience and behaviour were dissolved. No person
gave another tranquilisers or sedatives. Behaviour was
feasible which would have been intolerable elsewhere.
It was a place where  people could be together and let
each other be".
          With its anti-authoritarian ethos and
questioning of established ideas about sanity and
insanity, normality and abnormality, Kingsley Hall was
an important focal  point for the newly emerging
'counter culture' in Britain and for the nascent
critical and anti-psychiatry movements. By the time
thelease of Kingsley Hall expired in 1970 more than
120 ordinary people had gone there seeking a different
kind of help to that proffered by mental hospitals -
and found  it. It is reported that there were no
suicides.
        Although Kingsley Hall is the best known PA
community, there have been more than 20 others since.
A picture of what the early communities were like can
be seen  in the 1972 film Asylum made by the radical
film-maker Peter Robinson. This film, made using
hand-held cameras by a small crew who lived in the
community for a time, shows life at the Archway
Community in north London. 
 
25 Febuary – Soma: an anarchist therapy directed by
Nick Cooper 50 minutes (2005) 
 

 
With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture
by the Brazilian military dictatorship, 79 year-old
RobertoFreire continues to develop somatherapy,
completing his life's work. Incorporating the ideas of
Wilhelm Reich, the politics of  anarchism, and the
culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists
organized in anarchist collectives to fight the
psychological effects of authoritarianism.
Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador,
Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exercises,
principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy.
More at: http://somadocumentary.com 
 
 
4 March  - God Is With Us, Men, That Is.  
directed by Jan Sosisnksi Poland, 47 minutes (2005)
 
God is With Us, Men tells the story of a woman, from
the mountains of Albania, who decides to become a man.
Before her whole family she solemnly pledges live in
that role. Her brothers will never need to blush from
now on, as she is not going to bring shame on them. As
a man, she must have no truck with women, but remain a
virgin to the end of her days. The entire community
fully respects Bedri and respects her-his choice.
 
11 March -  Injustice
directed by Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood (UK)
 98 minutes minutes (2001)
 

 The story of the struggles for justice of the
families of people killed by the police.
 

 In 1969 David Oluwale became the first black person
to die in police custody in Britain. Many others have
died since then. None of the police officers involved
have been convicted of these deaths. In this
documentary, the families of these victims ask "Why
not?"
 
This is a blow by blow account of the relentless
struggles of the families as they find out how they
lost their loved ones in extremely violent deaths at
the hands of police officers. 

Each family is met with a wall of official secrecy and
the film documents how they unite and challenge this
together. The documentary uses powerful exclusive
footage filmed over a five year period and witnesses
the families pain and anger at the killings. It
documents the fight to retrieve the bodies for burial,
the mockery of police self-investigation and the
collusion of the legal system in the deaths.
The film asks why an accused killer in a police
uniform is not judged by the same standards as the
rest of society.
I N J U S T I C E documents the horrific loss of life
at the hands of the state and it's attempts to cover
up these killings. The British police have been
responsible for hundreds of deaths and have walked
free. 
The families of the dead want justice and they will
not stop until they have got it.

18 March - All Power to the People
 Lew Lee, producer/director
Kristin Bell & Nico Panigutti, co-producers
1996 115 minutes (USA)

Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race
injustice in America, this powerful documentary
provides the historical context for the establishment
of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other
activists transport one back to those tumultuous
times. Initiated by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton,
the Black Panther Party took the civil rights movement
which preceded it to a new level and inspired the
black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's
power movements which followed.

The party struck fear in the hearts of the
"establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group.
Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes
Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret
domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and
torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the
documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while
it praises their early courage and moral idealism it
also includes reflective criticism with the aim of
furthering the contemporary struggle



28 March-  directed by Raphael Lyon and Andres
Ingoglia Buenos Ares  90 minutes (2001)

"i" is a meditation on the relationship between media
and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest
all volunteer network of media activists — Indymedia.
The feature-length documentary follows the first year
of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles
amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a
whirlwind of political upheaval.




 
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