Four Corners x BLOC: Pride - Free Community Screening
When: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne Building, Mile End
Speaker: Jade Evans
Free screening of seminal queer protest film Pride (2014) London-based gay and lesbian activists lend their support to striking miners in 1984 Wales.
About the film
In 1984, with Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party in power, a group of lesbian and gay activists, led by Mark Ashton, find unlikely allies in a collective of Welsh miners taking industrial action following pit closures.
With both groups equally despised by Thatcher, Ashton proposes a show of solidarity between them, but tabloid smears and a frosty reception from the miners' families threaten to derail his plans.
This screening
This screening is for students, staff and the public to coincide with Four Corners Exhibition ONE YEAR! Photographs from the Miners' strike 1984-85 running until 19 October 2024.