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On Racism

Notes: George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis sparked huge anti-racist demonstrations in most of the western world protesting discrimination and police violence. This programme questions the definition of race, shows how racism is based on false premises and who profits from it. ‘They're talkin' 'bout a revolution’ sings Tracy Chapman, US-American singer-songwriter and…
PlanetHeroines
18th June 2020
Film Festival

#BlackLivesMatter

Week 9, The USA, a state founded on forcefully expropriating land from its Native American inhabitants and exploiting that land using slave labour, has always had a problem with institutionally embedded racism and state violence aimed at maintaining the power of the wealthy.
PlanetHeroines
11th June 2020
Film Festival

Heroines

Week 8 : This programme will show how women (singers, monarchs, seamstresses or peasant women) can greatly improve our lives and living conditions by resisting, fighting back, standing up or raising their voices.
PlanetHeroines
4th June 2020
Film Festival

Hair Stories

Week 7, An iconic excerpt from the 1979 film Hair introduces the content of this programme. Different Hair Stories will be told, a subject on many people’s mind at home in quarantine.
PlanetHeroines
28th May 2020
Film Festival

The Ambassadors

Week 5: The programme The Ambassadors challenges heteronormative gender categories and heterosexuality as the social standard and explores a shift towards diversity as the norm.
PlanetHeroines
14th May 2020
Film Festival

Liberating The Mind

This programme is a proposal to liberate your mind, decolonising it by looking at opinions and assumptions, discrimination and empowerment. It starts and ends with a piece from Saturday Night Live (SNL), a US- American late-night live television sketch, comedy and variety show. Reese Witherspoon helps Leslie Jones to manoeuvre through White…
PlanetHeroines
6th May 2020