Screening of "My Body's My Own" as part of seminar on Olivia Plender's film Hold Hold Fire (2019), about women's self-defence - Tensta Konsthall, 27 November 2019

LCVA participated in a panel addressing the question "Why Now?: Learning from Activist Video of the 1970s & 80ss", at the NEoN Re@ct Social Change Art Technology Symposium at the V&A in Dundee,

Another event at the exhibition All You Need’s an Excuse: a day of screenings and discussions with activists, artists and researchers working with the moving image in response to the housing crisis, convened by Ed Webb-Ingall. Participants included members of London Renters Union (Anouska Samms, Oluwatosin Adegoke and Agnieszka Rolkiewicz), Hat Vickers (The Battle for Deptford), John White (Albany Video), Andy Porter (West London Media Workshop), Claire Louise Staunton (MK Gallery/RCA) and artists Ayo Akingbade, Avril Corroon and Winnie Herbstein.

As part of the exhibition All You Need’s An Excuse, a special screening of the 1983 community video Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts produced by the London Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project, introduce by Philip Timmins, who initiated the video project with a group of Lesbian and Gay teenagers. The screening programme also included documentation from a London Gay Liberation march in 1975, courtesy of London Screen Archives and RE/FRAMED Youth (2013), a video project by a group of LGBTQ youth who met over three days of collaborative filmmaking workshops.

Part of the the Barbican Archive Residency - a weekend of free talks, workshops, films and pop-up installations showcasing material from the Barbican’s Archive as well as the collections from several guest London archives, exploring material relating to protest, experimental music, community video and much more.

As part of the LUX exhibition All You Need’s An Excuse, this was a special screening of a recent acquisition from LCVA, All Work and No Pay, made in 1975 by the Power of Women Collective and Wages for Housework Campaign, and broadcast in 1976 by the community access unit for the BBC, Open Door. The programme provided much-needed airtime where the demand for wages for housework could be put forward. The video shows meetings and interviews with groups in different countries developing campaign strategies and women of different races and nationalities sharing their experiences. The screening was introduced by women from the Global Women’s Strike, based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre in Kentish Town. GWS also chose to screen Women of the Rhondda (1973) made collectively by Esther Ronay, Mary Kelly, Mary Capps, Humphrey Trevelyan, Margaret Dickinson, Brigid Seagrave and Susan Shapiro. Distributed by Cinenova.

Screening of 2 tapes at Acland Burghley School, Camden

‘All You Need’s an Excuse’ was an exhibition (running from Wed 25 Sep - Sat 2 Nov 2019) with LUX Waterlow Park Centre They invited LCVA to present videos from the archive, selected by local community and activist groups. The videos on show have been chosen by community and campaign groups local to LUX for their continuing relevance. Alongside the screenings and events programme, the library at LUX functioned as a space to view other videos and ephemera from the archive.

For the second year running, LCVA participated in this local exhibition: on this occasion showing a tape we'd produced (Newhaven 1982-2019) which updated the Newhaven 1982 tape on our site, looking at local community arts.

An event at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art - connecting the spirit of the current exhibition "Jef Cornelis: TV Works 1960s-80s" to the local area of the CCA, this screening event drew some connections between Cornelis’ direct and hands-on use of newly available portable video technology with the production of videos by activists and community groups based in and around South London in the 1970s and 80s. Using examples from Goldsmiths’ London Community Video Archive, Ed Webb Ingall traced the various uses of this new technology to document and effect social and political change.

A screening at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019: Who belongs on this island in the ocean? The thread of identity that relates to Britishness is as divisive as it is unifying, and here we present a selection of films (including Being White) that tugs at some of the frayed edges of the tapestry of nationality - its past and its present. This selection was co-curated with Reel Femme, and introduced by representatives of South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG).

For this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, Pavilion’s Art School for Rebel Girls collective selected a programme of short films by women which explore different ideas of the self image. The screening forms part of Focus/Shapes That Move, Doc/Fest’s special focus on feminist film collectives in Britain from the 1970s onwards. Art Schools for Rebel Girls is a collective of young women in Leeds aged 13-15 years who meet on a regular basis to make art together. Members of the group met and watched over 30 films by artists and collectives working from the 1970s to present; this programme was put together based on their responses.

An installation that ran 16 March – 26 May 2019, at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes 'Community, Land, Trust' recalls the original spirit of the community cable TV station Channel 40 and imagines what it might look like forty years after it stopped broadcasting. This installation is the result of a series of conversations that took place following an invitation for Ed Webb-lngall to make a video project reflecting on the themes of the exhibition The Lie of the Land.

An event organised by Susan Croft at Conway Hall, as a benefit for UH and The Feminist Library on 26th April 2019: Feminist Film in the 1970s and 80s, which featured: A Woman’s Place and One, Two, Three, introduced by Sue Crockford (probably her last public event); Chiswick Women’s Aid by Inter-Action InFilms; Women in Manual Trades, introduced by Mary Clemmey, and A Netful of Holes, introduced by Cath Kilcoyne, founder of Second Wave.

Dr Ed Webb-Ingall conducted a Masterclass focusing on his creative process and working methodology, for Invisible Dust at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Often beginning with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video, Webb-Ingall collaborates with groups to explore under-represented historical moments and their relationship to contemporary life, developing modes of self-representation specific to the subject or the experiences of the participants. For this event he drew on examples from 1970s community video as well as his own practice to share the stages he goes through in order to facilitate a community video project. This includes the negotiation of the initial invitation from a community, the formation of a group, the role of the discussion screening, the introduction of the video camera, the production of a video and finally the distribution of the finished video. After the Masterclass, one of Webb-Ingall's latest films was screened in DCA Cinema at 6pm as part of the touring project Shore: How We See the Sea.

Continuous screening of the video during the 5 days of the Newhaven Open Call event, part of Artwave, 24th-26th August & 1st and 2nd September, 2018. We made contacts with some of the young men in the tape and are planning a follow-up project about current youth unemployment in the town.

Screening of 'Downham - A Home in the Country' to Local residents at Downham Health and Leisure Centre

Thirty Years of Surveillance: The Video Camera as a Weapon This event will look at the role of archival videos that document and bear witness to past protests and demonstrations in London. We will include videos made in the 1970s and 1980s, held by the London Community Video Archive and MayDay Rooms. A panel discussion following the screening will be framed around how this material circulates and can be mobilised in a contemporary context.

LBGT Britain on Film: Why Study Queer History? is an evening of archive film screenings relating to LGBT lives in 20th Century Britain. The films screened will be Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts (1983), a documentary produced by the London Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project and now held by the London Community Video Archive (LCVA), and Britain on Film: LGBT Britain, a series of archive films including some of the earliest known representations of LGBT people on screen. The evening will be introduced by Justin Bengry, convenor of the first MA in Queer History, at Goldsmiths, University of London. He will respond to the questions 'why study queer British history in the 21st Century?' and 'what does studying queer histories mean for queer futures?'

Towards Other Cinemas: 1970's Experimental Film. Exploring the dynamic artists’ and experiential moving image work of 1970s Britain, Towards Other Cinemas is a series of screenings and discussions, exploring the renewed interest in diverse strands of experimental film and video works made in this period. Curated by Laura Mulvey, Sue Clayton, and Claire M. Holdsworth and featuring Steve Presence, Lucy Reynolds, and Kodwo Eshun, we bring together works made in 1970s Britain and explore how younger generations are re-activating this recent past. The series coincides with the publication of Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s (IB Tauris, 2017), edited by theorist Laura Mulvey and writer and director Sue Clayton.

Thamesmead Festival and the Film London Kinovan: Celebrate the past, present and future of Thamesmead during the weekend, which promises something for everyone. Featuring the best of Thamesmead's creative talent, we'll be celebrating everything about the town.

A screening event at South London Gallery as part of the exhibition 'The Place is Here', which presented work by over twenty black artists and collectives working in 1980s Britain.

Spirit of ' 77: Protest Films. On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Lewisham, join us for screenings of newly uncovered archive footage of the momentous events of 13 August 1977, followed by a new film by Nacheal Catnott The London Community Video Archive present AUG 13, a documentary produced by the Albany Video Project for ALCARAF (All Lewisham Campaign against Racism and Fascism) chronicling the events of the Battle of Lewisham. The film was long considered lost and has only recently been uncovered after decades of searching. Hear first-hand accounts from the filmmakers who worked on AUG 13, together with Nacheal Catnott, director of The Depiction of Blackness, a new documentary reflecting on the Battle of Lewisham and experiences of being black in the UK. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion, Q&A, and DJ set from Lezlee Lyrix. Drinks and refreshments available throughout. Find out more about the events taking place to mark the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Lewisham.

Why Be Something You're Not? A selection of videos from the London Community Video Archive related to DIY cultural production, youth subcultures, identity and punk rock, shown alongside Dan Graham’s Minor Threat (1983)

Screening event for Grenfell families, Maxilla Social Club.

Standing Ground: Screening of The Amazing Story of Talacre. Organised with London Community Video Archive and Somers Town History Club, Chalton Gallery, 96 Chalton St, Kings Cross, London NW11HJ. This 1974 documentary tells the inspiring story of how a local, self-organised group in Camden came together to campaign for years to turn a disused 2.5-acre site into a permanent community space. The screening is followed by a discussion between Lucy Joyce and artist and founder of public projects research and commissioning studio AIR Anna Hart about the rhythm of presence and absence in public art commissions, formed alliances with a particular site or struggle, and what is left at the end of it all.

LVCA Archive promo, LCVA Oral History Promo, Colin Roach Extracts at Radical Film Network Conference, Tolpuddle.

CRUISING GROUND is a summer-long programme of writing, exhibition, screenings, workshops and events bringing together a range of perspectives and discourses on cruising. Engaging with the 50th anniversary of the repeal of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 and the geographical and cultural landscape of LUX’s new location in North London, CRUISING GROUND takes the ponds and cruising areas of neighbouring Hampstead Heath as a departure point for the programme. Held at LUX, Waterlow Park.

Screening of LCVA videos at The Showroom, Ada Court, London.

International New Towns Day: Researcher Claire Louise Staunton presents a small selection of films from the archive that were made by artists in or about New Towns internationally. Milton Keynes Gallery, Middleton Hall, Milton Keynes.

A screening of three videos from the London Community Video Archive, about women, housing and childcare in London in the 70s and 80s. Held at Holly White/North East London Migrants Action, Wild's Rents.

A programme of lively activities programmed directly from the community and the culture of the locale. The fete will be a celebratory and community-focussed day involving the Church Street Community Singers, dancing, yoga and Tai Chi, Acting Mature Drama group, Penfold Medicinal Garden, plant sale, refreshments, food and an outdoor cinema with London Screen Archive's KinoVan and the London Community Video Archive (LCVA).

Video Show: A Journey into Old New Media. The 1975 Serpentine Gallery Video Show provided a week long platform for the new media form, video, and showcased many different types of work, unusually mixing community video work with tapes and installations made by artists. Returning to the exhibition’s implicit questions about the potential of art and activism, social engagement and the significance of new technologies in relationship to the mass media, we will show newly digitised titles from the London Community Video Archive, with whom this screening is presented, plus other titles exhibited in 1975. We look forward to welcoming the video makers and original show participants for a discussion chaired by William Fowler as part of the event. Held at The British Film Institute BFI, Southbank

A screening event for members of Southwark Pensioners and the Sceaux Tenants Association to get together, have some tea and cake and watch some videos together. South London Gallery

London Community Video Archive and DIY Space For London’s Film Collective present a night of short films hosted by Sapphire Mcintosh (of Sisters on Set). Featuring newly digitised videos from the London Community Video archive and contemporary shorts, we will explore how politically active filmmakers have used their work to incite change, to ask questions of their communities, and to highlight social injustice from the 80s to now. Have the questions we are asking changed, and have their answers? How can filmmakers help their communities?"

The event is part of a 6-month thematic programme on women titled "Phenomenal Woman, That's Me", based on a poem by Maya Angelou. Our mission is to encourage more women and more feminism in the arts. At the hARTslane Centre.

A screening of Lorraine Leeson's work with video at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.

A screening event at a centre for elderly people called the Penfold Community Hub

The video was shown as part of a lecture on community arts for students at Goldsmiths University on the Contemporary Social Issues module. Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths.

A screening event at the West London Day Centre in collaboration with The Showroom and Seymour Arts

A screening of films and videos made in and about South London, organised with the Meet me at the Movies group in collaboration with the Albany, Deptford Cinema and London Screen Archives.

A compilation of videos made at the Albany was shown at the Albany's annual general meeting

Thamesmead and Interaction Media Van videos were shown as part of the day long Alchemy Film Festival, with a focus on artist and community moving image projects. Alchemy Film Festival, Showroom.

The video Starting to Happen was shown on a loop for 6 weeks as part of an exhibition called Communal Knowledge at Work. Showroom Cinema.

A screening and discussion about Community Video in Milton Keynes as part of a symposium at Milton Keynes Gallery: The Right to the (New) City.