Set within The Fuddling Gossips by Carla Wright, we invite you to join us for an evening of screenings, curated from the London Community Video Archive's collection. Drawing on key themes within Carla's exhibition - social spaces of youth, gossip and the mother tongue - we will channel hop through the open access footage available through LCVA in order to reflect on the power of creating structures to be heard.

Polly Wright and Sam Kaufman will introduce the screenings and facilitate an informal conversation afterwards.

No booking necessary.

Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the London Community Video Archive (LCVA) preserves, archives and shares community videos made in the 1970s/80s in London and the South East. Portable video recording — now a technology routinely embodied in smartphones — became available for the very first time back in the early 1970s, making it possible for individuals and communities to make their own television. The medium was taken up by people ignored or under-represented in the mainstream media – tenants on housing estates, community action groups, women, black and minority ethnic groups, youth, gay and lesbian people, and the disabled. With an overriding commitment to social empowerment and to combating exclusion, 'Community Video' dealt with issues which still have a contemporary resonance — housing, play-space, discrimination, youth arts.