7pm BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE dir. Christopher McGill (2024) - Short Film and Workshop
8pm REBEL DYKES dir. Harri Shanahan and Siân A Williams - Documentary and Q&A
Berlin - June 7th, Projektraum H48 - Factory, Second Courtyard, Hermannstrasse 48, 12049 Berlin It is free. Register early as limited places.
Event is Free, but please donate to the venue. Bring Cash to make Donation.
7pm BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE dir. Christopher McGill (2024) - Short Film and Workshop
Do you want to take direct action to stop destruction, and make the world a more beautiful place? Do you want creativity to infuse your resistance with mischief, fun and joy? Want to inject some art into your activism to create a more just world?
Great! Then please do join us for the premier screening of ‘Beautiful Trouble’ and a workshop in artivism with Dan Glass, a queer Jewish street activist who inspires and challenges us with his audacious tales of Trump Baby, dumping manure outside UKIP HQ and other theatrical stunts.
Watch the trailer here.
‘Beautiful Trouble’ is a book, a web toolbox and an international network of extraordinary artist-activist trainers and creative campaigners, focused on strengthening their connected social movements through sharing the tactics and techniques of game-changing creative activism. This training can provide strategies of resistance, ideas for creative disruption, imaginative intervention and thinking-outside-the-box tools to become exhilarated at the powerful adrenalin of the capacity of creative civil disobedience for positive social change.
“The current political moment calls for bold leaps of imagination, new forms of organizing and a fearless blend of confrontation and celebration. Beautiful Trouble is a crash course in the emerging field of carnivalesque realpolitik, both elegant and incendiary.” — Naomi Klein, author of No Logo & The Shock Doctrine
About your presenter and facilitator DAN GLASS
Dan Glass is an ‘Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, performer, presenter and writer. Dan has been recognised as Attitude Magazine’s 'campaigning role models for LGBTQI youth', a Guardian ‘UK youth climate leader’, 2017 'Activist of the Year' with the 'Sexual Freedom Awards' and was announced a 'BBC Greater Londoner' in 2019 for founding 'Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time. Dan is an artist with the global In Place of War artist network and an educator from the ‘Training for Transformation’ movement. Contact Dan at alright@theglassishalffull.co.uk / www.theglassishalffull.co.uk / @danglassmincer
BERLIN ONLY
8pm REBEL DYKES dir. Harri Shanahan and Siân A Williams - Documentary and Q&A
REBEL DYKES is a Cult underground hit first broadcast UK in 2022 on Channel 4. It’s a sexy, funny, creative documentary about Punk Lesbians in London in the 1980s. It won tons of major awards including Porn Film Festival Berlin (Best Documentary) 2021. It’s screened at every queer festival on the planet. The film has a dedicated online fandom. REBEL DYKES is not (yet!) available to Stream in Europe so this is a rare chance to watch the movie in Berlin.
Watch Trailer Here:
About your presenter and facilitator SIOBHAN FAHEY
Siobhan is a bit of a queer legend! She’s been involved in DIY events, activism and creativity since the early 1980s in London, Manchester and now Glasgow. Over the years she has been involved in Greenham Common, G8 protests and the student riots of 2011. She produced the cult dyke documentary REBEL DYKES and the art exhibition THE REBEDL DYKES ART AND ARCHIVE SHOW (London, 2021). With her business partner Christopher McGill she makes films about activism and Art including their newest movie, her 2nd feature documentary set in her hometown of Glasgow, Scotland.
Siobhan lived in Kreuzburg and Schonenburg in Berlin, 1987-88. Come to share memories of Pelze, sex work and squatting.
RIOT PRODUCTIONS
Riot Productions is an independent production company based in Glasgow, Scotland. We bring a unique queer perspective to its projects. We boast broadcast credits, have shown at major festivals and received prestigious awards for our productions. Our true purpose however, lies in challenging, informing and raising awareness of critical social and cultural issues.
We believe in the transformative power of documentaries to inspire change, foster understanding and create a more inclusive world. Through our work, we aspire to amplify voices, provoke thought, and spark meaningful conversations that resonate across diverse communities.
Riot Productions are not just storytellers; we are catalysts for social impact, driving positive change through the lens of compelling narratives.