We premiered our second film You Can Make History at the House of Vans at London Waterloo. The screening and workshop brought academics, heritage organisations, urban planners, and policymakers with skaters, campaigners and young people who feel themselves to be on the periphery of public debate about the use of public space. We used the […]
On June the 25th You Can’t Move History was screened by Skate Southampton as part of their takeover of the John Hansard Gallery(include link – https://www.jhg.art/). The week-long programme was packed full of artworks, photography exhibitions and interactive displays. There were also workshops, talks and screenings which explored the cultural significance of skateboarding in Southampton and […]
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In June You Can Make History was screened at the second annual Cultural City Conference in Southampton. Participants discussed the future of Southampton and the role played by cultural organisations in that future. The film was screened as an example of the way in which grassroots, communities, arts organisations and heritage institutions could come together […]
In August 2019 Long Live Southbank celebrated the end of their long and successful campaign with an exhibition in the Bermondsey Project Space. The exhibition looked at the history of the undercroft, its communities and its future. It showcased photos, artefacts and films from across the decades. You Can Move History was screened on the […]
In a collaboration with the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Hope Streets youth programme, You Can’t Move History was shown to an audience of heritage workers and Youth Experts in the beautiful venue of the Manchester Museum. Long Live Southbank’s Louis Woodhead participated in a Q&A discussion, thinking about how the campaign to save the Undercroft can transform the way we […]
The third screening of You Can’t Move History reconnected Long Live Southbank with the campaign to save skateboarding in Norwich city centre. Sam Avery, owner of Drug Store Skateboarding and organiser of the Norwich campaign back in 2014, joined a panel alongside LLSB’s Stuart Maclure, and Sandra Bögelein, a local Green Party councillor who had been vocal in her support […]
In October, we held a special two-day workshop at the Depot in Lewes. In addition to screenings of You Can’t Move History as well as Rollin’ Through the Decades, both directed by Winstan Whitter, the Depot hosted a free skate filmmaking course from 16 to 19 year olds. Led by Winstan and award-winning young filmmaker Seb Cox, the two-day half-term course guided young people through the process of […]
September saw Long Live Southbank take part in The World Transformed – a 4-day festival of politics, art and music running alongside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. On Saturday afternoon, LLSB’s Stuart Maclure, Matt Nelmes and Louis Woodhead ran a three-hour Creative Campaign Surgery. The drop-in workshop allowed activists from around the country to learn from LLSB’s original and […]
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On 8th August, You Can’t Move History was screened at the Al Carrer skate shop in Barcelona. This was the second screening in Barcelona, following its inclusion at Al Carrer’s Cine A La Plaza event for Go Skateboarding Day on 21st June 2017. […]
Our second screening took us to The Black Sheep skate store in Manchester. Pollyanna Ruiz introduced the film, and after the screening local skaters were keen to talk with Long Live Southbank’s Stuart Maclure about the campaign and its relevance in the North West, as well as LLSB’s plans to re-open the previously closed-off areas of the […]