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 […]
You Can’t Move History was awarded Best Research Film at the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Research in Film Awards. The AHRC said of the film: This remarkable piece of work challenges easy assumptions about heritage and creates a fascinating portrait of contemporary urban outsiderness in the process. Through beautiful still and video photography the film captures the […]
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