ISLAND Community Film Club (ICFC) February

Date: Monday 10 February

Time: 6.30pm
Cost: Free (Pre-Booking is Essential)
Ages: 16+
Venue: Studio Theatre
Feature: Northern Ireland Now: Creating Community Archives

A celebration of local, collaborative, and contemporary archiving with a special screening and discussion of collected videos from community participants on the Northern Ireland Now Project.

This special February event will showcase a selection of videos from 13 diverse community organisations who have engaged with the Northern Ireland Now Project, selecting videos to be a part of a new collection on the Digital Film Archive.

Following a compilation of video materials there will be a panel discussion with community partners on their experiences of the project.

Northern Ireland Now is a contemporary collecting project in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen which addresses underrepresentation in the Digital Film Archive and champions equality, diversity and inclusion.

Selected video works from the following community organisation will be screened:

1. Hilltown Community Association, County Down
2: ImageNation NI, Belfast
3. Selkies Women’s Sea Shanty, Portaferry
4: Strule Arts Centre Collective, Omagh
5: Anaka Women’s Collective, Belfast
6: SPUDS, Drumcree Community Centre, Portadown
7: North West Creatives, Nerve Centre, Derry City
8: Express Yourself Social Cafe, Black Box, Belfast
9: Bluebell Lane, South Armagh
10: BeU LGBTQIA+, Belfast
11: Moneydarragh Hub, County Down
12: Wall2Wall with Springboard Opportunities, Belfast
13. Yallaa Cafe, Belfast

Find out more about the Northern Ireland Now Project here:
https:/nervecentre.org/culturenorthern-ireland-now