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Common Ground Memory Share and Film Screening

14th May 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Head down to the Bristol Friends Meeting House to craft, share memories and watch films celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp!

All activities are FREE.

Programme of Activities:

3pm: Craftivism and Memory Share Afternoon

Drop-in for some craftivism with Greenham Woman, Jill ‘Ray’ Raymond who will be running practical web weaving sessions and sharing the history of Web Weaving as feminist protest.

You’ll also have the chance to meet with Greenham Women and share your own stories of resistance with our oral history team.

5pm: Women Against the Bomb Film Screening

First up we will be screening Women Against the Bomb, a prize-winning look at the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.

6pm: Q&A with Greenham Guest Speakers

We will be joined by Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan and guest Greenham Women giving you the chance to ask all your Greenham questions.

6.30pm: Carry Greenham Home Film Screening

Then we will head back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece was shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.

About Common Ground

Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp

Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.

Inclusion and Accessibility

Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience. 

This venue is wheelchair accessible. 

If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Click here for more information about travelling to the venue. 

Details

Date:
14th May 2023
Time:
3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Venue

Friends Meeting House
Champion Square
Bristol, BS2 9DB United Kingdom
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