Screening Tomorrow

Some readers may have raised an eyebrow at the fact that my last two or three entries weren’t about the queen’s death, and that I’ve basically continued to waffle away as usual. This is because I personally don’t think such events, however significant or sad, should disrupt ordinary life. Life goes on, and we can’t allow ourselves to get too wound up with grief, or allow an event which, at the end of the day, has no direct effect on our daily lives, to get in the way of our day-to-day activity. To that end, I’d like to flag up that I will be introducing a screening of Then Barbera Met Alan tomorrow afternoon at The Stables in Charlton, as part of the Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival. As short as it is, and although anyone can watch it whenever they want online, it seems a very important film to me in terms of disability history: at last the history of the disability rights movement is starting to be told. I really wanted to give it a proper, public screening, and the local film festival gave me an opportunity to do so. To be honest I’m glad the event wasn’t cancelled under the current circumstances. If you can make it to Charlton tomorrow, it would be fantastic to see you there.

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