HAWKWOOD, PAINSWICK OLD ROAD, STROUD, GL6 7QW

Ahead of its premiere later this year, we are proud to present a special work-in -progress of this freewheeling film which retraces the route of a 1959 song-collecting trip made by legendary ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. In the company of the then unknown English folksinger Shirley Collins, Lomax visited singers and musicians across the region, recording them in their homes, and thereby collected a definitive cross-section of traditional American roots music. This was at the time of the civil rights struggle when despite being able to vote since 1957, segregation and prejudice were rife. This film retreads the same path in the present day, when the hard-won victories of the civil rights movement were being violently challenged – again. The screening is a unique collaboration between Burning Bridges, Fifth Column Films, Lush and Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking.

Directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester will be take part in Q&A hosted by Matt Shaw of Lush.

Shirley Collins will be in attendance.

7.30pm – 9.30pm | £7/£5 concessions