{"id":1846,"date":"2018-05-29T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2018-07-19T11:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:53:30","slug":"artists-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/05\/29\/artists-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists &#038; Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/whats-on\/2018\/series\/artists-activists-second-wave-feminist-filmmakers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1847\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1096\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-1.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/05\/Untitled-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1096px) 100vw, 1096px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Movement of the 1970s empowered women to step behind the camera in larger numbers. Their pioneering work platformed voices, stories and issues previously ignored or misrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>The ground-breaking directors highlighted in this series made films outside the mainstream industry, frequently through activist film cooperatives and collectives.\u00a0 Their work was screened in \u2018consciousness-raising\u2019 groups, at political conventions and in other alternative venues, and was often intended to spark discussion and action on women\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film &amp; Television has preserved a large portion of these important Second Wave Feminist films, and their restorations form the core of this season of six film screenings at the Barbican Theatre in London from the 2-3 June.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/whats-on\/2018\/series\/artists-activists-second-wave-feminist-filmmakers\">More information and tickets are available on the Barbican website, priced \u00a342 (\u00a338 for concessions and \u00a334 for members).<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Louisa Maycock, one of our alumni and a collaborator for the project has offered a promotional discount for students and staff at the School of English who would be interested in attending.\u00a0 For a discount of 20%, enter the promotional code &#8216;23236&#8217; when purchasing tickets.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Movement of the 1970s empowered women to step behind the camera in larger numbers. Their pioneering work platformed voices, stories and issues previously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/05\/29\/artists-activists\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143219],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}