Event

CINETOPIA:DOC - Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché + Q&A
Hosted By CinetopiaCinetopia DOC presents Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché as part of Transmission: Youth Across Generations, a multi-event programme exploring how youth culture has shaped identity, belonging and collective memory in Britain from the 1980s to the present. As the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band - X-Ray Spex - Poly Styrene was a blazing voice of rebellion in the chaos and upheaval of 1970s Britain - singing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding with a rare prescience and a female perspective. As an Anglo-Somali punk musician, Poly Styrene was also a big influence on the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements, inspiring later artists such as Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney and Neneh Cherry. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Paul Sng, and preceded by Patch It Up! A punk-inspired, clothes customisation workshop (tickets booked separately for workshop).- https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/patch-it-up-a-punk-inspired-clothes-customisation-workshop/
https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-qa