Film Screening Party: ERUPÇÃO (Eruption)

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Time: 7pm – 11pm

Tickets: FREE (Booking required)

Age Guidance: 18+

Party in The Freedom Taproom from 7pm – 11pm with a DJ set live from Brazil from 8pm – 10pm.

Eruption film screening on a loop in the Members Library every 20 mins from 7pm – 11pm.

A film by coletivA ocupação. Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre.

“The uprising is not over”

2 years on from their rallying takeover ‘When It Breaks It Burns’ landing as part of our Going Global season – coletivA ocupação present an exclusive screening party for their new film Eruption.

Commissioned in 2020, Eruption documents a mixture of rehearsals and scenes filmed outside of São Paulo during an artistic residency in the Atlantic Rainforest. At a time of multiple global catastrophes, the performers create new bodies and forms of presence, using film, party, war, witchcraft and subversion.

Eruption will be screened on a loop in the Members Library every 20 mins from 7pm – 11pm.

Drop in, watch the film, then celebrate as we host a livestream DJ set all the way from Brazil presented by DJ Shaolin and DJ Akinn from coletivA ocupação in our Freedom Tap Room from 8pm – 10pm.

 

Part of #Homegrown2022

 

 

TRAILER

coletivA ocupação was created in 2017 by performers and artists who met during the uprising of the high school student protests and the occupations of public schools that occured in São Paulo, Brazil between 2015 and 2016.

Using rebellion and theatre, education and creation, coletivA ocupação became a way to explore different languages and narratives since the uprisings and urgent struggles of our time: bodies in revolt, which now occupy new spaces and narratives. The group has built a course of presentations and workshops for young people in major festivals and theaters in Brazil and Europe, such as the Festival de Curitiba, FIT (International Festival of Rio Preto), Cena Brasil Internacional, Festival de Londrina.

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in the Freedom Taproom and Members Library. Freedom Taproom is on the ground floor, with step-free access and the Members Library is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit. If you would like to read about our current COVID safety measures in place, you can find out more about what to expect here.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

This event will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the event at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

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ERUPÇÃO (Eruption) | Digital Workshop

7 Apr | 4 – 6pm

Join coletivA ocupação as they share practices used in the group’s new creation process, developed online over the last two years during lockdown. Using a combination of writing, movement & discussion exercises – this 2 hour online workshop aims to explore the question:

How do we transform the present and create a new world?

PRE-EVENT INFORMATION

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Image: When It Breaks It Burns. A group of young people dancing under multi-coloured lights. Photo by JMA Photography.
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