Tuesday 23rd September Opening event

7.00pm – The Peckham Pelican – 92 Peckham Road, SE15 5PY London

HYSTERIA presents, along with the Festival of Choice, a hysterical event at The Peckham Pelican, starting at 7pm.

The Festival of Choice seeks to raise awareness about the current lack of abortion rights for women found throughout the world. Together, with other feminist organisations, we hope to engage in the pro-choice conversation and advocate women’s right to safe and legal abortion globally.

HYSTERIA presents a performance video by HELENA WALSH, a performance/talk by FANNIE SOSA and an interactive installation by AMA JOSEPHINE BUDGE.

Helena Walsh is a performance artist from Speaking of IMELDA – a direct action feminist performance group challenging the ongoing problem of I.M.E.L.D.A. (Ireland Making England the Legal Destination for Abortion).
http://www.helenawalsh.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Speaking-of-Imelda

Artist, Fannie Sosa, based in Paris, works with elements of physical theatre and dance, live music, performance and video art. At opening of the Festival of Choice, she will be presenting on TWERKING, exploring the taboo dimension of the «ghetto of the body» through speech and movement -linking this dance form to pro-choice, and abortion debates.

You can also join Fannie for an interactive workshop before the launch event:
“Through speech and movement ; between otherness and identity ; individual and collective ; we practice unifying our intimate body (comfortable, sexual, relaxed) with our public body (efficient, alert, racial).”
£10 online, £12 on the door for two incredible hours!
Get your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminist-twerkshop-with-fannie-sosa-by-hysteria-the-festival-of-choice-tickets-13199448907
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, Education Building, Room 110. See map for details: http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/campus-map.pdf
Nearest Tube: New Cross/New Cross Gate.

Activist, writer, performer, curator and editor Ama Josephine Budge focuses in her work on live art, feminism & gender politics, racial identities and activism.
http://amabudge.wordpress.com/

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Saturday 27th September: Film Screenings, Performance and Discussion

Irish and Spanish Prochoice Activism in London from the 80s till Present

Ann Rossiter, writer and prochoice activist, at a recent My Belly is Mine protest

12.oo pm – Amnesty International UK – 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EA London

Join us for a film screening, performance and Q&A celebrating Irish and Spanish prochoice activism in London in the 80s and at present. We will be screening three short movies focusing on the issue of abortion and prochoice activism in Spain and Ireland. This will be followed by a short performance by direct action feminist performance group challenging the ongoing problem of I.M.E.L.D.A. – Ireland Making England the Legal Destination for Abortion. We will end the event with a conversation with Irish and Spanish activists and Mara Clarke, founder of Abortion Support Network.

12:00 – 12:05: Introduction by Cristina, from My Belly is Mine

12:05 – 13:15: Film Screening

“The Christening” directed by Oonagh Kearney

“Repeating Histories” – A short film on Irish and Spanish prochoice activism in London in the 80s and at present

“The Freedom Train” (English subtitles) – A film on the prochoice demo in Spain in February, 2014. Introduced by CIMA, Association of Women in Film and Audiovisual Media (via Skype)

13:15 – 13:35: IMELDA performance

13:35 – 14:00: Q&A (chaired by Cristina)

Film director and prochoice activist Oonagh Kearney, current member of Speaking of Imelda

Isabel Ros, activist and poet, former member of the Spanish Women’s Abortion Support Group

Mara Clarke from Abortion Support Network

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