‘Digging Up the Dear Green Place’ - film screening in support of JAM74 campaign, Thursday 9th November

Digging Up the Dear Green Place

Fundraising event for the JAM74 anti-motorway campaign
CCA4, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street,
Glasgow
Thursday 9th November 2006, 7.00pm

Free admission, donations to JAM74 welcome.

A evening of films in aid of the JAM74 campaign to stop the motorway
construction through Glasgow Southside. Presented by Martha Wardrop
from JAM74.

Glasgow’s reputation as the ‘Dear Green Place’ comes from its many
public parks and outdoor spaces – spaces which belong to the people of
Glasgow but which are currently being dug up and taken away. These films
highlight the damage done by such acts, especially motorway building,
but also show there can be another side, when digging becomes a way of
taking back the land and making it a public space again.

There will be time for discussion and questions afterwards.

Films:

The Walter Morrison Community Garden
Simon Yuill and Kirsty Stansfield, Glasgow, 2006

A short set of interviews with people involved in the community made
'guerrilla' garden in Eglinton Toll, Glasgow.

On Allotments
Four Corners Film Cooperative, London, 1976

A rare chance to see this pioneering documentary that portrays the
allotment community in Needham, North London. During the making of the
film the allotments were threatened with closure to make way for a car
park, and the film captures some of the community campaign against this.
One of the film-makers, Ron Peck is a leading figure in British
independent cinema, his films include 'Nighthawks', one of the first
British films created through improvisation to camera. By avoiding
conventional forms of dramatic effect, Peck's films are intended to let
the audience participate in forming their own perception of the image on
the screen. The film is also featured in David Crouch and Colin Ward's
classic book "The Allotment: It's Landscape and Culture", tracing the
history and politics of allotment culture in Britain.

JAM
Daryl Tayar, Glasgow, 2005

JAM is a hard hitting political documentary that exposes the shocking
truth about the proposed M74 extension through Glasgow's South Side. The
film reveals who's backing this remnant of 1960s urban planning and what
sort of devastation it would cause to some of the most deprived areas of
the city. Are there any alternatives? Local residents, logistics experts
and Green and Socialist MSPs show us the direction we should really be
heading in. Fast moving visuals and a dynamic soundtrack speed the
viewer through the political points and make this an entertaining and
convincing documentary.

For more info please contact Martha Wardrop on
martha_glasgow@yahoo.co.uk or 07854 817 665

For more information about the JAM74 campaign see: http://www.jam74.org.

"On Allotments" has been kindly made available for screening by Four
Corners film centre, London, http://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk.

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