Festival at Clitterhouse Farm to celebrate 'our stories, our power'

The day-long festival highlighting sustainability and community action will take place on Friday, 17th July writes Leïla Davaud

Buildings at Clitterhouse Farm in Hendon — Martin Addison / Clitterhouse Farm – via Wikimedia Commons

“Our stories, our power:” Clitterhouse Farm will be hosting its very first film festival and, with it, reinforcing its core values. The community project will honour the “transformative power of communities taking their futures into their own hands” and the Hendon farm’s team hope to make it an annual rendezvous.

Known for championing local history, sustainable living, arts and culture, the team behind the farm aims to provide opportunities, events and facilities that are “welcoming and financially accessible to all”.

Running from 1pm to 10pm on Friday, 17th July, the festival will explore the power of storytelling, grassroots action and collective change through at least four film screenings.

Suffragette (2015, dir. Sarah Gavron), a film of “collective resistance telling the story of the women who risked everything to win the right to vote”.

Power Station, a documentary about communities fighting to take back control of their shared spaces and resources.

But also WALL·E (2008, dir. Andrew Stanton, Pixar), Pixar’s film for all ages: “a meditation on community, ecological collapse, and quiet courage”. And Authors of the Estate, exploring how communities “reclaim their own narratives”.

Alongside the screenings, the festival will include the unveiling of a mosaic portrait of Gladice Keevil, a suffragette and former Clitterhouse Farm resident. Created by the late artist Barbara Mansi, “the mosaic has become a shared tribute to both women, celebrating creativity, community and collective power”.

The on-site café will be open throughout the day, serving drinks, snacks, and food, with alcohol also available.

The event made a three-tier ticket system available to keep the event as accessible as possible while covering the real costs of running the festival. The pricing varies from £15 to £30.

Every ticket includes free popcorn. Sit down and enjoy!

For booking information, visit www.ouryard.org. Clitterhouse Farm is located at Clitterhouse Playing Fields, Claremont Road, London NW2 1AP.

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