Subversion and dissent - the need to highlight hypocrisy and combat discrimination in its many guises ('My Beautiful Laundrette' and 'Brick Lane') - Asian Culture Vulture
Subversion and dissent - the need to highlight hypocrisy and combat discrimination in its many guises ('My Beautiful Laundrette' and 'Brick Lane') - Asian Culture Vulture CULTURE CENTRE Film - Theatre - Music/Dance - Books - TV - Gallery - Art - Fashion/Lifestyle - Video UK Asian Film Festival and Southall Black Sisters screen films and host debate which warns of creeping acceptance of backward ideas... By Suman Bhuchar CONSERVATIVE religious forces and prevailing power structures (on both the Right and Left politically) are helping to keep people apart and stop women and others come together to affect progressive change in British society. That was the sentiment espoused by a panel of high-powered women activists and commentators brought together by the UK Asian Film Festival and the campaigning and care organisation, Southall Black Sisters (SBS) last Saturday (April 6).
UK Asian Film Festival and Southall Black Sisters screen films and host debate which warns of creeping acceptance of backward ideas... By Suman Bhuchar CONSERVATIVE religious forces and prevailing power...read more