Thu 10 February 2022 18:00-20:15
Meeting Room 1, Students' Union Reception, Frenchay Campus
Watch + Discuss creates spaces for staff, students, and external participants to learn about and discuss urgent and necessary social justice-oriented topics through watching films and documentaries and engaging in guided post-watching discussions. This activity is important for a number of reasons, including for the efforts to ‘decolonise’ the university, knowledge, and societies. Watch + Discuss sessions aim to cover topics concerning inequalities and injustices, including but not limited to colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, anti-racism, patriarchy, sexism, capitalism, the climate crisis, and associated resistance and liberation struggles and movements.
In this Watch + Discuss session, the documentary being screened is ‘Concerning Violence’. According to the documentary webpage, “Narrated by Ms Lauryn Hill, Concerning Violence is a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late ‘60s and ‘70s.” (source: https://dogwoof.com/concerningviolence).
The trailer can be viewed here: https://dogwoof.com/concerningviolence
The documentary should be around 85 minutes (1 hour and 25 minutes). The screening is followed by a 10-minute break and reconvening for discussions facilitated by Dr Glennie Moore for up to around 25 minutes. Glennie is a lecturer at UWE, an activist, and the creator of the Watch + Discuss space. The entire Watch + Discuss session is scheduled for 2 hours and 15 minutes, from 6PM to 8.15PM. Please see the indicative schedule below for details. Please note that participants mut be 18 years of age or older to attend. Please ensure to arrive 5 minutes early as it is essential that everything starts and runs on time.
Indicative schedule:
Introduction and information on the session: 6.00PM – 6.10PM
Screening: 6.10PM – 7.35PM
Short break: 7.35PM – 7.45PM
Discussion: 7.45PM – 8.10PM
Wrap up and thanks: 8.10PM – 8.15PM
PLEASE READ! TRIGGER AND CONTENT WARNING: Please note that this documentary contains graphic language, imagery, and scenes that some may find unsettling and distressing. For example, it contains graphic images and graphic scenes of violence, and consequences of violent struggle, such as graphic bodily injuries. It contains material exhibiting unequal and unjust treatment under colonialism. A small volunteer support team will be available for those who may feel distressed as a result of the content in order to check in with them. It must be noted that the volunteer support team can only check in with those who might feel distressed and cannot provide any specialised care, support, or services. The organisers are not responsible for participants’ reactions to the documentary. Participants can leave the session at any time without giving a reason if this might be an appropriate course of action. If participants would like to have spaces for follow up conversations and for providing feedback on difficult content, this can be arranged.