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Our second exhibition for #BlackHistoryMonth ran from October 25 to 27 in Soho Studios.

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 comes to Soho, London, showcasing more than 40 years of UK protest and popular resistance photos, videos and artefacts from a wide variety of social movements.

From Friday 4 November to Sunday 13 November, every day from 12pm – 8pm.

PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 3 October 6pm-10pm

Black Door, Soho Studios, 17-19 Archer Street, London W1D 7AP

From squatting in 1980s, to the anti roads campaigns of the 90s to present day Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion and more. This immersive exhibition will also feature workshops on art activism, Non-Violent Direct Action, and how to archive precious ephemeral resistance materials online.

The exhibition is curated by artist-activists with decades of experience in the UK’s social change movements, in collaboration with a whole host of current campaigns and organisations.

Alongside the exhibition, campaigns, organizations and creatives will be hosting a schedule of events, talks, trainings and workshops. Including performance artist Mark McGowan, AKA the Artist Taxi Driver (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=442941278287) and more to come soon!

“𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 is doing something really important in capturing the history of grassroots social movements in the UK…. told by the people who were there. It is an innovative model of collective archiving and exhibition-making (which) gathers together a dynamic mix of documents, images and know-how that will serve as a resource for present and future movements. It is evidence that you can change the world from below, by collective, organised disobedience.”

Catherine Flood – curator of “Disobedient Objects”, Victoria & Albert Museum.

If you’re a photographer, film maker, artist or activist and you’d like to contribute to the Resistance Exhibition, get in touch at historyofresistance@gmail.com