[ecrea] Music & Liberation: An exhibition about music in the WLM opens in London 30 November

Music&  Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK, 1970 -1989 explores how feminists used music as an activist tool to entertain and empower women during the 1970s and ‘80s.

Featuring the work of Jam Today, the Northern Women’s Liberation Rock Band, Feminist Improvising Group, Ova, the Fabulous Dirt Sisters, Abandon Your Tutu, the Mistakes and many more, the exhibition brings together a diverse collection of women’s cultural heritage. Music&  Liberation will inspire and inform contemporary audiences about the politics of music making.

The exhibition showcases rare ephemera and artefacts such as posters, songbooks, t-shirts, instruments and fliers. Visitors can watch films, interact with installations, look at photographs and, of course, listen to music. This is a unique opportunity to listen to unreleased recordings of practices, live performances and studio tracks from women musicians yet to be discovered by
contemporary audiences.

Ten oral histories, which have been collected especially for the project, are available to listen to and watch. Music&  Liberation: A Compilation of Music from the Women’s Liberation Movement will be sold at the exhibition.

The exhibition opens in London on Friday 30 November.

OPENING EVENT: 30 November 6.30-8.30 pm
All Welcome
Exhibition runs: 1 December - 13 January
Open Thursday - Sunday 12-6.00 pm
Gallery closed between 17 Dec - 9 January

Space Station (Sixty-Fiveinfo /at/ spacestationsixtyfive.com)
Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London, SE11 4PSwww.spacestationsixtyfive.com
020 7820 1120www.facebook.com/spacestationsixtyfive

A programme of events will run alongside the exhibition, including live music and a series of talks:

• Opening Events - 30 November: Legendary folk singer Frankie Armstrong will sing a few songs
and Jude Alderson, founder of cult performance act the Sadista Sisters will share her memories.

• 8 December: The inaugural Queer Zine Fest London, 12-7pm. With its own programme of talks
and DJ’s

• 8 December - 13 January: An exhibition of posters from Melanie Maddison’s Shape&  Situate
fanzine of inspirational women.

• Closing Events - 13 January: A conversation with Barby Asante, founder of the South London Black Music Archive, and exhibition curator Deborah Withers about community memories, generational transmissions and music.
Chaired by Tom Perchard, author of Lee Morgan – His Life, Music and Culture.

Plus, screening of a documentary on The Gluts. Comprising Hayley Newman, Gina Birch and Kaffe
Matthews, The Gluts are an all-female troupe of activists/artists/musicians. Followed by a Q&A,
and the showing of Gluts’ pop videos.

For more information please visit
http://music-and-liberation.tumblr.com
Twitter: @music_liberate
http://womensliberationmusicarchive.wordpress.com
		




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