2008 events

May 11-15 2008
Green Park Arts visual festival (Groundwork)
Wales

May 23-26 2008 PROJECTILE
A festival of anarchist film and culture
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2BB
www.projectile.org.uk

8-10 August Earthwise 888 Festival
Green Festival near the Uffington Horse.
http://www.earthwiseevents.co.uk/earthwise_gathering/

29th May - 1st June 2008, Sunrise Festival Somerset
Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration will unfold on part of a 600 acre estate on a secured site in South Somerset.
Contemporary music and performing arts, permaculture and sustainable living. Undercurrents will be showing films.
www.sunrisecelebration.com

27th-29th June 2008 Glastonbury festival
Undercurrents will be showing in the Groovy Movie Pictrue house solar cinema
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/


See undercurrents at Groovy Movie solar cinema this summer.

4th – 6th July Workhouse festival, Wales
The most ecclectic, upbeat festival ever to have hit Wales. A true extravaganza of live music, cabaret, djs, workshops and kids entertainment.
Undercurrents will be in the Media Lounge showing our latest works.
http://www.workhousefestival.co.uk/

12th and 13th July 2008 Medieval Fayre
Great free festival celebrating 25 years this year, undercurrents film of the fayre will be launched at the festival..
http://www.tewkesburymedievalfestival.org/


Watch undercurrents film of the festival

11 - 13 July Small Nations Wales
A celebration of the music of Wales and other small nations.Undercurrents films may be shown.
http://www.smallnations.co.uk/

July 16th - 20th Buddhafield festival Somerset
Undercurrents will be showing films in the cinema. Beautiful festie vibe, our favourite.
www.buddhafield.com

July 24-26 Secret Garden Party, Cambridge
Undercurrents went last year and loved it.
http://www.secretgardenparty.com/



The Bicycle Film Festival
Rolling worldwide films about cycling. Undercurrents film Bike2Oz will be shown.
http://bicyclefilmfestival.com

December BeyondTv 2008 international video festival
TBC Swansea. Please check back later.
BeyondTV

Videos	Living in the Future	Broad Horizons
	AZ of Bushcraft

 

2007

March 8 Swansea Wales
To mark International Womens day, undercurrents are hosting music, films and dance at Monkey Cafe High Street from 8pm
Women Party

March 10th • 12 noon - 6.00 pm Newcastle Upon Tyne
‘With’, not ‘For- ’Half-day discussion event, built around the cultural urgency of independent & dissident film.
http://wiki.starandshadow.org.uk/index.php/With_Not_For

March 27 20:40 BFI Southbank / NFT2 London
Premiere of Undercurrents latest film Lesbian Civilisation about the new civil marriage law will be premiering in the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in London.
The film will be showing with 'Politics of the Heart'
www.llgff.org.uk

18-20 May 2007 PROJECTILE
A festival of anarchist film and culture
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2BB
www.projectile.org.uk

May 31st -June 3,Sunrise Festival Somerset
Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration will unfold on part of a 600 acre estate on a secured site in South Somerset. Contemporary music and performing arts, permaculture and sustainable living. Undercurrents will be there
www.sunrisecelebration.com

22nd-24th June 2007 Glastonbury festival
Undercurrents will be in the Groovy Movie Pictrue house solar cinema
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

June 29- July 1st Workhouse festival, Wales
The most ecclectic, upbeat festival ever to have hit Wales. A true extravaganza of live music, cabaret, djs, workshops and kids entertainment.
Undercurrents will be in the Media Lounge
http://www.workhousefestival.co.uk/

7th and 8th July Medieval Fayre
Great free festival, undercurrents will be filming for a DVD release in 2008.
http://www.tewkesbury-medieval-fayre.org.uk/

13 - 15 July Small Nations Wales
A celebration of the music of Wales and other small nations.Undercurrents films will be shown
Small Nations Festival


July 11 Going Green, Museum of English Rural Life
Undercurrents films will be showing.
www.merl.org.uk

July 11th - 15th Buddhafield festival Somerset
Undercurrents will be showing films in the cinema. Beautiful festie vibe.
www.buddhafield.com

July 24 DVD launch
Undercurrents and Lammas will launch a DVD charting the rise of the first EcoVillage in England and Wales
Low Impact

July 26-29 Secret Garden Party, Cambridge
Undercurrents will be filming the madness
http://www.secretgardenparty.com/

 

photo: Pixie Pictures Cinema

August 1st-5th Big Green Gathering Somerset
undercurrents in the only sustainably-powered multiplex cinema in the world.
www.big-green-gathering.com

August 17-19 Pontadawe festival Wales
Music, beer, dance and fun.
www.pontardawefestival.com

Free at last?
August 23 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea Anti slavery concert
Undercurrents will be doing the visuals for the show.

Undercurrents in Italy
We have been supporting the legal case against a brutal police attack on British and other internationals in Genoa since 2001.
Undercurrents has reported and supplied More4 with footage.
Genoa Court case

30th August - 2nd September Bushcraft festival
Undercurrents will be filming skills and crafts for a DVD releases in December.
http://www.wildernessgathering.co.uk

August 24-26th Shambala festival
Our latest film, Ecovillage Pioneers will be showing
http://www.shambalafestival.org/

August 31- September 2nd Electric Picnic, Ireland
Undercurrents will be screening with Cultivate in cinema in the Body and Soul area.
www.electricpicnic.ie

December 1st BeyondTv international video festival
Top documentaries from around the world at Talisen cinema in Swansea
BeyondTV

December - Bushcraft DVD launch
Undercurrents will release a DVD with a magazine.
http://www.bushcraftmagazine.co.uk/

 

2006

Freedom of the Press Day Swansea
May 3 2006: To mark Freedom of the Press Day.Undercurrents hosted the showing of award winning documentary Globalisation and the Media plus shorts from Comedian Mark Thomas at the new Swansea School of Photography and Video.

Undercurrents in Croatia Split
May 12-16th We hosted inspiring workshops with Fade in, Zagreb in partnership with Kino klub Split and KUM (Coalition of youth association), Split

Slack Video
Monday 15th Maythe Lamp, 2 Norfolk Street, Hull, 7 pm – midnight. Undercurrents Broad Horizons will be showing.
http://www.thelamp.net

Forward Motion Somerset
May 20th Undercurrents present some of our work at the Engine Room Bridgwater, Somerset. All welcome.
www.theengineroom.net

Watch Road Blues- roadbuilders sing a song

Environment Festival Swansea
May 29 Meet some of our crew here
www.environmentcentre.org.uk

New Media Awards 2006 (Deadline 31 May 2006)
You can vote for Undercurrents and celebrate those ideas that have put new media technology into action and had an impact on democracy, government or society. Nominate us today!
www.newstatesman.co.uk

Green Film Festival Stoke on Trent
June 2-4 Undercurrents films are in this festival
http://www.greenfilm.moonfruit.com

Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham.
June 2-4 World Music and Arts event.Catch us in Groovy Movie

Earthwise Festival Dorset
1-4 June 2006: A Festival of Green Living, Sustainable Futures and live music.Undercurrents hosting video showings Sat and Sun night. Thank you Star Bar!
www.earthwise-uk.com

Swansea Bay Film Festival Swansea Wales
Wednesday June 7th: Venue: Dynevor Media Centre Swansea From 2pm
Undercurrents won 3 awards!
www.swanseafilmfestival.com

Art not Oil London
June 10th/11th sees the opening of Art Not Oil 2006,
www.artnotoil.org.uk

Lammas West Wales
June 12 Undercurrents will be filming the first meeting of the first Eco village in England and Wales
Low Impact

Sunrise Festival Somerset
June 16th - 21st 2006, Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration will unfold on part of a 600 acre estate on a secured site in South Somerset. Contemporary music and performing arts, permaculture and sustainable living. Undercurrents screened in the lovely Pixie Pictures Solar cinema.
www.sunrisecelebration.com

Undercurrents touring across Europe
Hamish from Undercurrents joins the Art and Activism Caravan (AAC) in June. The AAC is a border crossing project travelling from Greece (early June) via Macedonia,
Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Hungary to the annual activist environmentalist gathering Ecotopia in Slovakia
www.eyfa.org/art_activism

PROJECTILE
A festival of anarchist film and culture
16-18 June,Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2BB
www.projectile.org.uk

Refugee Week June 19-25
Undercurrents are helping refugees produce a video advert for their community bicycle workshop in Swansea
www.refugeeweek.org.uk

Glastonbury Movie on tour
Undercurrents images are in the cinema release which will be touring the country
Glastors

Small Nations Wales
7 - 9 July 2006 A celebration of the music of Wales and other small nations.Undercurrents will host workshops and show videos
Small Nations Festival

Buddhafield festival Somerset
July 12th - 16th How can we unite transformation of ourselves with transformation of the world?
Undercurrents will host workshops and show videos
www.buddhafield.com

Home educators seaside festival. Hesfes. Essex coast.Catch us in Groovy Movie
June 24 - July 1,

Global Village. Woodcraft folk international camp.
July 29 - aug 9 Maidstone, Kent.Catch us in Groovy Movie

Undercurrents in Italy
July We have been supporting the legal case against a brutal police attack on British and other internationals in Genoa since 2001.
Undercurrents is reporting
Genoa Court case

photo: Pixie Pictures Cinema

Big Green Gathering Somerset
August 2nd -6th undercurrents in the only sustainably-powered multiplex in the world.
Catch us in the Pixie Pictures Solar cinema each evening or see is at the undercurrents stall
www.big-green-gathering.com

Pontadawe festival Wales
August 18-20 Music, beer, dance and fun.Undercurrents will be in the cinema and hosting the Yoga (multi skilled we are)
www.pontardawefestival.com

Earth First! Gathering Wales
West Wales for play and plotting. We will be showing films
www.eathfirstgathering.org.uk

Women in Tune Wales
August 23-29 2006 Women's Festival. Undercurrents will host workshops and screenings. Women only
Women in Tune festival

Landjuweel Festival. Ruigoord, Amsterdam
Aug 10 - 14, 30 year old squatted village's arts festival goes green.Catch us in Groovy Movie

Camp for Climate Change
August 26th to September 4th workshops, meetings, socialising, information sharing and action. Hamish will be interviewing so keep an eye out for a guy in a silly hat and video camera
www.climatecamp.org.uk

Electric Picnic Ireland
Sept 1-3rd Undercurrents will be screening in a Yurt in the Body and Soul area.
www.electricpicnic.ie


Watch Dancing on the ruins of multinational corporations

Bestival. Isle of white.
Sept 9 - 10, Quality, fun silly music festival.Catch us in Groovy Movie

Video Activist Citizenship and the 'Undercurrents' Project in late 1990's Britain
October 9- 10 Slovenia
Ruth Heritage explores how Undercurrents negotiates mainstream television as an alternative / public sphere, through the use of documentary, actuality, and reality tv motifs. Using video footage from BBC's Video Diaries and Crimewatch alongside Undercurrents I note how this creates an 'undercurrents' citizen, with a shared collective identity and boundaries, which seeks ideological alignment. I conclude by observing potential limitations of such citizenship, through a discussion of video distribution and activist screenings, illustrated by Undercurrents footage.
http://alternativemedia.mirovni-institut.si/index.html

De Festival Intergalactique de l'Image Alternative.
20, 21, 22 Oct. 2006 Brest
http://festival-galactique.infini

Channel 4 education November 13- 17 20.30- 23.30
Produced b HotBed media
Power to the people The A-Z of protest
Undercurrents supplied images for this series


Watch Resist in anyway possible...peacefully

Compassionate Living Fair
Saturday 18th November, 10am - 4pm Southampton
Southampton Solent University Conference Centre Above Bar Street
This will bring together stalls selling craft and ethical goods, together with information on compassionate approaches to living in the 21st century.
There will also be holistic therapists offering indian head massage, reflexology samples, free hot and cold veggie food samples, a series of talks, cookery demos and perhaps workshops too!
www.activeartists.org.uk

Beyond TV video festival Swansea Wales
November 26- December 2
Undercurrents host international radical video festival with comedy, workshops and loadsa great videos and feature films.

Monday November 27th (18:30)
Beyond Oil: International films & chat about climate change & end of the oil age.
Entry £4/ £3concession/ £1.50 for low Carbon transport

Tuesday November 28th (19:00)
Beyond Wo(men) Films by women directors with Q+A open to all
'Sisters in Law'- A female judge dispenses wisdom, wisecracks & justice.
A film by Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto
Cameroon/UK, 2005, 104 minutes, Color,
Entry £4/ £3concessions

Wednesday November 29th (9:30-16:00)
Beyond the Media: Educational Presentation: An introduction to alternative media.
(Students only - Full details contact eduction@undercurrents.org). Click here for more information.

Wednesday November 29th (20:00)
'This Revolution' (Welsh Premier) Director Steven Marshall
"It's the kind of engaged, political filmmaking that is rarely seen today, and it's a welcome and powerful addition to the canon."
Hollywood Reporter USA/90minutes
Entry £4/ £3concessions

Thursday November 30th (19:00)
Beyond the Middle East: Films & eyewitness accounts from Palestine, Lebanon & Israel.
Entry £4/ £3concessions

Friday December 1st (21:00- 4:00)
Beyond TV Party: Live dub tunes from Llwybr Llaethog , The Dukes with DJ's, Lesbian stand up & films plus RGB visuals, animations & music videos.
(Monkey Cafe) Entry £5/£4 before 10pm

Saturday December 2nd
BeyondTv international video festival (14:00pm - 22:00pm)
Includes 'The World Naked Bike Ride' amongst many others
Entry £4/ £3concessions per session
BeyondTV

New Years Eve leading you into 2007 London
Undercurrents will be showing films and visuals
http://www.thesynergyproject.org/

 

Festival Help

List of this years music arts, eco, free festivals click here for Festival Eye
http://www.festivaleye.com/

Film Festivals
Click here for a full list of up and coming video film festivals.
http://www.festivalfocus.org/

 
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And last year....

2005

July 24 and 26
undercurrents BEYONDTV@The Welsh Black Film Festival
Women's Film Festival. Workshops and Screenings
www.welshblackfilmfestival 01792 455900 details

July 31
The Only Clown in the Village
Monkey Bar Castle sq Swansea

August 3-7
undercurrents BEYONDTV@ Big Green Gathering
The only sustainably-powered multiplex in the world! In Somerset

August 18-21
Undercurrents BEYONDTV@ EarthWise festival Dorset
In the Star bar marquee..we bring you the most radical films and animations yet!

August 19-21
undercurrents BEYONDTV@ Pontardawe Festival Wales
We will be screening the latest videos in the Monkey Marquee

August 24-30
undercurrents BEYONDTV@ Women in Tune festival
Women's Film Festival. Workshops and Screenings
Please contact WIT or email for details

August 27th 8pm
Mark Thomas Comedy DVD screening
Monkey Café, High Street, Swansea 01792 455900 details

August 21- 30 September
Private views
Undercurrents is Art at an exhibition in West Wales

1 September 7.30pm Thursday Swansea Wales
The Yes Men- The Movie (90min).
For years, two pranksters fooled corporations that they represented the World Trade Organisation. Follow their hilarious exploits around the world wearing thrift-store suits as they set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. However, exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a whole new approach for one final lecture. The Yes Men is directed by Dan Olman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith
We hope the film will be presented by star of the movie Andy Bichlbaum.
Watch Trailer here
www.theyesmen.org

October 22nd all day Anarchist Bookfair
Undercurrents films will be shown and we hope to have a stall
Anarchist Bookfair

October 22nd Undercurrents film in Oxford
Oxdox festival will screen The Only Clown in the Village
oxdox

October 29th 7.30pm 2005
The Undercurrents VJs will be be showing our inspiring visuals in rhythm to the Olivier Messiaen orchestra to celebrate the opening of Swansea's National Waterfront Museum.Free outdoor event for all.
http://www.nmgw.ac.uk

November 25-26th 2005
BEYONDTV 6th annual international video activist festival
International Alternative Film Festival
5 days of film, music, inspiration and cake
Dylan Thomas centre Swansea Marina
01792 455900 details