TITLE

Woodlands Community and Flourish House present The Old Oak (2023)

WHEN

Sunday 18th February 2024

TIME

12:00-7:00pm
12:00 – doors open
12:30pm – early screening
2:30pm - early screening discussion
12:00-4:00pm - food available at the community cafe
4:00 - later screening
6:00pm - later screening discussion

WHERE

Flourish House
23-25 Ashley Street
Glasgow
G3 6DR

COST

All the screenings for the Anti-Racist Film Club are based on a Pay What You Can sliding scale. You can choose to pay £0-8. Below are suggestions on how to decide what to pay but please be honest with yourself about your situation and what feels possible for you

£0
I frequently worry about meeting my basic needs and don’t always achieve them

£4
I sometimes worry about meeting my basic needs but mostly achieve them

£8
I can comfortably meet all my basic needs and have expendable income

MORE INFO

The Old Oak (2023)
Running time 113 mins
Rating 15
Language English

Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club and Flourish House are partnering with each other to bring you Ken Loach’s The Old Oak (2023). The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship, TJ meets Yara (Elba Mari) with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.

Watch the trailer here.

After each screening there will be time to discuss the film and surrounding issues. The film club aims to be a place of support and belonging for People of Colour and a place where white allies can take responsibility for their own learning. We hope to raise searching questions and explore issues in a supportive environment. It’s OK to make mistakes but please own your mistakes.

There will be food available at the community cafe, downstairs in Flourish House from 12:00-4:00pm. The food is all vegan and is available on a pay-what-you-feel basis. The members of Flourish House will also be selling some of their home baking.

The screenings will take place at Flourish House. This is a wheelchair accessible space. The film will be captioned.

Flourish House is a short walk from a First Bus no.4 bus stop and St George’s Cross subway station. There are limited parking spaces directly outside the building along with parking payment meters.

HOW TO BOOK
Book via Eventbrite

 here for the early screening and 

here for the later screening