Everyday Integration in collaboration with Bristol Love Music Hate Racism is pleased to invite you to a screening of White Riot. Rubika Shah’s award-winning and energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’, Eric Clapton, and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell.

White Riot blends fresh interviews with archive footage to document the hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches of Britain in the late 1970s. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As co-founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses. A must see!

7pm Doors
7.20pm Introduction to film by Dave Merrick, Bristol Love Music Hate Racism
7.30pm Film start
8.50 - 9pm Break for drinks at The Cube bar
9pm Panel discussion with Bristol musicians including DJ Krust and GROVE
9.40 - 11pm DJ set in The Cube bar

Panel Speakers:
DJ Krust: https://www.instagram.com/dj_krust/
GROVE: https://www.instagram.com/theyisgrove/
Rosina, Bristol Green & Black:  https://www.instagram.com/littlemissblackbeard/

Ticket sales will be donated to Bristol Love Music Hate Racism to further anti-racist work in the city. The event has been organised by University of Bristol research project, Everyday Integration, in partnership with Bristol Love Music Hate Racism.

https://www.everydayintegration.org.uk/
https://www.lovemusichateracism.com/