Now that summer is well and truly with us (we’ll have to imagine that the summer sunshine is too!) we’d like to look back at some of the fantastic projects and events that have taken place through our Common Ground Project this year.
Common Ground explores the impact of Greenham 40 years on both on the women who were there and people finding out about Greenham for the first time today.
From the 12th – 18th February, we had a week of exciting events at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, including our Common Ground exhibition!
Visitors were invited to hang out in our Greenham tent listening to a specially created soundscape of sounds and stories from the peace camp and interviews with Greenham Women, chat to public herstorians about how Greenham impacted them and look around the gallery at animations, banners, wearable art, images from Greenham as well as portrait photos of the Greenham Women today.
Workshops and discussions took place from Monday – Friday with web-weaving, Judith Baron talking about her photography of Greenham and Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camps, the Wondrous Women performing their invisible theatre piece and local feminist archive sharing ephemera.
Our fantastic Greenham Cabaret was held on Saturday night (February 19th) where performers from near and far shared the stories of the women who were at Greenham Common as we celebrated the creativity used in the art of peaceful protest.
The action-packed week ended with a sold-out screening of ‘Women Against the Bomb’, Sonia Gonzalez’s prize-winning look at the impact of the Greenham Women, the first all-female peace camp, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.
The month of May saw two screenings of Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall mistresspeace Carry Greenham Home, filmed whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83. Both audiences at Mount Pleasant Eco Park on May 15th and Golant Village Hall on May 18th were filled with women wanting a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.
Both screenings were introduced by Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan, who introduced her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life, as well as extracts from the interviews with Greenham Women in our archive.
A huge thank you to the Heritage Lottery Fund for making all of this possible. Read more about the project here.
