Curate-It is here to make curatorial practice more accessible and reimagine how cinema can be experienced! ✨🎥
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🔹 📱 The App – Your go-to tool for learning how to curate and host your own film screenings.
🔹 📖 Curatorial Constellations – A quarterly publication featuring curated films, essays, and interviews.
🔹 🎬 Screenings, Events & Community – Bringing films and conversations to wider audiences, both online and in person.
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Introducing the first screening from A Landscape of Change - Coalescence of Care.
Curated collaboratively across Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Canada and Scotland, this programme brings together a collection of short films that reframe familial connection, political tension, climate catastrophe and the many ways care can endure through change.
Across these works, care unfolds through memory, resilience, loss and transformation - revealing new ways of understanding our relationships to each other and the world around us.
Featuring films curated collaboratively by: Angel Fan Hiu Laam, Arslan Zharaspay, Greta Chaparro, Imogen Cowan, Jessica Turner, Shashank Satish and Vincy Liyongqin.
📍 Online 🗓 19–21 May 🌍 Available in Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Canada & Scotland / UK
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Introducing the theme of Care from our A Landscape of Change programme.
Exploring themes of care, ecology, memory, resilience and transformation, these programmes move across documentary, experimental film, video art and expanded cinematic forms.
Programmes include:
🌱 Coalescence of Care - collaboratively curated (19–21 May)
🌊 Practicing Co-Presence: The Silence of Care - curated by Jessica Turner (22–24 May)
🌀 Topologies of Care - curated by Shashank Satish (21–23 May)
🖤 Memories of Obsidian - curated by Imogen Cowan (23–25 May)
❄️ Care as Resilience - curated by Vincy Liyongqin (24–26 May)
All online, available in Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Canada and the UK.
Explore the full programme via the link in bio 🎬
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We’re excited to share A Landscape of Change - a collaboratively curated film programme developed by participants in Dialogues of Curatorial Practice across Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Canada and Scotland.
Featuring documentary, fiction, experimental and archival works from across the four countries and beyond, the programme explores:
🌱 care 🌊 landscape 🫂 intergenerational connection 🌀 transformation 👁 different ways of seeing the world
We’re incredibly proud of the thoughtful and collaborative work the participants have created together through dialogue across borders, perspectives and lived experiences.
📍 Online + in-person 🗓 19–28 May 🌍 Available in Hong Kong · Kazakhstan · Canada · Scotland / UK
The programme is now available to explore. 🔗 Link in bio 🎬
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Dialogues of Curatorial Practice is here!!
A new transnational film curation programme bringing together students from Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Canada and Scotland.
Over the next 12 weeks, they’ll collaborate across borders to explore film curation and co-create public screenings - responding to the theme A Landscape of Change.
This is about learning through doing. About thinking together transnationally. About what happens when curation becomes collective.
More to come as the programme unfolds 🎬
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✨ An evening of shared histories, collective listening and living archives.
Archives are not static - they are lived, shared and activated through people.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the legacy and future of Black cinema through the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive and the screening of Rue Cases-Nègres.
From archival materials and films to conversation, care and community, the evening reminded us how vital preservation, access and coming together continue to be.
Pic 1. From top left Aisha Marong, Muratiwa Chinake, June Givanni, layla-roxanne hill, Justine Atkinson, from bottom left Damilola Lemomu, Phoebe Beckett Chingono, Benjin.
Pic 2. June Givanni introducing the screening
Pic 3. Syma Ahmed introducing Glasgow Women’s Library
Pic 4/5. Audiences at screening.
Pic 6-9. Materials from exhibition Dreaming A Black Scottish Archive
Thanks to Najma Abukar (@najmahusseinabukar ) for the photography.
🎬 Audiences LOVE Rue Cases Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley)
… here are some of our favourite reviews of Euzhan Palcy’s landmark film from Letterboxd ✨
Showing tonight!!
11 December at Glasgow Women’s Library, followed by a discussion with Dr June Givanni and includes an exhibition of materials from the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive.
Presented by JGPACA with support from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund.
Want to watch one of the most important films in Caribbean and Pan-African cinema?
Euzhan Palcy’s ‘Rue Cases Nègres’ (Sugar Cane Alley) is a landmark work - a tender, political, beautifully crafted coming-of-age story set in 1930s Martinique.
It centres Black Caribbean life with nuance and depth, challenges colonial narratives and opened doors for a new generation of filmmakers.
Want to experience this film on the big screen?
🎬 Rue Cases Nègres: Film Screening, exhibition + discussion with Dr June Givanni 📅 Thursday 11 December 📍 Glasgow Women’s Library
This screening is brought to you by the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) with support from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund (National Lottery funding).
🔗 Event details in bio
Discover the work of trailblazing filmmaker Euzhan Palcy
From Rue Cases Nègres (1983) to A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy has reshaped global cinema - bringing Black Caribbean stories to the screen with depth and political force. Her work challenges colonial narratives, centres working-class Black life and opened creative space for the generations that followed.
Want to experience her groundbreaking debut?
🎬 Join us for a special screening of Rue Cases Nègres followed by a discussion with Dr June Givanni - founder of the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive.
📅 Thursday 11 December
📍 Glasgow Women’s Library
Event details in bio.
Spotlight on the wonderful June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) ✨
For over four decades, Dr June Givanni has been at the heart of Pan-African cinema - curating, collecting and connecting stories across continents.
From her early work on Third Eye: Festival of Third World Cinema in 1980s London to programming Planet Africa at TIFF, to curating across continents, June’s vision has shaped global conversations on Pan-African cinema.
The JGPACA is a consolidation and continuation of this legacy - preserving films, interviews, photographs and histories through a rich archive of moving image and visual culture.
🎬 Want to find out more? Join us for our upcoming screening, exhibition + discussion of Rue Cases Nègres with June Givanni at Glasgow Women’s Library, Thursday 11 December
Film screening & exhibition details in bio.
Join us for a special screening and discussion of Rue Cases Nègres (1983) - Euzhan Palcy’s trailblazing debut, the first feature directed by a Black woman in French cinema and a cornerstone of Pan-African film history.
Set in 1930s Martinique, the film follows José, a bright young boy whose grandmother fights for his education amidst the harsh realities of the sugarcane plantations. Through its moving portrayal of community, resilience, and resistance under colonial rule, Palcy’s film continues to inspire generations.
🎬 Film Screening & Discussion (5.30–8pm) Followed by a conversation with Dr June Givanni, founder of the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) and recipient of the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the 2024 BAFTAs.
🖼️ Earlier that day: Dreaming A Black Scottish Archive exhibition (1–5pm) - an imaginative exploration of archival futures and Black cultural memory presented by JGPACA.
📅 11 December 📍 Glasgow Women’s Library @womenslibrary 🎟️ Free | Refreshments provided | Link in bio
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We’re delighted to announce our Glasgow Film Curation and Archives trainees:
Aisha Marong, layla-roxanne hill, and Muratiwa Chinake.
These trainees will join the Curating with PanAfrican Cinema Archives programme, an eight-week fellowship developed by the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) in collaboration with Curate-It, led by Justine Atkinson.
This Glasgow edition focuses on curatorial reflection, inviting participants to engage with materials from JGPACA and to produce creative, critical responses that contribute to an evolving online curatorial dialogue.
The traineeship runs alongside our forthcoming one-day archive exhibition at Glasgow Women's Library, titled Dreaming a Black Scottish Film Archive (more information to follow), tracing connections between Scotland and the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive and exploring Afro-Scottish artistic and cinematic lineages.
