Following exhibitions in Cardiff, Manchester, and Glasgow, Music & Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK (1970-1989) now opens in London on November 30. I have been impressed by this project since the launch of its website last year, and I am very happy to see it growing. I am posting the message I received with our best wishes; for more information, please visit the Women's Liberation Music Archive, and the Music and Liberation website and twitter account.
Music & Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK, 1970 -1989 explores how feminists used music as an activist tool to entertain and empower women during the 1970s and ‘80s.Featuring the work of Jam Today, the Northern Women’s Liberation Rock Band, Feminist Improvising Group, Ova, the Fabulous Dirt Sisters, Abandon Your Tutu, the Mistakes and many more, the exhibition brings together a diverse collection of women’s cultural heritage. Music& Liberation will inspire and inform contemporary audiences about the politics of music making.The exhibition showcases rare ephemera and artefacts such as posters, songbooks, t-shirts, instruments and fliers. Visitors can watch films, interact with installations, look at photographs and, of course, listen to music. This is a unique opportunity to listen to unreleased recordings of practices, live performances and studio tracks from women musicians yet to be discovered by contemporary audiences.Ten oral histories, which have been collected especially for the project, are available to listen to and watch. Music& Liberation: A Compilation of Music from the Women’s Liberation Movement will be sold at the exhibition.The exhibition opens in London on Friday 30 November.OPENING EVENT: 30 November 6.30-8.30 pmAll WelcomeExhibition runs: 1 December - 13 JanuaryOpen Thursday - Sunday 12-6.00 pmGallery closed between 17 Dec - 9 JanuarySpace Station Sixty-Five info@spacestationsixtyfive.com Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London, SE11 4PS020 7820 1120 www.facebook.com/spacestationsixtyfive A programme of events will run alongside the exhibition, including live music and a series of talks:• Opening Events - 30 November: Legendary folk singer Frankie Armstrong will sing a few songs and Jude Alderson, founder of cult performance act the Sadista Sisters will share her memories.• 8 December: The inaugural Queer Zine Fest London, 12-7pm. With its own programme of talks and DJ’s• 8 December - 13 January: An exhibition of posters from Melanie Maddison’s Shape & Situate fanzine of inspirational women.• Closing Events - 13 January: A conversation with Barby Asante, founder of the South London Black Music Archive, and exhibition curator Deborah Withers about community memories, generational transmissions and music. Chaired by Tom Perchard, author of Lee Morgan – His Life, Music and Culture.Plus, screening of a documentary on The Gluts. Comprising Hayley Newman, Gina Birch and Kaffe Matthews, The Gluts are an all-female troupe of activists/artists/musicians. Followed by a Q&A, and the showing of Gluts’ pop videos.For more information please visitTwitter: @music_liberate
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