It’s International Women’s Day, and I hope you will join us for a special film night celebrating Outdoor Women!
We suggest £5, but we are aklso grateful for fruit or a promise to take someone out for a walk who needs it!
ALL welcome, including small ones. We won't have lots of space for playing, but very happy to see you for a short while. The Mountain Roots: The Journey Home is about a 9-year-old and should be on at about 7pm.
Doors open at 6 pm
Beers and popcorn on arrival, Pizzas arriving to eat with the films
6:45 - 7:45 - Films
7:45 - 8:00 - Q&A with special guest author Rosemary J Brown FRGS, CF, who was part of the More than a Mountain Team Junko UK expedition
8:00 - 9:00 - beers, check out the Paramo gear and meet fellow urban explorers, outdoor women and people who like a picnic and a film night!
Previews og the film are on our London Mountain Film Festival page:
Outdoor Women: from Hackney to the Himalayas
The films
1) What is special about an OPAL Playtime? A film by Outdoor People
Shot over one lunchtime, about two years after Rachel Smith (then Deputy Head, now Head) had started leading her team to develop a better playtime. The moments of magic, connection and joy seep through.
2) Swim Sistas: A Film By Catherine Joy White.
Swim Sistas is a poetic, visually stunning love letter to water, sisterhood, and the enduring strength of Black women across generations.
3) Skate Like a Lass: A Film By Juliet Klottrup
Female-established, inclusive grassroots Skateboarding communities based in the UK North, from the mountains in the Lake District to Blackpool promenade.
4) Now I Feel Alive: A Film By Anya Bryan
Kathleen Wotton's journey from being bed-bound, depressed and morbidly obese, to finding the spirit of life once again in creativity and nature.
5) Mountain Roots: The Journey Home A Film By Carrie McCarthy & Mark Pedri
A 9-year-old climber travels from Wyoming to the Italian Alps with her grandfather to scale a mountain together, embarking on a journey to reconnect their family after more than a century of separation.
6) Love Notes To Nature: A Film By Joanna Suchomska
Writer Dal Kular embarks on a journey through roots and ancestry to make sense of her connection to the land she calls home.
7) The Mermaid Wife - The Apex Singers A Film By Lydia Wonham A music video for an original A Cappella song by The Apex Singers - beneath the serene hills of the Shetland Islands, mermaids dwell in underwater palaces made of coral and pearl.
8) SLIDING: A Film By Katie Tannenbaum & Matiss Spaile
A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to traverse the Swiss Alps on her sled... headfirst.
9) More Than a Mountain: A Film By Loz Henshall
Team Junko UK, made up of fifteen women of all ages and experiences, led by Everest and Seven Summits climber Jo Bradshaw, come together to climb Yala Peak in Nepal.
Q&A:
We will be joined by Rosemary J Brown, who joined the More than a Mountain Team Junko UK expedition and has a book due out this summer called ‘Moving Mountains: Intrepid Women Climbers and the Peaks Named in their Honour’ (The History Press).
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We have been leading Family Wild Walks for over 12 years, and this is part of our fundraising to continue both leading them in Hackney with our volunteers and coaching schools and community groups to lead them across the South East.
